To help managers with the entire process, Hyperion executives and industry analysts will examine the role of planning throughout the fiscal year, in a series of three webcasts. In this, the first webcast, we’ll look at how companies are translating strategies into plans, monitoring plan execution, and finding necessary insights into managing and improving financial, marketing and operational performance. Attention will also be devoted to enterprise class modeling solutions - as they are enabling corporations to test financial, operational and planning assumptions by modeling the processes, costs and activities that ultimately drive increased profitability. Furthermore, financial modeling software allows companies to determine costs, capacity, activity levels and production volumes across the enterprise, while at the management level, helping to simulate, dynamically test and compare alternate business scenarios and identify the optimal solution that will maximize business performance and profitability.