IDU NEWS

IDU partners with Sage Intacct

Jul 10, 2019
3 min

IDU partners with Sage Intacct

IDU Partners with Sage Intacct, bringing together powerful Financial Planning and Analytics capabilities with the innovation and customer satisfaction leader in cloud financial management solutions. SAN JOSE, Calif. – July 10, 2019 – IDU, a leading provider of Financial Budgeting and Reporting solutions, today announced its official partnership with Sage Intacct. IDU has been listed as a certified Marketplace partner with Sage Intacct. This partnership means the idu-Concept s

IDU Leader in Budgeting & Forecasting Category of G2 Crowd Report

Jun 26, 2019
2 min

IDU Leader in Budgeting & Forecasting Category of G2 Crowd Report

G2 Crowd, the world’s leading business solutions review website, released its Summer 2019 Report in Chicago on the 24th June 2019. idu-Concept achieved Leader in the Budgeting and Forecasting Category and High Performer in the CPM Category based on the responses of real users for each category respectively. The Budgeting and Forecasting Category is new to G2 Crowd, and to qualify for inclusion in the Budgeting and Forecasting category, a product must meet a number of key req

When is it time to move to specialised software?

May 15, 2019
2 min

When is it time to move to specialised software?

Spreadsheets are a wonderful tool and have served many a small business’ budgeting, forecasting and planning needs. But there comes a time when you need to look at moving across to specialised financial software that gives you more control over, and insight into, your financial information. Here are 4 ways to know that time has come… Your business is growing in size and complexity Spreadsheets are perfectly fine for small simple companies; but as you start to grow and expand

Retailability recommends IDU without reservation

Apr 23, 2019
2 min

Retailability recommends IDU without reservation

Retailability (Pty) Ltd is a retailer of fashion apparel intended to offer fashionable in house and branded labels at low price points targeted at lower to middle income consumers in Southern Africa. The group comprises of three brands, namely Style, Legit and Beaver Canoe. Together these brands operate over 430 stores across 6 countries in Southern Africa. Retailability required a budgeting and reporting solution for their multi-currency and multiple ledger environment due t

IDU acknowledged as a Leader G2 Crowd 2019 Spring Report

Apr 9, 2019
2 min

IDU acknowledged as a Leader G2 Crowd 2019 Spring Report

IDU are delighted to be acknowledged as a Leader in the Budgeting and Forecasting category by the prestigious G2 Crowd 2019 Spring Report, published earlier this month. The report which ranks and compares leading Budgeting, Reporting and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions based on market presence and customer satisfaction ratings was released on the 1st April 2019. G2 Crowd releases Grid® and Index Reports on a quarterly basis, ranking products based on reviews

IDU and Draftworx team up

Mar 7, 2019
3 min

IDU and Draftworx team up

IDU, the corporate performance management (CPM) software company that transforms the budgeting, forecasting and reporting process for medium and large businesses, has partnered with Draftworx, which provides tools to automate and remove the complexity of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) financial statements, to close the loop for clients every month. The commonalities and synergies between the two companies are remarkable. IDU offers an easy-to-use, yet enter

IDU expands into the Americas

Mar 1, 2019
2 min

IDU expands into the Americas

IDU, the corporate performance management (CPM) software company that transforms the budgeting, forecasting and reporting process for medium and large businesses, today announced its expansion to the Americas region with the launch of IDU Americas. Companies in North, Central and South America can now say good-bye to complicated, error-prone spreadsheets and instead finalise their budgets in a fraction of the time, working collaboratively and constructively with non-financial

IDU features again in the 2018 Gartner Market Guide

Aug 14, 2018
2 min

IDU features again in the 2018 Gartner Market Guide

IDU is recognised by top industry experts for its award-winning Budgeting and Reporting Solution for the second year in a row. “Gartner, the world’s leading research and advisory company have published their 2018 Market Guide for Corporate Financial Planning Applications, and we are proud to be included”, says Kevin Phillips, CEO of IDU Holdings. The Gartner Market Guide is independent and insightful, it highlights the rapid development of financial analytics technology, and

IDU receives Rising Star award from FinancesOnline

May 8, 2018
2 min

IDU receives Rising Star award from FinancesOnline

The team behind idu-Concept has worked tirelessly to provide businesses with a robust platform that simplifies and streamlines both financial budgeting and reporting, and we are glad to announce that our software has resonated well with users. B2B software review website FinancesOnline awarded idu-Concept with the Rising Star award for 2018 after we recorded a high 100 percent user satisfaction rating from their Customer Satisfaction Algorithm. FinancesOnline utilizes its Cus

Unlocking An Agile Accounting House

Mar 28, 2018
5 min

Unlocking An Agile Accounting House

With technology hurtling headlong into all aspects of life, from our homes, cars and workplaces, to banks, schools and hospitals, it’s no surprise that business looks to the IT world for inspiration on how to adapt and thrive. An example of this is Agile, a method of developing software that is spilling over into all aspects of business, including the finance department Agile, and being an agile organisation, is coming to the attention of the business world as a plausible way

Visionary Corporate Performance Management

Jul 6, 2015
2 min

Visionary Corporate Performance Management

The difference between visionary corporate performance management and mere management often boils down to just one thing: having the right tools for the job. True vision is founded in reality. To create such a vision and carry it through, you need to know what’s going on in every aspect of your business… you need quality information. The bigger your business is, the more difficult it is to find that information, and to know that what you’re getting is accurate. Implementing a

idu-Concept Version 5 – Tips & Tricks Part 1

Nov 24, 2014
2 min

idu-Concept Version 5 – Tips & Tricks Part 1

As promised not so long ago, we are sharing a few nifty tips, tricks and special features available in idu-Concept Version 5. To begin with, let’s look at some of the new features that empower users, creating more autonomy and less dependence on administrators. Where previously you needed to interrupt an administrator and wait for them to make the changes, now you can do all of the following yourself – You can resize any of your layout profile columns simply by dragging With

Idu-Concept Version 5 Update

Oct 7, 2014
2 min

Idu-Concept Version 5 Update

Earlier this year, we introduced the new and improved Version 5 of our flagship product idu-Concept at our idu User Conference and we have been beta testing it at a client site for the last couple of months. Technology has developed substantially over the past 10 years and we wanted to bring our software in line with the user requirements of today to make budgeting, forecasting and reporting even quicker and easier than before. At the heart of it, our software has remained tr

Forecasting in life and business

May 19, 2014
3 min

Forecasting in life and business

Forecasting in all things is a delicate balance between what we know and what we can learn, and it is used to guide us and help us plan in both life and in business. There are some elements that are common to all forms of forecasting and the similarities might surprise you. Let’s begin looking at modern weather forecasting. It uses a combination of technology and computer models with human input in the form of observation and knowledge of trends and patterns. But there are a