Improved Business Planning and Forecasting
Tele2 is Europe leading alternative telecommunications service provider with operating revenue of over US$7 billion. The Danish operation provides more than 600,000 customers with services such as mobile telephony, Internet services and traditional fixed wire telephony. Tele2抯 mission is to deliver the best prices in the market for telecommunications services. Defending price leadership in the highly competitive telecommunications market is no small task. In Tele2抯 case, it requires agile business planning with highly accurate customer demand forecasting and detailed tracking of all internal and external costs and overheads. Johnny Rossing, business controller, replaced previous technologies with Quantrix Modeler and achieved dramatic improvements in business planning and forecasting.

Risk Management Insight with Quantrix
Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc. is a mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, originates, sells, and securitizes various mortgages. With $22 billion in assets covering 323 metropolitan areas in all fifty states, it is among the largest companies active in non-conforming residential mortgage loans in the United States. Impac offers a broad spectrum of lending programs for the non-conforming borrower. For its business partners, the company has established strong relationships based on superior customer service, and maintains its leadership in developing the products, tools and technology clients and consumers demand.

Cutting Modeling Costs
Gartner Lee Ltd. is an international environmental consulting firm with offices across Canada and the Middle East that builds strategic forecasting and capital budgeting models to help clients determine the impact of different decisions -- the long-term effect of shutting down a landfill to a community, or the waste diversion rate created by a new recycling program, capital financing issues, and other scenarios. Each model incorporates many different factors and variables, including debt payments, operating costs, and geographic information, and needs to offer multiple views of data based on client request.

Using Quantrix to analyze mortgage assets
Kyle G. Lundstedt is co-owner of VaRisk, Inc., an Oakland, CA-based firm that builds valuation and risk management tools for large banks and other players in the mortgage market. He recently switched the company抯 models to Quantrix Modeler. The following interview with Lundstedt explains the complexities involved in VaRisk, Inc.抯 solutions, why the company outgrew Excel, the beauty of Quantrix on the Mac platform, in addition to other topics.

Bringing Structure and Dynamism
When businesses grow and prosper, financial systems need to grow with them. For Cimpor, a large cement manufacturing and marketing group based in Portugal, a series of global acquisitions meant that it outgrew its fragmented, spreadsheet-based budgeting and planning system. Migrating to Quantrix Modeler offered the company the flexibility and integration it needed to centralize and control its growing business.

Mapping a New Course with Quantrix Modeler
Sometimes we don't recognize how difficult our work processes have become until presented with an alternative solution. That was the case for Steven Bailey, assistant controller of DeLorme, the Yarmouth, ME-based mapping solutions company. Bailey is responsible for many tasks, including tracking and projecting sales performance for the company's comprehensive line of products. He discovered a way to improve the flexibility and usability of data while saving a significant amount of time using Quantrix Modeler.

Turning Questions into Answers
Most CFOs would say that it is their job to watch the bottom line. For Craig Burkert, CFO of Romco Equipment, every fluctuation in that number leads to a series of questions. Financial modeling software from Quantrix helps him make sense of the hundreds of thousands of numbers that go into the bottom line, to effectively communicate the relevant data to the right people, and to turn business information into business intelligence.

Delivering Power and Simplicity
Simple ideas can become complicated in the financial modeling process when traditional, two-dimensional spreadsheet tools are used. Turner Analysis & Advisory, a European management consulting firm based in Warsaw, specializes in business modeling and transaction advisory services and is delivering powerful, complex analysis in a simple way using Quantrix Modeler.

Electronic Manufacturer Breaks Through Yield Block
Successful manufacturers rely upon precise, repeatable processes to eliminate waste and inefficiency. The better a company can track its processes the more there is to be gained. For a major semiconductor manufacturer, Quantrix Modeler was the key for developing multidimensional models that enabled the company to capitalize on best practices and discover new methodologies.