Finance as a community is underserved by the analytic application arena and IT in general. While applications such as budgeting, planning and forecasting exist, there are few true analytic applications for the office of the CFO. It is not a foregone conclusion that everyone needs to do planning, forecasting and budgeting in the same manner or in the same order. In fact the art of business intelligence and analytics has yet to move out of infancy and into maturity in finance. Through this blog, I hope to enlighten and challenge business intelligence users who try to maintain their leadership through analytics and financial performance management.