Sophisticated International Industry Risk Analysis Now Available through BVR/Business Monitor International Partnership

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Business Valuation Resources (BVR) and Business Monitor International (BMI) are pleased to announce an agreement to deliver country-by-country international industry forecasts through BVR. BMI’s analysts continually update almost 1,100 country reports that cover all major global industries.

“We believe BMI produces the best forecast, competitive analysis, and risk assessment on all major developed, emerging and frontier markets,” said BVR President Lucretia Lyons, announcing the agreement. “Our goal is to make this proprietary research easily available to any analyst or researcher with global clients or business opportunities.” The data is particularly helpful for supporting international cost of capital and risk measurement decisions or conclusions as the basis for investment or valuation activities.

Each regularly updated BMI industry report covers all key global developments influencing company strategy, including country, regional and global supply and demand dynamics. “At its heart are BMI's proprietary 5- and 10-year country forecasts,” said Richard Londesborough, BMI Co-CEO. Closely integrated with country-by-country risk analysis is BMI’s proprietary country-comparative risk-reward Business Environment Rating. “This tool facilitates the critical evaluation of opportunities and operational risks in established, emerging and frontier markets, enabling clients to identify and evaluate global industry investment opportunities,” said Jonathan Feroze, BMI Co-CEO. “Our international industry analysis is completed by our comprehensive portfolio of company profiles that detail the activity and latest financials of all major companies.”

BVR, headquartered in Portland, OR, is the leading provider of data to the business valuation community. BMI, located in London, England, has decades of expertise in the dynamic combination of industry and country risk. BMI’s proprietary forecasting models use multi-linear regression analysis of both industry-specific and macroeconomic variables on a state-by-state basis to produce a 'bottom-up' model of industry prospects in each individual country. Reports are provided by BMI’s team of expert country business analysts.

Typical industries covered for nearly all of the world’s countries include:

For more information, contact BVR at: 503-291-7963 or visit www.bvresources.com/internationalrisk.

About BVR

Every top business valuation firm depends on BVR for authoritative market data, continuing professional education, and expert opinion. Our customers include business appraisers, certified public accountants, M&A professionals, business brokers, lawyers and judges, private equity funds and venture capitalists, owners, and CFOs, among others. For more, please visit www.bvresources.com.

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Strategic Cloud Finance Planning and Sophisticated Business Intelligence Applications Take Center Stage in 2012 - Market Wire

SOURCE: Host Analytics

REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 4, 2012) - A new year brings new opportunities for businesses to excel, as long as they have the right tools to do so. One of the longstanding barriers to business success, however, is dealing with increasingly unpredictable economic conditions. Some companies have begun to turn to financial planning to combat the uncertainty and enable better business success.

In fact, a recent survey by Dimensional Research explored the correlation between strategic financial planning and business success, with 72 percent of businesses surveyed reporting better business results through financial planning. However, the survey also found that sophisticated financial planning capabilities that can drive business results are still lacking in many organizations.

Financial planning will play an important role for businesses in the new year, as well as many other factors. The following is a list of the top predictions for businesses around financial initiatives in 2012, compiled by Host Analytics, the leading provider of SaaS corporate performance management (CPM) solutions.

Top Predictions and Themes for Finance in 2012

1. The Cloud CFO: A modern breed of CFO to bring finance to the cloud for larger and mid-size enterprises.

The role of CFO will become more strategic than ever before through the adoption of cloud computing. Finance departments from the world's largest global organizations will reap the benefits as they catch up with mid-market businesses and enterprises already integrating the cloud into their strategic financial processes.

Next year's business climate will push corporate finance and CFOs to take on more important responsibilities in planning and decision support for potential risks and opportunities. This trend has already begun. Sixty-four percent of businesses revealed that the CFO is more likely to be involved in strategy discussions now versus five years ago, according to Dimensional Research.

Organizations, large and small, will struggle to deliver business advantage if they are not enabled with the tools and processes to conduct strategic financial planning and analysis.

2. Financial Landmines: Financial missteps to have greater consequences.

Economic uncertainty and the clock speed of business will continue to accelerate in 2012. The penalties associated with the risks of missteps will increase greatly, leading to a constant struggle for companies to keep up with their accelerated pace.

Planning for the future and anticipating alternate decisions depending on the potential business drivers in the economy will not only be a necessary evil, it will be a main driver for all companies. The most successful companies will blend self-reflection of internal operations with external benchmarks and economic indicators to better anticipate the volatile swings in the economy and use advanced planning techniques to monetize those risks and rewards.

3. Business Introspection: More business self-reflection with business intelligence applications.

As businesses begin to realize the necessity to plan for future/alternate decisions based on business drivers, the need for business applications that shed light on their inner workings will greatly increase. Interest in and innovation around finance and business intelligence technologies will surge, especially as more vendors offer their solutions via the cloud.

Business users will be more comfortable consuming applications as services, if one of the main drivers is business agility -- because the cloud means data and applications are always available and up to date. Cloud finance and business intelligence applications will significantly increase the performance of organizations.

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The Host Analytics Decision Platform™ reveals the full implications of decisions -- both risk and reward. As the industry's first cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) suite, Host Analytics improves budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidations, dashboarding, scorecarding, reporting and analysis to drive fact-based decisions for finance executives. Host Analytics serves midsize to large customer organizations including AT&T, NexTag, Crocs, Thule, Otis Spunkmeyer, Schumacher and Red Roof Inn. Founded in 2000, Host Analytics has received industry recognition including JMP Securities' Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies, AlwaysOn OnDemand 100, AlwaysOn Global 250, the Ventana Research Leadership Award, the Editors' Choice Award From TechWeb's Intelligent Enterprise and the Red Herring Top 100 North America Tech Startup Award.

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