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Get anytime, anywhere access to your bank or credit union’s financial performance. Get insights into your bank or credit union’s financial performance from anywhere with secure, cloud-based access. Get margin components, branch performance, forecasts and more with point-and-click simplicity. Banker’s Dashboard and Credit Union dashboard integrate seamlessly with your core processor. Quick and easy setup, so you can start improving your bottom line right away. Automate reporting and eliminate errors, freeing you to focus on more value-added tasks. Quickly run and revise multiple forecast scenarios, so you can analyze variances and alternative strategies. Measure and compare branch performance. Institute best practices and hold each branch accountable for better results.

Our Stakeholder Engagement Software gives you the tools you need to build more effective engagement plans, improve relationships with stakeholders and align processes with industry best practices. It provides a single platform for managing all stakeholder engagement activities with additional modules to strengthen all areas of environment, social and governance. The Stakeholder Engagement module centralizes all stakeholder data and keeps it right at your fingertips to simplify day-to-day tasks. The Social Investment module makes it easier to create tangible value for both local communities and your organization. The Grievance Management module provides a structured and transparent process for handling grievances in a timely and effective manner. The Land Management module helps improve engagement outcomes and minimize risks of unnecessary work delays or stoppages by giving them the tools to centralize and map all land-based assets and create links with project stakeholders.

Planview® Portfolios enables enterprises to accelerate strategic execution by seamlessly integrating business and technology planning, optimizing resources, and leveraging the power of embedded AI — Planview Anvi™ — to deliver breakthrough products, services, and customer experiences. This unified approach aligns strategy with execution, driving enhanced business performance across the organization. By empowering teams to strategically allocate resources and accelerate high-priority initiatives, Portfolios helps organizations adapt to change and respond to shifting market demands with greater agility. It increases speed-to-value, improves responsiveness, and ensures that every strategic investment delivers measurable business impact. To support end-to-end work orchestration, Planview Portfolios provides robust, comprehensive capabilities across five key pillars that work together to drive organizational success — Strategy, Planning, Execution, Analytics & Reporting, and AI.

Grafana Labs provides an open and composable observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Observability Platforms and positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision, Grafana Labs supports over 25M users and 5,000+ customers—including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom. The LGTM Stack combines Grafana for visualization, Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces. Grafana Cloud, the fully managed offering, accelerates time to value with turnkey solutions for Kubernetes monitoring, incident response, load testing, and more. It features Adaptive Metrics for cost-efficient data aggregation and native OpenTelemetry support. Built on open standards, Grafana empowers teams to visualize and correlate data from any source—without vendor lock-in—whether self-managed or in the cloud. Grafana Cloud scales with you, securely.

Hubstaff is a time tracking software that helps teams log hours, monitor productivity, and automate payments — whether remote, hybrid, in-office, or field-based. Available on desktop, web, and mobile, Hubstaff enables employees to track time against specific tasks and projects from anywhere. Managers get built-in visibility through app and URL usage data, activity rates, and optional screenshots — all configurable by user role. Designed for global, growing and distributed teams, Hubstaff includes built-in productivity monitoring and workforce analytics to help businesses analyze how time is spent, identify inefficiencies, and improve performance — without micromanagement.

Develop the automations that work for you. With ThinkAutomation, you get an open-ended studio to build any and every automated workflow you could ever need. All without volume limitations, and all without paying per process, license or ‘robot’.

Achieve Your Goals with Goalscape. Goalscape’s Visual Goal Management is an ingenious leap forward from To-Do Lists, Spreadsheets, and Kanban Boards, unifying teams with clarity and purpose. Goalscape puts your goals at the center of attention, allowing you to break big goals into smaller subgoals, prioritize, and track progress visually. This alignment fosters thriving businesses, flourishing lives, and a world that feels better connected. With Goalscape, you don’t just manage tasks—you achieve meaningful goals that inspire and transform! Goalscape was developed by Olympic athletes and is trusted by thousands of individuals, teams, and enterprises worldwide.

Quick Consols is a financial reporting tool for companies and groups that need monthly or annual consolidated accounts. Handles consolidation complexities for groups with multiple year ends, multiple currencies, different charts of accounts and ERP systems with a slice and dice approach to reporting. The app supports partial consolidations. Use our business unit function to create different views of your group, right down to cost centre or profit centre level. Our Analytics module creates visually rich graphs and charts with a slice and dice approach to seeing your consolidated numbers the way you want with a wide range of custom options. Use the financial statements module to prepare your statutory accounts, whether they're annual, half yearly or quarterly using our custom built templates no matter the underlying Accounting Standards you use. Quick Consols is high tech and high touch which means consultants available to assist with your implementation and support.

Price2Spy makes automatic price adjustments easy to perform saving your most valuable resource - time, allowing your pricing team to focus on strategic planning and management. Since 2010, we have provided pricing intelligence for retailers and brands in 40+ countries, helping them smoothly grow profit margins and outsmart competition. If your business offers a large number of products and/or encounters fierce competition, no matter the industry, you can rely on Price2Spy pricing software and leave all processes, from price and additional product data collection to setting pricing strategies and automated repricing in real-time, to our team.

Inspire Software is a unified strategy execution and performance platform that helps organizations close the gap between vision and results. By bringing together OKRs, strategic planning, performance management, and employee engagement in one system, Inspire gives leaders real-time visibility and helps every employee understand how their work drives success. With Inspire, executives gain clarity on progress against strategic initiatives, managers can align teams quickly, and employees stay motivated through built-in coaching, recognition, and feedback tools. The platform streamlines alignment, accountability, and execution so strategy moves from planning to measurable impact—faster and more predictably. Key capabilities / benefits include: • Unified OKR and goal management with AI-assisted creation and alignment • Real-time dashboards to track performance and surface risks early • Engagement, feedback, and recognition embedded into daily workflows • Performance / development