Paul is a Planning and Analytics consulting expert with over 20 yrs of practice building, business development, solution architecture, and delivery expertise. His Business Process experience includes budgeting & forecast, financial & operational analysis, financial consolidation, reporting, dashboards and scorecards. The current focus of Analysis Prime is SAP BPC and Analytics Cloud.In client settings, Paul brings a unique blend of functional understanding, technical knowledge, engagement facilitation and project oversight skills to craft a world-class solution. An EPM solution is powerful insofar as the design aligns with the client's business process, to the tool functionality, and to the ability of the client's data to support. Having architected & delivered over 200 EPM solutions across a broad spectrum of industries, Paul is able to quickly and succinctly dive into salient details.Paul has been active in Professional Services Management for over 18 years. His responsibilities have been to create a vision for practice operation, execute on the vision, and to build great Delivery teams. Paul also has significant responsibility in Sales, both direct to customers as well as in partnership with global software and services firms. As a result of the best practices that he was able to implement, Paul's EPM practices typically grew by >35% YoY. As his focus turned more towards selling and solutions, Paul's firms have seen significant growth in revenue, pipeline, and business development / marketing activity.An international speaker and writer on the subjects of EPM, Analytics, and the impact of digital transformation on financial and operational systems, Paul's latest passion is the integration of functional Finance and LOB solutions with transformational technologies around Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, and Predictive Analytics, in order to define Closed Loop solutions driving business results