How can senior finance professionals in midsize companies drive growth and enable their businesses to compete effectively despite declines in discretionary spending?

During this Webcast, Mark Quandt, vice president of finance with the restaurant chain Wood Ranch BBQ & Grill, will share how he is deploying the IBM Cognos Express reporting, analysis and planning solution and how it's enabling his company to gain the critical insight that's needed to optimize the financial operations and performance of its 13 independently-run locations.

From this Webcast, you will learn how Wood Ranch BBQ & Grill is:

• Integrating and consolidating General Ledger, QuickBooks and point-of-service system data for greater visibility across all restaurants
  
  
• Using analytics to gain new insight into menu items and customer satisfaction
  
  
• Preparing to use flexible business scenario modeling for faster, more-informed decision-making
  
  
• Building a pragmatic roadmap to connect analytics with planning, budgeting and forecasting with the help of IBM Business Partner BrightStar
  
  
  Presenters
  
  

  Mark Quandt	Dan Potter	Dustin Adkison
  VP of Finance Wood Ranch BBQ & Grill	Product Marketing Executive BI & Performance Management IBM Software Group	IBM Business Partner BrightStar Partners, Inc.