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Portfolio Decisions Helps Companies Optimize Performance with Release of PERSPECTIVES™ Version 10.1
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Houston, Texas. – Portfolio Decisions –– a consulting and software company that enables businesses worldwide to improve their strategic planning and decision making – has announced the release of software program PERSPECTIVES™ Version 10.1. The company is simultaneously introducing IVY™ (powered by Tibco Spotfire), a new interactive visualization extension.
The company’s flagship product, PERSPECTIVES, is an advanced analytics platform for modeling the complex interaction among existing assets and future investment opportunities in the light of a number of potentially conflicting targets and goals. The resultant analysis can be used both to develop strategy and align decisions, either on its own or as a powerful complement to corporate performance management systems. The tool facilitates business scenario development based upon a company’s existing financial models and data. It assists users in forecasting scenario performance and risk to help align decisions with strategy.
Version 10.1 will process larger scale scenarios and numbers of uncertainty trials than ever before. Solution speeds have been enhanced. The optional extension IVY augments scenarios generated by PERSPECTIVES, creating interactive visual representations of the forecasts, including their operational and financial dimensions. IVY allows for both deep dives into input data and simultaneous comparisons among scenarios and portfolios in a highly interactive manner.
PERSPECTIVES has been used successfully in the oil and gas industry for over 17 years. “Oil and gas companies have used the software to combine economic and operational data on company assets and potential business opportunities in order to compare investment options and guide decision making. For example, they can compare the tradeoffs of acquiring a company to the benefits of organic growth,” explains Lillian Warren, Chief Operating Officer at Portfolio Decisions.
The enhancements to PERSPECTIVES will allow planners to evaluate and manage the risk and uncertainty of investment options more quickly than ever before. IVY will simplify comparing investment scenarios at the planning and the executive level. According to John Howell, President, “The application of advanced analytics such as optimization, Monte Carlo simulation, and interactive visualization results in the development of scenarios that meet corporate goals, reduce real world uncertainties and lead to better corporate performance.”
Improved decision-making and capital allocation strategies are needed across all industries. According to Howell, “Executives who are responsible for weighing various choices and making decisions on how to allocate company resources know that comparing many dissimilar options is a daunting task. For large companies, simply tracking and managing existing asset performance is a challenge.” Howell continued, “Add in external opportunities and risks, along with cross-functional impacts and strategic tradeoffs, and the situation becomes even more complex.”
PERSPECTIVES 10.1 is a highly customizable platform, making it applicable across a diverse range of industries. Oil and gas companies use it to blend high risk, long-term high profit assets with short-term, low risk, low profit investments. Pharmaceutical companies can use it to allocate R&D budgets and funding for commercial development across therapeutic areas. Manufacturing companies can use PERSPECTIVES to evaluate the relative value and importance of competing capital projects.
To find out more information about Portfolio Decisions’ PERSPECTIVES Version 10.1 or the IVY extension, please contact us at [email protected] or at 713-520-6555.
About Portfolio Decisions
Portfolio Decisions facilitates strategic planning through proprietary, state-of-the-art software as well as executive-level consulting and guidance. It helps companies improve their decision-making capacity by balancing near- and far-term goals and offering uncertainty-based and time-coupled strategic planning and portfolio analysis.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Portfolio Decisions works with businesses worldwide to provide analysis, communication and data flow management expertise, as well as training and experience helping executives draw actionable insights from advanced analytics.
Visit www.portfoliodecisions.com for more information.
Longhorn Investments Has Been Added as an Expert Contributor to the Realty411 Academy
Longhorn III Investments, LLC, a leading source of hard money loans for serious real estate investors in Texas and Missouri has been added to the Realty411 Academy as an expert contributor to help inform and educate real estate investors. Although Longhorn only offer hard money loans in a few states there are many states to come in the near future and the information that is provided can be used in any real estate market.
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) October 15, 2013 – Longhorn III Investments has been invited to be an expert contributor to the newly created Realty411 Academy. The Realty411 Academy has been created by Linda Pliagas, Founder of Realty411 Magazine, due to the overwhelming request from its readership for more content from the sponsors, advertisers and real estate partners Realty411 magazine has complied and wrote about over the last few years. The goal of the Realty411 Academy is to be a learning resource for real estate investors. Also, to help provide ongoing education from the best minds and most successful professionals in the Real Estate.
“When putting the Realty411 Academy Experts together I first thought of the real estate professionals I had met at the numerous workshops and seminars that Really411 Magazine has hosted throughout the country” said Linda Pliagas, Founder of Realty411 Magazine and Realty411 Academy. “One of those companies that was first on my mind was Longhorn Investments. I knew Ryan (Kimura) had moved over there recently and his real estate investment knowledge, along with his connections to other important real estate related services, made me reach out to him to see if he and his new company were interested in contributing to the academy. We were thrilled when they were one of the first to jump on board. Ryan, and Longhorn Investments, really have tons of information from creating the right entity, to tax planning for real estate investor, to hard money loans. Even though most investors know Longhorn as a hard money lender they are really so much more. The absolute wealth of information for real estate investors make Longhorn one company everyone should connect with even if they don’t lend in your market “
Not all hard money lenders are the same. Longhorn III Investments, LLC is your lending partner in real estate investments! Their experience, expertise and access to sister companies that deal with title, legal and/or accounting make Longhorn one of the best additions to your real estate investing power team. Longhorn is not just a great Texas hard money lender and Missouri hard money lender. They are a one stop shop for real estate investing services which makes them a unique partner that most other companies can’t compete against. Call them for pre-approval today! 877.420.7346 or http://www.longhorninvestments.com
“As we grow and expand our hard money loan product throughout the nation, and locally, building the right relationships that can help spread our hard money loans become paramount,” stated Ryan Kimura, VP of Sales & Business Development at Longhorn III Investments. “Linda and the Realty411 brand puts together fantastic events throughout the country. Many of which I have been able to be a part of as a vendor, sponsor and/or presenter. I would assume that her idea for the Realty411 Academy will be just as great. So, we jumped at the opportunity to get involved.”
About Longhorn III Investments, LLC
Longhorn III Investments, LLC corporate office is located at 17950 Preston Road, Suite 230 Dallas, Texas 75252. Longhorn III Investments currently does Texas hard money loans and Missouri hard money loans and has access to almost $24MM in capital to lend from its sister private equity fund, Trident Realty Investments.
MEYERS RESEARCH LAUNCHES ZONDA; GAME CHANGER FOR HOUSING INDUSTRY
First-of-Its-Kind iPad App Provides the Most Comprehensive Solution for Smart Business Analysis and Real-Time Market Data Reporting in One Place and On-the-Go
LOS ANGELES (October 14, 2013) – Meyers Research, a Kennedy Wilson Company, today announced the launch of Zonda™, the first mobile app of its kind dedicated to providing market insight on-the-go for the homebuilding industry. Zonda’s clear, concise and intuitive format simplifies the experience, allowing developers and investors to instantly compare reports from different regions, gauge the pulse of the market, and keep pace with the housing industry’s rapidly changing landscape from anywhere, at any time.
“Zonda’s intuitive approach and mobile platform redefines how the housing industry interacts with data,” said Jeff Meyers, president of Meyers Research, and founder of Zonda. “We spent the past year designing and perfecting Zonda’s patented user experience to empower anyone, at any level — from home builders and land developers to institutional investors and commercial banks — with the same tools, insight, and data that used to be available only to trained analysts.”
Zonda streamlines workflow faster and more reliably than before by combining interactive tools, real-time data on approximately 250 metrics impacting housing, and thoughtful analysis driven by Meyers Research. Highlights include:
· National Insight: Zonda features an interactive national heat map, providing simultaneous macro and micro analysis for seamless transition from a 30,000-foot view of the U.S. to a single zip code.
· Local Flavor: Zonda allows users to search, save and monitor hot spots ripe for opportunity. Users can also uncover nearby trends and demographics important to homebuyers, such as schools, crime rates and job market conditions.
· Historical Contexts and Forecasts: Zonda provides access to monthly and annual historical trends, future projections and timely briefs from Meyers Research’s team of seasoned analysts and editors throughout the U.S.
· Instant Reports: With a drop of a pin or circle of a neighborhood on Zonda’s interactive map, users can easily generate and email historical price charts and lean, elegantly formatted market and site reports from the field to the office or to a colleague on-the-go in seconds.
· Accelerate Field Work: Users can quickly access and manage all essential site information, including a comprehensive 13-page report, field photos and time-stamped notes, within the app’s digital library.
Zonda is an innovation by Meyers Research, which provides the housing industry with a national perspective and local expertise, led by an Advisory Team that delves into each market to understand what’s happening on the ground and serves as an extension of the app’s intuitive functionality and real-time content. Meyers Research is in the process of protecting the intellectual property central to the development of Zonda, with utility and design patents, trademark, and copyright pending for its distinct user interface and branding.
Meyers continues: “We tested Zonda with 11 early adopters in various categories throughout the homebuilding industry and their positive feedback from beta trials of Zonda in the field and in the board room have been incredible. What we’ve created with Zonda is unlike anything on the market and we’re excited to extend that transformative experience to everyone.”
Zonda is a free iPad app that is available for download in the iTunes Store. The app provides complementary services to Meyers Research subscribers based on subscription level, which ranges monthly from $300 to $10,000 for national access, depending on the number of users. Zonda targets the nation’s 50 top metropolitan areas in terms of housing construction and includes market insight from more than 270 countries. For more information on Zonda or to download the app, visit www.zonda.co.
About Meyers Research
Meyers Research, LLC, a Kennedy Wilson Company, is a premier consulting practice and the industry’s leading provider of rich data for residential real estate development and new home construction. Headquartered in Beverly Hills, Calif., the company offers national perspective as well as local expertise to homebuilders, multifamily developers, lenders and financial institutions. For more information on Meyers Research, visit www.meyersresearchllc.com.
About Kennedy Wilson
Founded in 1977, Kennedy Wilson is an international real estate investment and services company headquartered in Beverly Hills, Calif. with 24 offices in the U.S., U.K. Ireland, Spain, and Japan. The company offers a comprehensive array of real services including auction, conventional sales, property services, research, and investment management. Through its fund management and separate account business, Kennedy Wilson is a strategic investor of real estate investments in the U.S., U.K, Ireland and Japan. For more information on Kennedy Wilson, visit www.kennedywilson.com.
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San Diego Real Estate Expo – January 14, 2014
