Before businesses were lucky enough to be able to create sales forecasts in Excel, business owners had to enter numbers on columnar pads and add the figures with a calculator. If a single number ...

What is Business Assist Forecast Service? Business Assist Forecast Service is an add-in for Excel that uses machine learning to predict case and conversation volumes based on historical data.

We all know that in uncertain times, a forecast underlies a company’s success or failure. Forecasts keep prices low by optimizing business operations—including cash flow, production, staff, and ...

What if you could predict a company’s financial future with precision, make data-driven decisions, and impress stakeholders, all using one tool? Excel, often underestimated as a simple spreadsheet ...

Certainty of forecasting revenue is central to NSW’s pitch to reform the GST distribution. But the state’s record is patchy ...

Decomposition is a forecasting technique that separates or decomposes historical data into different components and uses them to create a forecast that is more accurate than a simple trend line. By ...

Kayla Kurtz tells us how to estimate account performance before making a paid-search account active. She shows us the process by using Excel and a few simple formulas, but she tells us that the ...

Far too many SMBs seem to get surprised by changes in the marketplace because they don't take advantage of a forgotten skill: forecasting. The rub is that many entrepreneurs and SMB owners say they’re ...

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