The legacy capacity planning tools are incredibly limiting, time-consuming, hard to maintain and fail to meet new business challenges. So, the businesses are in desperate need of an enterprise-level matured resource capacity planning solution. Many organizations lack dedicated resource capacity management tools and use legacy systems, like excel spreadsheets/other home-grown applications. These legacy tools fail to provide enterprise-wide visibility for resources. 1) Reports suggest that 88% of all spreadsheets have errors. 2) In 2003 TransAlta lost $24 million due to a copy-paste error on the spreadsheet. 3) Kodak lost $11 million in severance error owing to a faulty Excel sheet in 2005.

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