Outgrowing Excel: For Some It's Half-Baked

22.04.2011
When Joel Feldman first was brought into three years ago, his charge was to implement a new budgeting tool. Feldman, a former finance manager at Clorox before becoming Spunkmeyer's senior director of financial planning and analysis, chose a cloud-computing software-as-a-service offering to replace the "siloed" Excel-based process.

Currently, 100 people, out of the San Leandro, Calif., company's soon-to-be work force of 2,000 have access to the SaaS tool.

Feldman recently discussed the reasons for this switch and other technology issues with CFOworld.com's Sandra Gittlen.

It's busy. Right now we're a half-a-billion-dollar business, but we'll soon be just under a billion as we're .