Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is a cycle that begins with budgeting, and continues with comparison of actual performance against that plan. Companies that achieve CPM cycle can provide valuable insight into the performance of their business. Adaptive Planning is one such company that specializes in cloud-based corporate performance management solutions. The company is further optimizing the experience of customers with the release of Fall 2012.

With the release, Adaptive Planning continues to optimize complex models, sizeable user communities, and global organizational requirements.

"As the leader in cloud-based performance management, we are able to not only innovate on an ongoing basis, but also respond quickly to requests among our rapidly expanding global enterprise customer base," Robert Hull, founder and president at Adaptive Planning, said in a statement.

"The Adaptive Planning Fall 2012 Release includes a number of key improvements that help all organizations, and especially larger corporations, better collaborate, consume information, and manage complex reporting and planning scenarios," Hull added.

The Fall 2012 release includes New Workflow, Discovery, and Performance Enhancements Address Large Customer Needs and Make Adaptive Planning Even More Powerful and Easy to use for all Organizations.

Enhancements in the areas of workflow, account management, visual discovery, and support for multiple organizational structures give Adaptive Planning a further edge in the market for CPM solutions.

Key new enhancements includes; Adaptive Discovery Enhancements broaden the capability of the company's leading data visualization solution with improved dials and chart features; Account attributes support multiple rollups of account structures, and new ways of classifying and grouping accounts on reports into useful combinations for GAAP reporting; Workflow Enhancements provide powerful new capabilities to support collaborative planning and approval processes for entities with multiple organizations; Performance Enhancements continue to optimize the experience of customers with complex models, large user communities, and complex reports; New Organization Structure Terminology helps accommodate multiple business structures and organizations with a company.

The Fall 2012 release also includes a number of features for more personalized and customized reporting and e-mail correspondence options. Additional administrative features include the Adaptive Planning Support & Knowledge Base (News - Alert), a single destination for support tickets, documentation, recorded training, and knowledge search that is available via single-sign-on (SSO) from within Adaptive Planning.

In other news, Adaptive Planning launched its Sales Forecasting & Analysis solution on salesforce.com's AppExchange, the world's most popular cloud marketplace for social apps for business.