deFacto Performance Management is a fully-unified budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, analysis and reporting product. Mid-sized and global companies alike use deFacto to streamline, automate and better manage their financial management processes for the purpose of achieving stellar financial performance. It offers the full range of features needed to satisfy even the most demanding users, yet it’s easy to learn and use – and it’s affordable.

With its native Excel interface, deFacto empowers business users with the ability to perform real-time analysis and planning by using capabilities such as modeling, what-if analysis, advanced business logic, drill-down, drill-through, book publication, workflow and more. And best of all, deFacto is designed to be administered by business users who can build and manage their own financial models, manage user security and more.

On the back-end deFacto is fully Microsoft-based, taking advantage of both the relational and multidimensional (cube) capabilities of SQL Server. This allows us to have native integration with industry standard Business Intelligence and dashboard tools like SharePoint Performance Point Services, Excel Services, Power Pivot, Tableau, and others.

Anthony D’Anna – COO, deFacto Global
Anthony D'Anna, COO, co-founded deFacto in 2009. deFacto’s mission is to deliver a Microsoft-based, enterprise-grade, Performance Management solution to compete against products from Oracle/Hyperion and SAP/Business Objects.
Anthony is regarded as an expert in the CPM field, having spent the past 20+ years having managed teams to lead clients through the strategic design and implementation of business processes and systems using best-of-breed products including tools from Microsoft, Hyperion, and SAP. Many of his dozens of clients are well known global corporations, both public and private.

Prior to starting deFacto, Anthony also co-founded Praxinet, a Performance Management-based services organization, in 1998, focused on delivering Performance Management solutions for Fortune 500 companies. He also served as Director of Business Intelligence for Claremont Technology Group and VP of Corporate Financial Systems for Citigroup, where he managed worldwide Budgeting, Forecasting, and Corporate Consolidation for the entire bank.

Anthony holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University.

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