Thank you to Paul Barnhurst and Khaled Chowdhury for creating this planning guide for Power BI!

We are especially excited about Aimplan’s recognition, as KOKAI is both a distributor and a major shareholder. Aimplan’s innovative cloud-based FP&A solution, with user-friendly custom visuals, seamless Power BI integration, and robust master data management, empowers businesses to streamline planning and decision-making.

At KOKAI, we’re more than just implementation specialists. We’re strategic partners dedicated to helping you optimise your financial planning and analysis processes from end to end. Our focus is on transforming FP&A into a highly responsive, insight-driven function that adds value to the business. Let us show you how our expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Aimplan, and Bizview, combined with our industry know-how, can help you unlock the full potential of your FP&A capabilities.

Geir brings over 25 years of consulting expertise in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), and Business Intelligence (BI), along with 15 years of experience as a business owner. His vast background includes work across industries from retail to healthcare, hospitality to non-profit.

We’re excited to share the latest developments at KOKAI, where we continue to refine and expand our expertise to help businesses like yours thrive. As an official partner for Aimplan and Bizview with insightsoftware, as well as an expert in Microsoft Fabric, we are committed to providing cutting-edge solutions that simplify and optimise your business operations. To that end, we’ve launched two new pages on our website to give you a clearer picture of what we offer—and how we can support your strategic goals.

Hanna is the newest member of the KOKAI team, bringing valuable experience in digitalization and IT as an application consultant. Hanna's career has been defined by ambition, determination, and a strong sense of responsibility, attributes that have earned her the trust and appreciation of both customers and colleagues.

We believe AI's influence on FP&A is more than just a technological evolution; it is a strategic revolution. Artificial intelligence's sophisticated forecasting techniques facilitate proactive decision-making based on data-driven insights. Are you ready for what comes next?

On December 1, 2001, I started what would become Bizview. This was made possible by a "management buyout" from the publicly traded company Hands ASA. Bizview was a huge success for everyone involved with the company. We chose to sell Bizview to the US-based IT company Insightsoftware in September 2019, primarily because we realised that Insightsoftware had considerably greater resources to make Bizview a global product, which they have successfully accomplished in recent years.

New Year, New Opportunities - a phrase we all know well and often use, especially when things may not have gone quite as planned. Let's take a moment to reflect on this at KOKAI. We have recently conducted an evaluation of the past year - a time for summarising, reflecting, and learning from our experiences.

Implementing a solid Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) process is crucial for organizations to make informed decisions, allocate resources effectively, and achieve their strategic goals. FP&A involves various financial and analytical activities aimed at forecasting, budgeting, and analyzing the financial performance of a business.

Please say hello to Robert Dahlquist, a seasoned professional at KOKAI with a diverse background in business consulting, application management, and technical support. As a senior consultant and managing partner, he excels in Aimplan and Bizview consulting, specialising in application and database server maintenance, optimising business processes, and delivering exceptional solutions to our customers.

Please say hello to Ben Halvorsen, the IT virtuoso at the forefront of automation and PowerShell wizardry at KOKAI. With his exceptional skills and relentless commitment to efficiency, Ben is without a doubt one of the driving forces behind KOKAI's technological advancements.

In recent years, Fredrick has focused on planning solutions after working with Microsoft Dynamics AX and business intelligence. He has been essential in the development and delivery of various solutions at PBC, both for large customers and for smaller projects.

Emilia works from the KOKAI offices in Stockholm, but she, like the rest of us, has a global reach, interacting with customers all over the world.

Her areas of expertise include financial and business model analysis, process mapping, and data modelling. Similarly, creating data analysis reports and forms, assessing and validating company data, and tracking analysis outputs and metrics

Please allow us to introduce Espen P. Kringstad, one of KOKAI's many FP&A professionals.

Since completing his degree in IT-Management and Economics in 2012, he’s worked in a variety of companies, but they all had one thing in common: they all dealt with the use of data and how to extract value from it.

He's never gotten tired of numbers and has gained extensive experience in a variety of industries, including retail, satellite services, construction (ships/large machinery), real estate development, hospitality, sports and charity to name a few.