Beginning of the LucidEra

The folks over at LucidEra announced today that its first solution, LucidEra Forecast-to-Billing, is now available on the salesforce.com AppExchange.

Here comes the gauntlet, replete with the “R” word: “The first on-demand revolution was for CRM and other transactional applications. These solutions were focused on getting the data ‘in.’” said LucidEra co-founder/CEO Ken Rudin. “LucidEra is leading the second major on-demand revolution – the ability to get the data ‘out’ and analyze all the data captured by transactional systems.”

A bit less hyperbolically, LucidEra cleverly includes an analysis user interface that “eliminates any distinction between creating and viewing a report.” Users may directly drag and drop data into a macro for analysis.

LucidEra Forecast-to-Billing is designed for finance and sales operations managers, combining sales data from Salesforce, accounting applications, Excel and the ‘net.