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Press coverage of the Business Flight Simulator
Metapraxis launched the Business Flight Simulator on 29th February 2008 with CIMA and BCS (the British Computer Society) to provide a radical new approach to financial and business education.
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25th June 2008
"An excellent demonstration of how businesses really work"
We are delighted that users of the Business Flight Simulator free online trial have been submitting feedback, which is proving invaluable for the development of the approach.
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21st April 2008
Webcast of the Business Flight Simulator Launch Meeting
The launch of the Business Flight Simulator was captured live on camera.
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March 2008
Launch of the Business Flight Simulator
A major new breakthrough in business and financial training was presented at a meeting at the RSA in London on 29th February. The visual technology that powers aircraft flight simulators has now been applied to the world of business, making it possible for trainees to develop an immediate and intuitive understanding of financial cause and effect. Read more
February 2008
Early Warning System
Do you have a clear, objective view of whether your company will meet its forecasted targets? Without a picture of where your business is heading, it is impossible to deal with problems in good time, warns Andrew Mosely. Read more
January 2008
Metapraxis announces breakthrough performance analysis for Oracle|Hyperion users
Metapraxis has launched Enterprise Empower to help decision-makers using Essbase, Hyperion Financial Management and other BI and EPM solutions to control and communicate the shape of the future. Read more
15th October 2007
Breaking the straitjacket of routine accounting
A feature article by Robert Bittlestone in CIMA Insight contends that management accountants need to look beyond mechanics of routine reporting to focus on open-ended diagnosis. Read more
16th July 2007
Where was Homer's Ithaca?
On Thursday 28th June, Robert Bittlestone, James Diggle and John Underhill gave the first in a series of lectures raising funds for the British School at Athens to a capacity audience at the British Museum. Read more
28th June 2007
Metapraxis team completes the Three Peaks Challenge in under 23 hours...
Over Friday and Saturday 22nd-23rd June, a team from Metapraxis scaled the three peaks Ben Nevis (1344 m), Scafell Pike (978 m), and Snowdon (1085 m) to raise money for Thames Reach, one of the key homelessness charities in London. Read more
23rd June 2007
The Metapraxis Three Peaks Challenge
A team from Metapraxis are taking on Ben Nevis (1344 m), Scafell Pike (978 m), and Snowdon (1085 m) to raise money for Thames Reach, one of the key homelessness charities in London. Read more
2nd May 2007
Cartesis and Metapraxis announce new partnership
Alliance to provide Business Performance Management solutions to UK corporates focusing on financial analytics. Read more
21st March 2007
Managing the future at Willis North America
Willis North America use Metapraxis techniques to help maximise future sales productivity and manage financial risk. Read more
13th March 2007
Metapraxis business analysis helps manage reputational risk
In the February 2007 edition of Harvard Business Review, Dr Robert Eccles explains why it is important for large businesses to actively manage reputational risk and how visualisation is an important tool for tracking risky management behaviour. Read more
31st January 2007
New geological evidence for the location of Homer's Ithaca
Results were announced today of new geological work which supports the dramatic theory about the location of Homer's Ithaca put forward by Metapraxis Chairman Robert Bittlestone, Cambridge classicist Professor James Diggle and Edinburgh geologist Professor John Underhill. In 2005 they proposed that the Ithaca described in Homer's Odyssey is to be found on western Kefallinia, not the Greek island that is today called Ithaki. Read more
9th January 2007
Metapraxis features in 'Finance Matters'
'Finance Matters', a magazine for students and holders of ACCA's Diploma in Financial Management, recently took the time to interview Metapraxis staff for an article published in their October 2006 issue. Read more
20th October 2006
Company conference at Dorich House
The 2006 Metapraxis company conference was held at historic Dorich House on 6th October. Read more
6th October 2006
Daily visuals in Sweden
Following a successful project, Metapraxis partner Eskadern provides daily visual MI for the Swedish Sixth National Pension Fund. Read more
4th October 2006
FTSE 250 CFO