Managing your company’s financials is the backbone of your business and is vital to the long-term health and viability of your company. Yet attention to your bottom line often takes a back seat during times of increasing revenues and growth. To continue applying the necessary financial rigor to support rapid growth,...
Published: Apr 03, 2019
Businesses are busy growing right now, and they’re more optimistic than they’ve been in the past 35 years, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). Job creation, expansion plans and increased compensation all hit record high levels in October 2018.
If your company isn’t...
Published: Apr 03, 2019
Look at any great leader from history — in business, sport, military or any other industry — and you’ll notice a wealth of distinctive character traits, from strength and determination to intelligence and eloquence.
But which traits are common to all great leaders? There’s no need to guess...
Published: Dec 01, 2015
As modern finance professionals, we face the most challenging conditions for decades as we strive to be better business partners.
The "Future of Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting" 2017 FSN Survey, in collaboration with Workday, explains how to deliver dependable business forecasts, optimise...
Published: Mar 16, 2018
The potential of big data is nothing new to marketers. The realisation that ever-increasing amounts of customer generated information can have a massive and positive impact on marketing has now coalesced into the concept of the Single Customer View (SCV) and the vision that marketers can truly understand their customers...
Published: Nov 26, 2012
You already know that Salesforce is the world's leading customer relationship management solution. But did you also know that you can transform this already-powerful tool into a complete business management & accounting solution—one that gives you a single, unified, real-time view of all your data?
That’s...
Published: Mar 01, 2018
Sage provides an enterprise-level business management solution for manufacturing operations that assists customers with the entire process: from financial management to supply chain management and production management.
Sage commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and...
Published: Mar 06, 2018
Le système financier que vous utilisez actuellement se fonde probablement sur des concepts qui datent des années 80 et 90. Depuis, les besoins des directions financières ont évolué de manière significative mais les systèmes n'ont pas su s'adapter à ces changements....
Published: Dec 13, 2017
Running your own business is rewarding. But let’s be honest, it’s also a challenge.
Staying on top of industry trends, being at your clients’ beck and call, finding new clients, juggling meetings, keeping track of cash flow and filing your tax returns.
They’re all competing for your time...
Published: May 31, 2018
If technology is complicating your business, it can also simplify it.
That’s why businesses of all types and sizes have recognised that traditional accounting software and legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions are no longer adequate to keep up in today’s business world—much less tomorrow’s....
Published: Feb 12, 2018
Data wrangling is the process of cleaning and unifying messy and complex data sets for easy access and analysis.
With the amount of data and data sources rapidly growing and expanding, it is getting more and more essential for the large amounts of available data to be organized for analysis.
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Published: Nov 29, 2017
The modern, interconnected business world demands a modern vision of what risk means.
Finance leaders must reckon with risk. And what this means today is very different from what it meant even a year ago. We know that risk is not what it once was—a manageable series of responses based largely on a limited set...
Published: Jun 02, 2017
Up to 80% of all time spent on analytics is consumed by preparing data. Data is never perfect and most of the time you need to clean, enrich and join multiple data sets to gain meaningful insight. Many analysts turn to Excel to perform these data preparation functions which can take hours or even days.
Datawatch...
Published: Nov 29, 2017
Historiquement les notions de gouvernance, de conformité, de contrôle et d'audit n'ont été pensées qu'après coup dans les modules financiers des logiciels ERP classiques. Ce sujet a longtemps été ignoré à l'occasion de la conception, du...
Published: Dec 13, 2017