Advancing the potential of any business requires continuous improvement in the processes and technology that support it. Many companies have embraced attempts at a digital transformation, and it’s become a goal to which organizational resources and budgets have been dedicated around the globe.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Data Science,
Mobile,
Sales,
Customer Analytics,
Customer Engagement,
Customer Experience,
Human Capital Management,
Machine Learning,
Marketing,
Marketing Performance Management,
Mobile Technology,
Office of Finance,
Wearable Computing,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Customer Service,
Data Governance,
Data Integration,
Data Preparation,
Internet of Things,
Contact Center,
Information Optimization,
Product Information Management,
Digital Technology,
Digital Marketing,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing,
Pricing and Promotion Management,
Cybersecurity,
Billing and Recurring Revenue,
Workforce Optimization,
collaboration for business,
mobile marketing
OneStream XF from OneStream Software is a financial performance management (FPM) platform available on-premises or in the cloud. The company is a relative newcomer (it started in 2010) but its founders are industry veterans and it has a long list of referenceable customers. Being self-financed, it only recently began to raise its market profile. Its SmartCPM system consists of software for statutory financial consolidation, planning, forecasting, budgeting and reporting that’s used primarily by...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Continuous Planning,
Analytics,
HRMS,
Financial Performance Management,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
Sales Planning and Analytics
After more than a decade of steady development, ERP systems today are changing fundamentally, facilitated by the availability of advances such as cloud computing, advanced database architecture, collaboration, improved user-interface design, mobility, analytics and planning. This was evident when Oracle recently held its third analysts-only ERP Cloud Summit in New York to coincide with its Modern Finance Experience event. Oracle now has an increasingly robust set of business applications that...
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Topics:
ERP,
Machine Learning,
Cloud Computing,
Robotic Process Automation,
Artificial intelligence,
blockchain,
AI
Accountants love electronic spreadsheets – and for good reason. They’re a powerful and versatile personal productivity tool and just about everyone knows how to use them. Spreadsheets are the default software tool for accountants because they enable autonomy (you don’t need to ask IT for anything) and they’re free (so you don’t have to make a business case to authorize buying something). Some accountants humorously (but earnestly) invoke the line “you’ll have to pry this spreadsheet from my...
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Topics:
ERP,
Office of Finance,
Continuous Accounting,
FASB,
IASB,
CFO,
controller,
Financial Performance Management,
Spreadsheets,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
revenue recognition,
Accounting,
Lease Accounting,
real estate,
Lease Management,
ASC842,
IFRS16,
leasing
Pricing is an issue that almost every for-profit company confronts – and usually agonizes over. Organizations’ approach to pricing can range from centralized to decentralized and from highly disciplined to lax. Whether pricing is best handled in a centralized or decentralized fashion depends a great deal on the markets the company is serving as well as its organizational structure and culture. However specific pricing policies are established, though, a disciplined approach to price setting and...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Financial Performance Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Enterprise Resource Planning
SAP recently held a teleconference to highlight its blockchain strategy. Lately, the major business software vendors have been calling attention to their blockchain initiatives. While the focus on this technology might seem premature to those who still equate it with cryptocurrencies, evidence is pointing to a future pace of adoption similar to the rapid take-up of the internet in the 1990s. That blockchain is useful for a wide range of business functions isn’t news – just google “blockchain...
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Topics:
Machine Learning,
Office of Finance,
finance transformation,
Robotic Process Automation,
Artificial intelligence,
blockchain,
AI,
bots,
robotic finance
Robots of the physical sort are not about to take over finance and accounting but we have arrived at the age of “Robotic Finance”. I coined this term to focus on four key technologies with transformative capabilities: artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotic process automation, bots and natural language processing and blockchain distributed ledger technology. Embracing these technologies will enable any department to redefine itself as a forward-looking strategic partner to the...
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Topics:
Machine Learning,
close,
closing,
Robotic Process Automation,
Artificial intelligence,
blockchain,
AI,
Accounting,
bots
The HCM software market continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace. The innovations we’re seeing are exciting new features and capabilities, but many have more profound impacts: They provide organizations with more effective ways to serve their customers and enhance their experience. HR’s customers –employees, managers, retirees, candidates, leadership and external partners – can now access and take advantage of native mobile apps, virtual agents and chatbots (via text or voice) as well as...
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Topics:
Human Capital Management,
Employee Engagement,
Employee Productivity,
HR technology,
HCM Systems
We at Ventana Research recently published our research agendas for 2018. The world of data and information management continues to evolve, as does our research on the use of these technologies to improve your organization’s operations. Relational databases are no longer the only viable enterprise data store as more organizations adopt a polyglot database infrastructure. And while their exact form may still be changing, as I have recently written, big data technologies are here to stay. Our Data...
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Topics:
Data Governance,
Information Management,
Data,
blockchain
The use of blockchain distributed ledgers in business processes is now a common theme in many business software vendors’ presentations. The technology has a multitude of potential uses. However, presentations about the opportunities for digital transformation always leave me wondering: How is this magic going to happen? I wonder this because the details about how data flows from point A to point B via a blockchain are critically important to blockchain utility and therefore the pace of its...
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Topics:
Planning,
Predictive Analytics,
Forecast,
FP&A,
Machine Learning,
Reporting,
budget,
Budgeting,
Continuous Planning,
Analytics,
Data Management,
Cognitive Computing,
Integrated Business Planning,
AI,
forecasting,
consolidating