Workiva recently introduced Wdata, a cloud facility for centralizing financial and non-financial information from multiple sources. It frees up time for finance organizations, especially financial planning and analysis (FP&A) groups, to explore conditions and trends in their business because they need to spend less of it gathering data and preparing it for analysis and reporting. Ventana Research recently awarded Workiva our Digital Innovation award for Wdata because of its transformative potential.
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Topics: Data Governance, Data Preparation, Office of Finance, Continuous Planning, ERP and Continuous Accounting, Financial Performance Management, Recurring Revenue, Price and Revenue Management, revenue recognition, Enterprise Resource Planning, Sales Planning and Analytics
Workday Supports the Finance Department of the Future
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Robert Kugel on Nov 29, 2018 6:00:00 AM
This year’s Workday Rising, the company’s annual user group meeting, offered details of the company’s latest release, Workday 31, and provided a roadmap for the next several semiannual releases. To put these plans into a broader context, I’ve commented before that information technology is on the verge of delivering capabilities that will enable finance and accounting organizations to transform how they work. Technology will have a more profound impact on accounting and finance over the coming decade than it has over the past 50 years. Workday Financial Management, along with the company’s Prism Analytics and recently acquired Adaptive Insights, is evolving to provide to finance and accounting departments the technology underpinnings that can help them redefine how they do their work.
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Topics: Office of Finance, Continuous Planning, ERP and Continuous Accounting, Financial Performance Management, Recurring Revenue, Price and Revenue Management, revenue recognition
PROS Holdings is a software vendor with two distinct but related sets of products. The company began in 1985 offering revenue management software to airlines, hospitality and rental car companies. More recently it added price and revenue management software focusing on B2B services, chemicals and energy, consumer goods manufacturers, food and beverage, healthcare, insurance and technology. This note focuses on the B2B portion of the business.
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Topics: Analytics, Big Data, Data Preparation, Customer Experience, Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Commerce, Pricing and Promotion Management, Office of Finance, Financial Performance Management, Price and Revenue Management, Sales, Sales Enablement and Execution, Sales Performance Management
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 negotiation is always superior to an ad-hoc process. Discipline is key to preventing margin “leakage” caused by unnecessary price concessions. Configure, price and quote (CPQ) software is a critical component in any leakage-prevention strategy.
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Topics: Price and Revenue Management, Office of Finance, Financial Performance Management, Enterprise Resource Planning
Prophix – Financial Performance Management for Midsize Organizations
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Robert Kugel on Dec 12, 2017 5:47:08 AM
Prophix is an established provider of financial performance management (FPM) software for planning and budgeting, forecasting, analysis and reporting, and managing the financial close and consolidation process. Its eponymous software is designed specifically for midsize companies or midsize divisions of larger corporations. These organizations are a distinctive segment of the market in that they have almost all the functional requirements of large enterprises but have fewer resources to apply to these critical tasks. Fortunately, the evolution of information technology over the past decade has been especially beneficial to midsize customers, bringing them expanded capabilities, substantially better performance and greater automation of routine tasks at an affordable total cost of ownership.
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Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Office of Finance, Continuous Planning, Financial Performance Management, Price and Revenue Management, Work and Resource Management, Sales Planning and Analytics, Budgeting, Planning, Integrated Business Planning, Consolidation, accounting close, Reporting
