The finance industry is slowly, but surely migrating to the cloud. But that transition hasn’t come without some costly mistakes. Business Finance blogger Alan Radding touches on five of the most important lessons being learned.
XBRL tagging mandates are growing worldwide. Companies must find the most cost-effective means of dealing with these requirements. Software to automate the process will be an important part of the solution.
Enterprises struggle to gain a consistent, shareable and accurate single version of data across their enterprises -- a single version of the truth -- according to Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrants for Master Data Management. Yet, achieving and maintaining a single, semantically consistent version of master data is a critical capability that supports many business drivers, from sales to compliance.
The ability to respond to change is now more important than the ability to plan. Planning software that has built-in project management features can open new windows of opportunity because it explicitly manages events that have time dependencies and aggregates individual investment project totals. Both of these capabilities make it easier to adapt to changing circumstances and do a better job of allocating a corporation’s limited capital resources.
In today's unpredictable environment, it’s more and more important to replace the relatively static annual budget with agile planning. Driver-based models are a cornerstone of agile planning.
IBM introduced a new entry-level mainframe computer in July with a price of $75,000. That was 25% below the entry-level price of the previous comparable model. So, as CFO, is this a good deal?
Organizations are moving to the cloud in greater numbers. But questions are arising about data consistency and quality, leading to costly errors in business decisions, according to a new report.
Executives are operating blindly with their largest corporate expense item: the workforce. Workforce analytics programs can help companies better understand the supply and demand for talent, and focus limited resources on critical talent decisions.
