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Ironing Out The Main Problem With Cost And Profitability Reporting Today
They say there are only three places in the universe with ‘Outer’ in their name – Outer Space, Outer Mongolia and the Outer Hebrides, which is where my wife and I run a guesthouse at a life stage that...
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Is Cost Management Out Of Step With The Needs Of Global Manufacturing?
Manufacturing has changed dramatically over the last 50 years with the de-industrialization of the west and a significant shift in production towards countries such as China and India. These were once...
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Automating The Last Mile Of Finance: What’s New For U.S. Companies?
Colleagues from solution management and solution marketing – Elizabeth Milne, Kristina Henn and Stephane Neufcourt – set out their plans for SAP Disclosure Management in 2013. What is the last mile of...
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Analytical Education Vs. Analytical Simplification?
By James Fisher, VP Solution Marketing, Analytics At the Gartner BI and Analytics Summit in Barcelona I found myself participating in an interesting debate. Does the growing army of business users in...
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Time To Change The Current Budgeting Process?
By Pras Chatterjee Time and again in my work, I meet organizations that are so wedded to their legacy budgeting process that they are simply not ready to make the next step. They may even be stuck on a...
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Finance As Analytical Partner To The Business
Last summer Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services (BBRS) launched a survey and research program to discover and analyse the views of C-level and line-of-business executives around the world on what...
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Using Mobility to Expand Performance Management Best Practices
Most finance teams are still working through exactly how and where to utilize mobile solutions and how best to deploy them to benefit their organization. So with perfect timing, budgeting guru Steve...
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As The World Gets Riskier, It’s Time To Wake Up To Risk Management
Risk in all its forms is inherent in business, – the preventable risks such as unplanned production downtime or internal fraud, strategic risk such as betting the company on an unproven technology or...
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Key Trends In Analytics For 2013
Business analytics has changed dramatically from its humble beginnings in core data warehousing more than 30 years ago. It has evolved from simple decision support solutions to advancements in business...
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Integrated Business Planning For Finance
It should come as no surprise that the next mile of Finance is upon us with changes afoot in the world of budgeting and forecasting. Traditionally it has entailed the Finance organization accumulating...
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Finance Sets The Pace In Adopting Mobile BI Solutions
Mobile BI Solutions In this fast-moving business world, managers and executives need to be able to make informed decisions on-the-fly to seize opportunities and react to deviations as they occur – in...
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Our Invitation To You To Become A Leader In Managing Credit Risk
An invitation for you We know that the in-memory calculation engine SAP HANA can process huge volumes of data in nano-seconds helping accelerate many financial routines such as period closes and cost...
View ArticleMobility And Finance; Impact, Trends And Future [Audio]
Mobility and Finance An interesting discussion about mobility and finance, including the agility and productivity that mobile devices bring to business, how perhaps the smaller format devices have...
View ArticleInefficiency Hindering Finance’s Performance Management Remit
Performance Management Advisors While it is accepted that finance people need to stay up to date with the traditional accounting skills and increasing workload that comes with changes in reporting,...
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8 Steps To Success In The Cloud
According to a new report by the Sand Hill Group that was sponsored by SAP, aside from the obvious attraction of potential cost savings, one of the draws of subscription based cloud computing is that...
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Rethinking The Role Of IT In The Cloud
A row of silk weaver’s cottages with large windows on the upper floor workroom where the loom was located In the late 1700’s my great, great, great, great grandfather was a silk weaver in Bulkington,...
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50 Top Tips For Analytics
Like so many other technologies, business intelligence is steadily becoming democratised. A few years ago, BI and analytics were the province of IT specialists and business analysts – a relatively...
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Looking For The Touch Points Between Big Data And EPM
The technologies that underpin Big Data, such as in-memory’ computing, are already proving their worth in Enterprise Performance Management, (EPM), by calculating budgets and financial closes almost...
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Fresher Insight From Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Analytics What proportion of a typical meeting in your organisation is dedicated to reviewing what’s already happened, and how much to figuring out what needs to be done next? In most...
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Receivables Management Trends: What Are “The Finance Process Gurus” Saying?
The dynamics of Receivables Management are constantly changing due to the multiple innovations that are impacting finance. Electronic invoicing and payments, invoice portals and networks (such as SAP’s...
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