A CFO empowered with data is able to put positive pressure on all areas of the business, in a much more proactive way than has been possible until now.
Increasingly advanced predictive algorithms take into account everything from performance evaluations to conflict avoidance to timely task completion.
CFOs are demanding that their finance and accounting personnel have the ability to interpret trends from big data and tell a "compelling story."
The increasing adoption of an open-source tool is putting pressure on vendors of proprietary software to lower their prices for data-mining solutions.
Data mining is changing the way companies target customers and plan projects, but the tools and resources to do it are a big investment.
