Enterprise Performance Management

Analytics

Business Intelligence: A Life Hack for Today’s CFO

BI can rescue finance executives from the large, incoherent data populations and disparate systems that make diagnosing underperformance almost impossible.

Srin Subra and Kristen Contreras
May 14, 2019
Applications

Financial Systems: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

While there is no one-size-fits-all financial system for the PE-backed universe, there is a four-step roadmap that portfolio company CFOs can employ.
The Cloud

IBM ‘Still Has a Revenue Growth Problem’

The computing giant recorded a 2% fall in revenue for the third quarter but boosted gross margins.
Applications

CFO’s Tech Companies to Watch 2018: Major Disruptors

These 10 companies aim to disrupt and remake some key enterprise technology markets.
Applications

The Revolution Will Be Digitized

Driven by heightened customer expectations, CFOs are making a serious long-term commitment to transformative digital investments.
Applications

Tech Priorities for CFOs: Data Management, Analytics, RPA

"Without data integrity, finance cannot trust the outcomes of analytics solutions, no matter how sophisticated," says The Hackett Group.
IT Value

A (Digital) Dream Deferred

Many finance chiefs avoid falling in love with the latest digital tools because they recognize the risks and costs to the enterprise.
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Spreadsheets

CFO’s Tech Companies to Watch 2018: Adaptive Insights

Without the cloud, it isn’t possible to build planning models that are powerful enough or that can refresh all relevant data, says Adaptive's CFO.
Technology

The Road to Finance Transformation

For CFOs, the lure of the destination — genuine data-driven decision-making that drives enterprise-wide innovation — is worth the difficulty of the journey.
Growth Strategies

Pre-IPO, Host Analytics Seeks Growth-Profits Balance

As the enterprise performance management firm plans for an initial public offering within two years, the only growth it wants is the profitable kind.
Accounting

Metric of the Month: Financial Shared Services Centers

Not only do the top-performing financial shared services centers process more invoices and receipts with fewer people, those people accomplish much more.
Enterprise Performance Management

Master of All Metrics

How CFOs can take charge of nonfinancial performance measures without alienating the rest of the organization.
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