By Arun Khehar, Senior Vice President, Applications Business, ECEMEA, Oracle Where should CFOs focus their attention in 2018? In my conversations with customers...
By Arun Khehar, Senior Vice President, Applications Business, ECEMEA, Oracle Where should CFOs focus their attention in 2018? In my conversations with customers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a few key patterns and themes have become clear. CFOs recognize that the role of corporate finance needs to change to keep pace with the world around them. Rapid changes in consumer technologies, new regulations, and a flood of millennials entering the workforce are forcing...
By Arun Khehar, Senior Vice President, Applications Business, ECEMEA, Oracle Where should CFOs focus their attention in 2018? In my conversations with customers across Europe, the Middle East...
It’s a question on the minds of employees around the world: is a machine going to take my job? The buzz around emerging technologies—artificial intelligence,...
It’s a question on the minds of employees around the world: is a machine going to take my job? The buzz around emerging technologies—artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain and more—has a lot of people asking that question. There are some tasks that these new technologies will be able to do better than humans, with far fewer mistakes. For example: suppose you want to optimize cash on hand by getting discounts from your suppliers. Even a small business has dozens...
It’s a question on the minds of employees around the world: is a machine going to take my job? The buzz around emerging technologies—artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain and more—has...
By Predrag Jakovljevic, Principal Analyst, Technology Evaluation Centres Artificial Intelligence is a divisive technology. Its potential to improve the way we...
By Predrag Jakovljevic, Principal Analyst, Technology Evaluation Centres Artificial Intelligence is a divisive technology. Its potential to improve the way we work and live is enormous, but people are also uneasy about the so-called “rise of the machines” and having everything they do tracked by software. Even those companies that are pioneering AI applications in the consumer space are at odds about its implications, most notably Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla’s Elon...
By Predrag Jakovljevic, Principal Analyst, Technology Evaluation Centres Artificial Intelligence is a divisive technology. Its potential to improve the way we work and live is enormous, but people are...
What's the future of cloud ERP? In this Q&A, Oracle’s Dee Houchen sits down with Gabriel Gheorghiu, principal of Questions Consulting, to discuss his recent...
What's the future of cloud ERP? In this Q&A, Oracle’s Dee Houchen sits down with Gabriel Gheorghiu, principal of Questions Consulting, to discuss his recent research, The ERP Buyer’s Profile for Growing Companies. Gheorghiu outlines what his research uncovered about demand for cloud ERP, and why smaller businesses are stealing a march on bigger rivals. Houchen: Cloud ERP is really hitting its stride now. What’s driving companies to make the move? Gheorghiu: Companies were...
What's the future of cloud ERP? In this Q&A, Oracle’s Dee Houchen sits down with Gabriel Gheorghiu, principal of Questions Consulting, to discuss his recent research, The ERP Buyer’s Profile for...
By Jim Kaitz, President & CEO, AFP There’s a technology gap emerging in the practice of finance, but it’s not exactly what you think it would be. A recently...
By Jim Kaitz, President & CEO, AFP There’s a technology gap emerging in the practice of finance, but it’s not exactly what you think it would be. A recently released AFP survey reveals a significant gap between how important finance professionals rate emerging technology, and what they’re prepared to do to embrace emerging technology. The survey even suggests this gap—let’s call it “the stasis gap”—is growing, and that’s a worrisome sign. When asked, “Are organizations...
By Jim Kaitz, President & CEO, AFP There’s a technology gap emerging in the practice of finance, but it’s not exactly what you think it would be. A recently released AFP survey reveals a significant...
By Steve Cox, Group VP, Oracle Cloud Business Group Finance departments have been racing around for decades to try to keep up with the increasing quantity and...
By Steve Cox, Group VP, Oracle Cloud Business Group Finance departments have been racing around for decades to try to keep up with the increasing quantity and complexity of information. Technology—particularly ERP and EPM cloud—has helped them keep up. But the data and workloads keep growing. APQC’s recent annual survey, “Where Does the Time Go in Finance?” shows that in spite of significant success reducing costs, transaction processing takes up almost half of a finance...
By Steve Cox, Group VP, Oracle Cloud Business Group Finance departments have been racing around for decades to try to keep up with the increasing quantity and complexity of...
In publishing, as in finance, numbers count. Like any good business team, we have metrics that we measure on a regular basis: readership, newsletter...
In publishing, as in finance, numbers count. Like any good business team, we have metrics that we measure on a regular basis: readership, newsletter subscribers, page hits and more. All of this tells us what our readers are interested in so that we can produce more of it. By that measure, 2017 was the year of emerging tech. Blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), and other new technologies have captured the imaginations of finance professionals, as...
In publishing, as in finance, numbers count. Like any good business team, we have metrics that we measure on a regular basis: readership, newsletter subscribers, page hits and more. All of this tells...
Like many finance and technology professionals, I enjoy numbers. So perhaps it’s no surprise that “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is one of my favorite holiday...
Like many finance and technology professionals, I enjoy numbers. So perhaps it’s no surprise that “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is one of my favorite holiday songs. Popularized in 1909 by Frederic Austin, its musical track is derived from 1700s British folk music and French chants, and its lyrics may have been written as early as 1558. Each holiday season, several financial firms calculate the price of each item noted in the lyrics. One frequently referenced annual analysis...
Like many finance and technology professionals, I enjoy numbers. So perhaps it’s no surprise that “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is one of my favorite holiday songs. Popularized in 1909 by...
Is financial services a people industry? The rising popularity of artificial intelligence and process automation suggests the answer is “no.” Recent research...
Is financial services a people industry? The rising popularity of artificial intelligence and process automation suggests the answer is “no.” Recent research from Roubini Thoughtlab predicts the uptake of these technologies will grow by 110% and 84% respectively over the next five years, raising serious questions about the effects this will have on financial services employees and the way companies interact with their customers. For all the headlines about how machines will...
Is financial services a people industry? The rising popularity of artificial intelligence and process automation suggests the answer is “no.” Recent research from Roubini Thoughtlab predicts...
