By Barbara Hodge, Global Editor, Shared Services and Outsourcing Network (SSON) We may look back on 2017 as the year in which support services "discovered"...
By Barbara Hodge, Global Editor, Shared Services and Outsourcing Network (SSON) We may look back on 2017 as the year in which support services "discovered" automation. I’m putting “discovered” in quotation marks because automation has been used in other sectors for many years—most notably in manufacturing. The advantage this sector has over manufacturing, however, is that it fairly quickly made the connection between single task robotic desktop automation and its more...
By Barbara Hodge, Global Editor, Shared Services and Outsourcing Network (SSON) We may look back on 2017 as the year in which support services "discovered" automation. I’m putting “discovered” in...
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the first smartphone—a device that not only changed the way we socialize and communicate, but the way we work. Over the...
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the first smartphone—a device that not only changed the way we socialize and communicate, but the way we work. Over the last ten years, companies of all sizes in every industry have been profoundly affected by new technologies. Today’s companies are more mobile, more social, more productive, and have seen their data volumes explode. Unfortunately, some finance departments have been left behind. Investments in new technologies are...
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the first smartphone—a device that not only changed the way we socialize and communicate, but the way we work. Over the last ten years, companies of all sizes...
By Rondy Ng, Senior Vice President, Applications Development, Oracle This week, Gartner issued its first Magic Quadrant™ report for a new category, Cloud Core...
By Rondy Ng, Senior Vice President, Applications Development, Oracle This week, Gartner issued its first Magic Quadrant™ report for a new category, Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises. We’re thrilled to announce that Oracle ERP Cloud has been named a leader and is positioned the highest for ability to execute and furthest for completeness of vision. We’re making the full report available to readers with our compliments. Download...
By Rondy Ng, Senior Vice President, Applications Development, Oracle This week, Gartner issued its first Magic Quadrant™ report for a new category, Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize,...
Gardens and summer are annual partners in many households. Homes around the world grow gardens with dreams of delivering beautiful and bountiful cornucopias of...
Gardens and summer are annual partners in many households. Homes around the world grow gardens with dreams of delivering beautiful and bountiful cornucopias of fresh flowers and produce. But gardens have one major downside: weeds. Controlling and removing weeds is a daily challenge, and if you miss one day of pulling, the next day the weeds seem to have multiplied by a factor of four. Many great garden plans conceived in May have been decimated by weeds in July. This slippery...
Gardens and summer are annual partners in many households. Homes around the world grow gardens with dreams of delivering beautiful and bountiful cornucopias of fresh flowers and produce. But...
Tomorrow, Americans will celebrate Independence Day. For those of you outside the United States, July 4 commemorates the signing of the Declaration of...
Tomorrow, Americans will celebrate Independence Day. For those of you outside the United States, July 4 commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The celebrated document included a lengthy list of grievances against Great Britain’s King George III and declared independence for 13 of the North American colonies. In the spirit of this famous document, it's a great time—regardless of your citizenship—to declare your independence from the on-premises...
Tomorrow, Americans will celebrate Independence Day. For those of you outside the United States, July 4 commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The celebrated...
By Jim Kaitz, President & CEO, AFP I’m seeing a trend on the horizon, and it doesn’t necessarily bode well for treasury and finance. While many practitioners...
By Jim Kaitz, President & CEO, AFP I’m seeing a trend on the horizon, and it doesn’t necessarily bode well for treasury and finance. While many practitioners are spread increasingly thin, focused on checking off the next task on the list, disruptive innovation is occurring all around them. Yet they don’t consider these developments and embrace how to use them to move their organizations forward. Only a select few are recognizing the need to adopt new technologies such as...
By Jim Kaitz, President & CEO, AFP I’m seeing a trend on the horizon, and it doesn’t necessarily bode well for treasury and finance. While many practitioners are spread increasingly thin, focused on...
Okay, I admit it... the title of this article is a little far out there. But today is the longest day of the year, so I'm asking you to spare a few seconds of...
Okay, I admit it... the title of this article is a little far out there. But today is the longest day of the year, so I'm asking you to spare a few seconds of your time to indulge my thoughts. Across the northern hemisphere today, the summer solstice is being observed and celebrated. From well-known places like Stonehenge in England to obscure sites such as the Solar Tubes in Utah, people will gather to watch the astronomical alignment of the longest day above the equator....
Okay, I admit it... the title of this article is a little far out there. But today is the longest day of the year, so I'm asking you to spare a few seconds of your time to indulge my thoughts. Across...
If you work in finance for an American healthcare organization, you know that maintaining a fiscally healthy organization is a challenge—especially in today’s...
If you work in finance for an American healthcare organization, you know that maintaining a fiscally healthy organization is a challenge—especially in today’s environment of regulatory uncertainty. Interested in learning how your peers are coping with the challenge? Then you might want to sign up for next week’s annual gathering of the HFMA—the Healthcare Financial Management Association. With more than 40,000 members, HFMA is the United States’ premier membership...
If you work in finance for an American healthcare organization, you know that maintaining a fiscally healthy organization is a challenge—especially in today’s environment of regulatory uncertainty....
What’s the most important quality a finance team needs to succeed in the digital age? What attributes are essential to helping finance achieve more influence...
What’s the most important quality a finance team needs to succeed in the digital age? What attributes are essential to helping finance achieve more influence within the business? What’s the most important benefit of cloud applications in the digital age? These are three important questions that finance teams are asking themselves. They came to the fore in the recently published AICPA/Oracle research, Agile Finance Revealed: The New Operating Model for Modern Finance. The...
What’s the most important quality a finance team needs to succeed in the digital age? What attributes are essential to helping finance achieve more influence within the business? What’s the...
