Can finance be revolutionary? New research from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Oracle suggests that it can—and should. The report, Agile Finance...
Can finance be revolutionary? New research from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Oracle suggests that it can—and should. The report, Agile Finance Revealed: The New Operating Model for Modern Finance, found that finance can drive strategy and deliver guidance to the business—if the finance organization is agile. In an agile finance organization, end-to-end business processes are touchless; predictive powers are enhanced by machine learning and data science; and the...
Can finance be revolutionary? New research from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Oracle suggests that it can—and should. The report, Agile Finance Revealed: The New Operating Model for...
By Robert Landon In the digital age, CFOs are experiencing a serious disconnect between a rapidly evolving mission and their ability to execute on it, according...
By Robert Landon In the digital age, CFOs are experiencing a serious disconnect between a rapidly evolving mission and their ability to execute on it, according to Agile Finance Revealed: The New Operating Model for Modern Finance—a new research report by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Oracle. CEOs increasingly want CFOs to serve as corporate strategists or “co-pilots” of the business to help them thrive in the digital age. The problem is, only 30 percent of...
By Robert Landon In the digital age, CFOs are experiencing a serious disconnect between a rapidly evolving mission and their ability to execute on it, according to Agile Finance Revealed: The New...
By Margaret Harrist, Director, Content Strategy and Implementation, Oracle In the world of finance, it’s safe to say that those who can be termed agile leaders...
By Margaret Harrist, Director, Content Strategy and Implementation, Oracle In the world of finance, it’s safe to say that those who can be termed agile leaders are in the minority by far, according to a new research report from Oracle and the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), Agile Finance Revealed: The New Operating Model for Modern Finance. Based on survey responses from more than 480 senior finance professionals in North America, the report found that only 30 percent...
By Margaret Harrist, Director, Content Strategy and Implementation, Oracle In the world of finance, it’s safe to say that those who can be termed agile leaders are in the minority by far, according to...
By Sarosh Khan, IBM Global Business Services The Great Migration has begun. Business and organizations of every shape and size are packing up and heading to the...
By Sarosh Khan, IBM Global Business Services The Great Migration has begun. Business and organizations of every shape and size are packing up and heading to the cloud. But in their rush, many businesses are forgetting why they decided to move to the cloud in the first place—or whether they’re getting the results they expected. That’s a recipe for disappointment, or possibly a strategic misstep. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Make no mistake: businesses have a lot of...
By Sarosh Khan, IBM Global Business Services The Great Migration has begun. Business and organizations of every shape and size are packing up and heading to the cloud. But in their rush,...
Cloud technology is fast becoming mainstream and decision makers are realizing huge benefits from enterprise performance management (EPM) services in the cloud....
Cloud technology is fast becoming mainstream and decision makers are realizing huge benefits from enterprise performance management (EPM) services in the cloud. Many CFOs are now successfully leveraging cloud technology for their EPM processes to digitally transform their finance organizations and generate value for the business. Recently, Oracle surveyed over 400 decision makers to learn more about their experiences with EPM in the cloud, and their plans for 2017-18. Both...
Cloud technology is fast becoming mainstream and decision makers are realizing huge benefits from enterprise performance management (EPM) services in the cloud. Many CFOs are now...
Here at Oracle, we like to talk about finance and HR as “A Marriage Made in Cloud Heaven.” There’s no doubt that the two lines of business are tightly...
Here at Oracle, we like to talk about finance and HR as “A Marriage Made in Cloud Heaven.” There’s no doubt that the two lines of business are tightly intertwined—employee salaries and benefits are one of the biggest line-item expenses for a business, and the quality of a company’s talent can make the difference between financial growth and stagnation. That’s why, here at Oracle, we take a tightly integrated approach to our finance and HR cloud software applications—and why...
Here at Oracle, we like to talk about finance and HR as “A Marriage Made in Cloud Heaven.” There’s no doubt that the two lines of business are tightly intertwined—employee salaries and benefits...
By Jeroen Sprangers, Managing Enterprise Applications Consultant, Capgemini Do you remember the old days when you bought a new PC and blocked off your entire...
By Jeroen Sprangers, Managing Enterprise Applications Consultant, Capgemini Do you remember the old days when you bought a new PC and blocked off your entire Saturday to set it up? I’m sure it usually took you the whole day: setting up the programs and the network, and there was always that one step which was not described in the user guide. Following Murphy’s Law, that particular step always went wrong—leading to wasted time and frustration. After a long series of errors...
By Jeroen Sprangers, Managing Enterprise Applications Consultant, Capgemini Do you remember the old days when you bought a new PC and blocked off your entire Saturday to set it up? I’m sure it...
Are you an innovative finance professional? Always on the lookout for the next great idea? Looking for ways to make your finance organization more strategic,...
Are you an innovative finance professional? Always on the lookout for the next great idea? Looking for ways to make your finance organization more strategic, providing better guidance and value to the business? Then you need to read the nominations (and vote!) in Oracle’s Change Agent of Finance Awards. As the nominations have flowed in, our team has learned about creative finance teams that are using Oracle ERP and EPM Cloud to change the way they work. These teams are...
Are you an innovative finance professional? Always on the lookout for the next great idea? Looking for ways to make your finance organization more strategic, providing better guidance and value to the...
By Arun Khehar, Senior Vice President of Applications ECEMEA, Oracle “A company’s data is its most valuable weapon,” according to Steve Miranda, Oracle’s...
By Arun Khehar, Senior Vice President of Applications ECEMEA, Oracle “A company’s data is its most valuable weapon,” according to Steve Miranda, Oracle’s executive vice president of applications development. Most of the finance executives I know would agree with this statement. After all, finance professionals have built whole careers on data and numbers. And yet, very few of today’s finance teams make the best use of the data they have. Part of the problem is that there is...
By Arun Khehar, Senior Vice President of Applications ECEMEA, Oracle “A company’s data is its most valuable weapon,” according to Steve Miranda, Oracle’s executive vice president of...
