The 9 EPM Trends You Need to Know for 2018
By Hari Sankar, Group Vice President, Product Management, Oracle True automation finally is coming to finance. Just as robots are taking over repetitive, manual...
By Hari Sankar, Group Vice President, Product Management, Oracle True automation finally is coming to finance. Just as robots are taking over repetitive, manual tasks on the factory floor, automation powered by pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and machine learning promises to eliminate routine finance and accounting tasks in the office. In a nod to their manufacturing counterparts, some refer to these new finance capabilities as robotic process automation...
By Hari Sankar, Group Vice President, Product Management, Oracle True automation finally is coming to finance. Just as robots are taking over repetitive, manual tasks on the factory floor, automation...
By Jennifer Toomey, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle The key to surviving disruption is flexibility. Whether from external forces (such as new...
By Jennifer Toomey, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle The key to surviving disruption is flexibility. Whether from external forces (such as new regulations or global weather events) or because of internal realities (one product skyrockets to success while another flops), an organization that responds quickly can stay ahead of the curve and the competition. So, how does your organization stack up? Do you have: Spreadsheet overload? Patchwork reporting processes?...
By Jennifer Toomey, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle The key to surviving disruption is flexibility. Whether from external forces (such as new regulations or global weather events) or...
The old adage, “Doing more with less” has never been more relevant to the healthcare industry in the United States. Everybody wants to pay less for patient...
The old adage, “Doing more with less” has never been more relevant to the healthcare industry in the United States. Everybody wants to pay less for patient care, while achieving better clinical outcomes. This is putting tremendous cost pressures on the healthcare ecosystem—which is, in turn, driving the industry to consolidate. A recent HealthLeaders Media survey asked healthcare executives about their merger, acquisition, and partnership plans. Eighty-seven percent expected...
The old adage, “Doing more with less” has never been more relevant to the healthcare industry in the United States. Everybody wants to pay less for patient care, while achieving better...
By Bobby Ellis, Global Director - EPM, Datavail There’s no question: Microsoft Excel has helped a lot of organizations get off the ground. But at a certain...
By Bobby Ellis, Global Director - EPM, Datavail There’s no question: Microsoft Excel has helped a lot of organizations get off the ground. But at a certain level of growth, spreadsheet software is going to keep your organization grounded. A better solution for financial planning and analytics (FP&A) — including budgeting, planning and forecasting — is to migrate to a more shareable, scalable, and trackable finance solution like enterprise performance management (EPM) in the...
By Bobby Ellis, Global Director - EPM, Datavail There’s no question: Microsoft Excel has helped a lot of organizations get off the ground. But at a certain level of growth, spreadsheet software is...
By Emma Yu, Product Marketing Director, Oracle It’s a general principle that a company won’t survive long-term without innovating or transforming itself. This...
By Emma Yu, Product Marketing Director, Oracle It’s a general principle that a company won’t survive long-term without innovating or transforming itself. This is crystal clear if you look at the S&P 500, where the average time spent on the list has been decreasing for decades. It’s estimated that half of the S&P 500 will be replaced over the next 10 years. Among the common reasons why companies perish: the business filed for bankruptcy, lost major market share to competition,...
By Emma Yu, Product Marketing Director, Oracle It’s a general principle that a company won’t survive long-term without innovating or transforming itself. This is crystal clear if you look at the S&P...
We’ve written before in this blog about the risks associated with spreadsheets and the reasons finance managers hate them. But another risk has recently reared...
We’ve written before in this blog about the risks associated with spreadsheets and the reasons finance managers hate them. But another risk has recently reared its ugly head in the news: loss, theft, or unintended distribution. Last month it happened to a major US bank. As part of a legal discovery process, a law firm for the bank mistakenly disclosed information unrelated to the case—including spreadsheets filled with customer names, social security numbers, investment...
We’ve written before in this blog about the risks associated with spreadsheets and the reasons finance managers hate them. But another risk has recently reared its ugly head in the news: loss, theft,...
By Jeff Jacoby and Michael Gobbo, Oracle Research from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Oracle shows that finance teams want to be more...
By Jeff Jacoby and Michael Gobbo, Oracle Research from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Oracle shows that finance teams want to be more strategic—spending less time on data gathering and routine tasks, and more on data analysis and business influence. The research, Agile Finance Revealed: The New Operating Model for Modern Finance, found that the most agile finance teams have embraced a new operating model, encompassing three pillars: Greater efficiency through...
By Jeff Jacoby and Michael Gobbo, Oracle Research from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Oracle shows that finance teams want to be more strategic—spending less time on data gathering...
Research from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Oracle shows that finance teams want to be more strategic—spending less time on data gathering and...
Research from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Oracle shows that finance teams want to be more strategic—spending less time on data gathering and routine tasks, and more on data analysis and business influence. Finance leaders want to be operationally agile, able to shift gears quickly to provide this strategic leadership. Yet only 30 percent of survey respondents described their own finance functions as agile. The research found that that the following three traits...
Research from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Oracle shows that finance teams want to be more strategic—spending less time on data gathering and routine tasks, and more on data analysis and...
