By Marc Seewald, Senior Director, EPM Product Development, Oracle It has been quite a journey since the tax reform package passed at the end of 2017. It’s...
By Marc Seewald, Senior Director, EPM Product Development, Oracle It has been quite a journey since the tax reform package passed at the end of 2017. It’s hardly an understatement to say that the legislation is the biggest overhaul of the US tax code in more than 31 years. These new rules that many companies are viewing as “business reforms” make financial and tax transformation necessary. Combine this with other recent taxation changes, such as the OECD’s country-by-country...
By Marc Seewald, Senior Director, EPM Product Development, Oracle It has been quite a journey since the tax reform package passed at the end of 2017. It’s hardly an understatement to say that...
By Bobby Ellis, Global Practice Lead – EPM, Datavail Last month, Oracle published its annual EPM Top Trends Report. Among the major findings: organizations are...
By Bobby Ellis, Global Practice Lead – EPM, Datavail Last month, Oracle published its annual EPM Top Trends Report. Among the major findings: organizations are moving enterprise performance management to the cloud in record numbers—in large part to avoid upgrading their on-premises systems. In fact, “Avoiding on-premises upgrades” is now the top reason for moving EPM to the cloud, cited by 48% of respondents. Organizations that make the move are realizing significant...
By Bobby Ellis, Global Practice Lead – EPM, Datavail Last month, Oracle published its annual EPM Top Trends Report. Among the major findings: organizations are moving enterprise performance management...
By Jennifer Toomey, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle What is a top motivating factor for moving enterprise performance management (EPM) to the...
By Jennifer Toomey, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle What is a top motivating factor for moving enterprise performance management (EPM) to the cloud? When asked why they decided to move EPM to the cloud, 48% of respondents to our EPM Top Trends survey cited the desire to avoid on-premises upgrades. With systems starting to age, organizations are looking more closely at what’s involved with upgrades, and the cloud offers a compelling alternative. That’s just one...
By Jennifer Toomey, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle What is a top motivating factor for moving enterprise performance management (EPM) to the cloud? When asked why they decided to move...
By Shyam Bansal, Fujitsu How painful is your financial close process? If you’re like many companies, it’s probably more painful than you’d like it to be....
By Shyam Bansal, Fujitsu How painful is your financial close process? If you’re like many companies, it’s probably more painful than you’d like it to be. Regulators and stakeholders are putting more pressure on businesses to speed up the close and reporting process. However, most companies are struggling to meet these demands because of fragmented data sources and manual work-arounds. As a result, we see more and more companies looking at cloud solutions to drive a...
By Shyam Bansal, Fujitsu How painful is your financial close process? If you’re like many companies, it’s probably more painful than you’d like it to be. Regulators and stakeholders are putting more...
By Tim Gaumont, Director of Product Management, Oracle Let’s face it: every finance department is being asked to do more, at a faster pace, with fewer...
By Tim Gaumont, Director of Product Management, Oracle Let’s face it: every finance department is being asked to do more, at a faster pace, with fewer resources—even as they handle more complex reporting and analysis. Typically, finance teams respond in one of two ways. Many of them simply work harder and longer, juggling more spreadsheets, emails, and laborious, manual processes. The rest decide to automate finance processes using sophisticated cloud software that slashes...
By Tim Gaumont, Director of Product Management, Oracle Let’s face it: every finance department is being asked to do more, at a faster pace, with fewer resources—even as they handle more...
At the 2018 Modern Finance Experience in New York, Christopher Ayotte from Asurion and Brian Deegan from Peloton Group presented a compelling session about...
At the 2018 Modern Finance Experience in New York, Christopher Ayotte from Asurion and Brian Deegan from Peloton Group presented a compelling session about Asurion’s allocations and costing journey. What’s so exciting about this? Well, if you are using spreadsheets and are determined to stick with them—probably nothing. But, if you want to transform your business, there is plenty to get excited about. I asked Ayotte what excites his management the most in costing and...
At the 2018 Modern Finance Experience in New York, Christopher Ayotte from Asurion and Brian Deegan from Peloton Group presented a compelling session about Asurion’s allocations and costing...
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...
