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 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...
Sim International prides itself on being a full-service production house for some big players in the entertainment game. Their motto, “From first frame to...
Sim International prides itself on being a full-service production house for some big players in the entertainment game. Their motto, “From first frame to finishing,” covers everything a TV show or movie might need during and after a shoot: studios, cameras, lights, dailies, editing bays, special effects and post-production—even freelance talent. With studios in major locales including Toronto, Vancouver and Los Angeles, Sim’s clients include big names like Netflix,...
Sim International prides itself on being a full-service production house for some big players in the entertainment game. Their motto, “From first frame to finishing,” covers everything a TV show...
By Malcolm Brock, Managing Director, Brovanture When it comes to premium spirits, Maxxium UK is one of the United Kingdom’s most dynamic and innovative...
By Malcolm Brock, Managing Director, Brovanture When it comes to premium spirits, Maxxium UK is one of the United Kingdom’s most dynamic and innovative companies. Maxxium’s portfolio of products include immediately recognisable brand names: blended Scotch whiskies like The Famous Grouse, Teacher’s and Cutty Sark; single malts such as The Macallan, Laphroaig, Highland Park and Bowmore; Jim Beam bourbon; and Canadian Club Canadian whisky. We at Brovanture have worked with...
By Malcolm Brock, Managing Director, Brovanture When it comes to premium spirits, Maxxium UK is one of the United Kingdom’s most dynamic and innovative companies. Maxxium’s portfolio of...
By Jennifer Toomey, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle When food giants Heinz Co. and Kraft Foods were merged by 3G Capital, the clock on...
By Jennifer Toomey, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle When food giants Heinz Co. and Kraft Foods were merged by 3G Capital, the clock on return-on-investment started ticking immediately. The merged companies had eight $1 billion-plus legacy brands between them, and the pressure was on to quickly realize value through a global cost-management initiative based on zero-based budgeting (ZBB). Fortunately, the company had Oracle as a partner. Both ZBB and Oracle have...
By Jennifer Toomey, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle When food giants Heinz Co. and Kraft Foods were merged by 3G Capital, the clock on return-on-investment started ticking immediately....
My colleague Gary Allen recently wrote about the funding challenges facing institutions of higher learning. Student enrollment rates are forecast to drop over...
My colleague Gary Allen recently wrote about the funding challenges facing institutions of higher learning. Student enrollment rates are forecast to drop over the next decade, leading to a decline in tuition dollars. As if that weren’t bad enough, state funding models have changed, moving from a per-capita system to one based on student outcomes. There is intense pressure on higher education institutions to be more efficient and cost-effective with ever-shrinking budgets. So...
My colleague Gary Allen recently wrote about the funding challenges facing institutions of higher learning. Student enrollment rates are forecast to drop over the next decade, leading to a decline...
By Natalia Rachelson, Vice President, Cloud Applications, Oracle At Oracle OpenWorld 2017 earlier this month, the future was fully on display. In fact, I would...
By Natalia Rachelson, Vice President, Cloud Applications, Oracle At Oracle OpenWorld 2017 earlier this month, the future was fully on display. In fact, I would say that the future has already arrived. We’ve all heard Oracle executives predict that the future is in the cloud—and so it is. Oracle has successfully crossed the chasm in the software as a service (SaaS) space. In his general session, Oracle's executive vice president of applications development, Steve Miranda,...
By Natalia Rachelson, Vice President, Cloud Applications, Oracle At Oracle OpenWorld 2017 earlier this month, the future was fully on display. In fact, I would say that the future has already arrived....
