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As your organization’s finance leader, the opportunity to better understand the landscape and your business has never been greater. Advances in analytics—powered by digital technologies, such as automation and machine learning—give finance teams deeper business insights. Read the story.

In the digital era, data and technology are your ticket to new profit pools and growth opportunities. Read this feature story to explore the skills needed to support the future finance function, and learn how finance leaders can find and develop the talent they need.

Read this expert analysis from SMB Group to learn how using a single system across finance, HR, and payroll can make all the difference for your organization. You can also get some guidance on how to choose the solution that’s the best fit for your organization.

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As your organization’s finance leader, the opportunity to better understand the landscape and your business has never been greater. Advances in analytics—powered by digital technologies, such as automation and machine learning—give finance teams deeper business insights. Read the story.

In the digital era, data and technology are your ticket to new profit pools and growth opportunities. Read this feature story to explore the skills needed to support the future finance function, and learn how finance leaders can find and develop the talent they need.

Financial planning and analysis is evolving to support digital business initiatives. Application leaders supporting finance transformation must focus on new ways of managing financial performance by enabling broader integration with operational plans and actionable performance reporting. Download this complimentary Gartner report and discover how.

What’s the state of planning in finance? Our annual benchmarking report, The State of Connected Planning, investigates how leading organizations accelerate business value through Connected Planning. We surveyed over 1,000 planning professionals across all business functions in 45 countries and 18 industries to uncover leading planning trends. This finance-focused brief contains: • Key findings from finance professionals • Challenges faced by finance professionals • How they believe they can improve their planning processes

The role of FP&A professionals during the first two weeks of the month entails rushing for month closure, gathering data sets, reports, and scrutinizing, processing and analyzing data in Excel workbooks in discussion with the top management. Increasing revenues, optimizing costs, and aligning with the overall business strategy are a few familiar goals laid down for financial planning and analysis (FP&A) professionals. These goals trickle down from finance leaders who are under constant pressure to provide accurate and timely reporting and analysis to support effective decision making. Read on to know how can digitizing FP&A help the finance team to make more robust decisions and be a key part of the finance transformation.

An effective rolling forecast is important to estimate long term financial plans. Every organization undertakes this process as a finance activity. However, when the forecasted data is examined on its effectiveness for decision making, more often than not the results are disappointing, and the rolling forecast process needs to be redefined. This paper talks about effective rolling forecasts that utilize resources, technologies, processes, and business intelligence to deliver actionable insights. A best-in-class matured RF process will enable CFOs to deliver great results through increased revenue and cost reductions, and create new benchmarks for the organization.

H&S Ventures provides management services for the Anaheim Ducks hockey team and its home-ice venue—the Honda Center. This popular indoor arena hosts scores of events and concerts, and H&S oversees everything from ticket sales to marketing and finance. H&S’s performance is measured by attendance, big-name bookings and how much fans spend on merchandise and concessions. Digital innovation plays a crucial role in creating a thrilling live experience that raises fans’ satisfaction and their average “spend.”

Une enquête menée par le groupe mondial d'études sur les marchés des technologies de l'information IDC auprès de 3 500 grands noms de l'informatique à travers le monde montre l'unanimité des entreprises au sujet de PC Lifecycle as a Service qui s'avère économique, rapide et mieux adapté aux employés. Dell PC as a Service (PCaaS) intègre le matériel, les logiciels, les services pour le cycle de vie et le financement dans une solution globale qui propose un prix unique et prévisible par mois et par siège, fourni par le Service financier de Dell. En savoir plus sur les solutions Dell en collaboration avec Intel®

Your business is changing. As a finance leader, you know that accounting is a labour-intensive, costly process where systems often don’t allow for expedient exception handling and many days are fraught with difficulty in matching invoices to other databases for reconciliation. Like most companies, you know where you want to go but may not have infrastructure or internal expertise to handle electronic fund transfers, credit card payments or cheque processing— all the pieces required to make your vision for an efficient, integrated operation a reality.

Although data and analytics are highlighted throughout the popular press as well as in trade publications, too many managers think the value of this data processing is limited to a few numerically intensive fields such as science and finance. In fact, big data and the insights that emerge from analyzing it will transform every industry, from “precision farming” to manufacturing and construction. Governments must also be alert to the value of data and analytics as the enabler for smart cities. Institutions that master available data will leap ahead of their less statistically adept competitors through many advantages: finding hidden opportunities for efficiency, using data to become more responsive to clients, and developing entirely new and unanticipated product lines. The average time spent by most companies on the S&P 500 Index has decreased from an average of 60 to 70 years to only 22 years. There are winners and losers in the changes that come with the evolution of both technology

H&S Ventures provides management services for the Anaheim Ducks hockey team and its home-ice venue—the Honda Center. This popular indoor arena hosts scores of events and concerts, and H&S oversees everything from ticket sales to marketing and finance. H&S’s performance is measured by attendance, big-name bookings and how much fans spend on merchandise and concessions. Digital innovation plays a crucial role in creating a thrilling live experience that raises fans’ satisfaction and their average “spend.”

Financial services firms are turning to Business Spend Management (BSM) as a Strategic Solution Beset by competitors and burdened by ever-shifting regulatory requirements, financial services firms are turning to cloud-based technology to gain better control over—and visibility into—spending. In the process, they are becoming fiercer competitors. Download this ebook for insights into how you can improve your organization's financial health and how: A cloud complete-BSM solution can track and measure all purchasing activities, identifying patterns that provide opportunities for negotiating discounts, and better managing risk To increase savings across source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, travel & expense management, as well as risk and supplier management Modern technology enables the finance function to take cost-management to a deeper level—without investing in IT infrastructure

Visibility remains a huge challenge for CFOs in today’s dynamic and ever-evolving business environment. A study of more than 500 CFOs and senior finance executives conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and commissioned by Coupa, reveals that more than 60 percent of CFOs lack complete visibility into the transactions within their organization. Sound familiar? Read the report to learn how CFOs are responding in a rapidly evolving world where new technologies, uncertainty, and emerging threats abound. The report also includes five qualitative interviews with the CFOs from Ally Financial, Driftwood Acquisitions and Development, Hays, Micron Technologies, and Zendesk.

Download this webinar to learn about Machine Learning and how it can be applied to finance, and acquire basic fundamentals about how to begin the journey.

Data is a driver of growth and change that is quickly becoming the world's most valuable resource. As such, finance leaders face increased pressure to value data as an asset on their balance sheets and use it to drive business strategy. To capitalize on the power of data, learn how to pinpoint where you are today. what steps you can take to reach your goals and how to measure success.

Your data center struggles with competing requirements from your lines of business and the finance, security and IT departments. While some executives want to lower cost and increase efficiency, others want business growth and responsiveness. But today, most data center teams are just trying to keep up with application service levels, complex workflows, and sprawling infrastructure and support costs.

Download this whitepaper to learn how mobile technology can redefine banking, improve the customer experience, and empower financial advisors.

Traditional business models are getting shattered by subscriptions. No one can doubt the new services economy is flourishing. The cloud, mobile, digital, connected devices, globalization - all these things have had a hand in reshaping business and powering new business models. Companies today are wrapping service-based business models and while this shift adds new complexities for finance and has major revenue recognition implications, it also gives finance leaders huge opportunities to become bigger value creators for their business and make a stronger impact on enterprise-wide strategies - not financials.

This IDC Vendor Profile describes FinancialForce.com, a cloud applications company with financial management, ordering and billing, human capital management (HCM), professional services automation (PSA), and supply chain management (SCM) solutions built on the Salesforce1 platform and a 36-year heritage of building financial management solutions at UNIT4 (the former Agresso and CODA products). FinancialForce.com's accounting solution, launched in 2008 as CODA 2go, was the first on - demand financial system built entirely on the Salesforce1 Platform. Backed by Technology Crossover Ventures, Advent International, Salesforce Ventures, and UNIT4, FinancialForce.com's applications continue to be the leading finance and professional services solutions available as native Salesforce1 applications on the AppExchange.

The #1 Accounting App on the Salesforce Platform. FinancialForce Accounting is a simple, yet powerful accounting application that is straightforward to learn, easy to implement and trouble-free to maintain. The perfect complement to Salesforce CRM, it brings back office data to the front, allowing companies to align sales, services and finance on a single cloud.

Download this whitepaper to learn 5 everyday challenges you can solve simply by integrating Services with Finance, Find out how you can run a leaner, cleaner org-and learn the tricks to get that cash off the table and onto your bottom line.