CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When Steve Pimblett joined The Very Group in October 2020 as chief data officer, reporting to the conglomerate’s CIO, his task was to help the enterprise uncover value in its rich data heritage. The whole company rebranded as Very in 2020, the year Pimblett joined. Establishing a clear and unified approach to data.

IT 98

IT Forecasting Data Lake Data Warehouse 98

Jet Global

JANUARY 6, 2021

Also, with the shift to more remote working in 2020 , it’s easier to provide access to critical business software via the cloud than for organizations to manage VPNs and security on their own to support distributed teams. Providing complete data access is what insightsoftware does. What insightsoftware Brings to the Table.

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit Testing Finance Reporting 98

Jet Global

JANUARY 6, 2020

Wes Gillette, VP of Product Management, insightsoftware discusses the problems most Finance professionals face with ERP financial reporting. Simply put, the reporting needs of finance teams are highly specialized and go beyond what most third-party BI tools can deliver today. The Unique Reporting Needs of Finance. Think again.

Consulting 64

Consulting Reporting Finance Data Warehouse 64

Cloudera

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Much of Cloudera’s internal research and development infrastructure for CDP Public Cloud and CDP Private Cloud runs on compute and storage from the big three cloud providers, and at the beginning of 2020 costs were on course to top $25 million per year. Once we had all of this data in one place, we could build up a cost model.

IT 89

IT Data Warehouse Dashboards Visualization 89

Jedox

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This is because the data needed to answer the question was a) physically unavailable, b) too costly to acquire c) outdated by the time it was acquired, or d) some or all of the above. In 2020, I would argue that data is basically free, unlimited, and immediate. Limited internal resources. Self-service reporting.

Data Analytics 69

Data Analytics Analytics Unstructured Data Data mining 69

Octopai

JULY 17, 2019

Well, that’s the problem – BI teams today tend to have to map out data lineage manually since they are usually dealing with multi-vendor environments. Metadata is what makes it possible to have data lineage, and the demand for tools to manage metadata is growing rapidly. Some Data Lineage Use Cases. Regulations.

Metadata 72

Metadata Visualization Reporting Finance 72

Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2022

March, 2020: Gartner names Alation a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Metadata Management Solutions. June 2020: Dresner Advisory Services names Alation the #1 data catalog in its Data Catalog End-User Market Study for the 4th time. May 2021: Inc Magazine names Alation a Best Workplace of 2021.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Data Quality Marketing 52

Octopai

JUNE 1, 2020

Data Warehousing – For data to have value for your company, it needs to be stored in an accessible location. Correct data mapping facilitates the creation of usable, searchable data warehouses. Enforcing finance regulations has also become a concern for BI & analytics teams.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Warehouse Data Integration Finance 52

Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2021

In October of 2020 Cloudera acquired Eventador and Cloudera Streaming Analytics (CSA) 1.3.0 The team’s focus turned to bringing Flink Data Definition Language ( DDL) and the batch interface into SSB with that completed. was released early in 2021. Unlocking new use cases and architectures. With the new capabilities CSA 1.4

Analytics 65

Analytics Manufacturing Measurement IoT 65

Jet Global

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The term “ business intelligence ” (BI) has been in common use for several decades now, referring initially to the OLAP systems that drew largely upon pre-processed information stored in data warehouses. Discover Meaning Amid All That Data. They are beginning to amass the data assets that will serve them for years to come.

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence OLAP Sales Data Warehouse 52

Jet Global

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The company is pointing customers to several other options, including “BYOD” (which stands for “bring your own database”) and Microsoft Azure data lakes. This leads to the second option, which is a data warehouse. In this scenario, data are periodically queried from the source transactional system. Fast-forward to 2020.

Modeling 52

Modeling OLAP Reporting Sales 52

Jet Global

MAY 27, 2021

Oracle 11g extended support ended December 2020. While it has many advantages, it’s not built to be a transactional reporting tool for day-to-day ad hoc analysis or easy drilling into data details. Their analysis highlighted that the average annual production cost of each report that finance teams maintain is around $8,000.

Reporting 52

Reporting Cost-Benefit Dashboards Finance 52

Andrew White

JANUARY 11, 2021

Which industry, sector moves fast and successful with data-driven? Government, Finance, … Tough question…mostly as it’s hard to determine which industry due to different uses and needs of D&A. What’s your view in situation where the IT function still reports to CFO (Finance Director)? Policy enforcement.

Data Analytics 52

Data Analytics Analytics Data-driven Finance 52

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2025

For example, an analytics dashboard that correlates shipping data gaps in a logistics view could be correlated to quantities released for distribution in a warehouse. Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do. Still, the correlated relationship is not necessarily causal.

Enterprise 102

Enterprise Analytics Experimentation Machine Learning 102

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2023

According to the World Economic Forum 4 , “At the beginning of 2020, the number of bytes in the digital universe was 40 times bigger than the number of stars in the observable universe.” Dell Data’s size alone creates inherent complexity. While data lake solutions help accelerate this process, the right architecture cannot be bypassed.

Data Architecture 52

Data Architecture Data Lake Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit 52

Jet Global

MAY 10, 2021

Financial reporting, operational reporting, financial planning and analysis—there’s no shortage of work for finance teams to do as organizations continue to adjust to the new economic realities that the pandemic thrust upon the world stage in 2020. As organizational priorities shift, so too do the priorities of finance teams.

Finance 98

Finance Recreation/Entertainment Reporting Uncertainty 98

Jet Global

APRIL 30, 2021

That’s encouraging for finance leaders who want their teams to be involved in value-adding activities like detailed forecasting, competitor analysis, and advising business units on strategies to maximize revenue and profitability. Finally, reimagine the finance operating model so that it fosters new skills and capabilities.”.

Finance 98

Finance Recreation/Entertainment Reporting Software 98

Jet Global

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The strain is especially palpable for finance professionals in the construction industry. Coping with Skills Shortages In 2023, the outlook for skills shortages for finance professionals is bleak. When it comes to hiring skilled finance teams, leaders are struggling to find new talent to replace recent retirees.

Finance 52

Finance Reporting Cost-Benefit Operational Reporting 52

Jet Global

APRIL 26, 2022

Today’s finance teams are under more pressure than ever before. Finance is responsible for knowing where their business stands today, and also for mapping out the road ahead. Finance departments must guide their organizations into the future, even as the ground continues to shift beneath their feet.

Finance 52

Finance Reporting Uncertainty Software 52

Jet Global

MARCH 21, 2022

In the aftermath of unprecedented business disruption in 2020, organizational decision-makers are turning their focus to new concerns. The task of creating those reports falls onto the shoulders of finance teams that are sometimes already struggling to manage a heavy workload. Manual Processes Drag Teams Down.

Operational Reporting 98

Operational Reporting Reporting Finance Forecasting 98

Jet Global

JUNE 17, 2021

The company opted to implement Longview Transfer Pricing from insightsoftware in early 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. The next stage will be to build further on the baseline established for the FY 2020 close, making richer data available for analysis and to measure how they stack up over time.

Risk 98

Risk Recreation/Entertainment Forecasting Manufacturing 98

Jet Global

JULY 15, 2021

After the world-changing events of 2020, business leaders are more interested than ever in exploring these kinds of possibilities, modeling best case and worst-case scenarios, asking “what if?” We know of a manufacturer of retail store fixtures, for example, whose orders plummeted following the initial closures of early 2020.

Modeling 98

Modeling Recreation/Entertainment Sales Cost-Benefit 98

Jet Global

JULY 1, 2022

When the pandemic arrived on the scene in early 2020, governments around the world swung into action. With these considerable time savings, they can use the product to map out different scenarios with actual and forecasted finance data to make their own strategic suggestions from a tax perspective. Download Now. Get a Demo.

Software 98

Software Forecasting Finance Reporting 98

Jet Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

With widely used versions like Crystal Reports 2016 and its server editions anticipating losing support on December 31, 2027, and Crystal Reports 2020 scheduled to end support by 2026, you’re left with limited time to determine how to move forward without disruptions to your business intelligence workflows. So, what are your options?

Reporting 52

Reporting Software Business Intelligence Operational Reporting 52

Jet Global

MAY 4, 2021

That usually calls for a back-and-forth conversation between the user in the finance department and a technical expert from IT. SAP BW/4HANA is SAP‘s next generation of enterprise data warehouse solution. BW does not provide reporting per se; it provides a data repository optimized for certain kinds of reporting.

Reporting 52

Reporting IT Finance Data Warehouse 52

Jet Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Nevertheless, the world found itself in just such a situation in early 2020, and has experienced continued fallout as factory closures, labor shortages, shipping bottlenecks, and price volatility have dramatically impacted supply chains, production schedules, and margins. What’s Your Bandwidth?

Recreation/Entertainment 98

Recreation/Entertainment Finance Software Reporting 98

Jet Global

MAY 6, 2021

Since 1 January 2020, companies listed on a regulated exchange in the European Economic Area (EEA) have needed to adopt a new framework for formatting and filing annual financial reports (AFRs) relating to financial years that started on or after that date.

Software 98

Software Recreation/Entertainment Reporting Finance 98

Jet Global

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Finance Plays a Pivotal Role. Decades ago, the finance department was viewed in many organizations as a collection of people whose job it was to tally the numbers and keep score for the business. Although that is still an important function, it’s only a small portion of what most modern finance departments actually do.

Finance 52

Finance Forecasting Recreation/Entertainment Sales 52

Jet Global

APRIL 29, 2021

When the COVID-19 crisis arrived on the scene in early 2020, it came as a dramatic and unexpected shock for virtually every business on the planet. In most organizations, the budget process is largely driven from department leads, whose input flows up to a finance team that consolidates that information and coordinates the overall process.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Recreation/Entertainment Finance Software 52

Jet Global

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Interestingly, this number has jumped 8% since 2020. Managing two data sources is hard enough without endless delays waiting for IT to generate the custom reports your business needs to navigate a turbulent market. Even fewer organizations are strictly on-premises at 7%.

Reporting 52

Reporting Finance Operational Reporting Management 52

Jet Global

MARCH 2, 2022

As such, there are no formal requirements that require companies and organizations to report and provide their ESG data. Yet, despite this, many companies choose to disclose their data in their annual reports. In fact, as of July 2020, 90% of the companies listed on the S&P500 had published their ESG reports.

Reporting 59

Reporting Recreation/Entertainment Risk Insurance 59

Jet Global

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Since 2020, global supply chains have been especially problematic. At insightsoftware, we provide tools such as demand planning and forecasting software that empower users in finance, operations, and elsewhere throughout the organization to build powerful reports, dashboards, and analytics to drive better, faster decisions.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Recreation/Entertainment Sales Finance 52

Jet Global

AUGUST 17, 2021

Now that the 2021 taxonomy has been released, changes from the prior year’s ASUs and SEC rules are available, including: ASU 2020-09 – Debt (Topic 470) – Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to SEC Release No.

Recreation/Entertainment 52

Recreation/Entertainment Reporting Finance Consulting 52

Jet Global

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Although SPACs have been around and in use since the early ’90s, they really grew in popularity in early 2020, the numbers don’t lie. From 2013 to 2019, there were only 194 SPACs issued, but 2020 saw 248 SPACs raising over $83.4 SPACs have been enjoying their moment the last two years. billion by the end of Q1.

Management 52

Management Recreation/Entertainment Reporting Insurance 52

Jet Global

JUNE 10, 2022

It’s critical, therefore, that corporate finance teams get ahead of the challenge by familiarizing themselves with BEPS compliance and putting good tax reporting solutions in place now that will put them on the right track for when the new rules take effect.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Reporting Finance Software 52

Jet Global

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020 represents a perfect example of the kind of situation that would call for reforecasting. A variation on this approach is sometimes referred to as “reforecasting” or “budget flexing.” Unfortunately, that can be a slow, tedious process, and it is prone to error.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting IT Recreation/Entertainment Finance 52

Jet Global

JULY 29, 2021

At the time of writing (June 2020), more than 2,300 investors had signed up to the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). However, there is a new emphasis on ensuring employees, customers, and society as a whole are prioritized first.”.

Recreation/Entertainment 52

Recreation/Entertainment Reporting Key Performance Indicator Manufacturing 52