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Gaining Financial Management Effectiveness in Midsize Enterprises

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Doing more with less is the defining characteristic of finance and accounting departments in midsize enterprises, which ISG research defines as organizations with between 100 and 999 workers. Our Office of Finance Benchmark Research captured the needs versus resources scenario of midsize and large organizations.

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Infor’s Velocity Summit Highlights Multiple Advances and Enhancements

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

The trade-off is capability and flexibility versus cost and time to value since third-party tools deal with end-to-end processes that span multiple applications in ways the Infor’s currently cannot. Typically, finance and accounting departments have proven to be technology laggards in adopting new methods.

Finance 130
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Should finance organizations bank on Generative AI?

CIO Business Intelligence

In the finance and banking industry, however, organizations are seeking extra guidance on the best way forward. In the numerically based finance and banking industry, does generative AI have as much application potential? In the numerically based finance and banking industry, does generative AI have as much application potential?

Finance 133
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Cloud analytics migration: how to exceed expectations

CIO Business Intelligence

If expectations around the cost and speed of deployment are unrealistically high, milestones are missed, and doubt over potential benefits soon takes root. The right tools and technologies can keep a project on track, avoiding any gap between expected and realized benefits. But this scenario is avoidable.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

We'll explore the concepts of products and services as revenue generators or revenue suckers, and delve into how to share cost and benefit dollars within a portfolio or business unit. You'll learn how to set clear, measurable targets, link them to your product strategy, and effectively communicate progress with stakeholders.

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How IT leaders use agentic AI for business workflows

CIO Business Intelligence

The study found better oversight of business workflows to be the top perceived benefit of it. She sees potential in using agents to schedule client work and match client requirements with the best-skilled and cost-effective resources. Many organizations are in the process of moving AI hype into calculated action.

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How data privacy leader Apple found itself in a data ethics catastrophe

O'Reilly on Data

Three months ago, Apple released a new credit card in partnership with Goldman Sachs that aimed to disrupt the highly regulated world of consumer finance. Apple is a great producer of computer hardware, while Goldman knows finance and its complex rules backwards and forwards. This could mean millions, if not billions, of lost revenue.