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A Planning Center of Excellence Delivers Performance Improvement

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

AI is also making it easier for executives and managers to rapidly forecast, plan and analyze to promote deeper situational awareness and facilitate better-informed decision-making. Finance people think in terms of money, but line-of-business managers almost always think in terms of things.

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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.

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Should I Stay or Go? Migrating to AI-Enabled Applications

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Those customers should be evaluating if, when and how they will tap into the benefits that AI and GenAI can provide to improve operational and financial performance. With a perception of limited or no benefit, not taking any action can appear attractive and may be the right choice.

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IBM Connected Trade Platform helps power the digitization of trade and supply chain financing

IBM Big Data Hub

Today, we are seeing significant digital disruption in the business of trade and supply chain financing that is largely influenced by global events and geopolitics, changing regulations, compliance and control requirements, advancements in technology and innovation, and access to capital.

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5 Excel Tips for Better Budgeting and Forecasting

Jet Global

Excel has such a long history in business accounting and corporate finance that it has inevitably become the butt of some easy jokes. In many cases, you can improve the value Excel offers your budgeting and forecasting activities just by taking time to learn some of its nuances.

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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

ln this post he describes where and how having “humans in the loop” in forecasting makes sense, and reflects on past failures and successes that have led him to this perspective. Our team does a lot of forecasting. It also owns Google’s internal time series forecasting platform described in an earlier blog post.

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Hey Siri, What’s My Forecasted EBITDA Look Like?

Jedox

Even though we have so much advanced technology surrounding us, we still cannot just ask, “ Hey Siri, what’s my forecasted EBITDA look like ?” However, there are many available technology tools that can simplify planning tasks and make planning and budgeting easier and far more accurate for finance professionals.