Lisa Dodson
169 Articles Published
Data and Data Management
Orbit Analytics Expands Power BI Solution for Oracle Fusion Cloud with Enterprise-Grade Data Pipelines and Prepackaged Analytics
Orbit Analytics has launched its Power BI Integration for Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, providing a no-code solution that automates data extraction and real-time reporting, significantly improving data accessibility and decision-making for enterprises.
Analytics and AI
Orbit Analytics and Carahsoft Partner to Enhance Data Analytics Solutions for the Public Sector
Orbit Analytics and Carahsoft have teamed up to provide advanced AI-powered analytics solutions to government agencies, enhancing data accessibility and decision-making through Carahsoft's extensive reseller network and procurement contracts.
Financial Management
Orbit Analytics Launches Blaze Adaptive Memory for GL Sense
Orbit Analytics has launched an intelligent upgrade to its GL Sense reporting solution for Oracle ERP users, featuring the new Blaze Adaptive Memory technology that enhances real-time data accessibility and reporting efficiency by adapting to user behavior.
Data and Data Management
Dish Network Case Study
Dish Network was looking for a tool for operational reporting and analytics that could provide a unified view of the data in different data sources and support real-time and legacy analytics. Orbit’s solution empowered users with self-service capabilities and real-time dashboards, enabling faster decisions without relying on IT.
Data and Data Management
Alcoa Case Study
The implementation of Orbit at Alcoa brought transformative changes to their reporting landscape. By consolidating multiple software installs, adopting generic data models, and reducing the number of reports, Alcoa achieved significant cost savings and improved efficiency in its reporting processes.
Financial Management
Why Billing Doesn’t Belong in ERP: Insights from ISG & 24 Hour Fitness on Accelerating Digital Transformation
This webinar explores why modern businesses like 24 Hour Fitness are unbundling billing from ERPs to accelerate transformation, featuring expert insights from ISG and Zuora.
Financial Management
Adapt fast & monetize any business model
Take an interactive tour of Zuora Billing and see how it streamlines quote-to-cash, handles complex pricing models, and empowers teams to quickly adapt to market changes.
Financial Management
How ERP System Integration Can Improve Your Financial Close
ERP system integration streamlines the financial close process by automating data collection, reducing errors, and providing real-time insights, ultimately enhancing efficiency, compliance, and decision-making for enterprises.
Financial Management
SAP Users: Automating SAP Financial Closing with Aico
The article discusses the complexities and manual nature of financial closing in SAP, highlighting the benefits of automation—such as increased efficiency, enhanced accuracy, regulatory compliance, cost savings, and improved visibility—while emphasizing the necessity for organizations, particularly CFOs and finance leaders, to adopt automated solutions like Aico to streamline the closing process and reduce reliance on manual tasks.
ERP Strategy and Planning
How Real-Time SAP Integration with Aico Outperforms File-Based Integration
In the current financial landscape, Aico’s real-time SAP integration enhances data accuracy, compliance, and decision-making speed, offering significant advantages over traditional file-based methods for finance leaders.
Financial Management
How SAP users can simplify non-trade intercompany invoicing with Aico
Aico enhances the efficiency and accuracy of non-trade intercompany invoicing within SAP by automating processes, ensuring compliance, and reducing manual errors, thus addressing the complexities and challenges faced by large enterprises in managing intercompany transactions.
Financial Management
Aico’s guide to non-trade intercompany invoicing
This guide highlights the challenges of non-trade intercompany invoicing, including inefficiencies of traditional ERP systems and common errors, while outlining strategies for implementing streamlined, automated processes to enhance accuracy and mitigate reporting risks.
Financial Management
Genuine live SAP integration without the file upload
Aico’s live SAP integration provides real-time access to financial close data, eliminating batch uploads and file transfers to enhance accuracy and streamline decision-making for finance teams.
Financial Management
Intercompany Invoicing
Aico eliminates manual intercompany invoice matching as the reference field in the correct sister company’s ledger is identical. 
Financial Management
Closing Task Manager
Access a centralised dashboard that provides real-time updates on every stage of the financial close process. Tasks are seamlessly linked, so one team member can pick up where another left off, ensuring continuity and efficiency.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Aico to SAP integration
Aico has created a unique real-time integration for SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC. This means data between these ERPs and Aico is streamed in real-time instead of transferred via periodic file downloads and uploads. This allows you to refresh the latest financial data from your ERP in seconds, not hours or days. Aico's real-time ERP integration stands out as both unique among financial close solutions and best-in-class.
Financial Management
Accelerating Digital Transformation and Billing Modernization
By focusing fully on all potential sources of value, a truer picture emerges, one that focuses on the impact on the business rather than a narrower cost savings discussion. An independent revenue platform also contains a valuable source of data on customer behavior and product and service performance.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Yes, Agile Works for ERP Implementations
Agile methodologies are transforming ERP implementations by enhancing flexibility, accelerating delivery, and aligning closely with business outcomes, leading to significantly higher success rates and productivity compared to traditional waterfall approaches.
Financial Management
Case Study: 24 Hour Fitness
Learn how 24 Hour Fitness overcame ERP limitations by implementing Zuora to support new pricing strategies, improve billing agility, and better serve over 1 million members.
Financial Management
Modernizing ERPs for Order-to-Cash
Traditional ERPs weren’t built for today’s dynamic revenue models. Zuora helps modernize your order-to-cash journey by decoupling billing, revenue, and subscription management from legacy systems.
Financial Management
Zuora Connector for SAP Solutions
Discover how Zuora complements SAP by adding agility to order-to-cash processes, freeing businesses from rigid ERP billing systems and enabling faster, recurring revenue growth.
Business Process Management and Automation
Rootstock Enterprise Insights
Discover actionable business insights with Rootstock’s Enterprise Insights, a manufacturing ERP analytics solution. Leverage out-of-the-box, organization-specific dashboards to monitor KPIs and gain greater business intelligence across your manufacturing business.
Financial Management
Rootstock Financials
With Rootstock Financials, product companies gain full finance visibility, robust planning and analysis, and more accurate forecasting so teams can make better, faster decisions with confidence.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Rootstock ERP
One connected ERP platform and partner ecosystem to support the entire operations for product companies, including manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors. Effectively manage demand to predict production capacity while making decisions faster with a 360° view – accessible from anywhere and on any connected device. Partner with Rootstock to accelerate your success.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Overcoming OGL Challenges For Redwood Adoption Success!
Oracle Redwood presents new processes and an overall new experience for users. Oracle Guided Learning supports users during the adoption and can ease the anxiety during this learning curve and aid in aligning to the UI change. Our dedicated-OGL team have developed and tested OGL within the Redwood environment and as a result they have acquired many tips and tricks through their lessons learnt.
ERP Strategy and Planning
The Future of Digital Adoption and Training
Fudgelearn and ClickLearn recognise the implications that arise for organisations without a solid user-adoption plan. That is why Fudgelearn are proud to be partnering with ClickLearn to provide effective user-adoption and training solutions. In our webinar we discuss how our partnership will bring proven solutions for your user-adoption needs.
Quality and Testing
Busting testing myths #2: “AI is about to transform software testing”
The article argues that while there is much hype around AI's potential in software testing, the technology still has limitations, particularly in creating complex test cases and generating meaningful test data, advocating for a practical approach that utilizes AI only where it can truly outperform human efforts.
Quality and Testing
How to up your testing game with a platform approach
The blog post discusses the fragmentation of software testing terminology and practices across organizations, highlighting the need for a standardized, platform-driven approach to improve efficiency and effectiveness in testing.
Quality and Testing
Are you ready for Infor’s April 2025 release? How to stay ahead of updates.
As Infor prepares for its April 2025 release, organizations must be proactive in testing their customized setups to mitigate risks associated with major updates that could disrupt business processes and require a structured testing strategy.
AI-Powered Testing
Quality and Testing
Original Software platform tour
Ready to see the future of testing? Let's go! In this 2-minute tour of our code-free testing platform, see for yourself how your business can be more resilient to software updates and change. Start your journey to better testing today
Supply Chain Management
Navigating Global Trade: 3 Insights for Leaders
Almost all companies are grappling with the rapidly shifting dynamics of global trade, requiring them to rethink how they manage their supply chains, model different market scenarios, and even how they plan and develop their workforces. The following explores three main ways that operations, finance, and HR leaders, supported by the latest technologies, can help their companies navigate the increasing complexity and risks of global trade. Here is where to start.
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