CFO

The Snowflake ERP Integration Challenge: Why Your Data Strategy Needs a Rethink

Integrating ERP data with Snowflake is challenging due to architectural misalignment and the absence of pre-built connectors, necessitating custom solutions that complicate maintenance and delay insights, but CData offers pre-built connectors to streamline this process and enhance operational efficiency.

Financial Management

Finance Forecasting in Turbulent Times: Why Traditional Planning is Failing

The shift from traditional annual budgeting to agile financial planning emphasizes continuous scenario modeling and real-time data integration, allowing companies to adapt swiftly to market fluctuations and enhance forecasting accuracy, thereby transforming finance teams into strategic partners for navigating uncertainty.

Self-Driving Finance: Why Autonomous ERP isn’t a Buzzword Anymore

The shift towards autonomous ERP systems, driven by generative AI and automation, is transforming finance operations from transactional to strategic, urging CFOs to invest in intelligent platforms for enhanced agility, resilience, and proactive decision-making.

Financial Management

The Great Finance Time Drain: Professional Services Firms Are Burning 44 Hours a Week on Financial Fire-Fighting

Unit4's research reveals that finance teams in professional services are inefficiently spending significant time resolving financial discrepancies and consolidating year-end reports due to a lack of automated processes and unified data sources, leading to burnout and strategic disadvantages for organizations.

Analytics and AI

ERP Today Live!: The Evolving Role of AI in Finance Automation

In a conversation with ERP Today's Radhika Ojha, Walid Abu-Hadba from Sage discusses the company's innovative approach to product development, emphasizing their cloud-native strategies, AI's impact on finance automation, and customer-focused design during the Sage Future conference in Atlanta.

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ERP Strategy and Planning

The Evolving Playbook for a High-Performance, Tech-Driven Future

At the Sage Future event in Atlanta, leaders discussed that achieving high performance is a continuous journey focused on resilience, inspiring leadership, and effective use of technology, with a particular emphasis on AI's role in enhancing organizational effectiveness beyond mere outcomes.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Sage Unveils High-Performance Finance Software Misson at Sage Future

Modern CFOs are transforming from financial stewards to strategic leaders amidst a significant role expansion, as revealed by Sage's High-Performance Finance Software initiative aimed at equipping them with AI solutions, executive training, and collaborative networks.

ERP Strategy and Planning

SYSPRO Taps Seasoned Tech Finance Leader Mathias Høyer as New CFO

SYSPRO has appointed Mathias Høyer as Chief Financial Officer to support its expansion strategy, bringing extensive financial and transformative experience from previous leadership roles in high-growth tech firms.

Analytics and AI

Lineos Brings AI-Powered Efficiency to Finance Teams

Insightsoftware's new AI-driven suite, Lineos, aims to revolutionize financial planning and analysis by automating manual data tasks, allowing finance teams to focus on strategic decision-making and enhancing productivity while ensuring secure integration with existing systems.

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Financial Management

Workday Brings Zuora Monetization Suite into Financial Management Solution

Zuora has partnered with Workday to enhance financial management processes for businesses by integrating their monetization suite with Workday Financial Management, thereby improving accuracy, streamlining workflows, and supporting flexible billing models to drive growth and operational efficiency.

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Analytics and AI

Sage Intacct Release 4 Features AI-driven Sage Copilot to Enhance SMB Decision-making and Efficiency

Sage has introduced Sage Copilot, an AI-driven tool designed to enhance productivity and decision-making for accounting and finance teams, currently available to early adopters in the US and UK, as part of significant updates to Sage Intacct that aim to streamline financial oversight and support small and mid-sized businesses in managing their growth.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

A cloud-juiced CFO can unleash a new era of financial excellence

For CFOs to stay afloat, knowledge of the latest technological developments will be necessary. Here's how cloud technology can help CFOs turboboost their respective businesses.