Financial Management

When BMC set out to modernize its business systems, the challenge wasn’t just moving from a 20-year-old homegrown ERP billing system; it was enabling a fundamental business model shift from perpetual licenses to SaaS subscriptions, while adding the agility to respond to new go-to-market strategies and complex global billing requirements. In this fireside chat, ERP Today brings together Ron Clegg, VP, Revenue Office at BMC, Dave Crowell, Partner at PwC, and Rob Newnes-Smith, Zuora Advisor and former CTO for Digital & Employee Tech at Thomson Reuters, to unpack how BMC reimagined its quote-to-revenue process. Together, they explore: - Sequencing monetization transformation ahead of ERP change to accelerate agility and time-to-market. - Delivering a “heart-lung transplant” program from CPQ through revenue, consolidating 48+ systems into a unified platform. - The role of strong process design, change management, and the right partner in ensuring success. - How these choices reflect a growing market shift toward hybrid revenue models, global billing, and integrated professional services. Whether you’re a CIO, CFO, or a Transformation Leader, you’ll leave with lessons on deciding core vs. non-core systems, managing large-scale change, and building the agility to support hybrid revenue models, without waiting for a multi-year ERP rollout.

Accel-KKR has successfully merged AARO with Aico and Mercur to create a unified SaaS platform for Corporate Performance Management, led by CEO Michael Teixeira, enhancing financial operations for CFOs across EMEA.

Sage has introduced AI-driven enhancements in Sage Intacct, including intelligent reconciliation, embedded payments, and sustainability reporting, aimed at helping finance teams improve speed, automation, and operational efficiency.

The city of Liège has transformed its financial accounting system by replacing its outdated mainframe with Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O, enhancing efficiency, transparency, and real-time budget visibility across municipal departments, thanks to a strategic partnership with Inetum and automated processes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Aico eliminates manual intercompany invoice matching as the reference field in the correct sister company’s ledger is identical. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

24 Hour Fitness successfully transformed its billing process from a six-day cycle to daily billing by implementing Zuora's monetization platform alongside its existing ERP systems, demonstrating that simultaneous modernization can enhance cash flow, innovate product offerings, and maintain integration flexibility during enterprise technology migrations.

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.

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.

The global marketplace is growing more complex and volatile. Companies must use every resource at their disposal to keep pace, protect profit margins, and remain compliant with all applicable regulations. As companies grow and expand operations, these challenges only get...

Tariff uncertainty poses significant challenges for global companies by increasing costs and disrupting supply chains, but leveraging tools and data-driven strategies, such as those offered by Oracle NetSuite, can help mitigate these impacts through cost tracking, supplier diversification, and scenario planning.

Effective order management, underpinned by key metrics such as order accuracy rate, order cycle time, inventory turnover rate, on-time delivery rate, and order fulfillment cost per order, is essential for optimizing operations, enhancing customer satisfaction, and driving long-term business success.

With pre-built connectors to leading ERPs, compatibility to Amazon Web Services & Microsoft Azure, and a one-click onboarding experience, Zuora Revenue easily fits into any ecosystem. You can expect to get started quick and see value fast.

As your customers change how they want to access your products and services, you have to evolve how you do business. Learn more about how our leading Subscription Economy® solutions have helped many of the world’s most innovative subscription businesses succeed.

Zuora Billing is the leading solution for automating subscription, usage-based, and hybrid billing, offering flexibility and control to monetize any business model.

Explore advanced strategies for implementing expense management automation and how it can enhance compliance, efficiency, and financial insight.