Financial Management

At BlackLine’s annual conference BeyondTheBlack, the 2025 Modern Accounting Awards recognized leaders like American Express Global Business Travel, Cavco Industries, and Wendy's for their exceptional financial transformation journeys using BlackLine's platform.

Businesses must modernize their revenue systems and adopt flexible, data-driven monetization strategies to adapt to rapidly changing buyer expectations and complex pricing models, as legacy systems lead to inefficiencies and customer dissatisfaction.

Zuora not only filled this gap by enabling Enercare to directly bill its large customer base but provided the company with a richer platform to manage customer relationships and support growth beyond billing, improving operations across the entire quote-to-revenue process.

Zuora streamlines quoting, billing, usage, and collections with automated revenue recognition, allowing businesses to concentrate on strategy rather than error-prone reconciliation.

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.

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.

Explore how the implementation of GLSense not only fulfilled Encore's specific reporting needs but also strategically positioned the company to achieve sustained expansion and operational superiority within the event technology and production services sector.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.