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Information and Discussions on Business Intelligence, Data Analysis, and Management featuring: Strategies, Best Practices, PARIS Product Tips and News
Financial Process Improvement: How to Improve Your Planning and Reporting Processes
Many finance professionals are tied to inefficient processes resulting in an underutilization of their talents. Learn how to improve your financial processes.
Moving from the Messy Middle to Digital Finance Transformation
The messy middle is the part of a process or project where things start becoming chaotic. It’s the frustrating part where there is no clear path between points A and B. How does data move from an ERP to a dashboard? How does the regional sales plan add up to the corporate financial plan?
Visionary Intelligence & the Value of the Right Business Intelligence Solution
Business intelligence (BI) is the transformation of data into insights that drive business value; the revelation of trends that help executives and their teams make informed decisions, optimize processes, and overcome disruption. But this extremely broad...
The Pain of Forecasting and How to End It!
Guest blog: this post by PARIS’s Asia partner Trinity Bridge—a “Specialist advisor and execution partner for businesses on a growth path in Asia”—speaks to “the pain of forecasting and how to end it.” Trinity Bridge conducted a survey of CFOs in Hong King and...
An Easier and Faster Way with PowerExcel – Part 2 of 2
How does financial modeling in PowerExcel compare to Excel? Here are some concrete examples that will show how PowerExcel can improve productivity and collaboration in finance teams.
Our CEO made us build financial reports in Excel to understand our customer’s pain. Here’s what I learned. – Part 1 of 2
Finance professionals are next-level experts in Excel—spreadsheet ninjas, gurus, jedis, MVPs! I went through an Excel Bootcamp to learn the pain of working in Excel to develop financial reports. Here’s what I learned.
In-Memory Database
In-memory database systems are designed explicitly to get the most out of memory and for its performance advantage. Learn about in-memory database and how you can leverage it for analytics.
The Importance of Planning and Forecasting in BI
Integrating and representing financial plans and forecasts in dashboards is a struggle because that data resides in multiple scattered spreadsheets.
ERPs and Budgeting—What the Excel?!
In relation to most ERP systems, Excel is an elemental component of how they provision budgeting capabilities. But is it enough for large firms need to accomplish their complex planning needs?
Highlights of our final release of Version 18
With the next big release of PowerOLAP® Version 20 expected for Q3, now is the best time to upgrade to Version 18, if you haven’t already done so. For one, the transition to Version 20 will be that much easier. And, right now, you can take advantage of...