by sazmoodley | May 11, 2020 | Microsoft Excel, PowerExcel
To provide a bit of backgrounder, I’m a Marketing Manager for a software company that develops data modeling platforms for reporting, planning, and analytics. My job requires very different skills from those of our technical consultants and our typical customer—the...
by sazmoodley | Feb 11, 2020 | Budgeting, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Analysis, General BI and Data Management, Microsoft Excel
The budgeting and forecasting process for most organizations is long and tedious and occurs on an annual basis, at least. Companies try to do it more often to improve accuracy and aim to ultimately implement a procedure for continuous planning, rolling forecasts,...
by sazmoodley | Feb 7, 2020 | Budgeting, Data Analysis, Finance and Banking, Microsoft Excel
How 2 Persistent Conditions Define Budget Planning in ERPs There are 2 remarkably persistent conditions in the world of Finance Technology that concern budgeting and ERPs. It’s surprising, because the complexities that Finance departments must address have increased...
by sazmoodley | Dec 21, 2017 | General BI and Data Management, Microsoft Excel
An article from the Wall Street Journal recently stirred up a commotion in the Finance world. The article is about Microsoft Excel. Read it here: Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs A few days after, the astonished author wrote another article on all the...
by sazmoodley | Oct 2, 2017 | Data Management, General BI and Data Management, Microsoft Excel, Reporting
Data preparation can be a tedious and time consuming activity. However, it is a fundamental part of the data analysis process in order to produce accurate information that can be trusted. If you are responsible for preparing data for analytics, you have to ask...
by | Oct 18, 2016 | Big Data, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Analysis, General BI and Data Management, Microsoft Excel
Jenn Steele has done a great job of narrowing down what she thinks are the 6 top illusions or misconceptions that executives have of Big Data. People from all walks of life can throw around the term “Big Data” in a conversation, but do they really understand the...
