Our CEO made us build financial reports in Excel to understand our customer’s pain. Here’s what I learned. – Part 1 of 2
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...
ERPs and Budgeting—What the 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...
Do Finance Departments need a Business Intelligence (BI) Tool?
In today’s fast growing economy, almost every corporation utilizes an Accounting Information System (AIS) to keep track of its accounting activities in conjunction with its IT resources. Maintaining a system that gathers, stores and processes financial and accounting...
How to Achieve Maximum Productivity With SAP Business One
Many firms try to make do with built in reporting systems, and then end up ‘clerking’ growing mounds of disconnected data in spreadsheets. This is precisely the problem that PowerAnalytics addresses to such powerful effect for users of SAP® Business...