Office of Finance Research Agenda for 2013
Businesses always see a lag between when technology makes some advance possible and when a majority of companies actually adopt it. There’s even a longer lag between the emergence of an advance in a...
View ArticleSAP Announces Business Suite on HANA
For the past couple of years I’ve been pointing to the importance of in-memory computing to the future of business applications. It’s an integral part of Ventana Research’s business and finance...
View ArticleThe Spreadsheet and the Whale
Banking giant JP Morgan raised eyebrows in 2012 when it revealed that it had lost a substantial amount of money because of poorly conceived trades it had made for its own account. The losses raised...
View ArticleProfit Velocity’s New Dimension in Managing Profitability
Profit Velocity Solutions’ PV Accelerator is an analytic application designed to enable capital-intensive companies to consistently achieve substantially wider margins and higher return on assets...
View ArticleUse – Don’t Abuse – Spreadsheets
I’ve been using electronic spreadsheets for more than 30 years. I consider this technology among the 20th century’s top five most important advances in business management. Spreadsheets have...
View ArticleSpreadsheet Denial is a Big Issue
Our recent benchmark research project, Spreadsheet Use in Today’s Enterprise, demonstrated that some companies have made modest progress in addressing spreadsheet issues, but there’s still much left to...
View ArticleA Profile of Strategic and Long-Range Planning
Ventana Research recently completed an in-depth benchmark research project on long-range planning. As part of the research we had discussions with CFOs and those involved in financial planning and...
View ArticleLong-Range Planning Does Not Work in Isolation
Ventana Research completed an in-depth benchmark research project on long-range planning recently. As I define it, long-range planning is the formal quantification of the strategic plan and how that...
View ArticleAddressing Key Operational Risk Requirements
I’ve frequently commented on the artificiality of the emerging software category of governance, risk and compliance (GRC). The term is used to a cover a combination of what were once viewed as...
View ArticleGetting to the Next Generation of Finance Analytics
One of the most important IT trends over the past decade has been the proliferation of ever wider and deeper sets of information sources that businesses use to collect, track and analyze data. While...
View ArticleThe Importance of Managing Details in Long-Range Planning
Ventana Research recently completed an in-depth benchmark research project on long-range planning. As I define it, long-range planning is the formal quantification of the more conceptual strategic...
View ArticleInvestigate User-Friendly Spreadsheet Alternatives
I’ve been using spreadsheets for more than 30 years. I consider this technology tool among the five most important advances in business management of the 20th century. Spreadsheets have revolutionized...
View ArticleInfor Demonstrates Steady Stream of Advances to Customers
At this year’s Inforum user group conference, Infor representatives showed the progress the organization has made since last year in transforming itself from a ragbag of mostly small, often obsolete...
View ArticleNomis Advances Price Optimization in Financial Services
At this year’s Global Pricing Forum, host Nomis Solutions announced the availability of its Discretion Manager software, which supports dynamic price negotiations. The annual event brings together...
View ArticleSoftware Aims To Prevent Foreign Corrupt Practices
In some parts of the world, bribing government officials is still considered a normal cost of doing business. Elsewhere there has been a growing trend over the past 40 years to make it illegal for a...
View ArticleSocial Collaboration Is in Finance’s Future
Finance departments don’t immediately come to mind in conversations about social collaboration technology. Most of the software used for social collaboration that I’ve seen demonstrated focuses on the...
View ArticlePlanview Improves Potential of Long-Range Planning
Planview recently announced general availability of Planview Enterprise 11. The new release enhances the user experience through a comprehensive redesign of the interface to promote ease of use. The...
View ArticleIBM Showcases Big Data and Analytics for Business
IBM hosted the Big Data and Analytics Analyst Insights conference in Toronto recently to emphasize the strategic importance of this topic to the company and to highlight recent and forthcoming...
View ArticleBig Data Will Make Elephants Dance
IBM’s Big Data and Analytics Analyst Insights conference started me thinking about the longer-term potential impact of big data and related technologies on business management. I covered some of the...
View ArticlePricing, Planning and Performance Management Software Creates Business Value
People who don’t spend much time analyzing the software market may have trouble understanding the differences between products in a given software category or the difference between two categories....
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