Do we need a specific financial consolidation solution?

In pure accounting terms, financial consolidation is a formal, standardised set of accounting entries which is used to combine the results of several companies in a group that have common ownership. Typically, this formal process is undertaken at least once a year for...

The Business Case: Spreadsheets To Performance Management

The process of identifying an opportunity for change through to implementation is not a linear one, rather a cycle during which you will periodically repeat on yourself to re-qualify certain aspects of a project plan. We’re finding increasing numbers of prospective...

The IBM Planning Analytics Roadmap 2019

This guest post is written by Ronnie Rich, Senior Offering Manager for IBM Planning Analytics. IBM Planning Analytics has a diverse, worldwide community of customers, and more are joining every day. Today, we are sharing a quick introduction for those new customers as...

Putting Analytics and AI in Context for Better Outcomes

How do organisations really gain value from analytics? Deliver results and drive change at your enterprise using these experts’ advice. One of the errors of traditional business intelligence (BI) has been its standalone, passive relationship to human decisions...

5 tips for better board reporting

As a finance leader, you’re intimately familiar with your company’s data and KPIs. But guess what? Most of your board members aren’t—and they don’t want or need that level of detail. What do they want? Like your CEO, board members are searching for trusted, strategic...