Bramasol Insights to Action podcasts

Listen as Bramasol's Navneet Bal provides a detailed discussion of SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM), with a focus on key features such as Subscription Order Management, Convergent Invoicing, Convergent Charging, Entitlement Management, plus an overview perspective of how BRIM fits within the overall SAP ecosystem.

Listen as SAP's Pete Graham discusses how SAP Contract and Lease Management (CLM) helps optimize lease accounting for IFRS 15 and ASC 842.

Listen as SAP's Scott Campbell discusses the key disruptive trends in the Media and Telecom industries, along with insights on how solutions such as SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM) and the SAP S/4HANA enabled Intelligent Enterprise can help companies navigate ongoing changes.

Listen as Bramasol CEO, Dave Fellers, discusses the implications of new global sustainability and carbon accounting initiatives, with a look at how SAP solutions such as Product Footprint Management and the SAP Sustainability Control Tower are helping companies get ready to comply and report under newly evolving requirements.

Listen as SAP's Carla LeJeune discusses the benefits of Optimizing End-to-End Entitlement Management for subscription-based product and service bundles in the Digital Solutions Economy.

Listen as SAP's Pete Graham provides an overview of Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS) business models and provides a drill-down look at how S/4HANA Intelligent Finance, BRIM and Automated Revenue Management help lay the foundation for success.

Listen as Dave Fellers, Bramasol CEO, provides an overview of Five Key Trends to watch in 2022 and then drills down for a closer look at two rapid payback areas in the Digital Solutions Economy and moving to SAP S/4HANA.

Listen as SAP's Roshni Frisch discusses how SAP BRIM (Billing and Revenue Innovation Management) and RAR (Revenue Accounting and Reporting) work together to provide a seamless order-to-cash and RevRec compliance process.

John Froelich, Bramasol SVP, discusses the issues and opportunities regarding cash management in the Digital Solutions Economy.

In this episode, SAP's Pete Graham discusses the opportunities for optimizing Automated Revenue Management (ARM) in Public or Private Cloud scenarios.

Julio Dalla Costa, Bramasol's Director of Technical Accounting, discusses the concept of using a holistic embedded analytics approach to unify all of the complementary systems that must work together for success in the Digital Solutions Economy.

Listen as Pete Graham, SAP Director Finance Solutions and Mobility, answers questions and expands on issues from the recent webinar on Automated Revenue Management and the Digital Solutions Economy.

John Froelich, Bramasol Senior VP of Digital Services, provides a broad overview of the emerging Digital Solutions Economy that touches on the six key areas that need to be addressed and integrated to create a holistic approach for successfully launching and scaling up new DSE products and services.

Listen as Haroon Mohammad, the designer of multi-company, multi-currency code solutions for RAR discusses the issues and benefits for consolidating revenue contracts for accounting, management and reporting.

Learn how a 360-degree view applies to products, customers, vendors, employees and putting together a complete picture for strategic decisions such as M&A.

Julio Dalla Costa provides a deep dive into how analytics capabilities are used in financial management and specifically how SAP Analytics Cloud can unify disparate data sources to streamline real-time forecasting, cash management, what-if scenarios and reporting.

John Froelich, Bramasol SVP, discusses how a focused Health Check process can help companies identify current issues with their cash management and create actionable improvement plans for achieving significant ROI in both the short and long term.

SAP's Birgit Starmanns provides an overview of issues surrounding strategies for centralization vs. decentralization, with a discussion of how regional and country-specific regulations impact global companies.  She also drills down to look at tactics for managing the balance of these sometimes competing goals, including key tools such as shared services and SAP Central Finance.

Darrell Latchford, CPA provides a deep dive into the lessons learned from implementing ASC 606, with particular emphasis on the "ripple effects" on other enterprise-wide processes, such as budgeting, forecasting, internal controls, sales commissions and more.

Treasury expert, Paul Miller, discusses how "penny testing" provides a critical check at the Go-Live point, to make sure that end-to-end payment processing through banking relationships is operating correctly, securely and efficiently.

Birgit Starmanns, Global Head for Thought Leadership Strategy and Programs at SAP's Global Center of Excellence for Finance and Risk, discusses Machine Learning - what it is and how it can be applied to finance and risk management.

Dave Fellers, Bramasol CEO, provides an in-depth exploration of global trends driving the need for enterprise-wide integration of treasury functions, along with a detailed discussion of the key SAP tool sets available to support and streamline the treasury integration process.

Julio Dalla Costa, Director of Technical Accounting at Bramasol, provides a detailed discussion on what Accounting Advisory Services are and how they can make all the difference to the success of your finance change projects. Learn the differences between Technical Accounting and Operational Accounting services and find how when you should consider seeking broader inputs and guidance to assure optimal alignment between your implementation program and your financial processing objectives.

Birgit Starmanns, Global Head for Thought Leadership Strategy and Programs at SAP's Global Center of Excellence for Finance and Risk, discusses the key aspects of Change Management with a look back at how methods have evolved as well as a focus on how it's accomplished today, especially in the current global situation where change is paramount.

John Froelich, Bramasol VP of Marketing and Strategy, discusses Active Lease Management and explains how it can improve visibility of lease portfolios and cash flow along with enhancing financial performance.

Julio Dalla Costa, Director of Technical Accounting at Bramasol, discusses the impacts of ASU 2019-02, which significantly changes how media companies will capitalize, depreciate, amortize and disclose their accounting for episodic media assets, such as TV shows and streaming content.

Kim Dowling, Director of Treasury at Bramasol, explains what Payment Factory is, why you should care, how it works and what it can do for you.

John Froelich, VP of Strategy and Marketing at Bramasol discusses the concept of Digital Debt, which tends to build up within companies as they make incremental and expedient changes to various disparate processes.  The result of Digital Debt is similar to personal debt in that it constraints flexibility and hampers the ability to move forward.

In this episode, John Scott, Senior Technical Accounting Adviser at Bramasol, provides an overview of what private companies need to be doing now in order to get ready for their ASC 842 implementation deadline of January 2021.

Julio Dalla Costa, Director of Technical Accounting at Bramasol, provides an overview of the Five Ps of Compliance and explains how they relate to each other and mesh together to enable leveraging compliance as a competitive advantage.

Paul Miller, Bramasol Treasury Expert, discusses the why and how of In-House Cash Management with a high-level look at the benefits and a deeper dive into implementation processes using the SAP In-House Cash application. 

In this interview, John Scott, Senior Technical Accounting Adviser with Bramasol, reviews the compliance requirements for RevRec (ASC 606 & IFRS 15) and Lease Accounting (ASC 842 & IFRS 16) and then expands on what companies should doing now.  The discussion covers integration and automation with a focus on "Day Two" accounting issues.

John Froelich, VP of Marketing and Strategy for Bramasol, discusses the concept of Comply, Optimize and Transform, which provides companies with a road-map from process excellence through optimization and ultimately to organizational transformation.

In this interview, John Froelich, VP of Strategy & Marketing for Bramasol, provides an in-depth discussion of key areas within the corporate treasury function, including payments, cash, assets and risk management.  The interview focuses on today's dynamically changing global environment and how it is impacting CFOs and the treasury function, with particular attention to how new technologies can help address and resolve these challenges.  

This interview with Linda Valentine, PMP, Project Manager at Bramasol, focuses on the use of Project Management Office (PMO) disciplines to improve internal efficiency at Bramasol and to deliver better on-time and on-budget results for clients.  

Susanto Bordoloi, Bramasol Associate VP for Office of the CFO solutions, discusses SAP CLM and explains how it can be deployed to provide compliance with ASC 842 and IFRS 16, while also creating a comprehensive environment for enterprise-wide asset management.  

Bramasol's Director of Technical Accounting, Julio Dalla Costa, discusses the implications of new trends in Automation and Artificial Intelligence, with a specific focus on how they will streamline, shorten and simplify conventional Financial Closing processes - thereby freeing up finance staff for higher value tasks.  

Welcome to Bramasol's podcast library of topics covering Regulatory Compliance, Reporting, Disclosures, Financial Management and Financial Transformation technologies.  Bramasol is the leader in SAP-based finance solutions and a co-innovator with SAP on developing and deploying purpose-built compliance capabilities.  We firmly believe that Compliance combined with advanced analytics provides a valuable opportunity for enabling companies to transform a full range of core Business Systems, Financial Management Practices, reporting processes, and ad hoc problem solving. These podcasts feature inputs from a wide range of Bramasol experts and guests, with specific drill-down on key topics from the perspective of technical accountants, software implementation staff, program managers, business intelligence designers, and Center of Excellence members to provide real-world perspective on issues facing CFOs, C-Suite decision-makers and finance staff in companies across many industry segments. Learn more about Bramasol at www.bramasol.com