Podcasts about enterprise performance management

Pourquoi la majorité des projets IT s'arrêtent avant la fin ?Dans cet épisode de TechVision, Gaëlle et Thomas décryptent les raisons fréquentes d'échec des projets IT, même à l'ère des technologies avancées. Pourquoi certains projets peinent-ils à délivrer des résultats, malgré des investissements conséquents ? Quels pièges éviter et quelles bonnes pratiques adopter pour garantir le succès ?Au programme :

Résumé de l'épisode : Les Enjeux de l'IA avec Lionel LammensDans cet épisode, Thomas et Gaëlle discutent avec Lionel Lammens des défis et des opportunités liés à l'implémentation de l'intelligence artificielle (IA) dans des organisations, notamment en matière d'innovation technologique et de marketing.Points Clés Abordés :- Adoption de l'IA : Les difficultés rencontrées pour obtenir des budgets et la nécessité de créer une coalition interne pour promouvoir ces innovations.- IA en Marketing de Contenu : Comment l'IA accélère la création de contenu tout en nécessitant une supervision humaine pour garantir la qualité.- Défis Européens face à l'IA : Discussion sur la domination des technologies américaines et la nécessité d'alternatives européennes comme Mistral AI.- Biais Culturels et Socio-économiques : Les biais présents dans les modèles d'IA actuels et leur impact sur les résultats.Restez à l'écoute pour plus de discussions sur l'innovation technologique et ses impacts sur les entreprises européennes !Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Résumé de l'épisode Tech Vision : L'Impact de l'IA sur le Marché du TravailDans cet épisode de Tech Vision, nous accueillons Emilie Fockedey, Program Manager de Digital Wallonia 4 AI, pour discuter des implications de l'intelligence artificielle sur le marché du travail et les ressources humaines.Points Clés Abordés :- IA et Marché du Travail : Exploration des impacts potentiels de l'IA sur les emplois actuels et futurs.- Pourquoi l'IA Intéresse les RH : Discussion sur les raisons pour lesquelles les ressources humaines se concentrent sur l'IA.- Priorité aux Besoins Fondamentaux : Importance de définir les objectifs avant d'implémenter l'IA.- Utilisation Positive de l'IA : Stratégies pour intégrer l'IA afin d'enrichir les rôles existants plutôt que de les remplacer.- Productivité Personnelle et Organisationnelle : Comment l'IA peut optimiser les processus internes et le développement de nouveaux produits.- Compétences en IA : Résultats de l'étude Microsoft et LinkedIn sur les préférences des entreprises en matière de compétences en IA.- Sécurité des Données et Gouvernance : Importance de la sensibilisation et de la formation des employés à l'utilisation sécurisée de l'IA.- État de l'IA en Wallonie : Différence d'adoption de l'IA entre les grandes entreprises et les PME en Wallonie.Continuez à suivre notre podcast pour plus d'épisodes passionnants sur la technologie et l'innovation. Pour toute question sur les sujets discutés, visitez le site de Digital Wallonia: https://www.digitalwallonia.be.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Bienvenue à tous sur "TechVision", le podcast hebdomadaire de Micropole Belux où nous démystifions l'intelligence artificielle, la data et leurs impacts sur les entreprises et la société. Animé par nos experts en stratégie data, Gaëlle Helsmoortel et Thomas Dallemagne, chaque épisode propose des discussions passionnantes sur les innovations technologiques. Pour ce troisième épisode, nous plongeons dans l'univers du Cloud.Points clés abordés:- Définition et usage du Cloud: - Le Cloud permet de louer les infrastructures informatiques d'autres entreprises, rendant les ressources accessibles à la demande. - Exemples concrets d'utilisation quotidienne comme Gmail, Dropbox et iCloud.- Impact organisationnel: - Thomas souligne que le Cloud n'est pas seulement un sujet technique mais concerne aussi les aspects business. - Il favorise l'innovation, la rapidité de digitalisation et permet des économies financières significatives.- Avantages du Cloud: - Élastique et flexible, il permet de varier la capacité de stockage et de traitement en fonction des besoins. - Cas exemplaire d'Amazon Web Services (AWS) et l'histoire de la naissance du Cloud.- Transformation et adoption: - Les entreprises doivent intégrer le Cloud pour rester compétitives. - Des startups aux grandes entreprises, le mouvement vers le Cloud est inévitable pour profiter d'une capacité d'innovation accrue et de coûts réduits.- Sécurité et conformité: - Gaëlle et Thomas discutent des préoccupations de sécurité et de souveraineté des données. - Importance de la géolocalisation des données, de leur chiffrement et du respect des régulations comme le RGPD.- Retour sur investissement (ROI): - Des exemples concrets montrent comment les entreprises ont pu diviser par trois leurs coûts de stockage et de traitement en passant au Cloud. - Le Cloud permet une innovation plus rapide et efficace, réduisant les barrières à l'innovation et augmentant l'avantage concurrentiel.Conclusion:Cet épisode a mis en lumière l'importance stratégique du Cloud pour les entreprises modernes. En adoptant le Cloud, les entreprises peuvent non seulement réduire leurs coûts mais aussi accélérer leur capacité d'innovation, rester compétitives et assurer une meilleure sécurité des données. La transformation vers le Cloud est un levier crucial pour la digitalisation et l'optimisation des processus business.Merci d'avoir écouté "TechVision". Pour ne manquer aucun épisode, abonnez-vous à notre podcast. Suivez Micropole Belux sur LinkedIn et visitez notre site web pour plus d'informations sur le Cloud et nos services d'accompagnement dans votre transformation digitale. À bientôt pour un nouvel épisode !Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Welcome to another episode of The Sales Compensation Show, a podcast that explores the world of sales, incentives, and enterprise performance management with some of the industry's most in-depth, data-driven conversations. I am your host, Nabeil Alazzam, and today, our guest is Dal Sidhu, Head of Global Sales Compensation at Zoom. Join us as we delve into the fascinating world of sales compensation. We discuss multiple touchpoints related to sales compensation and the shift from on-premise to SaaS models. Dal shares his journey into the sales comp space and highlights the challenges and opportunities that come with it. Discover the importance of simplicity, automation, and aligned motivations in compensation design, and gain valuable insights and practical advice for navigating this evolving field.

Bonjour et bienvenue à un autre épisode de notre nouveau podcast TechVision, animé par les experts Gaëlle & Thomas de Micropole. Dans cet épisode, nous examinerons de plus près le célèbre AI Act. Qu'est-ce que c'est, qu'est-ce qu'il est censé faire et comment cela impacte-t-il votre entreprise si vous pensez à utiliser ou si vous travaillez déjà avec l'IA ? À la fois Thomas et Gaëlle donnent leurs opinions sincères sur son efficacité, ses implications et les possibles répercussions lors de la mise en œuvre de cette loi à travers l'UE. Au cours de l'épisode, ils donneront des conseils pratiques et des mises en garde aux cadres dirigeants sur la manière de se préparer à cette loi et d'éviter un tas de travail manuel et d'éventuelles amendes à l'avenir. Ps: N'oubliez pas de visiter notre site Web pour trouver un regroupement de tous nos podcasts précédents et des informations supplémentaires sur vos animateurs préférés : Gaëlle & Thomas ainsi que leur mission de démystifier le monde des données et de l'IA pour les cadres dirigeants de nos entreprises belges.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

On this episode of The Sales Compensation Show, Nabeil Alazzam is joined by Kat Walenty, Senior Manager of Compensation, Incentives Strategy, and Operations at HubSpot to navigate the various complexities of sales compensation. She discusses the importance of intentional and consistent actions as a sales compensation leader, explores the role of empathy in managing compensation plans, and delves into the impact simple adjustments to a compensation structure can have on sales rep behavior.

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We welcome Oracle's SVP of Strategic Solutions, Paul Pessutti and GVP of Finacial and Supply Chain Systems, Chris Muli! The episode begins with looking back at our previous Oracle CloudWorld conversation and identifying changes in market trends, Oracle's investment in industry, and the transformation into a services company. Paul and Chris examine Oracle's focus on customer success and the differentiating advantages of being a best-in-class solution suite. The conversation revolves around practical applications of Generative Artificial Intelligence, the concept of a Supply Chain Command Center, and the importance of community to stay up-to-date on innovation adoption. Stream this customer-focused episode to gain insights into the evolving EPM and Supply Chain landscape and how businesses leverage Oracle Cloud solutions to manage the total cost of ownership while driving profitability.

Inside every successful corporation is a well-oiled financial team working to do what is in the best interest of the company. From the CFO to the finance intern, having a system of modern best practices and a comprehensive suite of financial solutions, properly utilized, is more important than ever before.   Join hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with Sr. Principal ERP Learning Strategist David Barnacle, as they introduce you to the Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning suite and the key business processes within it.   Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, Radhika Banka, Parvathy Narayan, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode.   ---------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started. 00:26 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I'm Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor. Nikita: Hi everyone! A few weeks ago, we concluded our spotlight on HCM business processes. And today, we're going to move on to ERP business processes. ERP, as you may already know, is Enterprise Resource Planning. And to take us through this, we have David “Barney” Barnacle, our Sr. Principal ERP Learning Strategist. For over 20 years, Barney has successfully trained customers in the rapid configuration and effective use of Oracle Applications. Welcome Barney! We're so glad to have you here today. 01:10 Barney: Thank you! Happy to be here. Lois: In previous episodes this season, we've spoken about the business process training that Oracle has. But from an ERP point of view, can you briefly tell us what it is and why we have it? Barney: Sure, Lois. Inside every successful corporation is a well-oiled financial team working to do what is in the best interest of the company. From the CFO to the financial trainee, everybody within an agile, innovative enterprise will be using modern best practice processes within a complete and fully integrated suite of SaaS applications. That's why we have Oracle Business Process Training for Oracle Fusion Cloud: ERP. It's a powerful training solution that gives users and companies a solid understanding of how Oracle ERP solutions work together to ensure effective and efficient transaction processing. 02:06 Nikita: Now that we know why we have this training, let's get down to it. Barney, what is ERP? Barney: Enterprise Resource Planning or for short as it's known, ERP, is a system or a collection of systems that companies use to manage day-to-day business activities efficiently. The ERP system brings together different dimensions of businesses from financials, procurement, risk and compliance, to enterprise performance management, and Oracle Fusion ERP analytics. ERP systems tie together several business processes and seamlessly allow data to flow between them. By collecting an organization's shared transactional data from multiple sources, ERP systems eliminate data duplication and provide data integrity with a single source of truth. 03:00 Barney: Today, ERP systems are critical for managing thousands of businesses of all sizes and across all industries. For these companies, ERP is as indispensable as the electricity that keeps the lights on. Remember, simply, ERP is the vehicle for integrating people, processes, and technologies across a modern enterprise. 03:27 Lois: Barney, in the world of various ERP systems, how is the Oracle Cloud ERP application suite unique? And how is it structured? Barney: Thanks, Lois. Oracle Cloud ERP is a cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) application, or group of applications, that provides end-to-end business solutions. These solutions, in turn, enable businesses to significantly cut down costs, improve their process efficiencies, and enhance collaboration. Oracle Cloud ERP is classified into six different product families. We have Financial Management, Procurement, Project Management, Risk and Compliance, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), and finally Enterprise Resource Planning Analytics. 04:14 Lois: So as I understand it, we have Oracle Cloud ERP, a modern cloud-based software application, and then have Oracle Financials, Procurement, EPM, and so on within the Oracle Cloud ERP suite, right? Barney: Correct. That's right, Lois. Nikita: That's quite an interesting mix of product families. Can you tell us about each of these products, Barney? 04:35 Barney: Sure can. Let's start with Financials. Oracle Cloud Financials is a global financial platform that connects and automates your financial management processes, including payables, receivables, fixed assets, expenses, GL, and reporting, for a clear view into your total financial health. 04:56 Barney: Next is Oracle Cloud Procurement, an integrated source-to-settle suite that automates business processes, enables strategic sourcing, improves supplier relationship management, and simplifies buying. Then we have Project Management. Oracle Project Management helps you plan and track your projects, assign the right talent, balance capacity against demand, and scale resources up or down quickly as needs change. 05:27 Barney: Then there's Risk and Compliance. Oracle Cloud Risk and Compliance Management is a security and audit solution. It controls user access to your Oracle Cloud ERP financial data, monitors users' activity, and makes it easy to meet compliance regulations through automation. 05:45 Nikita: Interesting. And these pillars are connected to one another? Barney: Yes, Niki. One of the biggest advantages of choosing the Oracle Cloud ERP solution is its ability to integrate all the product offerings that come under it. Now, getting back to the product pillars in the ERP suite, we have Enterprise Performance Management. With this, you can model and plan across Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Sales. You can streamline the financial close process and drive better decisions. 06:18 Barney: And closing out the list, we have ERP Analytics. Oracle Fusion ERP Analytics is a prebuilt cloud-native solution for Oracle Cloud ERP. It helps financial and procurement professionals uncover underlying drivers of profitability, improve the use of working capital, and control business expenditures. Oracle's unique application capabilities enable organizations to unify financial analytics across different departments. So those are the six product families that make up the Oracle Cloud ERP. 06:56 Lois: I think that's what all organizations want, right? A comprehensive solution to help them meet their business needs. But how do organizations that have legacy ERP systems and processes move to the Oracle Cloud ERP systems? Do they need to completely switch over? And what happens to the existing processes they've been following? Barney: Yes Lois, they can co-exist. But you can implement just one cloud product, such as expenses or revenue management, to enhance the existing or current business processes. You can then have several step-by-step projects to move different business processes to the cloud – until you are 100% cloud. 07:37 Nikita: So, within the ERP suite, we'd like to learn more about Oracle Cloud Financials. Can you tell us about the types of organizations that would benefit from using Oracle Cloud Financials? Barney: Sure, Niki. So like I was saying before, Oracle Cloud Financials gives you a complete view of the overall financial health of your organization by connecting data and process automation in payables, receivables, fixed assets, expenses, GL, and reporting. It also helps organizations respond quickly to an everchanging environment and deliver decisive insights as needed. It is a comprehensive global solution designed for organizations of every size and industry. 08:20 Lois: Barney, a typical organization will have various transactions and processes that have a direct impact on their financial balance, right? Everything from financial accounting, transaction processing, payment delivery, and cash reconciliation, to employee expense processing, and even asset management. How does Oracle Cloud Financials process all these activities or functions? 08:41 Barney: Good question, Lois. Oracle Cloud Financials has several modules to help businesses handle all the processes you've just mentioned. Let's say procuring items, creating invoices, and making payments to suppliers are the typical day-to-day activities of a manufacturing organization. In Oracle Cloud Financials, the process of invoice to payment is handled by Oracle Payables and Payment tasks, which provide streamlined and user-friendly interfaces for Payables professionals to efficiently manage the Supplier Invoice to Payment process. 09:18 Barney: Let me give you another example. Every organization will have employees submitting their expenses for approval and payout. These expense-related activities are handled by Oracle Expenses. Oracle Expenses gives your organization the tools it needs to effectively manage the travel and expenses process. You can simply start the whole process by uploading a copy of your expense receipt using the expenses mobile app. 09:46 Lois: So, it looks like every financial end-to-end process in an organization is represented in Oracle Financials. Barney: Yes. Let's take Oracle Receivables. It provides streamlined and user-friendly interfaces for Receivables professionals to efficiently manage the credit-to-cash process. You can use it to proactively manage the entire cycle of billing customers and processing customer payments.  10:11 Barney: When you deal with cash that needs to be received from customers in a very large organization, it's important that you understand these customers well and build a good relationship with them. And to do this, many organizations hire specialists called collection agents. Oracle Advanced Collections is designed for these collection agents. For anyone who doesn't know, collection agents are basically those responsible for working with late or nonpaying customers to resolve payment issues and remove non-payments. 10:43 Nikita: That can be quite problematic, right? I'm sure any delays in payment from customers would cause cash flow problems for a company. Barney: Exactly. And so Advanced Collections is the critical final step in the credit/billing-to-collections business process, where the aim is to reduce delinquent customers, encourage prompt customer payment, and minimize the company Days Sales Outstanding. For those who don't know, Days Sales Outstanding is the average number of days it takes a company to receive payments for a sale. 11:19 Did you know that Oracle University offers free courses on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure? You'll find training on everything from cloud computing, database, and security to artificial intelligence and machine learning, all of which is available free to subscribers. So, get going! Pick a course of your choice, get certified, join the Oracle University Learning Community, and network with your peers. If you're already an Oracle MyLearn user, go to MyLearn to begin your journey. If you have not yet accessed Oracle MyLearn, visit mylearn.oracle.com and create an account to get started.  11:58 Nikita: Welcome back. We were just going through the various modules within Oracle Financials. So far, we've covered Payables and Payments, Expenses, Receivables, and Advanced Collections. What other modules are there, Barney? Barney: We have Oracle Assets, which is a complete asset management solution. Nikita: So assets like property… equipment… Barney: Exactly. Yes, and Oracle Assets helps you maintain your assets accurately. It supports the end-to-end asset life cycle from asset acquisition to retirement, i.e. from capture to retire. Also, if you do not directly acquire or buy the assets outright, we have a product called Lease Accounting, which covers all the accounting entries for leased assets. 12:45 Nikita: Ok. And what else? Barney: We also have Oracle Cash Management, tax engines, subledger accounting, intercompany engines, and general ledger. Nikita: Can you quickly run us through these modules? Barney: Sure. Oracle Cash Management is a comprehensive business solution that helps you optimize enterprise-wide liquidity and control cash. Tax engine is used to calculate transactional taxes based on business, products, places, and country rules. For example, when to use sales tax as opposed to when to use value added tax or VAT. 13:19 Barney: Oracle Subledger Accounting is a powerful, rules-based accounting solution that provides consistent accounting treatment for financial transactions created across Oracle Cloud applications. The intercompany engine is used to automatically balance journals that are between different organizations. For example, a central management fee charged annually between the organization's headquarters and each of its subsidiaries. In the cloud, with intercompany, you can have up to three balancing segments. However, the primary balancing segment is still used to identify the company or fund holder. 13:59 Barney: Then we have Oracle General Ledger. Oracle General Ledger is the central repository of accounting information. It provides highly automated financial processing, effective management control, and real-time visibility into financial results. 14:16 Lois: Before you continue, Barney, can you tell us what a general ledger system does? How is it different from subledger accounting? Barney: Sure, Lois. The main purpose of a general ledger system is to record the financial activities of a whole company and produce financial and management reports to help people inside and outside the organization make decisions. 14:38 Barney: Subledger journals can provide the detail and a fully auditable path back to the source transaction that created the accounting entry. This single source of subledger accounting detailed data is often summarized into account balances when transferred across to general ledger. It is these summarized GL account balances that will drive real-time financial reporting using the various cloud reporting tools. 15:04 Lois: Ok. So, you've told us about the modules within the Oracle Cloud Financials suite that capture different types of transactions. For Oracle Fusion Cloud users, what's the quickest way to uncover business insights and deliver financial improvements to their enterprise? Barney: To identify underlying drivers of profitability, improve the use of working capital, and control business expenditures, we have Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP Analytics. This is an analytics-based, state-of-the-art, technology-driven tool that provides you with the organization's financial status at any given point. Financial Reporting and Analytics helps you speed up your decision-making process with graphical insights, configurable analytics dashboards, and event-based delivery of information so you can take targeted actions. 15:56 Lois: That's interesting. Thanks for that, Barney. That was a lot for me to take in, but it's very insightful. Nikita: Yes, it was. Getting back to some of the processes you mentioned, like the Expense Report process or the Supplier Invoice to Payment process, can you give us an overall picture of how these processes are fulfilled within the Oracle Cloud Financials function? 16:17 Barney: Absolutely. At Oracle, we can map these different processes to the Oracle Financials Business Process Model. This model refers to the end-to-end business processes enabled by Oracle applications to record financial data and derive reports for efficient and successful business performance. There are key business processes in this model. 16:42 Nikita: I know you're going to be joining us in upcoming episodes to talk about each of these business processes, but can you briefly tell us about them? Barney: Sure, Niki. Let's start with the process that records cash inflow into an enterprise. Invoice to Cash refers to the cycle of events captured in the system, starting with recording customer invoices for goods and services provided, processing customer receipts based on the terms of payment, and reconciling receipts with bank statements and customer account balances with the Account Receivables ledger balances. 17:15 Barney: Then, we have the major processes that cause an outflow of cash from the enterprise. Procure to Pay involves recording the journey of transactions, from requisitioning and procuring goods and services from the supplier to receiving them at their destination and the ultimate entering of supplier invoices and payments. Asset to Retirement empowers organizations to manage the entire financial cycle of assets, including acquisition, capitalization, depreciation, and the ultimate retirement. 17:46 Barney: Accounting Transformation is the process of converting transactions or activities from subledgers to journal entries to meet corporate needs and statutory or legal reporting. And finally, Budget to Report covers the entire process of creating budgets, capturing actuals, and conducting budget reporting and variance analysis. 18:08 Lois: Each of these business processes has users with various job roles working on the application, right? They'll be taking action… providing input… So how does Oracle Cloud Financials define these job roles in the application? Barney: Well, in small or medium-sized companies, the financial functions may be the responsibility of a single accountant. But in large organizations, there is going to be a financial team, where the job roles are specialized, often focused on a particular business task or function. 18:43 Barney: The responsibility for these roles are often grouped into three main categories. We have the Specialist or Clerk, who is responsible for a specific group of tasks. For example, creating payments or reconciling bank statements. Then we have the Supervisor, who is responsible for managing the specialist executing the specific business tasks. And finally, we have the Managers or Manager, who is responsible for managing the team to meet company objectives. 19:15 Barney: When we're talking about the business processes I mentioned earlier, each of them are performed by different job roles. For example, for the Invoice to Cash business process, we have the Billing Specialist and Billing Managers, Collection Agents, and Cash Manager. For Procure to Pay, we have the Accounts Payable Specialist and Supervisor. Asset to Retirement, there's the Asset Accountant and Asset Accounting Manager. The Accounting Transformation business process is usually managed by any role assigned SLA privileges. And finally, for Budget to Reporting, we have the General Accountant and General Accounting Manager. 19:55 Nikita: Thank you so much, Barney, for giving us this thorough introduction to Oracle ERP, and particularly Oracle Financials Cloud. Barney: Thanks, Niki. It was a pleasure to be here. 20:05 Lois: We're looking forward to having you back on the podcast next week to talk about the first of the five main Financials business processes, the Invoice to Cash process flow. And to learn more about these business processes and get certified, visit mylearn.oracle.com. Until next time, this is Lois Houston… Nikita: And Nikita Abraham, signing off! 20:27 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. 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On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, Daniel Newman is joined by Capgemini's Amit Sethi, Intelligent Restaurant Operations (IRO) Solution Lead and Lisa Insley, Oracle Go-to-Market Lead, with Oracle's Matthew Gale, VP, Strategic Solutions Alliances for a conversation on how technology is transforming the restaurant industry and a deeper look into their Intelligent Restaurant Operations (IRO) Solution. Their discussion covers: The major technology trends and challenges in the Restaurant Industry How Oracle is addressing these trends and challenges The key benefits of the IRO Solution for a Restaurant company, including finance, ERP and Enterprise Performance Management, and Human Capital Where in the supply chain restaurants can leverage the IRO solution to improve operations How the implementation of AI is transforming the restaurant industry  

A.I is everywhere. It's revolutionizing the way we approach our work and automate our lives. Get ready to dive deep into the world of Generative A.I. to discover why A.I. isn't just a buzzword, it's the catalyst for innovation that will reshape not only the steel sector, but all manufacturing industries, ushering in a more sustainable and efficient future. We welcome Matt Wilding, PhD. Senior Director of Financial Data, Analytics and Enterprise Performance Management here at U. S. Steel who shares how Google Cloud's Generative A.I. is revolutionizing the steel industry, improving operational efficiencies, and enhancing the employee experience at U. S. Steel. With his extensive background, including a tenure at McKinsey & Company and contributions to the U. S. Department of Energy, Matt brings a wealth of knowledge to the table and unravels the unexpected ways A.I. is forging a path towards a brighter and more eco-conscious world for us all.

In our first Meet the Customer episode, EPMIcast welcomes Jacinta Moore, CFO at The Outform Group! Jacinta shares her finance background and discusses her journey at Outform, highlighting the tremendous impact of Oracle Cloud EPM. EPMI successfully implemented Oracle Cloud EPM Financial & Workforce Planning, which has been instrumental in centralizing Outform's global financial data across various ERP systems. Stream more EPMIcast: https://linktr.ee/epmi More customer success stories: https://epmi.com/customer-stories/

A discussion of the convergence of enterprise risk management and enterprise performance management, and how companies are evolving their enterprise risk management capabilities. With Senior Director Shawn Fitzgerald, Principal and EPM Advisory North American Practice Leader Sherri Liao and Director, EPM, Business Intelligence and Finance Advisory Kimberly Myers Dennis. A complete list of show notes is available here

#dataanalytics #analytics Watch this important CXOTalk episode for a discussion on data and analytics strategy with Bruno Aziza, Head of Data and Analytics at Google Cloud.Bruno shares insights on the convergence of data and workloads, data products, building trust through governance, and activating real-time data for success in the era of digital transformation.Here is more detail on the topics discussed in this episode:► Convergence of data and workloads► Importance of governance to build trust in data► Activation and real-time data► What are data products► Practical examples of data products► Infrastructure requirements for data products vs. traditional dashboards► Roles and team structure in data science► “Data scientists are lonely”► Data science in small organizations► Data products and digital transformation► Team collaboration in data science► How to build a great data culture► Data quality creates trust and confidence in the data► Steps to build a data and analytics strategySubscribe to the CXOTalk and get notified of upcoming LIVE shows: https://www.cxotalk.com/subscribeWatch more and read the complete transcript: https://www.cxotalk.com/episode/mastering-data-and-analytics-strategy-with-bruno-aziza-head-of-data-and-analytics-at-google-cloudBruno Aziza is the Head of Data and Analytics at Google Cloud. He has helped companies of all sizes: startups, mid-size, and large public companies. He helped launch Alpine Data Labs (bought by Tibco), AppStream (bought by Symantec), SiSense (bought Periscope Data) & AtScale. He was at Business Objects when they went IPO (after acquiring Acta & Crystal Reports, & before SAP bought them for $7B). He was at Microsoft when they turned the Data & Analytics business into a $1B giant.Bruno specializes in high-growth SaaS, enterprise software, everything data, analytics, data science and artificial intelligence. He educated in the US, France, the UK & Germany. Bruno has written 2 books on Data Analytics and Enterprise Performance Management. His allegiance is to the Analytics Community worldwide.

This episode’s guest is David Derichs, who is a senior lecturer in the Accounting dept. at Aalto University. In this interview, David discusses the importance of enterprise performance management in bridging strategy & execution, key financial & non-financial measures, as well as lagging & leading indicators. Accessibility transcripts for podcast episodes can be found from … Continue reading "Episode 15: Bridging Strategy & Execution with Enterprise Performance Management"

Governments today are focused on the fundamentals and understand that their constituents are looking for results. Now is the time to align actions to the mission and begin looking at performance metrics that elevate the organization. The stakes couldn't be higher with new funding opportunities available at every level of government. Local governments often hold the key to making lasting impacts in their communities. But how can the programs they implement become more effective? Adam Jones, State Government Practice Leader with Weaver, talks with two tenured government advisors, Aaron Howard, President and CEO, Mass Ingenuity, and Todd Hoffman, Partner, Government Consulting Services, Weaver. With decades of experience helping governments with strategic planning and business process improvement, Todd and Aaron discuss the actions government agencies do that drive performance, best practices that impact success, and fundamentals of results. Today's government workforce is mission-driven, which is why they work in the public sector. They are also data-driven and look to analytics to support growth and improvement. “With [an] emphasis on mission-driven priorities and a focus on data, government can be better,” said Howard. The management of large-scale, complex grants requires a fresh approach and effective way to manage risk and report results, particularly in such high visibility/high accountability environments. The key to success is applying a balanced approach to people, processes and technology to track and demonstrate results. In terms of data, all three men agreed that metrics have to start with a core question, why am I measuring this, and why does it matter? “Metrics are more and more important. It's what individual constituents are looking at to ensure that where dollars are spent, they are getting the right outcomes,” said Hoffman.Organizational charts have historically been used to describe an agency's operations; however, these charts typically illustrate siloed and hierarchical functional groups without explaining the organization from an operational process perspective. Successful organizations are moving beyond the standard, flat organizational chart to develop a process-oriented view of workflows and performance measures, including who owns each core process' measurements of success. Aaron Howard is the President and CEO of Mass Ingenuity, an organizational development and enterprise performance management firm specializing in integrating people, processes, and technology for government agencies. Todd Hoffman is a partner in Weaver's Government Consulting Services practice and has 34 years of consulting experience, successfully delivering results in state and local government.

ECM Industries, a global manufacturer and supplier of electrical products, achieved significant growth through acquisitions, resulting in multiple divisions, brands, product lines, and sales channels. The company's on-premises financial system had no consistent way to consolidate its operating units, which relied heavily on manual consolidations and preparation of cash flow statements stored in decentralized systems. Join us for a conversation with Inoapps Vice President of Enterprise Performance Management, Matt Rollings, to hear how they deployed Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), enabling ECM Industries to rapidly integrate acquisitions and realize a faster, stronger close process. With Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, the company cut turnaround time for month-end close by 50%, reduced external reporting time by 20 business days, and cut the consolidated monthly close process by half. Learn More: Oracle Cloud EPM: https://www.oracle.com/performance-management/ ECM Industries Client Success Story: https://www.oracle.com/customers/ecm-industries/ Inoapps: https://www.inoapps.com

Debi Cabrera and Stephanie Wong have more great Next content this week as we focus on launches specifically related to data and analytics with guests Bruno Aziza and Maire Newton. We start the episode with a look at current customer trends in data, including tools for increasing efficiency when working with many different types of data. Data governance and security is another area where Bruno sees advances in satisfying customer needs. Maire talks about the steps Google is taking to help customers implement knowledge gained with data, including Looker and new integrations with tools like Looker Studio to easily connect tools for better data access and use. Strategic partnerships with companies like Tableau help accomplish these goals as well. With 21 data and analytics launches at Next, exciting solutions are out there for customers. Bruno and Maire highlight their five favorites, like BigQuery support for unstructured data, allowing analysts working with SQL to do more with more data. To simplify workflows, BigQuery integration with Spark is a new feature that Maire tells us about, and we hear more about BigLake and it's increased format support. Data reaches more people easier now with Connected Sheets available for anyone using Google Workspace, and finally we talk more about Looker. Bruno details the four use cases of business intelligence customers and how Google's suite of data products satisfy their needs for a reasonable price. Bruno Aziza Bruno is head of data and analytics for Google Cloud and leads the outbound product management team. He has more than two decades' of Silicon Valley experience, specializing in scaling businesses, and has written two books on Data Analytics and Enterprise Performance Management. Maire Newton Maire is an Outbound Product Manager at Google Cloud with almost 15 years of experience partnering with organizations to develop data solutions and drive digital transformation. She's passionate about helping customers develop data-driven cultures by using technology to meet users where they are. Cool things of the week Google Cloud Next for data professionals: analytics, databases and business intelligence blog ANA104 How Boeing overcame their on-premises implementation challenges with data & AI site ANA100 What's new in Looker and Data Studio site ANA101 What's new in BigQuery site ANA106 How leading organizations are making open source their super power site Google Cloud Next: top AI and ML sessions blog Interview Building the most open data cloud ecosystem post Data Journeys videos Google Cloud Next ‘22 site Looker site Looker Studio site Tableau site BigLake ste BigQuery site Use the BigQuery connector with Spark docs Connected Sheets docs What's something cool you're working on? Debi is getting married and working on Dataflow Prime. Hosts Stephanie Wong and Debi Cabrera

Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in performance improvement systems and advanced cost management. He believes that many organizations are far from where they want and need to be to improve performance, and they apply intuition, rather than hard data, when making decisions. Gary explains why Enterprise performance management (EPM) provides a portfolio of managerial methods that can make a real difference. These include: strategy execution with a strategy map and its companion balanced scorecard (KPIs) and operational dashboards (PIs); enterprise risk management (ERM); capacity-sensitive driver-based budgets and rolling financial forecasts; product/service/channel / customer profitability analysis (using activity-based costing [ABC] principles); customer lifetime value (CLV); lean and Six Sigma quality management for operational improvement; and resource capacity spending planning. In this episode, we take a brief look at the tools and explore why many companies are slow to adopt them. Links Gary Cokins WebsiteKevin Appleby on LinkedInCFO Competency FrameworkBusiness Strategy Boot Camp Timestamps 0:12 Gary's background. 4:37 If your competitors are adopting and integrating all of these methods, they will have a competitive advantage -. 9:43 How do you solve the problem of a company that hasn't adopted these methods? 13:52 The importance of understanding what people spend their time doing. 15:43 What is customer profitability? 19:21 How to make your customer more profitable. 23:02 Process improvement people get the benefit of the balanced scorecard. 26:27 Gary's frustration with the slow adoption rate of ABC. 30:11 What might a CFO do in the next 100 days to start going down that journey?

Joining EPMIcast from Chicago, Jessica Downes Master Principal Solution Engineer at Oracle shares the impressive capabilities of Oracle Cloud Tax Reporting. The ‘Cast discusses the benefits of the Tax Reporting functionality, the solution's competition, customer success stories, and provides a product roadmap to what is coming to the platform!

Sustainability and ESG reporting is a trending topic for businesses across all industries and around the globe. To break down this topic, we invited Oracle Senior Solution Engineer, Katherine Price, to join us for the episode. During this discussion, we analyze the current state of ESG reporting, understand how EPM is being leveraged for ESG reporting, and share why Oracle is a good fit for your ESG solution. https://www.oracle.com/sustainability/

The EPMIcast is joined by Kscope22 speaker, Oracle Ace Alum, and Oracle EPM Solutions Consultant, Nick Boronski! We also have Minie Parikh our Senior Vice President of Operations at EPMI. In this session, we learn about Nick's experience, Account Reconciliations use cases, new features, and customer stories!

Data and analytics should be a core competence for every Chief Information Officer and Information Technology organization. Given the business, technical, and cultural challenges of using data to make informed business decisions, it's no surprise that data science and analytics are hard.So, how do you make your enterprise data and analytics program a success? Bruno Aziza, head of data and analytics for Google Cloud, explains his approach with valuable lessons based on practical experience.The conversation includes these topics:-- CIO Strategy: How to Lead Enterprise Data and Analytics?-- How to choose a meaningful data problem?-- How important is data infrastructure?-- What is a data mesh?-- How can small organizations take advantage of data and analytics?-- Should the CIO own data and analytics?-- Chief financial officer as the data owner?-- Chief Digital Officer as the data owner?-- Value of low-code and no-code products to CIOs?Bruno Aziza is head of data and analytics for Google Cloud. He specializes in scaling businesses & turning them into global leaders. He helped launch Alpine Data Labs (bought by Tibco), AppStream (bought by Symantec), SiSense (bought Periscope Data) & AtScale. He was at Business Objects when they went IPO (after acquiring Acta & Crystal Reports, & before SAP bought them for $7B). He was at Microsoft when they turned the Data & Analytics business into a $1B giant. Bruno has written 2 books on Data Analytics and Enterprise Performance Management. His allegiance is to the Analytics Community worldwide.Subscribe to the CXOTalk newsletter: https://www.cxotalk.com/subscribeRead the complete transcript: https://www.cxotalk.com/episode/google-cloud-how-manage-enterprise-data-science

Maximizing material handling equipment (MHE) uptime is a key to success in the competitive e-commerce retail sector. Distribution and fulfillment (D&F) center operations teams have always relied on their maintenance crews to keep these critical assets running properly in all scenarios. But as retailers face consistently high order volumes, traditional preventative maintenance (PM) programs are proving costly and ineffective. E-commerce acceleration is also putting intense pressure on D&F operations. Maintenance teams are under even more pressure to ensure assets never unexpectedly go down, as the warehouse runs the risk of missing promised dates and attempting to make up the downtime with labor overtime hours. Listen to our podcast to discover how companies are making the shift from reactive maintenance strategies toward more predictive, data-driven approaches with enterprise performance management (EPM) tools designed specifically for maintenance and operations teams.

Once an organization decides that they are ready for the cloud, what is the path forward? Can an organization go-live within a preferred timeline? Does the size of the organization and amount of users affect the implementation scope? During this episode, the EPMIcast will discuss all of this plus our implementation approaches and techniques.

The Oracle universe has been providing ample content to help Hyperion customers decide whether to upgrade their 11.1.2.x instances, or to shift their Hyperion environment to the EPM Cloud. During this episode, our team from the EPMIcast studio cuts through the noise and lays out EPMI's idea of what your organization should consider as you evaluate the next steps. Time is of the essence with the support deadline of December 21st, 2021.

EPMI's project leadership teams discuss unique EPM challenges and best practices specific to the manufacturing industry.

Marinus Heymann is the Regional Managing Director for Jigsaw Advisory in the Middle East and has 15+ years of experience in consulting focussing on Enterprise Performance Management, Corporate Strategy, Analytics and Digital Transformation. He has extensively worked with clients across the Middle East, Southern Africa and Europe and has led large Strategy and IT transformation engagements. Marinus holds a double bachelor's degree in Business Management and an MBA from the University of Pretoria. Sponsor Information Visit https://my.captivate.fm/dashboard/www.yourheights.com (www.yourheights.com) and use acuriouslife10 for a 10% discount. Transcript Hadley: [00:00:00] Welcome to the show, Marinus.  [00:00:02] Marinus: [00:00:02] Thanks Hadley. Happy to be here.  [00:00:04] Hadley: [00:00:04] Cool. As you know, the show focuses on the trait of curiosity. So today we want to find out the essence of Marinus and we want to understand what your life has been like and how curiosity has played a part in that. So take us on a journey. Where were you born? [00:00:23] You know, how many siblings did you have? What w what was your family life like? How did that impact you?  [00:00:29] Marinus: [00:00:29] All right. Um, so I was born in Pretoria, South Africa. Uh, with two siblings and older brother and older sister, um, they were quite, Hadley: So you were the baby? Marinus: yeah. Oh yeah. I was, I think, um, and nine years younger than my brother and seven years younger than my sister, so, so, okay. [00:00:49] Hadley: So were you spoiled? Marinus: Very, very spoiled privileged. Um, so we grew up with a father who, uh, graduated an engineer and a mother who was a nursery school teacher. And, um, when my brother and sister grew up, we had very, very, um, I want to say a little income because my father just invested everything either towards his own learning and studying his MBA or, uh, into the nursery school that my mother, uh, started just before I was born, actually. [00:01:29] So, so they didn't have that much growing up. Um, When I was young, I kind of got the tail end of it. So luckily, um, and then that's kind of leading into how I was spoiled. Um, not, not ridiculously, but obviously more than my siblings. So, um, so we, we had a wonderful childhood. My parents are great, great people and great parents. [00:01:56] And, um, my father always had this, this notion of kind of academics first, although I was a terrible student at school. Um, and the reason for his academics first was he, he grew up with grandparents who were all self-taught, um, And who valued a valued learning more than the academic qualification. Uh, his father was a professor in electrical engineering or, um, again, starting from a very humble basis and then, and then pushing that continuous learning and my father kind of built that into me. [00:02:40] Um,  [00:02:42] Hadley: [00:02:42] just, just, just quickly, a quick aside in that, right? With the availability of quality information and knowledge readily available on the internet, do you think that the same emphasis should be put on a structured academic kind of path especially within technology, right. Um, w when three years down the lane, you know, the information that you gain, you know, at the start of your career or at the start of your course, rather, maybe even be outdated. [00:03:16] What are your thoughts on that? [00:03:17] Marinus: [00:03:17] Right. So, so let me put it to you in this way. So our curriculum in school and in varsity is very, very structured and I think no one has a real alternative third for that. And with the COVID pandemic that has been kind of turned upside down and we will see the fallout from not having that co located, facilitated learning. [00:03:48] Um, but it opens up new new avenues, right? So that's, that's for kind of pre, um, pre varsity pre graduates. Uh, well, pretty graduate education. When we look at technology and it was, it was...

I'm currently the Head of EPM (Enterprise Performance Management). I manage the following systems SAP BW/BPC/Power BI and Anaplan for JFC. From Conceptualization, Architecture, Implementation and Support. SAP ID: https://people.sap.com/kristian.ang LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristianang/ I have been working with BW4/BOBJ/BPC tools for the past 14 years and currently training with ANAPLAN. I have managed several teams and been involved in several projects and have handled different roles (Including preselling, product development, delivery, support, etc). I have trained 50+ BI consultants both in house and SAP accreditation. I'm also part-time faculty of Ateneo de Manila University teaching BPR (Business Process Re-engineering). Specialties: Highly skilled in any version of SAP BW4HANA / Business Objects / HANA / BPC / MS Power BI / Anaplan

When your distribution equipment isn’t running, your operation is losing money. Demand for throughput is more intense than ever before — and on track to get even stronger. Learn more about some of the innovative technologies that are streamlining the entire maintenance task lifecycle and minimizing costly downtime in retail and e-commerce distribution. Register for ProMatDX and visit our showcase page to learn more about the solutions discussed with Eric and Mike. Eric’s Enterprise Performance Management demo is April 13 at 10:15 a.m. CT, and Mike’s TechSight demo on Remote-Video Enablement is on April 13 at 2 p.m. CT. If you are unable to attend the live presentations the demos will be available on-demand on our showcase page for six months following the show.

CPAs and finance leaders have to start asking some really painful questions like, according to Gary Cokins, an internationally recognized expert in performance management, in this interview with Steven Sacks for CPA Trendlines.Questions like:• Do we know where we make or lose money, reasonably accurately? • Do our managers understand the strategy? The executives? • Are we measuring the right things?KEY TAKEAWAYS There is confusion, a lack of consensus about what Enterprise Performance Management and Corporate Performance Management is. Many think both are a process and a system. They are actually the integration of multiple methods. An effective EPM and CPM method depends on good high-quality source data that needs to produce facts and cannot just depend on opinion.  EPM is much broader than a CFO initiative. It's all about giving CFOs better information so they can have the insights to make better decisions. It is for any type of organization in any type of industry. Three major issues in operations: strategy, execution, failure, flawed measures of costs and profit of products, service lines and customers. It's all about aligning the behavior of the employees and managers with the strategy of the executives.  Activity-based costing is just standard that is basically full absorption costing done correctly. This is management accounting information. With external reporting, if the numbers are wrong, you go to jail. Management accounting, you get the numbers wrong, you don't go to jail.  When people are defining key performance indicators, they need to use a technique called correlation. You can look at a KPI and how it goes up or down and its impact on the next KPI that it influences. If it's poor correlation, it means that is it not a particularly good KPI. EPM and CPM can be applied to customer or client profitability. Consider high maintenance customers; always changing schedule; never buying standard, always special. Always calling the help desk. Always returning goods. Low maintenance customers are preferable because they only buy standard. Never changed schedule. Never call help desk. Never return goods. If those two customers bought the same volume, same mix, same price, they're not equally profitable. Because the high maintenance one is really, really eroding a lot of work. For CPA firms, they have to look at their clients, their revenues, and their billable hours. And basically, if they use activity-based costing principles, they're all based on work activities. It differentiates what causes high client profit high, very profitable client from low profit clients. Activity-based costing is necessary to get the true cost of products, service lines, etc. When it comes to strategy, execution, leaders have to understand the strategy. It is important to get measures. That's where the KPIs come into play. You get what you measure. If you can't measure it, you can't manage it. If you can't manage it, you can't improve it. The impact on robotic process automation and artificial intelligence on the CPA profession, will eliminate a lot of jobs, and not just in the area of audit, but also transactional areas like payroll clerks, invoicing and purchase orders.  Everyone should go to the YouTube video: “Humans Need Not Apply." The audit is not just sampling, because through AI, it's going to be 100%. Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in enterprise and corporate performance management improvement methods and business analytics. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina at www.garycokins.com . Gary received a BS degree with honors in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University in 1971. He received his MBA with honors from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

Conversation with a Chief Digital Officer Sundar Sukavanam, at firstsource with Gayatri Kalyanaraman from PM Power Consulting on Role of CDO has always been there with work done by CIO, CTO and the CEO Digital has made people think of business models differently - Digital office has quite a few roles like Intelligent Automation (RPA), machine first capability, partnerships, evangelization Talks about 18,000 puzzle pieces coming together as an art! Sundar talks about experience as an account manager working in the US for P&L leader Wearing the architect hat (not being an empty suit), powering the enterprise for Cognizant and learnt how to make the most of it Business Operations manager for the insurance team and understood the need for automation and shares stories Sundara speaks about traveling across the globe and themes that triggered moves Enterprise IT is like utility. No one knows when only till it stops working! Think of the users in enterprise IT rather than the sponsors or the conduits Alvin tofflers’ quote on twentieth century literate are those who learn, unlearn and relearn soon Today it has to be fail fast, learn faster Key takeaway for everyone should be to how do you balance what the technology can offer and what Human ingenuity can make happen Sundara Sukavanam is Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Firstsource Solutions. He drives the ‘Digital First, Digital Now’ agenda for the organisation with the focus to help our customers in their digital transformation journey. Sundara leads Firstsource’s Digital Services including Intelligent Automation, Analytics, and scaling Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) offerings. He also manages global partnerships with industry-leading platforms in RPA, ML/AI and SaaS and integrates that IP into their solutions. As part of the CIO’s office, Sundara built large scale enterprise platforms across Operations, Sales and Marketing, Planning and Forecasting, and Enterprise Performance Management, in partnership with the business. Sundara is a business and technology leader with over 24 years of experience in the IT & Operations industry, working with the world’s leading corporations across the Manufacturing, Utilities, Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Media & Information sectors – delivering solutions in Application Development, Core Modernization, Cloud Migration, Quality Assurance, Analytics and Intelligent Process Automation. Sundara has a Master’s degree from National Institute of Technology, India and Certifications from the Stanford Business School. He is based in the US with his wife and teenage son. Sundara is an avid reader and a sports buff. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sundarasukavanam/

Jim Franklin, Board Member and Investor | Riderflex Podcast | - Boot Strap, Angel Capital, Local Capital, and Coastal Capital...what is the right solution for companies. Jim Franklin is an active investor, board member and advisor to the startup community. Jim is currently an instructor at University of Colorado, teaching the Venture Capital course at CU MBA. Jim was also the CEO of SendGrid, Inc., a cloud developer infrastructure services company. Prior to his tenure with SendGrid, Jim was the Vice President of Enterprise Performance Management and the General Manager of the Crystal Ball Global Business Unit of Oracle Corporation. Riderflex is a global Recruiting and Consulting Firm. We give Career Advice & Job Interviewing Tips on this podcast. This episode of the Riderflex Podcast is sponsored by Rockies Venture Club, an angel investing group dedicated to accelerating economic development by educating and connecting investors and entrepreneurs. Their mission is to advance Economic Development in the Rocky Mountain Region. Learn more about RVC at rockiesventureclub.org/. #Investing #capital #options #bootstrap #VentureCapital #entrepreneurship #business #investor #boardmember #technology #angelcapital #localcapital #interview #President #CEO #entrepreneur #culture #riderflex #employmentagency #recruiting --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/riderflex/support

Organizations provider transparency to personnel (from the front-lines to the boardroom) by measuring KPIs for asset and work management. However sifting through the measurements to find the data you need can be difficult. Enterprise Performance Management is important as it should shift the focus from individual performance to enabling cross-functional teams throughout an organization to empower all employees in delivering the mission, vision, and values. If everyone understands, buys-in, and feels there is transparent communication around the goals, performance will happen intrinsically. Joe Lonjin, Cohesive Solutions Joe has been involved in Facilities Maintenance and Management for over 20 years now, starting in contractor services, the U.S. Army, and then at Penn State University. He gets to share his experiences and the knowledge given to him by so many great friends and colleagues along his journey. https://www.accelix.com/community/predictive-maintenance/how-organizations-drive-culture-change-measure-performance-using-asset-work-management-data/ (Original session held on June 19, 2019)

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation in the enterprise business software that has the power to turn average companies into disrupters in their category. My guest is Frederic Laluyaux, President and CEO of Aera Technology.He’s got more than 20 years of experience as a leader in the Enterprise Performance Management sector. Fred has built his career focusing on providing solutions that help organizations worldwide achieve financial and business excellence. Fred started his career in the area of CPM, otherwise known as Corporate Performance Management, leading ALG‘s global operations until it was acquired by Business Objects. When Business Object was acquired by SAP he acted as the SVP and GM for SAP Applications for EPM, GRC, and Finance Line of Business. He then became the President and CEO of Anaplan which he led for over 3 years.That’s where he joined Aera Technology.I got intrigued by the promise of Aera Technology – being the company building the cognitive technology enabling the Self-Driving Enterprise – hence I invited Fred to my podcast.We explore how a variety of industries around the world are being disrupted, and why many traditional business software solutions are not up to par anymore. We discuss why many businesses need a different breed of solutions to rethink everything they do in order to thrive, not just survive in their market.Here are some of his quotes:I remember writing this paper one night, I worked all night on what is the next big wave post transaction automation. So basically, the massive wave of globalization fueled by the relational database and the ERP layer.The next big idea is how do we tackle the big pyramid that sits on top of those ERP systems.The question that I was asking myself is: Why do companies grow so deep, so fat, when they grow big? How are our decisions being made?So I’ve been thinking about this for a long, long time, and really being convinced that the next topic would be delayerisation, organization getting flatter, more nuclear, as opposed to these big, rigid pyramids.For that you need to enable decisions to be closer to the point of impact. For that you need to enable people to measure in real time the impact of the decisions that they have to take. There is a whole logical flow.During this interview, you will learn three things:Why the way to survive as a business software vendor is to aim your product strategy at solutions that allow your customers to do things differently, rather than do the things that have not changed for decades a bit better.How solutions that are connected outside-and-in, always on, thinking, learning and autonomous in their behavior will create the winners of tomorrowTo become remarkable as a software business you have to surround yourself with people that are not attached to the traditional way of doing See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"The biggest mistake at CFO level is not focusing on the boring stuff, the stuff that their finance team's getting frustrated by, that's making things inefficient". Andy Carfax became a qualified CMA over two decades ago and previously headed up KPMG's technical EPM delivery team. He now specialises in Enterprise Performance Management as MD of LucaNet UK which provides software that enables Group Consolidated Reporting. Andy talks to Kyle Hannan (AICPA & CIMA, UK) about how CFOs can optimise processes to help mid-tier companies rise above the 'spreadsheet trap'.   OUR GUEST: Andy Carfax is the author of several White Papers such as “Report visualisation: From Concept to Deployment” and “From Spreadsheets to Systems”. As a consultant, he has worked for Paramount, Shell, and many other well-known names. He specialises in Enterprise Performance Management with a focus on Consolidated Reporting, Finance & Operational Planning, and Business Intelligence.   WE DISCUSS: the 'Excel trap' (other brands of spreadsheets are available). how companies make the mistake of spending longer producing than analysing. the origins of the misconceptions that they need to spend millions on innovative solutions to their challenges. how "the niche has become the norm". reducing the potential for a CFO's biggest mistake. how finance and accounting professionals are well-suited to the new ICT-heavy demands of the work they do. LINKS: Visiting the Chicago area this Spring? Join us on the ground or online for the AICPA & CIMA "CFO Conference" in Chicago this April 24-26th 2019 Connect with Andy Carfax via LinkedIn or LucaNet.co.uk  Find out more about Enterprise Performance Management  with related CPD/CPE resources at the AICPA Store and the CGMA Store.   MORE ABOUT OUR PODCAST: DON'T MISS OUT. Get our shows every week, automatically and free. Share them easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on your app or media player.  GLOBAL VOICES. Interviews with our international experts are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, the insights will always be consistently useful. TAKE IT FURTHER. Find related CPD/CPE resources at the AICPA Store and the CGMA Store. STAY CONNECTED. Follow #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews and @CIMA_News on social. PERMISSIONS ©2018 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA). All rights reserve

Recently, Tatiana traveled to Las Vegas for the World Crypto Convention.  There were a lot of interesting blockchain folks to talk to, and of course financial applications to discuss.  For this segment, Tatiana is joined by Joshua Scigala the CEO of Vaultoro and Sasha Hodder, blockchain attorney and host of the Hodlcast podcast. Tatiana, Josh, and Sasha discuss the various projects featured by some colleagues at the conference.  They include a chat with Bryan Katis of Troo.io, a trust platform that functions a bit like a decentralized credit bureau, but far more advanced.  The ladies spoke with Henry James from Fincross, a next-generation digital investment bank based in Mauritius that aims to serve institutional, corporate, intermediary and private clients in B2C, B2B and P2P environments.  The jurisdiction piqued Sasha’s interests, and we got an in depth look at the benefits to working in Mauritius. Finally, a more in depth conversation with Equibit’s Co-Founder, President & CEO, Chris Horlacher, breaks down some of the advantages of moving a project to Switzerland, along with the latest developments at Equibit including launching their mainnet and allowing for mining of their token.   About the Guests: Bryan Katis Chief Product Officer, Trust Science / Troo.io Bryan is a senior executive and thought leader with 23+ years’ experience in Enterprise Software focused on building Analytics and Mobile products that delight customers.  He is responsible for the product strategy and roadmap, customer adoption, and technical sales support. Prior to joining Trust Science, Bryan led the Product group at Host Analytics where his team was driving innovation and strategy, and the suite of products was recognized as visionary by analysts.  Bryan also led the Customer Success team at Anaplan where he owned the complete customer lifecycle and achieved high customer sat scores. In addition, Bryan spent more than 15 years at SAP in various global leadership roles including as the General Manager of the Enterprise Performance Management business which he grew to become the market leader ($750M in revenue).  Bryan holds a BBA in Finance from the University of Georgia. Henry James  is an entrepreneur, currency trader, analyst and fund manager.  Henry has been trading FX and cryptocurrency since 2011 and 2016 respectively.  Following his post on the FX desk at PE Capital, Henry launched a quant FX fund and business accelerator, Rolle Capital. Since inception in 2014, Henry managed the trade desk in Mumbai overseeing the investment team and testing of new algorithmic strategies until stepping down to focus on new venture, Fincross. Chris Horlacher is one of the foremost authorities on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.  As the CEO of Equibit Group, he applies his deep understanding of the space into all facets of his professional career, leading the vision and development of blockchain technology that promises to revolutionize the securities industry. Chris began his career as an auditor at a Big Four accounting firm.  Before the age of 30, he was the CFO of a start-up stock brokerage that now manages over $4 billion in assets. Following that, Chris went on to found his own management consulting firm, playing an instrumental role in the success of numerous start-ups as well as multi-million-dollar projects for some of Canada’s largest companies, SME's and non-profit organizations. As an early adopter of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, Chris is often looked to for his insights on these emerging and exciting sectors. He has been interviewed by a number of leading media outlets, including Reuters, Bloomberg, The Globe and Mail (leading Canadian newspaper) and CBC (Canada’s public broadcaster) , and has also spoken to large audiences at countless prominent industry events since 2014. If you like this content, please send a tip with BTC to: 1444meJi7YjgQGNg3U8Z6qYZFA5cgz4Gmj More Info: TatianaMoroz.com CryptoMediaHub.com Vaultoro.com SashaHodler.com TrustScience.com Troo.io Fincross.com EquibitGroup.com Friends and Sponsors of the Show: TheBitcoinCPA.com CryptoCompare.com

We routinely meet with finance executives who are extremely frustrated at the amount of spreadsheets they create to supply users throughout their company with the information they need to manage budgets and track profitability.Sometimes they believe they need a new ERP system when in fact a new ERP system would leave them struggling with the same manual tasks for financial planning and analysis.In this episode of The ERP Advisor, find out how to determine if your company's reporting needs are being hindered by an outdated ERP or if what you really need is a new reporting and analytics tool.

Today's guest on AFP Conversations is Jim Perry, the Director of EPM Practice Strategy with Infor. Jim spoke at AFP 2017 about aligning strategy and execution with enterprise performance management. It sounds like a big, scary topic but he thinks it’s a critical one for all chief financial officers must tackle. Thanks for listening to AFP Conversations. Please give it a review on your podcast app of choice -- it will help other listeners find the show, and host Ira Apfel will read your review on air.

Accenture's David Gartside and Rustin Richburg look at how companies can successfully manage a global workforce to support their growth strategies.

Accenture's David Gartside and Rustin Richburg look at how companies can successfully manage a global workforce to support their growth strategies.

Accenture High Performance Business research shows that only 22 percent of companies using a balanced scorecard can demonstrate a causal link between the scorecard and the creation of shareholder value. In this podcast, Mike Tsapralis and Eric Noren of Accenture Finance & Performance Management look at what makes for successful enterprise performance management that boosts the bottom line.

Accenture High Performance Business research shows that only 22 percent of companies using a balanced scorecard can demonstrate a causal link between the scorecard and the creation of shareholder value. In this podcast, Mike Tsapralis and Eric Noren of Accenture Finance & Performance Management look at what makes for successful enterprise performance management that boosts the bottom line.