IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Headcount Analysis
Did you miss our recent webinar on headcount analysis? Here’s a high-level recap of what we covered. In short, IBM Planning Analytics is a powerful, flexible tool for headcount analysis. Headcount analysis is a critical component of any organization's workforce planning and…
June 27, 2023
Enterprise Planning Helps Professional Services Firms Adapt to Changes
Professional services firms make money based on the number of hours they service clients. These companies need to have many consultants with desirable skills as billable as possible. They also have to have enough resources available to start new projects as soon…
June 23, 2023
Financial Close & Consolidation
Are your Accountants Quitting?
This is a guest post from our partner BlackLine, examining the drivers behind the mass exodus in accounting roles. Like everything else in accounting, the numbers tell the story. The profession is experiencing a steep decline in qualified personnel, as many trained…
June 22, 2023
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Waterfall Charts
Did you miss our webinar on waterfall charts in IBM Planning Analytics? Here’s our take on best practices and how and why to use waterfall charts. Waterfall charts, also known as bridge charts, floating column charts, or cascade charts, are a data…
June 20, 2023
Financial Close & Consolidation
Intercompany Financial Management Benchmarks
This is a guest post from our partner BlackLine, highlighting some results from their recent survey, Intercompany Financial Management: Benchmarks, Challenges and Expectations For companies that transact intercompany business, intercompany operations have a big impact on the financial results. However, there are…
June 15, 2023
Revelwood Expands Best-in-Class Solution Portfolio to Include Incorta
We’re expanding our best-in-class solution portfolio to include Incorta’s open data delivery platform, giving our clients an analytics hub for the Office of Finance. Incorta’s technology simplifies the data ingestion and delivery approach, giving clients unrivaled data access to deliver fast, accurate…
June 14, 2023
Financial Close & Consolidation
Financial Consolidation Software Reduces Risk and Accelerates the Close
This is a guest post from Ventana Research, published by Fluence Technologies. It details how financial close and consolidation software can reduce risk and speed up the close process. The Importance of Time to Close An important measure of the effectiveness of…
June 8, 2023
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Popular Posts, Part 2
Earlier this month we shared three of our most popular IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks blog posts. Since we publish these tips & tricks posts every Tuesday, we have plenty of tips you might have missed. Here are three more of…
May 30, 2023
FP&A Done Right: Trends in Accounting and Finance
This is a blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning. Philippa Lawrence, chief accounting officer and vice president at Workday, highlights some interesting trends emerging in finance and accounting. The past few years have given us a deep appreciation for how…