Financial Close & Consolidation
Modern Accounting: The Business Case for Financial Close Management Software
This is a guest blog post from our partner BlackLine, written by Robert Kugel, SVP & Research Director at Ventana Research. Robert’s post makes the case for automating the close. There is a longstanding agreement on the importance of a company closing its…
October 7, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Color Schemes in a Waterfall Chart
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) allows you to change the color scheme in your waterfall charts? The goal of a waterfall chart is to show how an initial value is affected by the intermediate values – either positives or…
October 5, 2021
FP&A Done Right: How to Rejuvenate your Budgeting Process
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, offering three steps to take to disrupt your out-of-date budgeting process. Disruptive technology is a popular term. No matter how long companies have been in business, many claim that their…
October 1, 2021
Fluence Technologies and Revelwood Enter Strategic Partnership
Today we announced a new strategic partnership with Fluence Technologies, the only pure-play provider of financial close and consolidation software purpose-built for mid-sized companies. “The Office of Finance is charged with many tasks to help their organizations run efficiently and effectively,” said…
September 21, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Mekko Chart
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) offers many visualization options to allow you to show and analyze your data in creative ways. This includes standard chart types such as bar, line and pie. But it also includes some reports that are not always understood. One of…
September 21, 2021
FP&A Done Right: The Value of Scenario Planning
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, highlighting the value of scenario planning in modern finance. Considering all that’s happened over the last year, the case for robust scenario planning has rarely been stronger. Scenario planning—the practice…
September 17, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Defining a Process Within Existing Chores
There are times when you need to change a process within an existing chore in IBM Planning Analytics. The challenge is to understand what chores will be impacted by a change in a process. You could edit or remove and process and…
September 14, 2021
Financial Close & Consolidation
Modern Accounting: The Transformed Accountant
This is a guest blog post from our partner BlackLine, written by Anders Liu-Lindberg, a leading advisor to senior Finance and FP&A leaders on how to succeed with business partnering. Finance and Accounting have been in a decade-long transformation journey, and while…
September 10, 2021
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Flexible Planning
Do you know how flexible Workday Adaptive Planning is? One of the key elements to any enterprise planning system is usability by different users with different needs. Workday Adaptive Planning is particularly flexible and allows for a variety of views. Watch this…