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Top 5 Tips for a Successful Predictive Analytics Project
Predictive analytics holds the promise of making your organization smarter, more nimble, more competitive, and ultimately, more profitable. But in between deciding predictive analytics can help your organization achieve any one (or several) of these objectives, and realizing these results, there are…
April 12, 2017
The Role of Finance Reimagined: A Manifesto
Our world is in the midst of a transformative technological revolution that is impacting every nation, industry, enterprise and human being on this planet. It is a revolution because it is radical and happening so fast. It is transformative because it is…
April 12, 2017
My Mission to Transform FP&A
After spending almost 13 years in various global, domestic and corporate FP&A roles at Hertz Rent-a-Car, I’m nearly one year into my position as a managing consultant at Revelwood. The turning of the year, if you will, into year two at Revelwood,…
April 11, 2017
How to Avoid Five Potential Pitfalls of Analytics Projects
The promises of analytics are many: business insights, competitive advantage, increased profits, and more. In some cases it may even seem like the opportunities delivered by analytics are nearly endless. So how could one possibly fail with analytics? Sadly, as Meta S.…
March 14, 2017
Revenue Recognition’s Technical Aspects Make Adoption Difficult
This is a guest blog post by RGP Director of Client Service, Stuart Fisher. It’s official. The adoption of ASC 606 – the new Revenue Recognition accounting standard, is not going to be fun. Forty percent of finance professionals surveyed by Intaact…
March 14, 2017
Introducing IBM Planning Analytics Local
IBM Planning Analytics Local, the convergence of TM1 on-premise with Planning Analytics on the cloud is now available! This new release brings many of the great enhancements and performance improvements that IBM has been making in the cloud environment available to on-premise…
December 15, 2016
Revenue Recognition Is More Than a Finance & Accounting Issue
This is a guest blog post by RGP Director of Client Service, Stuart Fisher. On May 28, 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), also known as the Boards, issued converged final revenue recognition standards,…
November 30, 2016
Understanding Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for Analytics: An Expert’s Take, Part 3
In two recent blog posts (Gartner Magic Quadrants, Part 1 and Part 2), we provided some clarity around the various Magic Quadrants issued by Gartner in the analytics and business intelligence market. In this post we want to go a little deeper…
October 6, 2016
Revelwood Labs – How We’re Adding Value to your Analytics Investment
For over two decades, Revelwood has been offering leading edge, high value TM1 and Cognos Express products, solutions and services in the FPM marketplace. Up until a year ago, all of these offerings were managed under a single organization—Revelwood. Given the changing…