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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…
October 5, 2016
Understanding Gartner’s Magic Quadrants, Part 2
In a recent blog post we talked about Gartner’s view on the Corporate Performance Management market, and why they retired the Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites in favor of two magic quadrants. They are the Magic Quadrant for Financial Corporate…
October 4, 2016
What the Heck is Cognitive Computing?
I’m often asked to define cognitive computing. Honestly, it’s not always easy to define. So first, let’s step back and take a look at the overall analytics landscape. Within analytics, you have descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. Descriptive analytics summarizes what happened.…
September 26, 2016
How will Brexit Impact your Financial Planning & Analysis
It’s been several weeks since the historic and disruptive Brexit vote, where the UK voted yes to a referendum deciding to leave the European Union. Stock markets around the world immediately had a knee-jerk reaction, and there has been speculation that banks—particularly…
August 23, 2016
Life Lessons Learned as an Intern at Revelwood
This is a guest blog post by Revelwood intern, Zachary Vinik. When I told friends and family that I was interning at an established business they all made jokes. “You are just going to organize papers and deliver coffee to everyone.” My…
August 16, 2016
IBM’s Cloud Strategy and How Revelwood Can Help
IBM is investing heavily in its analytics solutions, which means lots of things are changing for the better. At Revelwood, we see it as our job to help our clients interpret these changes to better understand how they might affect your organization…
July 14, 2016
Meet Alex Needham: Ridding the World of Inefficient Planning and Reporting
I started my career in the automotive industry. I started off as an intern and worked my way up to FP&A coordinator / assistant manager over five years. During this time, I realized how much time our Financial team wasted on horrifically…