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The Mandate for Business Agility
This is a blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning. It highlights recent research from the Association for Finance Professionals (AFP). Change and disruption are inevitable, and to tackle them, finance must intentionally build agile practices into its work. That’s according…
December 8, 2023

Accounting and Accounts Receivable
Trends in Financial Management for Midsize Organizations
This guest post from our partner, BlackLine, was written by IDC. It outlines challenges facing finance and accounting in midsize organizations. Midsize organizations have several challenges that make financial operations management particularly difficult. Many such organizations operate in a very lean manner…
December 7, 2023

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Region Expansion
A while back I wrote a blog about regions within regions in IBM Planning Analytics. This approach allows you to make your rules easier to navigate and read when scrolling through many lines of code. As you create regions, you can expand…
November 28, 2023

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Active Planning Dashboards in Workday Adaptive Planning
In today’s Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks video, Dave Miersch, Revelwood’s Workday Adaptive Planning practice lead, demonstrates how to use active dashboards. Active Planning dashboards allow for real-time updates and insights, eliminating the need to toggle between multiple screens. https://youtu.be/NF6op2CiRTg?si=YkK445gw3wc24h5q Watch…
November 22, 2023

Workday Adaptive Planning Insights
Workday Adaptive Planning Customers See 249% ROI
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday, highlighting a recent Total Economic Impact Report from Forrester. Calculating the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying a modern planning platform is no simple task—it’s a comprehensive undertaking…
November 21, 2023

How Artificial Intelligence will Impact the CFO
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday. It is the first installment of Workday’s Q&AI video series. The application of artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way finance leaders operate worldwide. Sayan Chakraborty, co-president of Workday, shares how AI…
November 17, 2023

Increasing Accuracy in Forecasts by Using Workday Adaptive Planning with Incorta
This is a guest post from Ardeshir Ghanbarzadeh, senior director of product marketing at our partner, Incorta. Ardeshir explains how the integration between Workday Adaptive Planning and Incorta helps FP&A leaders uncover opportunities, while also increasing accuracy. FP&A leaders looking to increase…
November 16, 2023

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Data Cleansing with Microsoft Power Query
In our last blog post on using Microsoft Power Query, we talked about using the tool to organize your data. Today we’ll look at using it for data cleansing. Data Cleansing with Microsoft Power Query 1. Handling Missing Values Missing or incomplete…
November 15, 2023

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: How to Determine when Users Logged in to Planning Analytics Workspace
Have you ever wanted to learn when a user last logged in to IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? Or to generate a list of dates and times when users logged in? IBM Planning Analytics version 87 includes a feature to easily figure…