I have had the opportunity to moderate well over 200 thought leadership webinars designed to impact the careers of
On Tuesday September 30th attendees of the Relief from Painful Finance Processes: Why Automation May Cure All webinar experienced a hybrid webinar. Hybrid webinars are designed to combine thought leadership with the demonstration of a specific technology to illustrate exactly how specific pain points are remedied and/or how best practices are put into practice. Vijay Ramakrishnan set the stage for a compelling case study when he outlined the specific challenges faced by a client, given the alias of “The Cloud Alarm Company”, in the arenas of order-to-cash, procure to pay, and financial/operational intelligence. Linda Pinion then illustrated how the Cloud Alarm Company overcame these challenges leveraging specific functionality within Intacct’s cloud-based financial management and
In terms of Order-to-Cash the Cloud Alarm Company went from errors & inaccuracies, cumbersome data entry & rekeying, and fragmented, cumbersome reporting to an integrated automated order-to-cash process.
In terms of Procure-to-Pay the Cloud Alarm Company went from cumbersome data entry & rekeying, a lack of controls & unauthorized spend, manual tracking of vendor performance, no true vendor relationships to an efficient, pre-defined and automated environment of workflow approvals.
In terms of Financial/Operational Intelligence the Cloud Alarm Company went from
Discover exactly how the Cloud Alarm Company made it all happen by viewing the recording of the Relief from Painful Finance Processes: Why Automation May Cure All webinar HERE.
On Wednesday, October 1st attendees of the Financial and Operational Metrics: Dashboards for a 360° View webinar heard from Tom McCarthy, Senior Solution Engineer, Axiom EPM who discussed the evolving role of finance in the context of an insightful 4-quadrant framework. Tom also shared how and why the expectations of what information and level of analysis finance delivers the C-Suite are changing, and explained how developing a comprehensive reporting framework which combines the best of financial and operational reporting empowers finance to meet the ever-evolving challenges that face the office of the
Attendees also experienced nothing short of an amazing case study of how to leverage operational data to drive improved profitability by Mark Dignam,
Discover exactly how Tube Lines made it all happen by viewing the recording of the Financial and Operational Metrics: Dashboards for a 360° View webinar HERE.
On Thursday, October 2nd attendees of the Driver-based Budgeting and Planning: Agility, Predictability, and Alignment webinar learned from Paul Hamerman, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research that making driver-based planning & budgeting work involves financial processes that focus on leveraging data from the past (financial reporting, consolidations, and disclosure) and present (performance measurement and management reporting) to effectively predict the future in terms of both financial and operations metrics that ultimately define company performance (planning and forecasting in a dynamic environment). Paul also shared how companies are becoming more customer centric in areas including planning and forecasting, cost and profitability analysis, and performance management. Finally, Paul offered attendees valuable data, analysis and insights into how technology enables planning and forecasting to reach new levels of agility which helps companies drive competitive advantage.
Richard Barrett, Financial Software Expert, Anaplan outlined the key challenges that companies face today in budgeting and planning, specifically how to leverage technology to better align planning, and the specific benefits better alignment of budgeting and planning can offer companies including: quick, light-touch reforecasts, tighter alignment of capacity with demand, and less budgeting and forecasting sandbagging by budgeting and forecasting contributors. Richard also shared his insights relative to the 3 key factors that are holding companies back in realizing the benefits of driver-based budgeting and planning, and how companies can overcome these obstacles which each have dimensions that are both actual and perceived.
Discover how driver-based budgeting can benefit your company by viewing the recording of the Driver-based Budgeting and Planning: Agility, Predictability, and Alignment webinar HERE.