January 6, 2021
Research Resources
Taking a holistic, programmatic view of business continuity and disaster recovery (BC-DR) plan is imperative for IT leaders driving digital transformation and migration to hybrid multicloud. Cloud-based, orchestrated DR is fundamental to delivering target recovery objectives reliably in hybrid multicloud environments that are often distributed and complex. This business value study was conducted by IDC [...]
The Evolution of a Business System Hairball and How to Avoid It
As businesses thrive and evolve, they add software and systems to manage departments, automate processes and provide insights into operations. It’s an iterative process that evolves on a timeline dependent on growth, industry competition and other factors. It’s rarely, however, done holistically, with long range goals in mind. Occasionally, there might be one system that [...]
7 Ways Cloud ERP Helps Organisations Build Resiliency and Agility
By putting finance and accounting, customer service, procurement, inventory, supply chain management, warehouse management, and order fulfilment on a single platform, ERP unifies core business operations, improves internal controls and enhances visibility into organisational performance. A modern ERP solution enables remote workforce management and collaboration, complies with current accounting standards and regulations, provides an accurate [...]
The Case for a Continuous Close
When it comes to financial accounting for your business, taking a continuous close approach to closing the books delivers important benefits. The chief one being faster access to current data to inform better decision-making. The role that technology plays in both objectives of a continuous financial close (or any close for that matter) cannot be [...]
The Buyer’s Guide to Business Management Software
When spreadsheets and workarounds become the norm for your finance departmetn, it's time to upgrade your financial management software. Financial close times and audit preparations take too many weeks to complete and sales that occur on the last day of the quarter often do not get entered into the system, thereby not getting recognised as [...]