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Is Cloud integration now the biggest concern?
I was speaking at the PwC Finance Leaders' Summit in London yesterday attended by around 250 senior finance professionals where one of...
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Organizations around the world lose an estimated 5 percent of their annual revenues to fraud, according to a survey of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFEs) who investigated cases between January 2010 and December 2011. Applied to...

What tools did you use for the first year of mandatory iXBRL filings for your business?
I was interested to see Thomson Reuters one of the big software providers in this space say that " companies had been reluctant to ...
A survey conducted by Thomson Reuters with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has found that over 67% of respondents said that the transition to iXBRL accounts from paper had been `difficult` or...

More talk of a Euro collapse this morning. What risk scenarios are you building into profit forecasts and long-term plans?
The political turmoil in France and Greece is once again throwing the spotlight on the stability of the eurozone, its currency and the ...

This is an important financial consolidation win for Tagetik inside the top 100 of the global 500
Tagetiik's relaunch of its brand last month was partly about convincing the global 500 that it could do the job. This win in SAP's ...
Metro AG has selected Tagetik 4.0 as its new corporate solution for financial, statutory and management consolidation. The software,which is distributed by pmOne GmbH replaces the trade group’s previous solution SAP EC-CS....

More evidence today that ERP and financials for SME's is swinging towards the Cloud. How long before mid-range and large organizations...
You mayremember that I mentioned the rapid growth of FinancialForce.com recently. (FinancialForce tend to play in the mid-market ...

Does the Cloud feature in your futiure plans for finance systems?
If you were looking for a replacement finance system today, would you insist on including Cloud-based vendors in your shortlist?

Software vendors could do a lot more with Unified Communications - do you agree?
I think this acquisition by Advanced Computer Systems is a shrewd move. You may not have heard of the term "Unified Communications" but ...
Advanced Computer Software Group plc (Advanced), a says it is acquiring London-based managed services provider, Fabric Technologies Limited (Fabric), for a total cash consideration of £4.6m. Fabric, which provides managed...

What is Different about an Excel Workbook (compared to other applications)?
There was a discussion on this group comparing Excel and other "objects/budgeting/reporting software" applications. This mostly ...

What do you look for in a CPM vendor, i.e. the people behind the solution?
In my experience the quality of people tends to get overlooked, or at least not given enough weighting, when organizations evaluate a ...
The unprecedented turmoil in financial markets and the global economy, together with unbridled growth in regulation and compliance, is placing the finance function under increasing strain. In these circumstances, timely...
