When Zeus, a medical student living in a hilltop city in central Nigeria, returns to his studio apartment from a long day at the hospital, he turns on his ring light, straps his iPhone to his forehead, and starts recording himself. He raises his hands in front of him like a sleepwalker and puts a…
Lease accounting has come a long way since the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued ASC 842. However, for many organizations, the journey is far from over. Keeping your spreadsheets accurate, complete, and audit-ready year after year is an entirely different challenge. Whether you’re a Controller managing hundreds of real estate leases or a CFO […]
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Every year, Dresner Advisory Services publishes some of the most closely watched research in the enterprise performance management (EPM) space. Unlike analyst firms that rely heavily on vendor briefings, Dresner’s Wisdom of Crowds methodology gathers data directly from end users — the finance leaders, FP&A professionals, and CFOs who live inside these platforms every day. […]
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Selecting the right planning, budgeting, and forecasting software means managing growing financial data, accelerating financial forecasting cycles, and adapting financial models to changing business drivers. Organizations need platforms that support allocation, budgeting & forecasting, operational plans, and financial statements while delivering strong functionality, transparent pricing,...
Is your budget process about to start? Are you already dreading it? If you’re a CFO or FP&A leader, you know the feeling: weeks of chasing spreadsheets, reconciling data from a dozen systems, and herding department heads toward numbers that are already outdated by the time they’re approved. The annual budgeting process has long been […]
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If you’re still running an older version of Wands for SAP, you might be missing out on some serious time-savers. The most recent releases have brought transformative updates that address real pain points for finance teams working with SAP data. Here are five compelling reasons to make the upgrade. 1. Asset Balance Functions: Complete Visibility […]
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The gap between customer expectations and operational delivery is widening as traditional reactive service models struggle with volume volatility and workforce attrition. In this episode, Philipp Heltewig, Chief AI Officer at NiCE, unpacks how enterprises can transition to a proactive, AI-first customer experience by rethinking core service processes for the age of automation. The...
You probably use Google on a daily basis, and nowadays, you might have noticed AI-powered search results that compile answers from multiple sources. But you might have wondered how the AI can gather all this information and respond at such blazing speeds, especially when compared to the medium-sized and large models we typically use. Smaller […]
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Enterprise legal departments are currently navigating a breakdown in AI adoption caused by scattered data, inconsistent global regulations, and a lack of clear governance for grading automated workflows. In this episode, Christo Siebrits, Senior Associate and General Counsel at AbbVie, outlines how a validated internal large language model environment combined with a forced-ranking strategy...
If you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single, complete platform” for a complete look at all of our FabCon and SQLCon announcements across both Fabric and our database offerings. The next evolution of in-report Copilot on the mobile app is now available …