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A Chart Chooser for BI Teams: Stop Guessing, Start Deciding

Rick W 0 6
The wrong chart doesn’t just look bad, it changes what people believe the data says. When a trend appears flat on a pie chart or a comparison gets buried in a dual-axis mess, stakeholders don’t just misread the numbers. They make the wrong call, ask the wrong questions, or stop trusting your dashboards altogether. A 2024 […]

Building a Self-Improving AI Support Agent with Langfuse 

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Building an LLM prototype is quick. A few lines of Python, a prompt, and it works. But Production is a different game altogether. You start seeing vague answers, hallucinations, latency spikes, and strange failures where the model clearly “knows” something but still gets it wrong. Since everything runs on probabilities, debugging becomes tricky. Why did […] The post Building a...

The Top 14 Accounts Receivable KPIs You Should Be Tracking

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What’s working well on your finance team? What could you improve? The only real way to know is to track your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including the goals around accounts receivable. After all, accounts receivable KPIs are vital to the business performance. However, there are so many different accounts receivable KPIs. How can you choose […] The post The Top 14 Accounts...

Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online

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AI-enabled deception now permeates our online lives. There are the high-profile cases you may easily spot, like when White House officials recently shared a manipulated image of a protester in Minnesota and then mocked those asking about it. Other times, it slips quietly into social media feeds and racks up views, like the videos that…

Gemini 3.1 Pro: A Hands-On Test of Google’s Newest AI

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Just 3 months after the release of their state-of-the-art model Gemini 3 Pro, Google DeepMind is here with its latest iteration: Gemini 3.1 Pro. A radical upgrade in terms of capabilities and safety, Gemini 3.1 Pro model strives to be accessible and operable by all. Regardless of your preference, platform, purchasing power, the model has […] The post Gemini 3.1 Pro: A Hands-On Test of...

Vibe coding is changing FP&A development, but raises tough questions about value and risk

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I’ve built financial models for over a decade, mostly with various specialized Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) products for customers cross manufacturing, retail, utilities, and financial services. When I first heard about “vibe coding” in this context, my initial reaction was skepticism. How on earth should prompting AI generate proper applications from scratch? But after […]

Improving Warehouse Efficiency with Unified Data and AI-Driven Visibility - with Dan Keto of Easy Metrics

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Today's guest is Dan Keto, President and Co-founder at Easy Metrics, where he focuses on helping warehouse and distribution teams turn fragmented transactional data into a unified "single pane of glass" that supports faster diagnosis of variance and more defensible decision-making. Dan joins Emerj's Matthew DeMello to explore what a solid data foundation looks like in warehouse networks —...

From 12 Days to 3: How Breaking IT Bottlenecks Accelerates Your SAP Close

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If your finance team is still waiting 8-12 days to close the books each month, you’re not alone. You’re also not doomed to take this long forever. The difference between a 12-day close and a 3-day close often comes down to one critical factor: IT dependency. According to Gartner, 76% of finance teams cite IT […] The post From 12 Days to 3: How Breaking IT Bottlenecks Accelerates Your...