Oracle and NetSuite have completed their merger. The combination is likely to be positive for customers because NetSuite will have access to “more,” a word repeated many times over the course of Oracle’s post-acquisition webcast. Existing NetSuite customers will benefit from increased investment as well as economies of scale that Oracle can bring to R&D and sales and marketing. Oracle has stated that there’s little overlap between its target customer base and NetSuite’s. However, there is...
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Topics:
Sales,
Customer Experience,
Human Capital Management,
Marketing,
Office of Finance,
Continuous Planning,
Customer Service,
HRMS,
Inventory Optimization
The imperative to transform the finance department to function in a more strategic, forward-looking and action-oriented fashion has been a consistent theme of practitioners, consultants and business journalists for two decades. In all that time, however, most finance and accounting departments have not changed much. In our benchmark research on the Office of Finance, nine out of 10 participants said that it’s important or very important for finance departments totake a strategic role in running...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Planning,
Predictive Analytics,
Social Media,
Governance,
GRC,
Mobile Technology,
Office of Finance,
Budgeting,
close,
Continuous Accounting,
Continuous Planning,
end-to-end,
Human Capital,
Tax,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
In-memory,
Uncategorized,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
CPQ,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Risk,
CEO,
Financial Performance Management,
FPM
