Workiva recently introduced Wdata, a cloud facility for centralizing financial and non-financial information from multiple sources. It frees up time for finance organizations, especially financial planning and analysis (FP&A) groups, to explore conditions and trends in their business because they need to spend less of it gathering data and preparing it for analysis and reporting. Ventana Research recently awarded Workiva our Digital Innovation award for Wdata because of its transformative...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Recurring Revenue,
Continuous Planning,
Data Governance,
Data Preparation,
Financial Performance Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
Sales Planning and Analytics,
revenue recognition
FinancialForce offers cloud-based ERP and professional services automation (PSA) software. The company targets midsize and larger services companies, especially those that provide professional services (such as consultants or field service organizations), subscription-based or recurring revenue services. FinancialForce’s key point of differentiation is that it is built natively on the Salesforce platform. Thus, CRM data is already located on the same platform as accounting and back-office data...
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Topics:
Sales,
Office of Finance,
Recurring Revenue,
Cloud Computing,
Financial Performance Management,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
Billing and Recurring Revenue,
revenue recognition
Kinaxis recently held its annual user conference, Kinexions, which focuses on helping the company’s customers improve their execution of supply chain and sales and operations planning (S&OP). This year’s event took place against a backdrop of what is beginning to look like a new and more challenging era of world trade. This will have a significant impact on most product companies with international operations. (I also reviewed last year’s event, which can be found here.)
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Financial Performance Management,
Inventory Optimization,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Sales and Operations Planning