FP&A From the Frontlines: How human effort and hard work aren’t substitutes for sound processes & technological leverage

I can still remember walking a 3.5 inch floppy disk down the hallway of a billion dollar company. On it: our balance sheet for the controller to review. I’m dating myself, for sure. I’ve been in finance and accounting for a while, and have witnessed the move from mainframe to client server and now the […]

SaaS and the Cloud vs. Custom-Built On-Premise Apps: What Finance Teams Need to Know

Prior to the early 2000s, most enterprises purchased software and applications that lived “on-premise” — meaning they were installed, stored and administered locally. With its founding in 1999, however, Salesforce.com changed everything. One of the first to deliver enterprise applications via the Internet, it would launch an era of what has come to be called […]