The CFO sits in the sweet spot where finance meets strategic planning. They're perfectly positioned to fuel growth and meaningful, sustained change through digital investments. In this guide, we'll discuss six ways digital transformation has changed the CFO role, and what that means for companies moving forward.
Azure and Azure DevOps provides the infrastructure, environment, and tools that help users — technical or not — innovate, collaborate, and share institutional knowledge. Together, these 200+ tools empower users to solve problems on their own, and help their colleagues and clients do the same. Users can share insights, lessons, and reusable components that accelerate…
Most companies today prepare some sort of financial budget. Budgets can be built at a very high level (Sales, cost of sales and expenses), or built-in detail (sales detail by type, expenses by department, capital spending, projects). Some companies also budget the Balance Sheet to be able to prepare budgeted cashflow statements. Company budget preparation…
In the world of application development, many are calling it the Low Code/No Code Revolution. Gartner says 70% of applications will be developed using no-code/low-code technology, and Microsoft is leading the way. The Power Platform now generates $2 billion in revenue and has more than seven million active users. Power Apps, playing the low-code/no-code starring…
We often tout the advantages of being part of the Microsoft family — specifically the ability to leverage complementary products that boost functionality and add real value. In this case, the value is in combining actionable data from multiple applications into useful reports and dashboards. These reports and dashboards enable your marketing, sales, and customer…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is easily the most important enabler – no, accelerant – of digital transformation. We’ve watched these predictions play out in real-time – amid conditions no 2010s-era alarmist could possibly have imagined. The point is, coping with the challenges we anticipated, plus all of the post-COVID chaos we didn’t, is a lot for…
Digital transformation doesn’t offer much of a competitive advantage these days. It’s become this basic competency for running a business — any business — in this wild and complex digital landscape. Put another way, your future survival depends on it. Digitize or die. Yet despite the grim realities dominating the DX conversation and accelerating investments…
The Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of low-code development tools that empowers users of all abilities to build and launch custom apps, design automated workflows, and leverage the platform’s baked-in intelligence to solve problems and create value. Power Platform apps were designed to be combined with each other and with the rest of the…
According to Deloitte, professional services firms need to embrace AI, business intelligence (BI), and big data analytics because they have no other option. In other words, opting out is a death sentence. While just about every industry is in that same boat, BI and advanced, cloud-based analytics have become central to the professional services business…
