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Shifting Focus:  STRATEGIZE Your Way to a Forward-Looking Financial Plan

Shifting Focus: STRATEGIZE Your Way to a Forward-Looking Financial Plan

Blog three in a five-part blog series An effective Last Mile automation strategy can facilitate complete, timely financial controls. Automation also encourages synergies between internal Financial Close, Compliance and Financial Reporting lifecycles, giving business owners a forward-looking lens with which to evaluate risk, competitiveness, and profitability. After your organization has ANALYZED its readiness for the [...]

Minding the Gap:  ANALYZE Your Ability to Improve Performance in the Last Mile of Finance

Minding the Gap: ANALYZE Your Ability to Improve Performance in the Last Mile of Finance

Blog two in a five-part blog series. The Office of Finance can be a catalyst for real innovation. Taking a holistic approach to the “Last Mile” of steps that occur here – from the financial close to the publication of financial reports – can create synergies that uncover strategic insights, increase transparency, and add real [...]

Risky Business: A Series on Taming the Dreaded “Last Mile of Finance”

Risky Business: A Series on Taming the Dreaded “Last Mile of Finance”

Blog one in a five-part blog series. The “Last Mile of Finance” is risky business indeed. The term refers to the series of activities occurring from the financial close to publication of your detailed financial disclosures or annual accounts. A fully-optimized Last Mile loop can ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the business’s results. But [...]

EMC Rolls Out 5 GRC-Centered Security Services

EMC Rolls Out 5 GRC-Centered Security Services

EMC’s consulting arm is introducing five security and risk management advisory services. “When you look at the services and the way we set this up, it’s very much a reflection of our need to provide our customers with end-to-end solutions… framed und…

Proofpoint Extends Data Protection To Box File-Sharing Cloud

Proofpoint Extends Data Protection To Box File-Sharing Cloud

Data protection vendor Proofpoint is using this week’s RSA Conference 2012 to announce it is partnering with the cloud-based file-sharing site Box.com to extend data protection to users of the popular service. Proofpoint already provides data protectio…

HP Serves Up Multi-Vendor Cloud Management

HP Serves Up Multi-Vendor Cloud Management

As more and more businesses make their way into the cloud, the ability to manage various suppliers becomes far more complex—especially for large enterprises. Another issue for IT is that business groups are rapidly adopting cloud services, often …

HP Serves Up Multivendor Cloud Management

HP Serves Up Multivendor Cloud Management

As more and more businesses make their way into the cloud, the ability to manage various suppliers becomes far more complex–especially for large enterprises. Another issue for IT is that business groups are rapidly adopting cloud services, often indep…

OASIS Targets Cloud Portability

OASIS Targets Cloud Portability

The Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee recently formed by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), the not-for-profit open standards consortium, along with se…

Achieve Your Financial Goals with Trintech’s Unity Suite of Financial Software

Achieve Your Financial Goals with Trintech’s Unity Suite of Financial Software

Every year around this time we start drawing up lists, making personal inventories, and resolving to do better in the coming year. But the truth is that very few of us achieve the laundry list of goals laid down in the typical New Year’s resolution. To err, after all, is only human. But Trintech’s Unity [...]

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