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Five
Ways to Transform Finance
The CEO of Irving Materials Inc., a growing ready-mix concrete
producer, had a simple message for his finance team: close the
books faster in order to "spend our time making the company
better," says IMI's controller, Chad Kelley.
With that in mind, Kelley decided that the time was right to switch
to Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud. One big reason was to
avoid a lengthy on-premises upgrade cycle. But there were other
reasons. Kelley's team had folded in about 10 acquisitions in five
years, which meant wrestling with data from 240 reporting locations
and three regional finance offices. Pulling reports from that
morass of data sources was killing productivity. Now, financial
statements that took four to six hours run in "a matter of
minutes." In this
article, Kelley shares five ways his team has
transitioned corporate finance from bookkeeping to become an
intelligent business strike force. |
— Chris Murphy, Oracle Director of Cloud Content
Video: IMI's Controller
Talks Cloud ERP for Handling Growth |
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DevOps
for Oracle Database: The Cloud Way
Why is it that Agile methodology, version management, and
continuous delivery are less mature concepts in the world of DBAs
and database developers than in other arenas? In this
article, you'll learn how to bring modern
development techniques to the world of database objects and logic,
leveraging Oracle Developer Cloud Service. |
More-Human HR, Thanks to AI
"Ironically, machines will help human resources feel more human and
personalized—from recruitment to employee engagement and
education," says Oracle's Reggie Bradford. Bradford points to a
recent survey from Sierra-Cedar showing a healthy share of HR
technology spending going toward cloud-based, intelligent
applications. Get Bradford's advice on unlocking the potential of
these applications—and why we shouldn't be
afraid that machines will steal our
jobs. |
What Is the Other R in ERP?
ERP stands for enterprise resource planning, of
course. But did you know there's a hidden R in there that
stands for reporting? "Without accurate, trustworthy
reports, even the best finance systems are useless," says Oracle's
Steve Cox. What tools do you need
now to revolutionize your reporting, using
cloud technology that embraces mobility, the Internet of Things,
social collaboration, and embedded analytics? |
Machine Learning Stands to Transform the Way We
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Healthy
Infrastructure
When looking at human capital management (HCM) systems,
decision-makers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center debated: was
the cloud really best? The cloud won for its measurable benefits
such as less in-house maintenance and less investment in
on-premises hardware. Plus, Chief Financial Officer Chad A. Eckes
believes that the cloud also increases agility, because it
"eliminates the large upgrade projects and enables you to more
easily adopt new features," he says. Read the whole story in
Profit magazine. |
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