How Analytics Maturity can Supercharge Financial Planning & Reporting

Analytics are the heartbeat of the finance function. More than ever, decision-makers are utilizing modern applications and analytics to deliver timely insights that enable them to effectively balance growth. Organizations who have invested to achieve analytic maturity are better positioned to adapt their forecasting and reporting processes in response to uncertainty and change.

These organizations can better handle the demands of ever growing and more disparate data sources and they tend to have adapted their planning processes to encourage wider participation. As a result, they have an analytics strategy in place the sees them collect the right data, at the right level of granularity to forecast and report with accuracy and confidence.

In this timely discussion, experts offer insights on the steps needed to overcome the challenges of technology adoption, and how to place analytics at the heart of financial planning & analysis. Re-examine the future of finance and learn how to:

• Create continuous, accurate and scalable plans, forecasts, and reports to identify market opportunities and drive business growth
• Eliminate manual, time-consuming processes, and leverage automation to enable your organization to make timely decisions
• Put your finance team in control of reporting by enabling them to easily create flexible, standard, and ad-hoc reports so they can spend more time on strategic analysis.