by fifteen | Feb 18, 2019 | News
How was your 2018? A year has come and gone, and the economy has had its ups and downs. But it’s likely that for many organisations, year-end finance challenges remain much the same. Tasks like closing the books on the year just passed and finalising plans and budgets...
by fifteen | Feb 1, 2019 | News
Analysing data is one of the core functions of many business professionals, especially in finance, where financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is one of the more fun and interesting duties of the job. As markets and business practices have evolved and the volume...
by fifteen | Dec 3, 2018 | News
CFOs know better than anyone that time is money. So why do they waste so much of it in meetings? More than half of finance teams average nine or more hours each week in meetings, according to a survey of CFOs, and 25% sit through a whopping 13+ hours. The wrong way to...
by fifteen | Nov 19, 2018 | News
IBM Planning Analytics Finance transformation aims to create a financial analytics solution infrastructure that can unlock significant value across the offices of the chief financial officer (CFO), the chief operating officer (COO) and beyond. Such an infrastructure...
by fifteen | Oct 23, 2018 | News
IBM just released Cognos Analytics 11.1, which in my opinion raises the bar on self-service, discovery and easy to use analytics. They innovated with the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep exploration in an intuitive, guided...