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Ask, Share, Learn – Within the Largest Community of Corporate Finance Prof Improve Financial Planning and Budgeting Processes by Leveraging Operational Data

Improve Financial Planning and Budgeting Processes by Leveraging Operational Data

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Today’s finance leaders have greater access to solutions and technologies that can leverage operational data in real-time to make more timely decisions and create long-term value for their organizations. In spite of these advancements, company budgets and forecasts are still often out of alignment or even at odds with strategic objectives. Why is this the case? How can your company adopt the right approach to operational and strategic planning that drives profitable growth? Join us as industry experts share how their companies overcame common challenges to reap the benefits of augmenting operational data in their planning process. They will discuss tried and true methods for integrating operational data into your company’s planning cycles while efficiently using complex transactional data to improve financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Learn how other companies are leveraging real-time planning that scales for large data sets and allows for advanced process improvements, including building modeling scenarios on the fly, developing business rules naturally, and deploying lightweight, flexible budgeting and planning processes.

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Ask, Share, Learn – Within the Largest Community of Corporate Finance Professionals

Improve Financial Planning and Budgeting Processes by Leveraging Operational Data

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• Understand current technology trends and tactics that fuel competitive advantage through improved financial planning processes

• Discover how to better align company forecasts with strategic objectives

• Learn how to avoid drowning in extraneous data and focus on key operational data

• Identify ways to effectively engage operational and planning stakeholders across the enterprise

Learning Objectives

After attending this event you will be able to:

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Ask, Share, Learn – Within the Largest Community of Corporate Finance Professionals

Improve Financial Planning and Budgeting Processes by Leveraging Operational DataDavid S. Linthicum, SVP, Cloud Technology Partners

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Common Problems

• Lack of Pertinent Problems

• Lack of Timely insights into operational themes

• Data Views are Rigid and too high level for Finance Team

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What Companies are Looking for

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How they Can Get There

Step 1: Define your business, including what’s important to your business

Step 2: Define Existing planning approaches

Step 3: Define existing data and data types

Step 4: Define Data Gathering Approaches

Step 5: Define a Target Data Model and Access Approach

Step 6: Select and Implement Tools

Step 7: Measure Value

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Improving Financial Planning and Budgeting Processes by Leveraging Operational Data

Thank you for your interest in this presentation.

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