While you may have learned about generative artificial intelligence (AI), you may not know what it means for the future of Finance and Accounting (F&A). As the name suggests, it generates images, music, speech, code, video or text, while it interprets and manipulates preexisting data. For F&A leaders, this means that it may have the […]

Imagine the future of Finance and Accounting (F&A). In this future, your F&A function is cutting edge.  Perhaps you are using a next-gen Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and an unmatched F&A planning platform that delivers advanced predictive analytics. You may have also deployed the latest cloud-native innovations and improved your operating expenses in the […]

In today’s educational landscape, there are two critical systems that schools rely on to manage their operations and support student learning: the Student Information System (SIS) and the Learning Management System (LMS). The SIS is responsible for storing and managing data related to students’ academic records, including their grades, attendance, and personal information. On the […]

When IBM Consulting’s Neeraj Manik spoke recently with a large pharmaceutical client about how to streamline and improve its front-office and back-office financial processes, he pointed to a web of interconnected business challenges the organization was facing: “too many invoices, too many suppliers, too much money being paid to suppliers,” as Manik put it. Manik, […]

To provide stakeholders with vital IT services, organizations need to keep their private data centers operational, secure and compliant. Data center management encompasses the tasks and management tools necessary for doing so. A person responsible for carrying out these tasks is known as a data center manager. What is the role of a data center […]

At AWS re:Invent 2022, Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS, explained high performance computing (HPC) workloads typically can either be compute-intensive, compute- and networking-intensive, or data- and memory-intensive in his keynote. Compute workloads include weather forecasting, computational fluid dynamics, and financial options pricing. To help with this, you have Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances, which deliver up […]

The C7gn instances that we previewed last year are now available and you can start using them today. The instances are designed for your most demanding network-intensive workloads (firewalls, virtual routers, load balancers, and so forth), data analytics, and tightly-coupled cluster computing jobs. They are powered by AWS Graviton3E processors and support up to 200 […]

Companies continue to adopt software as a service (SaaS) applications at a rapid clip, with recent research showing that the average SaaS portfolio now has at least 200 applications. While organizations purchase these purpose-built tools to make their employees more productive, they now must contend with growing security complexities, context switching, and data silos. If […]

According to Warranty Week, claims totaling 46 billion USD were paid by the global automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers in 2021. 54 billion USD in accruals have been made. This means that based on experience, roughly $630 per vehicle sold is held back for upcoming warranty issues. The challenge to avoid or reduce warranty claims and […]

Cloud computing has offered endless business possibilities and is undoubtedly becoming the catalyst for driving digital transformation for businesses worldwide. However, the rapid cloud adoption doesn’t guarantee robust data security and privacy for organizations and customers since cybercriminals try to sneak into business networks with new attacks. On the other hand, cloud security and privacy […]