Next-generation ERP: Getting it done in more ways than one
Learn how modern ERP helps businesses tackle today's challenges and prepare for the future by supporting remote workers, providing supply chain visibility, and boosting CX.
You know change is constant. You know everything is always evolving in business. But the thing about change that’s changing fastest is the fact that finance is now charged with driving it.
CFOs have always had their hands on the wheel, helping drive stability across their respective companies. Status quo, after all, offers a sense of security, and that’s worth something. Change, on the other hand, costs money, and unexpected expenses are the sorts of things that keep finance leaders like you up at night.
Now, after having lost enough sleep, your peers are discovering tools and techniques that actually help them embrace change – because, as we all now know, the only way to move forward is finance transformation.
Finance transformation: How to become fast and nimble
Simply put, the way to transform your company is to continuously transform finance. So modern finance must always be looking ahead. It must always be improving and always innovating.
And as your business grows, finance must scale to tackle new problems and adapt to new markets at a moment’s notice. For your business to move forward, in other words, finance must always be on the move.
How are your peers getting to this state of constant-yet-confident flux? They’re moving toward intelligent ERP. What can an advanced ERP do for you, and is it really smarter than regular ERP? Yes. And here’s why.
The secret benefits of ERP, revealed
ERP has come a long way. Discover how ERP with advanced technologies like cloud, AI and automation can help businesses be more agile, flexible, and productive.
Transform finance with intelligent ERP
With real real-time information, intelligent ERP allows finance to shift from periodic processes and workflows to an always-on mode that fits the reality of modern business.
Here’s how it can help drive finance transformation:
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- Enable you to be proactive instead of reactive
- Foster innovation
- Streamline regulatory compliance
- Increase speed and efficiency
So instead of closing out at the end of the month, you have continuous accounting. And instead of waiting for the next cyber threat or process failure, your ERP has controls and risk management built right in.
How your cloud provider can help accelerate your digital transformation
The best cloud providers can accelerate digital transformation and synchronize common challenges in complex environments where one or more cloud providers are involved.
Tackling change, innovating on the fly
With a modern, versatile technology infrastructure, you can take on all the challenges that come with growth and transform finance.
- Reinvent business and billing models in an instant, so no matter where you take your business, it’s ready to go.
- Adapt to unique language and regulatory requirements in any country, so you can add people, offices, and customers in new markets without adding complexity.
And by bringing critical financial functions together in one solution, you can close the data and workflow gaps that slow you down.
- Efficiently direct liquidity and working-capital management in real time, in one place.
- Connect finance to the rest of the company, so you can eliminate inefficiencies and disjointed views of the data.
All of this makes it easier to drive innovation faster, and that, without question, is quite brilliant.
Fuel digital transformation: 5 best practices
Customers today expect an equally great experience at every touch point. The time for digital transformation is now.
Freeing finance through transformation
As just one example of how finance is transforming and embracing its changing nature, an IDC Analyst Connection paper outlines in a series of questions and answers how finance is the real driver behind digital resiliency. Today’s CFOs, it goes on to say, “want ownership of the tools that enable them to do their jobs without being dependent on IT for access and enablement.”
Finance and IT have always worked hand in hand, but as data becomes more valuable, finance needs more and quicker control. That drives the demand for more and easier tools – like intelligent ERP.
Because when you, as a finance leader, can access more information and make more-informed decisions – with simple tools and without the aid of IT – you can do more, faster. You can actually drive change instead of merely reacting to it.
