A Practical Guide to Emerging Technology - Financial Executives International Daily

How tomorrow's technologies can help the finance function of today. Finance executives who want to get started with emerging technologies can simply focus on one word: Data. CFOs are swamped in data, coming from ERP, payment processing, business intelligence, and other structured databases. They also have a treasure trove of unstructured data, from legal contracts and emails to videos and interview recordings. The ability to work with that data to improve transactional cost efficiency, address risk, and harness deeper, more real-time insights to identify new sources of company value is a competitive necessity for finance functions.