Name: 6 Keys to a Successful Software Selection
Start: 2022-07-19T09:00:00Z
End: 2022-07-19T10:20:21.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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For more than 20 years, Oracle NetSuite has helped organizations grow, scale and adapt to change. NetSuite provides an integrated system that includes financials / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), inventory management, HR, professional services automation and omnichannel commerce, used by more than 24,000 customers in 203 countries and dependent territories.

In partnership with ACCA, we explore strategies to boost profitability without increased spending. And how becoming more efficient increases output, which is a driver for strengthening business resilience and ultimately, the bottom line.
In this session we share insights from leading experts on how to foster a culture that continuously seeks efficiency gains, setting smart KPIs and automating manual tasks.

Efficiency = more possibilities – CFOs and finance leaders are likely spending more time these days figuring out how to make the most of the team and technology resources they have available. They’re not alone. Purse strings have tightened, and CEOs and owners in many industries have asked their leadership teams for strategies to boost profitability without increased spending.

Discussion topics include: 
• Establishing a finance team culture that continuously seeks efficiency gains
• Developing ‘what-if’ scenarios and forecasting 
• Tracking the metrics that reflect real-time data.

Build resilience. Prepare ‘what ifs?’. Adapt in unpredictable times

Develop meaningful, trusted KPIs and reports.

Narrowing down the right KPIs for your business is more critical than ever, whether you’ve been newly tasked with creating KPIs for your company, improving existing ones, or looking for guidance on how to implement a measurement system.

View this webinar as Bernie Smith, author of KPI Checklists, shares highlights of his step-by-step guide. We discuss how to:
- Ensure strategic objectives are clear for fully functional dashboards and reports.
- Engage stakeholders, including developing a communication plan when sharing data.
- Develop your short and longlist measures, including defining KPIs, utilizing reports and dashboards, and implementing processes to gather information

CFO’s Ultimate KPI Checklist

Automate tasks, simplify workflows, increase visibility.

Manually coordinating accounting processes like posting transactions, making journal entries, and managing receivables and payables can be complicated and prone to error. Accounting software can handle all this faster and more accurately.

View this product demonstration webinar and see how NetSuite helps:
- Organize essential accounting processes.
- Simplify workflows.
- Automate manual tasks.
- Boost financial visibility and monitoring.

New Year, New Accounting Software

Technology leaders face new expectations centered on expanding revenue generation, enhancing the workforce's efficiency, and driving innovation.

Meeting these new expectations demands that CIOs reimagine their roles to empower this cultural shift while maintaining strong governance to ensure business continuity, scalability and data security.

In this expert panel, learn how to reinvent the role of IT and develop a strategic vision for innovation through ERP-led process automation. We discuss:
- The challenges facing CIOs in the post-pandemic world.
- The importance of driving an “Automation-first” culture.
- The approaches in making the most of your investment in SaaS applications.
- The key role that integration plays in building an automation strategy.

Maximizing Your Technology Investment With Process Automation

Today’s CFOs are navigating unknown territory. The best practices of yesterday are no longer enough and smart CFOs are tapping into new ways to adapt, thrive and take their businesses to new heights.

Watch this webinar hosted by Katty Coulson, NetSuite VP of Product Team Information Technology.

These top female finance leaders discuss practical advice on navigating the unknown, including:
- How to adapt and create an environment of flexibility in uncertain times.
- Navigating changes in the economy and exceeding customer expectations.
- Best practices in creating a business strategy for continuous growth.

Women Who Mean Business: CFOs Navigating the Unknown

During a recession and time of economic uncertainty, there's no shortage of factors for businesses to consider when planning, from supply chain issues to labor shortages. It can also be an opportunity to invest in technology that improves operational efficiency and allows for flexibility during uncertain times.

Watch this virtual event to:
- Discuss the current recession, its impacts, and how to weather the storm.
- Identify opportunities for your business to navigate and succeed.
- Learn why MPOWERD made the decision to invest in their business' future.

Investing in Your Business During a Recession

Oggi è di fondamentale importanza per tutte le aziende essere agili, essere in grado di adattarsi rapidamente per affrontare le mutevoli esigenze delle persone, clienti e fornitori mentre al contempo si affrontano le sfide finanziarie e operative delle imprese. Quelle italiane ovviamente non fanno eccezione.
 
Nel 2020, Eurostat ha rilevato che l'uso del cloud è cambiato in modo significativo, raggiungendo circa il 36%: quasi raddoppiato rispetto al 2016.  In Italia si sta seguendo la stessa tendenza?
 
In concomitanza il mercato degli software gestionale ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) in Cloud sta cambiando rapidamente e l'adozione della stessa tecnologia cloud sembra essere una delle massime priorità delle aziende per i prossimi 3 anni grazie anche ai programmi europei. 
Ma il software gestionale ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) in Cloud è davvero una tendenza inarrestabile? Fino a che punto si è spinta l'Italia nella sua effettiva adozione? 
Un sistema ERP cloud rapprensenta la chiave per eseguire le operazioni aziendali in modo efficiente, ma come riconoscere una vera soluzione cloud?  Sono tutte in grado di fornire le stesse prestazioni e lo stesso livello di sicurezza?

Durante questo webinar dal vivo scoprirai:
 
1. Il Cloud ERP è davvero una tendenza inarrestabile, a che punto si è spinta l'Italia nell'adozione del Cloud e degli ERP?
2. Qual è la differenza tra le soluzioni di hosting on-premise, il cloud ibrido e il cloud pubblico?
3. Quali sono le sfide e i vantaggi del passaggio al cloud?
4. Quanto puo’ un’ azienda che passa al cloud aspettarsi di risparmiare nella spesa IT? 
5. Come sfruttare i finanziamenti europei per approcciare la digitalizzazione?

Perché non tutti i cloud sono uguali: Oracle NetSuite, Accenture e Forbes Italia

Cost accounting analyzes the total costs for a company’s products or services. It provides important insights that can lead to better budgeting, increased efficiency and, ultimately, higher profits. But because cost analysis is often done in spreadsheets, assembling and analyzing the necessary data can be an error-prone, tedious process.

View this product demonstration webinar and see how NetSuite helps:
- Gather critical information in a timely manner to promote better decision-making.
- Ensure that the data you’re working with is accurate.
- Gain control of costs and business operations with data-driven decisions.
- Eliminate the need for manual spreadsheets to filter, classify and analyze data.

Automating Cost Analysis: Know your numbers to drive better business decisions

The Skills of a highly effective CFO: Developing a strategic and operationally focused role; webinar in partnership with Accountancy Age.

In an era where transformation, disruption, and innovation are being mandated from all corners, the role of the CFO has quickly evolved from strictly being responsible for the financial performance of the organization, to becoming a linchpin in digital transformation, strategic partner of the CEO and trusted advisor to the board.  They’re exploring new business models, transforming companies, and helping their organization reach new heights.

The Skills of a highly effective CFO (in partnership with Accountancy Age)

How data-driven CFOs focus on metrics that matter.

Are smart finance leaders monitoring the metrics that are most relevant in their current business landscape—or relying on outdated ones?

As metrics shift, data-driven CFOs are working to identify which metrics matter the most to their business and drive performance.

In this session, we discuss reevaluating metrics and choosing those that truly matter, including topics like:
- Why it’s important to frequently review and update your metrics.
- How to identify the metrics you should track to measure business performance, as well as use the resulting numbers to set strategy.
- What top-performing businesses in various industries are doing to address and incorporate their evolving metrics.

Smart CFOs’ Make or Break Metrics

How Tovuti streamlined operations and ARR reporting.

Tovuti, the #1 provider of next generation Learning Management Software (LMS), is the fastest and easiest way to offer engaging online learning experiences. As the company scaled, it needed a more disciplined approach for streamlining operations and reporting.

Join this webinar with Chris Nelson, CFO at Tovuti, and Joshua Meiri, CTO at AppWrap, to discover how:
- A powerful revenue management platform meets the fast-paced demands of Tovuti’s software business, helping the company scale with ease.
- Real-time reports on critical metrics such as monthly burn rate, cash runway, churn and non-renewed subscriptions help to better manage recurring revenue and other financial complexities.
- SaaS businesses can minimize risk, enhance efficiencies, operate more profitably, and keep investors happy with NetSuite and Revenue Recognition Reporting System (R3S) by AppWrap.

High-Growth SaaS Company Tovuti Reaches New Heights with NetSuite and AppWrap

How to plan for long-term success.

Whether we're officially in a recession or not, there's no shortage of factors for businesses to consider when planning, from supply chain issues to labor shortages.

View this webinar to:
- Discuss current economic challenges like inflation and supply chain disruptions.
- Identify opportunities for your business to navigate and succeed.
- Learn why MPOWERD made the decision to invest in their business' future.

Investing in Your Business During Times of Uncertainty

Join ACCA and Oracle NetSuite in a session exploring the crucial KPIs you need to be live-monitoring in order to drive profitability within your business right now. 

In the current economic climate, improving profitability is essential to all decision makers and businesses. KPIs provide direction to achieving your company’s objectives, and understanding financial and non-financial KPIs as they relate to individual departments within your business is critical to achieving success. 

Spoiler alert! A continuous approach between people, process, and technology holds the key to a successful strategy. In partnership with ACCA, discussion topics will include: 

- The top KPIs you should be tracking
- How to set up KPIs that will support top-down company objectives 
- Best practices for driving short-term and long-term results 
- A practical overview into how technology can provide meaningful data.

Are you tracking the right KPIs? Driving profitability in a slowing economy

Simplify workflows, automate processes and focus review efforts.

Year end closes can be tedious, burdened by disorganized processes and manual review tasks that unintentionally draw reporting out past deadlines. Precisely because a year end close consumes a lot of time and energy, it’s even more important to ensure tasks are executed correctly and review quality isn’t sacrificed for the deadline’s sake.

View this product demonstration webinar and see how NetSuite helps:
- Organize critical information.
- Automate close processes, workflows and tasks.
- Reduce manual data entry and minimize the risk of errors.
- Ensure the accuracy and timeliness of year end financial reports.

Closing Your Books for Year End: Simplify workflows and automate processes

Share and collaborate to put insights into action
Aligning strategy with execution comes about by understanding the reasons behind your financial figures. 
This is possible with the slicing and dicing capabilities of multidimensional data reporting, for details into the operational drivers creating success or slowing the business down.

View this product demonstration webinar to learn how NetSuite’s multidimensional reporting capabilities can:
- Define and apply dimensions to account data.
- Drill-down and analyze financial and operational data across multiple dimensions, like subsidiary, customer, or product.
- Surface and report on impactful insights into operational performance, your customers and suppliers.

Multidimensional Financial Reporting

Gain Deeper Insights Using NetSuite Analytics Warehouse

Outmanoeuvring the competition requires timely, business insights you can trust. That’s why data visualizations of business performance trends are so essential to quickly identify where to focus and how to capitalize for growth.

View this product demonstration webinar to learn about NetSuite Analytics Warehouse and how it can help you make better decisions for your services-based business.

Optimize revenue management with the new subscription-centric product management module to:

Build analyses combining NetSuite and non-NetSuite data for deeper insights.
Identify and grow your ideal customer base.
Forecast and plan core customer and market expansions for increased margins and business growth.
Track, control and predict expenses for tighter, more profitable financial management.

Find Your Key Revenue Drivers Using Analytics

When receiving new funding in today's climate, it's crucial to know how and where to deploy that capital to achieve the highest ROI and meet investors' requirements. That’s where NetSuite can help!

View this webinar to learn how our Venture Capital and Private Equity-backed customers:
- Successfully improve their tech stack as part of their funding allocation strategy.
- Meet compliance requirements by automating their financials and reporting.
- Construct new entities for success in new foreign markets.
- Capture higher revenues and market share by investing in their ERP systems.

Tech Investment as Part of Your Funding Allocation Strategy

CFOs have never worked harder. In response to the events of the past year, they’ve steered their organisations through the most difficult conditions businesses have likely ever faced by pulling financial and operational levers they never thought they’d have to pull, including ones they didn’t even know were there.

But how do businesses move forward in 2021? With the clear vision, strategy and tools that only finance leaders can offer.

In partnership with ACCA, we'll cover during this webinar:
- Results from our recent CFO survey, including the top voted challenges, priorities and spending plans of CFOs
- What does a successful finance team look like now?
- The biggest changes finance is likely to see over the next 5 years

Speaker:
- Thomas Sutter, Finance Director and Innovation Evangelist, Oracle NetSuite

Thomas is a career Finance Director and Controller. Previously responsible for handling international finance operations and local reporting within large corporate businesses, Thomas now uses this experience in his role within Oracle NetSuite’s Finance Centre of Excellence. In this role, Thomas uses his extensive financial experience background to provide counsel to customers, support product development and best practice, and advise on software implementation strategy. Thomas regularly engages with finance professionals to build their understanding in how they can advance their business, focusing primarily on the core pillars of technology, processes and people.

The Future of Finance is in the CFOs Hands

Going through an evaluation for business software can be an extensive and stressful process. View our on-demand webinar to learn from NetSuite experts as they delve into the most important factors to keep in mind as you go through an evaluation. See what will help you select the right ERP software to not only fit your business needs today, but allow your business to grow in the future.

In this webinar you will learn:

- Six factors that are most important when comparing business software.
- Tips to help guide your evaluation process and ensure long term success.

6 Keys to a Successful Software Selection

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