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Anthony has a decade of experience consulting to technology and software-as-service businesses. Brands include salesforce.com, Google, SAP, and IBM. He advises organisations on financial transformation and is author of the book run_frictionless.
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FP+A software comparison 2022

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According to the BARC Report 2022, market leaders included SAP, TM1, Oracle, Workday, Board and Jedox. Other popular FP+A tools like Anaplan were rated as challengers. All FP+A software companies were rated on these dimensions: Planning and forecasting Ease of use for business users Portfolio evaluation Ad hoc query and reporting Analysis Infrastructure evaluation Dashboards Formatted reporting Advanced and predictive analytics Scoring Calculating the individual ratings for all criteria and all vendors produces two scores per company: the Portfolio Capabilities score and the Market Execution ...

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Why an Australian fintech company adopted Blackline Reconciliation

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120 balance sheet reconciliations, stacks of spreadsheets, and lots of emails – month-end for Tyro Payments was a nightmare. That was until this fintech organisation adopted Blackline Reconciliation. In FY21 more than $25.5 billion in transactions were processed with Tyro, accounting for 24% of transaction volume Compound Annual Growth Rate. Considered the fifth largest payment processor with 600 employees, it only has about 18 people on the finance team. The rapid growth brought increased complexity, risk, and cost in their financial close and reporting processes. So naturally, the team was ...

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IBM TM1 Cognos user experience white paper 2022

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This white paper was written to describe the level of self-service users can expect from TM1. Download the full white paper in PDF below. This white paper was written to describe the level of self-service users can expect from TM1. To understand what users can expect from TM1, imagine your organisation’s finance office is a house. In this house, users are busy building different kinds of rooms. Popular rooms include budgeting and forecasting. In an adjacent room, analysis of financials is taking place. Down the hallway a report is being created. In addition to the rooms, there is furniture ...

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