Brian Sommer's Month in Brief - July
The COVID crisis continues, but life goes on in the enterprise tech sector. Here are July's highlights...
Financials
Too big to fail as well? Systemic risks of cloud dependency and an existential enterprise threat
Economic modelling research into systemic risk suggests that financial services companies aren’t the only one’s that might be “too big to fail.
Coping with the crushing workload hitting Finance post-COVID-19
Finance professionals aren’t just busy: they’re confronting a wide range of new challenges that are all triggered in one way or another by the pandemic. These challenges often require research, planning and expert counsel to resolve and resolve quickly.
Real-time data isn’t enough - success in a digital future demands ‘CFO 3.0’
Finance leaders today must harness the power of automation and real-time data analysis to anticipate change and mitigate risk. Sage Intacct's Dr Ian Howells charts the unstoppable rise of CFO 3.0
FinancialForceX - How Five9's services org saved 20k hours and grew revenue $3m
Cloud-based call center vendor Five9 put in a new FinancialForce PSA system last year and calculates it saved 20,000 hours and lifted revenue by $3 million
Get set for recovery - top metrics for SaaS and subscription finance leaders post-quarantine
How will you get through the worst and prepare for opportunities ahead? Sage Intacct's David Appel brings advice from SaaS finance leaders
Zuora subscription business platform gathers proof points in the pandemic
Zuora marks availability of its new platform with free workflows that help customers flex subscriptions through the COVID-19 lockdown
How SaaS finance leaders can accelerate into the recovery
Businesses that think ahead and accelerate into recovery do better than those that wait until the crisis is over, writes Sage Intacct's David Appel
The shift to value-based care and what it means for healthcare providers
Brian Goldrick of Vera Whole Health and Sage Intacct's Brian Bogie discuss the crucial role of KPIs in the shift to value-based care
Let the (one-sided) ERP renegotiations begin!
Apparently, some ERP vendors aren’t behaving well during this pandemic. Early renegotiation discussions are finding entrenched vendors digging in and being less than helpful. Prepare to get furious when you read this.
Zuora Revenue integrates real-time revrec for subscription agility
Zuora Revenue completes integration of RevPro automated revrec into its subscription business platform, just when customers need to step up their agility
Automation in the hospitality sector - the time to act is now
Now is the time for businesses in the hospitality sector to bring much-needed automation to finance and payments, writes Sage Intacct's Susan Casella.
Did ERP vendors learn anything after the 2009 ‘Great Recession’?
When the economy cratered in 2008-2009, software vendors were not universally loved. Some of these firms exhibited behaviors that soured their customer relationships. Will their institutional memory kick-in and trigger better behavior this time? What should customers do? Here’s an assessment.
