{"id":221,"date":"2014-02-15T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/industry\/blog\/industry\/2014\/02\/15\/finance-in-the-enterprise\/"},"modified":"2014-02-15T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T06:47:10","slug":"finance-in-the-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/industry\/blog\/financial-services\/2014\/02\/15\/finance-in-the-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance in the enterprise: How we see it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discover our perspective on blending finance and technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today, being a finance executive means being a great strategist, risk manager, problem solver and analyst. It means wearing many hats: offering valuable analysis to help run the business, solving problems and choosing strategic direction. Strategising big-picture business initiatives, developing corporate strategy and taking on more and more responsibility for growth means thinking about agility, productivity and scale. Consider how your company invests in advanced technologies: does your philosophy make business sense for both core finance functions and the company as a whole? The end result: better business decisions, enhanced productivity and employee engagement.<\/p>\n

Four technology megatrends\u2014insights, cloud platform, mobile productivity and social\u2014are transforming how business is done today, and each has far-reaching implications for finance.<\/p>\n

Modern business intelligence tools connect data points from an increasingly diverse volume of data to regress, correlate and predict future business scenarios. Moreover, these tools are most often easy to use, meaning that secure, self-service business intelligence is now a reality.<\/p>\n

The cloud gives you agility in these core ways:<\/p>\n