Data capture and analytics are now recognised as a critical tool in remaining competitive in modern business. The CFO is often heavily involved in leading digital and data transformation to a point where data provides value and drives decision making.
According to the latest EY DNA of the CFO survey, 25% of finance leaders think that “a culture of reporting the past, not predicting the future” is the biggest barrier to finance.
Data has always been essential to agile business planning, forecasting and analysis and as clearer views of company data become readily available, the need to outshine competitors in this area has become increasingly important. These elements are central to the role of the modern CFO.
Access to a single view of good quality company data provides the CFO with:
The biggest barriers to finance driving sophisticated, real-time data analytics are:
A culture of reporting the past, not predicting the future
A lack of urgency, with decision-making weighted toward intuition over data
Data security and privacy concerns
Cloud based solutions save costs and increase accessibility of data.
Integration of previously siloed systems offer market insights previously impossible to achieve.
Modern cloud data platforms improve accessibility and quality of data.
Easier consolidation of siloed data delivers new insight from all areas of the business .
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