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Four specialists. 75+ years of combined close experience. One roundtable. We asked them to dissect the month-end close: where governance quietly erodes, why a one-day delay can cascade into seven, what happens when your best reconciliation person is unavailable, and where automation is genuinely delivering results today. 45 minutes of practical close strategy from people who know exactly where the process breaks, and how finance teams can fix it.

See how Reporting Intelligence from insightsoftware transforms the way finance teams build, manage, and distribute ERP-connected reports, without IT involvement, data engineering, or infrastructure overhead. This walkthrough covers the full product experience, from self-serve report building in Excel to cloud-based scheduling and distribution, embedded Lineos AI assistants, and the autonomous Intelligence Layer that monitors your KPIs and surfaces insights around the clock.

Every product team wants smarter analytics and AI. But for organizations that operate on-premises, in a hybrid-cloud environment, or regulated industries that can’t share protected data on the cloud, this forces them to either migrate or leave intelligence features behind. Can you access advanced analytics features without being boxed into a vendor’s cloud environment? Watch our video to learn: How to access analytics without compromise About tailored analytics experiences in a single platform.

Tableau's direction is clear. For embedded analytics teams serving customers with strict governance, data residency, or infrastructure requirements, "cloud only" constrains your product, your market, and your roadmap. In this video, we break down what Tableau Next's Hyperforce launch actually means for ISVs and SaaS vendors building embedded analytics, including: If you're doing real long-range planning, this is the conversation that matters.

Most organizations are investing heavily in AI—but the outputs still aren’t reliable. The reason often isn’t the model. It’s the data pipeline behind it. Disconnected systems, inconsistent preparation, and limited governance make it difficult for AI to produce accurate answers. Before AI can deliver real value, the data feeding it must be structured, contextualized, and governed. In this animation, we break down the 5 Pillars of AI-Ready Data and show how data moves through a connected pipeline before it reaches AI.

Most AI failures aren’t model problems. They’re data pipeline problems. Disconnected systems. Inconsistent preparation. No governance at query time. This short animation walks through the 5 Pillars of AI-Ready Data and shows how data needs to move through a structured pipeline before it can power reliable AI. 5 Pillars of AI-Ready Data Access → Prep → Context → Governance → Monitoring Five stages. One connected flow.

AI isn't failing because the models are weak. It's failing because the data beneath them is broken. 88% of AI pilots never make it to production. 74% of companies haven't seen value from AI. The uncomfortable truth? These failures aren't about intelligence—they're about access, governance, and context.

Tax is strategy, risk, technology, and real business impact all rolled into one. Our video series brings together practitioners sharing what’s actually working right now. From transfer pricing pressure and global regulatory shifts to AI, ERP realities, and elevating tax’s voice in business decisions, these conversations focus on practical insight you can actually use. Real perspectives. Straightforward conversations. No fluff.

From 51 API Calls to 10 Lines of SQL: Accessing Workday Data With Simba Connect Accessing Workday data through raw APIs means dealing with pagination, rate limits, nested JSON parsing, authentication logic, and dozens of sequential API calls — just to build a simple HR dashboard.

95% of AI pilots are failing. Here's why the other 5% are winning. While most organizations scramble to retrofit compliance into their AI implementations, leading finance teams are building it in from the start—and gaining a major competitive edge. Three insights that caught my attention: → Vendor solutions succeed at 2x the rate of internal builds (67% vs 33%)—your team's expertise matters more than you think.