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Whither Real Interest Rates for the next 30 Years?

Andrew White

China joined the WTO in 2001 lowering, at a stroke, global wages. The IMF blog then also states: “Higher fiscal financing needs have pushed up real rates in some countries, like in Japan and Brazil.” Fiscal financing needs is now a universal challenge. Demographics do seem to be at play over the long haul.

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Agile Reporting for the Manufacturing Industry: 5 Tips for Success

Jet Global

A relatively new concept called “agile finance”—along with its key ingredient “agile reporting”—is empowering businesses to make that shift. In 2001, a group of software developers got together at a ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah and drew up a document they called the “Agile Manifesto.” Agile Reporting: Speed with Control.

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Common Problems With CPM Software

Jet Global

Once isolated within the finance department, CPM is now broadly employed in the form of reporting departmental metrics measured against targets. The term originated with Gartner, the global research and advisory firm , back in 2001. Budgeting, planning, and forecasting in finance. CPM is not a strategy itself. Reduce costs.

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FOS CIO shakes up IT department, starts cloud migration

CIO Business Intelligence

Established by the UK Parliament in 2001 to settle complaints about financial-services companies, the Financial Ombudsman’s Service (FOS) has served an increasing number of consumers, recently dealing with more than a million people a year.

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Clean Harbors’ CIO: Hybrid approach to the cloud is a win-win

CIO Business Intelligence

Our core areas, CRM and ERP, are in the cloud,” says CIO Sharon Gabriel, noting the company recently migrated to Oracle Fusion HR in the cloud as well and expects to migrate its Oracle Finance and Supply Chain modules and its UiPath and Automation Anywhere RPA systems to Azure within the next two years.

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Four Factors to Consider when Migrating to Microsoft Business Central Online

Jet Global

When the company acquired Great Plains Software in 2001, it took ownership of two widely used ERP products – Great Plains and Solomon. Microsoft intends Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain (F&SCM) for mid-sized enterprises, while Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC) fits smaller businesses with somewhat simpler requirements.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

My read of that narrative arc is that some truly weird tensions showed up circa 2001: Arguably, it’s the heyday of DW+BI. A very big mess since circa 2001, and now becoming quite a dangerous mess. Model interpretability is hard since the word “interpret” has different meanings for legal, medical, journalism, finance, etc.