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insightsoftware Acquires Event 1 Software

Jet Global

With Event 1 Software, we continue to expand the scope of our offering, this time empowering the Office of the CFO with additional market-specific solutions that are optimized to derive critical business insights from leading construction and real estate ERPs like Sage and Viewpoint,” said Mike Lipps, CEO of insightsoftware.

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How to Increase Financial Visibility When Business is Invisible

Jet Global

The business oracles at Gartner recently released a list of nine traits necessary for CFOs to preserve performance throughout periods of crisis and uncertainty. Based on 20 years of research findings and heavily informed by insights gleaned from the 2008 financial downturn, the list deserves review: Taking Bigger Bets.

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Our quest for robust time series forecasting at scale

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For us, demand for forecasts emerged from a determination to better understand business growth and health, more efficiently conduct day-to-day operations, and optimize longer-term resource planning and allocation decisions. Quantification of forecast uncertainty via simulation-based prediction intervals. to 1.5%.

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Crisis Planning for the Short and Long Term: Advice from Leading CFOs

Jet Global

However, even amid all the uncertainty of the pandemic, change is not a novel concept for successful businesses. Industry-leading CFOs shared their ideas on April 16, 2020, during insightsoftware’s webinar, How to Navigate Your Business Through This Uncertainty. Throughout history, companies have had to transform to thrive.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

The problems down in the mature bucket, those are optimizations, they aren’t showstoppers. They learned about a lot of process that requires that you get rid of uncertainty. They’re being told they have to embrace uncertainty. Machine learning is a subset of mathematical optimization. It was called Hadoop.

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How CFOs Are Helping Their Companies Navigate the COVID-19 Crisis

Jet Global

Businesses across the globe are facing a level of uncertainty that didn’t exist just months ago. Explore our interactive infographic to reveal valuable insights on how top CFOs are responding from our recent panel discussion, “How to Navigate Your Business Through This Uncertainty.” Brian Shaw. Chief Financial Officer.

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Fitting Bayesian structural time series with the bsts R package

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

If both variances are positive then the optimal estimator of $y_{t+1}$ winds up being "exponential smoothing," where past data are forgotten at an exponential rate determined by the ratio of the two variances. Also notice that while the state in this model is Markov (i.e. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg. Frühwirth-Schnatter, S., Frühwirth, R.,