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5 Excel-heavy Pain Points still Dragging down finance teams in 2024

The Finance Weekly

They have a five person accounting team who spend an unwieldy amount of time dumping data from NetSuite into Excel. A finance director at a large niche pharmaceutical company told us: “We have a lot of manual processes and inputting and that type of stuff which I am trying to get away from.

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Mastercard Report: Nearly Half Of Consumers View Innovation As Purchase Driver

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When it comes to financial services, some 40 percent of those firms are the “furthest along” in the use of advanced data analysis to spark innovation — that makes financial services among the top industries when measured by the practice, behind pharmaceutical and medical companies, at 43 percent. 2020 Innovation Sparks.

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Amazon Face Challenges After PillPack Acquisition

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Amazon might not have announced plans to open a chain of hospitals (yet), but you can forgive people for letting their imaginations go there in recent days, after the eCommerce operator bought five-year-old pharmacy delivery company PillPack. But that doesn’t mean Amazon will have it easy. Pill Challenges. Healthy Relationships.