E78 Partners

MAY 8, 2024

ITSM is short for Information Technology Service Management, and in ServiceNow, it means a collection of practices, processes, and tools that are used to create, provide, manage, and enhance IT services that meet the requirements of an organization and its customers. What is ITSM within ServiceNow?

Leverage 52

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to modify ideas around how we shop and pay, consumers and B2B buyers are also making choices about where to shop: online or in-store? But expectations have changed dramatically, and shrewd physical store operators need to respond accordingly. The answer is “both,” but there the simplicity ends. With the U.S.

Retail 104

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Spreadym

APRIL 23, 2023

Some of the technologies commonly used for such solutions include: Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS): business management software often runs on RDBMS such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2 to store and manage large amounts of structured data.

Forecasting 52

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Three more Amazon Go stores in Seattle are being equipped with Amazon One palm-reading biometric identification scanners, Geekwire reported on Monday (Feb. The eCommerce giant is adding the palm scanning equipment to two more Seattle stores, bringing the total to eight.

Securities 82

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Collectiv

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If your organization is storing, moving, transforming, or rendering data, you’ll need a reliable data stack. The Microsoft data stack offers a variety of useful tools that will help you do more with your data. A data stack is a broad collection of tools and technologies that help organizations store and manage data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The December Next-Gen Debit Tracker® examines how card issuers are working to sharpen their fraud-fighting tools and leverage innovative, machine learning (ML)-based strategies and technologies to keep shoppers safe. ML is a powerful, flexible tool in the fight against cybercriminals who attempt to compromise debit payments.

Banking 121

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Centage

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Excel is a standard tool in many offices. Historical data loss is one significant downside for businesses using the tool. Some common Excel practices that can result in lost historical data include: Downsizing long Excel sheets: Spreadsheets can become lengthy when storing weeks’ or months’ worth of data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The 2020 holiday shopping season is picking up, and consumers are heading online or to reopened brick-and-mortar stores to shop and pay for gifts. It is an interesting question: Do you as a customer choose to store a card, or do you choose to reauthenticate every transaction?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

So did Census data, which still reports that 84 percent of retail spend is done in the physical store. Department store sales — the poster child for physical retail sales and the anchors in the malls that once drove foot traffic and spend — were down 10.2 But those same shoppers didn’t shift their spend to those stores online.

Retail 123

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Five: Don’t be Held Back by Tools To be effective, profitability analysis should be done regularly. It can be difficult to do, though, when you use a tool that has high overhead to performing calculations, like spreadsheets. Six: Free Up Time for Deeper Analysis This is another area where the right tool can make all the difference.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 98

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In essence, if you're not integrating AI tools into your business operations, you're likely to be left behind. Today, there's a wide array of AI tools tailor-made to enhance the efficiency of small businesses. AI Benefits to Businesses AI-driven tools prove invaluable for small businesses in financial management.

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Centage

JULY 11, 2023

4: Implement the Best Tools The good ole spreadsheet was a great tool for budgeting once upon a time, but there are many other, more intuitive, and robust options available today. Helpful financial planning tools help automate tasks, streamline information, create a single source of truth (in the cloud), and test multiple scenarios.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2020

9) denied a request by Epic Games to make Apple reinstate Epic's Fortnite game on its App Store before a lawsuit Epic brought against Apple is resolved at trial, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). She also noted that Epic chose to breach its agreement with Apple with the result that Apple excluded Fortnite from the App Store.

Technology 104

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

Mastercard ‘s new Recovery Insights tool will attempt to help businesses and governments assess data during the pandemic in order to make smarter decisions, according to a press release. The initiative will make some of Mastercard’s insight tools available for free to entities that need them.

Budgeting 73

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Spreadym

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Data Analysis: They use data analytics tools and techniques to extract insights from financial data, providing valuable information to support strategic decisions. Proficiency with Excel, data visualization tools, and financial software is valuable. FP&A professionals often need to address complex financial issues.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 59

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Collectiv

JUNE 13, 2023

One of the biggest challenges that data professionals face right now is using data tools efficiently. Microsoft offers a comprehensive suite of powerful data tools, but previously, they all operated independently. Fabric is a new platform that pulls all of Microsoft’s data tools into a single place. What is Microsoft Fabric?

Marketing 52

Marketing 52

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Accounts payable (AP) teams are now taking a fresh look at the potential of tools such as virtual cards to ease their transaction frictions. This is far from the only significant change to how AP departments operate, and many companies are also exploring digital tools for onboarding new vendors more smoothly.

Construction 107

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Aifi Co-Founder and CEO Steve Gu said the funding will advance the rollout of autonomous stores and help with “building out our OASIS platform so implementations will be even faster.”. AiFi has 330 autonomous store openings on deck for next year while it continues building out new and retrofitted autonomous stores worldwide.

Startups 90

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The pandemic-fueled acceleration of online shopping has prompted Google to roll out an augmented reality (AR) tool to help people see how makeup will look before committing to a purchase. At the same time, many still crave that in-store experience, whether it’s seeing a product up close, trying it on or getting advice from in-store experts.”.

Planning 87

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Rakuten In Store Network has turned on offers in Google Pay, allowing users of the payment method to receive cash back on promotions connected to their cards for eCommerce and brick-and-mortar purchases, according to a Tuesday (Dec. In separate news, Klarna has debuted Google Pay for in-store purchases in the U.S. 8) announcement.

eCommerce 95

eCommerce Retail 95

Centage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Not only do spreadsheets and other traditional budgeting tools result in errors, but they also prevent companies from updating information as it comes in. To stay agile and accurate, businesses need to utilize automated financial tools that allow for rolling forecasts.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 98

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Jedox Finance

JANUARY 27, 2022

If previously all employees have stored their respective data on their own computers, you won’t achieve a single source of anything. If you opt for a cloud provider for common tools such as CRM, ERP, or EPM that stores all your data, the cloud provides you with aggregated access. Advantages of a single source of truth.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Visual search and in-store kiosks are coming more into focus, with the category powering consumer adoption and shopping at a pace that has led executives to dub the business “ visual commerce.” Target, in one case, has incorporated Pinterest ’s visual search tool for a few years.

Retail 73

Retail Marketing 73

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Higher volumes of consumers are continuing to shop online even as brick-and-mortar stores reopen. The Tracker also examines how employing email verification and other authentication tools during the onboarding process can help provide a seamless yet secure experience for consumers. Around The Digital Onboarding Worl d.

Securities 89

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The acquisition by Lightspeed will expand and enhance the offerings of solutions for merchants, adding tools for complex inventory and multi-location sales, the company said. “We In separate news, Lightspeed partnered with the payments platform Stripe in February to promote in-store and online payments.

Economics 84

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

While spreadsheets are commonly used and easy to modify, they are not designed to store and protect sensitive information. Over 750 million people use the application, and 63% of businesses say they rely on the tool heavily for their accounting needs. Inability to Track User Access or Changes Excel works best as a single-user tool.

Securities 98

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Consumers’ buying habits have shifted as retailers face new rules and restrictions, with each side adapting to brick-and-mortar store closures or reconfigurations as well as increased online variety and competition. These offerings are intended to give customers the payment and shopping method variety they crave.

Retail 80

Retail eCommerce Planning 80

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Morgan Merchant Services’ combined in-store and eCommerce payments were up 15 percent over last year’s Black Friday weekend, “a sign that the pandemic did little to curtail spending as the holiday shopping season began,” Doug Smith, executive director of J.P. As the No. 1 eCommerce payment processor in the U.S. trillion, J.P. “Our

Forecasting 115

Forecasting Benchmarking eCommerce Treasury 115

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Most eCommerce shopping tools and sites that have seen usage surge during the pandemic have never been stressed to this extent. Consumers have shopped online, via mobile devices and at brick-and-mortar stores in various capacities for years, but the pandemic is dramatically expanding the connections between these channels.

Retail 97

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Centage

APRIL 4, 2023

At Centage, we’re passionate about connecting businesses with the sophisticated financial planning and budgeting tools they need to stay competitive. Here are three of our top tips for increasing profit margins regardless of what the economy has in store. Three Ways to Increase Profit Margins: 1.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 98

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Future CFO

MAY 1, 2023

There is a pressing need for a new class of AI TRiSM tools to manage data and process flows between users and companies who host generative AI foundation models, the advisory firm noted. While a prompt engineering approach uses tools to create, tune and evaluate prompt inputs and outputs, the firm observed.

Risk Management 52

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

Amazon is on track to invest upwards of $15 billion this year in new tools to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) grow and succeed, according to a press release. . To aid SMBs, 150 new tools have been launched since the beginning of the year, the company announced on Thursday (Aug 22). million jobs around the world. .

Investments 73

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Centage

JUNE 2, 2023

Today, there is more data available than ever before, so using the right budgeting and planning tools can create accurate manufacturing budgets that stabilize, and even accelerate, a company toward their goals. Does the manufacturing overhead budget show that storing the additional inventory saves the company money?

Manufacturing 85

Manufacturing Budgeting Forecasting Analyzing Data 85

PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Family Video , America’s last major video rental store chain, plans to shutter all of its brick-and-mortar stores. And in dining, loyalty and rewards programs have surfaced as an effective tool that can help eateries bolster revenues and meet diners’ desires to order from home. All this, Today in Data.

Entertainment 60

Entertainment Retail Numbers Planning 60

Future CFO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Familiar threats such as ransomware and hacktivism have evolved, with criminal gangs modifying their methods and tools to infect and affect organisations worldwide, CPR said, adding that even legacy technology such as USB storage devices regained popularity as a vehicle to spread malware.

Securities 52

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CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This business process automation technology can recognize, interpret, and classify business documents, storing their contents as data. RPA is considered “process-driven automation,” which uses business rules to accomplish tasks such as capturing and storing receipt images, classifying expenses, and enforcing reimbursement rules.

Problem Solving 98

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Social media image-sharing platform Pinterest is introducing an augmented reality (AR) try-on tool to help users assess and compare eyeshadow. . The roll-out follows the success of Pinterest’s try-on tool for lipstick, which was launched last year. 22) press release. “The 22) press release.

Retail 90

Retail Technology 90