http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2005/10/regulatory-regimes-and-dog-food/ Andy Hayler, founder of Kalido and The Information Difference, gives his views on the enterprise software market. Issues covered include data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence and data quality. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:44:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2005/10/regulatory-regimes-and-dog-food/#comment-11 Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:22:00 +0000 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2005/10/regulatory-regimes-and-dog-food/#comment-11 Spot on Chris. Conventional technologies do not make it at all easy to do the "time variant" analysis which business increasingly demands. Spot on Chris. Conventional technologies do not make it at all easy to do the “time variant” analysis which business increasingly demands.

]]> http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2005/10/regulatory-regimes-and-dog-food/#comment-10 Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:35:00 +0000 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2005/10/regulatory-regimes-and-dog-food/#comment-10 One of the major problems with finance departments is that they do have a lot of data, but it is backward looking and often in a management accounting format that may once have been relevant to the way the business was run, but is no longer. Trying to get from this "accounting data set" to a forward looking data set that can be used to support commercially focussed activities such as planning, doing what-ifs and looking at different options is always a struggle. And unfortuantely the effect of SoX seems to be an enormous increase in the size of most firms accounting data sets at the expense of their commercial useful data. One of the major problems with finance departments is that they do have a lot of data, but it is backward looking and often in a management accounting format that may once have been relevant to the way the business was run, but is no longer. Trying to get from this “accounting data set” to a forward looking data set that can be used to support commercially focussed activities such as planning, doing what-ifs and looking at different options is always a struggle. And unfortuantely the effect of SoX seems to be an enormous increase in the size of most firms accounting data sets at the expense of their commercial useful data.

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