Monthly Archives: March 2022

If you’re working in spreadsheets to do analysis, 90% of your workday is taken up by menial tasks you’d rather not be doing. Formatting data sources. Cleaning and parsing. Applying formulas.

By the time you get to the good stuff — analyzing — you’re worn out and running late to deliver your insights. When job dissatisfaction starts to kick in, it’s time to make a change.

In this e-book, you’ll discover how easy it is to switch to a modern analytics approach. Use the spreadsheet skills you’ve already got — but take advantage of repeatability, transparency, and all the other great features of self-service analytics.

Download this guide to learn:

• How to spot the 10 symptoms of overdependence on spreadsheets
• How self-service analytics can simplify and automate your daily routine
• Which spreadsheet skills translate into powerhouse analytics functions
• Why making the switch isn’t difficult — it’s a change in mindset, not skillset

Revolutionize the way you spend your day. Download your guide now.

Gut instinct, or data-driven insight? It’s an important choice that can make a huge difference to your bottom line. So this time around, sidestep all the emotional debates and move straight to fact-based agreement.

How? By scaling your analytics — with the help of automation, of course. Others have already done it, and this whitepaper lays out the challenges they’ve faced as well as the successful steps they’ve taken. Find out:

• How, and why, you could miss out on crucial information for your next decision
• The biggest likely barrier to accessing and using all your valuable data — not just part of it
• The simple answer that can immediately eliminate most of your analytical roadblocks

“Transformation without analytics is just digitization. Analytics makes it transformative.”
—David Sweenor, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Alteryx 

Discover how analytics automation can liberate your people, freeing them from manual, repetitive tasks to focus on work that matters most — delivering breakthrough business outcomes. 

Download this O’Reilly e-book and learn how:

• A human-centered approach enables more people to deliver breakthrough outcomes with democratized access to data and analytics via user-friendly data pipeline automation 
• Leading organizations save operational expense and optimize the value of their workforce with analytic automation that reduces labor-intensive, mundane tasks
• Analytics automation provides employees and leadership continuous and easily maintained insights 

Through all of these transformational capabilities, see how analytics automation helps to create an agile organization that can better serve its customers and clients while improving financial success.

While organizations are placing an even greater emphasis on improving employee data and analytics skills, challenges such as data complexity, technology constraints, skills gaps, and lack of analytics automation continue to impact productivity.

According to IDC’s Infobrief, sponsored by Alteryx¹ of more than 1,100 data workers across the globe, “62.4 billion hours are lost annually worldwide due to unsuccessful and inefficient data and analytic activities”.

To compete in today’s digital-first world, organizations will require data and analytic democratization, unified tooling, and the upskilling of data workers.

Whether you’re looking to benchmark your organization against industry peers, or just looking for data to support organizational transformation, this report will help you understand:

• The current skillsets of data-natives and solutions that enable upskilling
• How to improve the data and analytics experience
• Tips for democratizing data and analytics in a digital-first world

Download the latest IDC research to read all the key findings.

¹IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Alteryx, Data and Analytics in a Digital-First World, doc #US48688922, January 2022

Gathering mountains of tax data is likely consuming more than half your or your team’s day. After all, tax functions spend more than 50% of their time gathering tax data and less than 30% of their time on strategic tax analysis.

Top performers in tax have adopted a modern tax strategy that accelerates decision-making capabilities and improves accuracy. A Brief Guide to Innovating Tax with Analytics discusses how to:

• Achieve peak performance in five critical tax processes
• Flip your tax data into a strategic business asset
• Capitalize on real success stories in R&D, state income tax, and more

Transform your tax analytics with a solution that creates huge efficiency and productivity gains. Download your whitepaper now.

According to McKinsey, an incredible 81 percent of tax processes can be partly or fully automated.

And they should be, to prevent costly fatigue, missed deadlines, fines, and penalties.

Those things add up. In fact, studies show companies pay more than $10 million a year for exactly the kind of issues that automation prevents. But you don’t have to.

In the e-book, find out how to stop paying fines, fees, and the price of human error, by automating these five key processes — and increasing effectiveness per FTE from 30 to 50 percent:

• Tax reconciliation and validation
• Fixed asset depreciation
• Research and development credits
• Sales appointment
• Income tax

Get your copy and empower your own tax professionals to blast through repetitive processes, so they can deliver on time and in compliance.

Modern Analytics Across FP&A, Accounting, Tax, and Audit Teams

If you’re going to stay ahead of the curve and your own schedule, you’ll need to revolutionize finance processes in FP&A, accounting, tax, and audit teams with data science and analytics.

In “A Blueprint for Analytics Transformation in Finance” learn how to:

• Develop a keen understanding of the current analytics state and common pitfalls in finance
• Leverage major trends and best practices in operational analytics across the office of finance
• Put finance analytics into action with 10 practical tips
• Use real insight from finance pros to enhance adoption, leadership, and strategy

Put modern finance analytics into action. Download your blueprint today.