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Why Data Driven Decision Making is Your Path To Business Success

Data Pine

As a direct result, less IT support is required to produce reports, trends, visualizations, and insights that facilitate the data decision making process. Rob Enderle, a former IBM employee and Research Fellow for Forrester wrote a fabulous article which documents the shortcomings of executives at IBM and Microsoft. 2) Walmart.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Insight Software

Embedded analytics are a set of capabilities that are tightly integrated into existing applications (like your CRM, ERP, financial systems, and/or information portals) that bring additional awareness, context, or analytic capability to support business decision-making. The Business Services group leads in the usage of analytics at 19.5

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SOX Compliance Guide

Insight Software

It shapes the regulatory landscape for publicly traded companies in many ways, including mandates surrounding: Auditor Independence : The SOX Act restricts the types of non-audit services that auditing firms can provide to their clients. This is an internal audit conducted by an independent auditor who must be an impartial third party.

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409A Valuation: A Guide to Reporting

Insight Software

The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 established Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code. Companies also have the option of outsourcing 409A valuation reports to an independent third party. Penalties and interest could be assessed to shareholders if your company fails to correctly adhere to 409A reporting requirements.