Is your finance operation still dependent on manual procedures and paper documents to manage invoices, contracts and employees' expenses despite experiencing growth and becoming more complex and global? If so, your company could be vulnerable to errors and fraud, and at risk of noncompliance.

From this Webcast, you will learn how advances in cloud computing and content management can enable your finance team to automate routine but essential processes. Jeffrey L. Williams and Brian Sommer will share their perspectives based on their experience as Finance and Performance Management partners with Accenture and current senior executives with the market research firm Vital Analysis. They will address:

• Why finance leaders must periodically review how they employ technology within their operations
  
  
• How finance leaders can use cloud computing to bypass IT bottlenecks and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their organizations
  
  
• Which processes in finance lend themselves best to automation
  
  
• How to make a compelling case for automation within your organization

This is one Webcast you will want to attend to learn how you can apply the latest developments in technology to ensure your finance team focuses less on fulfilling tasks and more on identifying ways to improve your company's financial performance.

About the Presenters

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Brian Sommer, Vital Analysis

As the founder and CEO of TechVentive, a company that helps technology firms better understand their markets, and Vital Analysis, the research and publishing arm of TechVentive, Brian Sommer knows the software industry and top executives at most major software firms know him, too. Brian's clients include some of the world's biggest technology firms as well as a wide assortment of business clients from small to large, private and public.

Previously, Brian was with Accenture for 18 years, where he was partner in charge of three global practice units, including the Finance and Performance Management Center of Excellence. His expert insights into finance processes and the software marketplace made him instrumental in many of the firm's large package software and shared services deals globally. After Accenture, he co-created a dot-com business that helped broker efficient services contracts between software buyers and systems integrators.

Mr. Sommer covers the SaaS marketplace for his blog on ZDNet, and has bylined or contributed to numerous national periodicals such as Optimize, Wall Street Journal Europe, Computerworld, Information Week, CIO, CFO, Business Finance, Computers & Finance and others.

Brian has presented software topics at many major universities, institutional investor conferences, and other forums. He has also been on the steering committee for the University of Texas Information Impact Management program and has served on the editorial advisory board for IHRIM.link and The Review of Accounting Information Systems. He can be reached at brian@vitalanalysis.com.


Jeffrey L. Williams, Vital Analysis

Jeffrey L. Williams of Vital Analysis has 20 years of experience partnering with Fortune 500 companies across a broad range of industries and geographies on large scale finance transformations in his prior role as partner in Accenture's Finance and Performance Management practice. His work has enabled business growth, increased profitability, scaled operations, reduced operating expenses, and/or contributed to better investment decisions.

Jeff has been covering the packaged software marketplace since 1992 and has in-depth knowledge of ERP vendors with emphasis on financial accounting, procurement, and performance management solutions and processes. He has been published on topics ranging from Transformational Outsourcing to the use of Offshore Analytics and has been a featured speaker at various software conferences and user group meetings.

Jeff has a B.S. in Agriculture Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He can be reached at jwilliams@vitalanalysis.com.