IBM Virtual Finance Forum June 16, 2011 10am - 4pm ET (anyone can attend online)
Muhammad Shuja
IBM Virtual Finance Forum 2011
Overview
Join us on June 16 for Virtual Finance Forum 2011—and discover how to help your organization thrive!
At this complimentary event for Finance and IT professionals, you’ll learn how leading finance organizations are using new analytic tools and disciplines to improve visibility and insight, and gain control over the levers of performance, governance and risk.
In this year’s Virtual Finance Forum, David Axson, president of the Sonax Group and author of The Management Mythbuster, offers forward-looking insights on finance in his keynote address: The Finance Agenda: 2011 and Beyond. You’ll also learn from IBM business analytics experts, your industry peers, and innovative finance professionals, who will deliver practical strategies and tactics in interactive general and breakout sessions. In between sessions, you’ll have time to check out the virtual Solutions Showcase from the comfort of your own desk, and see live demonstrations of products and solutions from IBM and our partners.
Attend Virtual Finance Forum to gain practical insights and guidance on how to boost profitability, improve forecasting, reduce risk and measure business performance more precisely, using solutions from IBM Business Analytics.
Who should attend:
Finance and IT professionals who want to learn about new analytic tools and practices that can transform critical finance, risk and compliance processes to drive better business outcomes.
Top Reasons to attend—learn how you can:
- Increase visibility into the drivers of revenue, profit and working capital
- Evaluate the profitability of products, customers and sales channels, and shift resources to the most promising areas of the business
- Create timely, reliable forecasts to better align operating costs with business activities
- Sustain cost-effective financial governance in response to increasing regulation and oversight
- See live demos of IBM Business Analytics solutions
- Earn one CPE credit
Agenda
| Time | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 - 11:00am | Solutions Showcase | ||
| 11:00 - 11:50am | The Finance Agenda: 2011 and Beyond | ||
| 11:50 - 12:10pm | Solutions Showcase | ||
| 12:10 -12:40pm | Transforming Finance through Analytics | ||
| 12:40 - 1:10pm | Solutions Showcase | ||
| 1:10 - 1:50pm | Breakout Sessions | ||
| Track | Planning, Analytics and Optimization | Close, Consolidation, Reporting & Filing | Performance Reporting & Scorecarding |
| Session | Future Ready: Mastering Business Forecasting | Evolving the Reporting Process: Leveraging Best Practices to Respond to Changing Reporting Demands | Translating Strategy into Performance |
| 1:50 - 2:30pm | Introducing Cognos 10 - Performance Reporting for the Office of Finance | ||
| 2:30 - 2:50pm | Solutions Showcase | ||
| 2:50 - 3:30pm | Breakout Sessions | ||
| Track | Planning, Analytics and Optimization | Close, Consolidation, Reporting & Filing | Performance Reporting & Scorecarding |
| Session | Enterprise Planning Solutions Powered by IBM Business Analytics software | Completing the Close, Consolidate, Report & File Process by Automating External Financial Reporting and XBRL | Driving Actionable Insight through a CFO Dashboard |
| *Schedule subject to change. All times are in EDT. | |||