Cooking with Tidelift
When cooking for friends or family, many of us go out of the way to seek the freshest, tastiest ingredients possible. You may have favorite producers at the local farmers market, or brands from the grocery that you've come to know and trust. But when choosing the ingredients that make up our open source applications, we often bring in new libraries without any guarantees that they are safe and well maintained.
We wanted to distill the idea of managing open source down to something so simple, you could explain it to a child, so that’s why we wrote a children’s book about enterprise open source software management. Yes, we just used the phrases “children’s book” and “enterprise open source software” in the same sentence.
We call it Cooking with Tidelift, and it will show you how we can help you create catalogs of known-good, proactively maintained open source components to ensure your apps are as safe and healthy as they can be.
Is Your Company Ready for The Future of Work?
The unexpected arrival of the pandemic in 2020 forced every organization to assemble a patchwork of unplanned workforce responses as many moved to remote-work solutions. Now, every firm faces difficult decisions around what the future of the office — and the future of work — will be. It is now time for organizations to decide where employees can or will work from in the future.
In this environment, leaders must make a series of choices for how to best support their workforce with infrastructure that promotes employee safety, connects a distributed workforce, and fuels distanced collaboration. Document management (DM) strategies are a key enabler the future of work, but organizations must act to ensure these strategies support their employees’ current and future needs.
Forrester predicts that around 60% of organizations will adopt a hybrid future work model, which is defined as at least 10% of employees working in anywhere-work mode at least two days a week. This is similar to how our survey respondents plan to orient their document management strategies.
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Preparing Your Business for Global Growth: Streamlining Cross-Border Tax Compliance
As consumers have shifted toward digital engagement with brands and retailers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunity to expand and reach customers globally has never been bigger. But as you build your strategy for international growth, one of the biggest challenges you will face is ensuring compliance with the many tax and regulatory requirements of the countries and regions where you will be doing business.
Depending upon your business model and plans for expansion, there are a variety of tax and compliance requirements that you will have to comply with – from Value Added Tax to trademark tax, import and export taxes, etc. And while Oracle applications offer some capabilities to help address these requirements, without the right strategy and tools, cross-border tax compliance can become very difficult and costly to manage.
In this webcast, learn about best practices and insights that organizations can use to streamline global tax determination and compliance, including:
- The current global tax and regulatory landscape and what you need to know to ensure cross-border tax compliance.
- How to extend the capabilities of your Oracle applications with Vertex tax solutions to reduce manual processes, streamline tax determination and reduce risk.
- Case studies, metrics, and shared learning from peers.
State of Accounts Payable Today
A study of 600 finance workers found that 76% of accounting teams, with automated AP, report increased productivity and less overtime.
Invoice approval delays, document management and late vendor payments surfaced as the main AP challenges. This directly impacted the work-life balance of accountants, forcing many to work an extra 10 hours per week.
Download this research to find out:
- How 76 % of finance professionals have increased productivity and reduced overtime
- How to eliminate late payments for good
- How Beanworks improves approvals, payments and AP data access
- How to prevent vendor fraud and expense abuse that 60 % of businesses experienced this year
Discover Benefits and Best Practices to Improve a Call Center
In the modern world, call centers remain one of the most challenging places to work in. They have very high turnover rates, usually low employee satisfaction, and are regarded as a cost center by most executives.
The ongoing pandemic has had a major effect on how businesses operate, including call centers. It forced many offices to close down and created pressure to switch to a work-from-home (WFH) environment. There is no saying if this “new normal” is here for good, but many businesses have already decided to cultivate WFH while some are still struggling.
So, how can you manage your team effectively in one of the most challenging environments under the pressures of digitalization, remote work, and customer demands?
Download this Success Kit to discover how to improve your Call Center.
The Future of Tax is in the Cloud
The cloud computing market is booming, with Gartner projecting the industry to exceed $331 billion by 2022. That’s no surprise considering the benefits include cutting costs, improving data quality, increasing security, and ensuring reliability.
Check out these stats, based on a survey of IT professionals, to learn why your organization should upgrade its tax applications or migrate them to the cloud.
Companies that migrate their tax applications to the cloud accelerate digital transformation and experience many benefits:
- Improved data management
- Increased process automation
- Faster access to new functionality
- Enhanced security
- Decreased costs
- Easier implementation
Manufacturers and Distributors Modernize Their SAP Solutions to Address Tax and Technology Challenges
The wave of digital transformation that has prompted businesses to migrate some applications to the cloud and re-evaluate process efficiency has officially hit the Manufacturing and Distribution (M&D) industry. In anticipation of the next worldwide crisis, M&Ds can refocus on their core businesses, streamline and automate tax management, and redesign their supply chains to be more flexible, scalable and risk-tolerant.
In this white paper, we share key learnings from IDG’s Research MarketPulse Survey that uncover the challenges IT and finance leaders at M&D organizations are facing today, and the drivers behind their current and future technology plans.
5 Reasons to Automate Sales And Use Tax Compliance
Ensure Peak Performance In The New Business Environment
Monthly sales and use tax compliance can be a massive burden for your finance department. If you’re looking for ways to control costs and make smart investments, automating these processes in-house using tax compliance technology — or outsourcing them — can deliver measurable business benefits like:
- Reducing audit risk
- Boosting staff value and ROI
- Cutting costs
- Improving governance and controls
- Enhancing scalability
State of the Market for Enterprise Cloud Deployment for SAP Users
This special report compiles all the research found when SAPinsider surveyed 116 members of their community. The purpose of the survey was to determine what is critical to their cloud deployment, which cloud providers and deployment models they are using, and what workloads they are running in the cloud. In this special report, learn what drives organizations in their approach to enterprise cloud deployment, discover the top requirements and tools for cloud deployment strategies, and gain your strategy guidance for optimizing cloud deployment processes.
Why Tax and IT Need to Work Together When Migrating to SAP S/4HANA
The collaboration of tax and IT departments can ensure optimization of processes, while the tax customizations are also considered. In this white paper, learn how these teams can work together to enable business growth, improve compliance and efficiency, all while ensuring a smooth rollout for IT.
Reimagining Supply Chains in the Wake of COVID-19 Disruptions with SAP and Mirakl
Consumers worldwide responded to COVID-19 outbreaks by hoarding products, and disregarding brand loyalty, which greatly impacted supply chains. In this e-book, learn how to remedy supply chain disruption by understanding technology choices to better manage supply chain challenges.
Manufacturers and Distributors Modernize Platforms and Solutions to Address Tax and Technology Challenges
The wave of digital transformation that has prompted businesses to migrate some applications to the cloud and re-evaluate process efficiency has officially hit the Manufacturing and Distribution (M&D) industry. Having shifted their sourcing to a handful of large overseas suppliers over the past decade, many companies were unprepared for COVID-19 lockdowns that increased demand for certain materials and introduced new business models and shopping habits as global supply chains were disrupted. In anticipation of the next worldwide crisis, M&Ds can refocus on their core businesses, streamline and automate tax management, and redesign their supply chains to be more flexible, scalable and risk-tolerant.
In this white paper, we will review some highlights from IDG’s Research’s MarketPulse Survey of employees at M&D organizations with revenues of between $250 million and $1 billion. The purpose of the research was to better understand from M&D employees the drivers behind decisions, challenges they are facing today, and any future-state technology plans.
Rethinking Accounts Payable in the Midst of a Pandemic
The pandemic has forced many accounting teams to adjust the way they work as they struggle to keep up with outdated processes.
Download this white paper to learn about the challenges of accounts payable in the time of a pandemic, including:
- Only 54% of finance teams working from home can make all their AP payments
- 85% of employees wish their employer would do more to help them adapt and manage remote work
- AP teams typically spend 60-80% more than they need to on invoice processing costs
Learn best practice advice to overcome these challenges and set your team up for success now and in the future.
Strategies to Avoid the ‘Great Resignation’ in Your AP Team
A study of 31,000 workers found that 41% are considering quitting their job this year. The statistics reflect the workforces’ discomfort and discontent about going back to the office. Experts are calling it, the Great Resignation.
The sentiment is shared across multiple industries including accounting where 82% of respondents reported lower levels of stress when working from home. It’s why an overwhelming majority (93%) of employees in finance want to continue working remotely.
But what can organizations do to retain existing talent and lure the best finance professionals to the company?
Download this white paper to learn:
- Four strategies to attract and retain top talent
- How AP automation can empower remote teams
- Best practices implemented by other finance teams
Stop Fraud Now: How to Protect Your Company with AP Automation
Many companies are under the impression that their manual processes provide strong internal controls. However, scammers have become increasingly sophisticated, making it much more difficult to identify false invoices or fraudulent requests without the aid of technology.
With the risk of internal and external scams heightened due to an abrupt change in working practices, companies need better controls.
AP automation can help mitigate fraud in B2B payments by strengthening approval channels and increasing visibility.
Download this free white paper to learn how to:
- Detect BEC scams and other external fraud threats
- Strengthen internal expense management controls
- Secure cross-border payments and remove inefficiencies
