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It’s amazing, the journey you undergo in the course of helping clients achieve financial-reporting efficiency—or perhaps that should be ‘helping clients hone their ‘data-to-decisions’ performance mindset.

That’s really the transition we’ve made, and that’s really the distinction that sums up how FinWorx for Accpac and Syspro has changed from a once-humble financial-reporting tool to a fully-fledged Enterprise Performance Management platform that it’s rapidly becoming.

Developing FinWorx in that direction has given us a high-resolution view of how large-scale businesses today can get the most from their financial data.

We’d like to share some of those insights here.

Why 7 questions and not 10? Because Business Intelligence isn’t about rounding up to even numbers—it’s about accurate, valuable data to make powerful decisions with.

There are probably more questions you could ask. But, for businesses already convinced breaking up with Excel is for the greater good, these 7 questions are the most fundamental in your search for the right BI tool.

We have all heard the phrase – Data is the new gold. Even though it is a very catchy and memorable statement; few stop and explore how deep the parallels between the two resources go. Both resources start life in raw form. Both yield the best value if extracted efficiently. Both are highly sought after in raw form by legitimate and not-so-legitimate miners. And both have a dark side that goes unnoticed most of the time, but ever so often is cast in the limelight.