Ascend Year in Review: Reflecting Back on 2024
This past year has been nothing short of transformative for Ascend Partners, marked by bold steps forward and significant achievements that defined our growth and ambition. From securing a strategic investment and launching our new brand identity to celebrating a decade of success, 2024 has been a true testament to our team's dedication ...
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Barrick Gold: Successfully Migrating Financial Planning Platforms
When your current financial software can no longer deliver the value you need, it’s time to make a change. The decision between upgrading a patchwork combination of point solutions and migrating to a best-in-class tool is easy — especially when you’ve got Ascend Partners implementing the new solution. When Barrick Gold faced this same ...
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Intelligent Finance have your finance department ‘Leading at Speed’
The term intelligent finance has moved beyond connected finance in finance theory for organizations. No longer is it simply ok for enterprises to have finance departments that are silos unto themselves or lead from a financial perspective only. The best managed and performing companies are leading at speed by having their finance ...
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Are you investing in FP&A for Workforce Planning?
The pandemic has created an unprecedented labour situation, and it’s compounding trends that were already growing pre-COVID. If your company is not worried about the war for talent already underway, you are already behind your competitors. Let us examine some of the major trends that have led to this nexus point for millions of workers ...
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Hyperion Customers are at a Crossroads: Upgrade and Stagnate, or Convert and Lead at Speed
Oracle’s Hyperion has shown its hand. The Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) latest update, 11.2, is anything but an innovative move to modern standards and/or a true cloud experience for enterprises. While the update supports customers for another 10 years, there is no planned real innovation. It has become apparent that HFM clients ...
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Why Data Aggregation is not Financial Consolidation
In our first blog, Peter Popalis, CPA, CA and Co-Founder of Ascend Partners, and globally recognized expert OneStream architect, explains the important difference between simple aggregation and what a financial platform such as OneStream does in comparison.
