Technical

Budgets. The end of the headache

Budgets. The end of the headache

There are many types of software available for what is called “Financial Planning and Analytics” or FP&A software. A brief trip to Google shows 3.6 million returns for the search term. What’s interesting is that many of the companies who show up at the top of the...

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Automation, Validation and Trusted Data

Automation, Validation and Trusted Data

Azquo presents to the insurance industry a way to finally reduce their reliance on intensive manual data manipulation in Excel. We’ve created a world-first application for a major player in the Lloyds Market which has released an ability to grow the customer base...

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Understanding the numbers in a spreadsheet

Understanding the numbers in a spreadsheet

How many of us have sat in a meeting when vast arrays of numbers are put up in a gripping stream of PowerPoint presentations either analysing the past or foretelling the future? I’d suggest that this is a scene that plays out very often up and down the land, currently...

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Spreadsheets Future Proofed

Spreadsheets Future Proofed

It is perhaps unnecessary to point out that there are problems with spreadsheets – others have done so better than I can – for instance here or here. So how do we go about ensuring your spreadsheets are future proofed? But if spreadsheets are so dangerous, why do...

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The Cost of Cleverness

The Cost of Cleverness

Recently I’ve been thinking more about architectural principles, why some projects get in a mess and why some don’t. One thing that keeps cropping up is the cost of cleverness in pretty much any area of an IT project. It could be code, supporting software (e.g....

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Ending the Mystery Of Marketing ROI

Ending the Mystery Of Marketing ROI

Nineteenth century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker supposedly said “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. To prove the level of the unknown in marketing, this quote has also been attributed to Viscount Leverhulme...

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