When planning their implementation, most of our clients struggle to assign their users the right roles and responsibilities. Most admin security groups have to constantly walk the tightrope of providing too much or insufficient access to key functions within the …
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Aging infrastructure and the rising costs of maintaining applications on-premise or in a Co-Lo facility are building a strong business case for safeguarding your technology investments with Cloud infrastructure. Attend our local, live seminar to learn how other California agencies …
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The transition from traditional Business Intelligence to modern Data Visualization is happening at more companies every year as they seek to make decisions based on data instead of instinct. Gone are the days when IT writes reports for the business …
In our previous post in the Business Intelligence (BI) series, we looked at the basic definitions, features, and advantages of BI in general. In this article, we look at the Tableau BI tool, in particular, and discuss its pros and …
Santa Clara County, an AST customer, has been selected as a finalist for IDC’s 2020 Smart Cities North America Awards in the Urban Planning and Land Use Category for its Assessment Appeals solution. Let’s support Santa Clara County by voting …
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Every organization has a finance team, but not every CFO has a change agent on the team dedicated to transforming finance. It takes a special kind of finance professional to leverage the cloud and other emerging technologies to modernize finance. …
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On January 15 Mike Mullane, an Applications Systems Administration Manager at H&P, visited AST to attend an Architecture Review Board meeting. The ARB team is a multi-disciplinary team with top Architects from various areas such as Enterprise Integration, Web Architecture, …
For many in the finance department, the phrase “financial period close” brings with it visions of long days filled with time-consuming, cumbersome, and stressful processes. Yet, despite the time devoted to it, this record-to-report process of accounts reconciliation, journal entries, …
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Source: EY Reporting Regarding the recent interview with Mr. Ranganath D. Mavinakere, the CFO of Infosys said today the CFO’s role has evolved considerably, it is not limited to finance and accounts rather, increasingly, they are now playing a central …
Last week our AST Lisle office had their annual Ugly Sweater and White Elephant Holiday Party. This momentous time of year is a great reminder about how much we have to be thankful to each other for and share our …
