Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference 2022: Day Two Highlights
June 07, 2022 at 10:22 am EDT
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Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference Day 2 Highlights
We are bringing you news and highlights from the Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference 2022. Below is a collection of key announcements and insights coming out of the conference. You can read highlights from Day 1 here.
On Day 2 of the conference we are highlighting sessions on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Financial Analytics, the AI Generation, how to remove effort from the accounting close, and learning finance digital competencies on the job. Be sure to check this page throughout the day for updates.
Key Announcements
Gartner Says CFOs Must Make Three Key Mindset Shifts to Achieve Autonomous Finance
Gartner Hype Cycle for Financial Analytics
Presented by Grant Nelson, Sr. Director Analyst, Gartner
The inaugural Hype Cycle for Financial Analytics enables finance leaders to distinguish which innovations may present a real opportunity from those that might be over-promising or hyping up their potential benefit. In this session, Grant Nelson, Sr. Director Analyst at Gartner, provided a view of how financial analytics innovations are evolving, and the opportunities to be assessed prior to investment or deployment.
Gartner experts studied over 100 analytics innovations and put the 20 with the most relevance to the finance function on the Hype Cycle for Financial Analytics.
Grant Nelson, Senior Director analyst at Gartner, advised attendees at the Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference 2022 to weigh new innovations against their strategic analytics plans and risk tolerance
Grant Nelson, Senior Director analyst at Gartner, said technological evolution has minimized the burden of upskilling employees.
Key Takeaways
Gartner experts studied over 100 analytics innovations and put the 20 with the most relevance to the finance function on the Hype Cycle for Financial Analytics.
Organizations are democratizing advanced analytics capabilities with increased speed as technological evolution enables non-expert analytics consumers to leverage once futuristic advanced capabilities.
A combination of a democratized advanced analytics consumers, and ever-evolving AI & ML capabilities, is shifting the technology from enabling manual analysis to actively steering analysts to the most relevant insights.
Technological evolution has minimized the burden of upskilling employees.
Four innovations from the Hype Cycle for Financial Analytics that have strong potential to impact the finance organization within the next five years are: Decision Intelligence; Graph Analytics; Citizen Data Science; and Data and Analytics Stewardship.
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