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Cloud Data Trends for 2022

The Cloud Data & Analytics trends highlighted below are already helping enterprises that we work with to modernise, automate, and predict customer or competitive behaviours.

BlackLine Case Study: How BlackLine and Tridant helped two companies streamline their finance

Tridant featured in Consultancy.com.au in an interview with IFM Investors and Spirit of Tasmania, two companies that are using BlackLine to drive improvements

6 Must-Know Billing Insights when using Matillion for Snowflake

The article covers information on Matillion for Snowflake billing and some best practices that can be implemented to keep a check on the costs.

Selecting the right Business Intelligence platform for your organisation

For organisations just starting out, selecting the right Analytics and Business Intelligence tools (ABI) to meet the decision-making needs across your user base can be a daunting task given the array of options and the speed at which the market is moving.

Azure Data Lake (ADL) Gen 2 Implementation Best Practices

Azure Data Lake Gen 2 is an evolution of Data Lake Storage Gen1 built on top of Blob storage with hierarchical namespace. It is a cloud based big data storage that serves as a storage account for structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.

Power BI Self Service Feature Enablement

When any kind of data has to be analyzed, the Power BI developer often satisfies the requirements by taking various scenarios into consideration and building meaningful reports and Dashboards

Leveraging Cloud Services for Rapid Development of Predictive Models

This article will discuss how AI and predictive analytics are provided by the leading vendors considering different customer segments.

Data Science Series: #1. Intro to Snowflake & Amazon SageMaker Integration

Hoang demonstrates how to integrate Snowflake as a data source for featuring engineering and machine learning modelling using AWS SageMaker.

Power BI’s Latest Features: Aug-Oct 2021

The Deployment pipeline helps in managing PowerBI releases at a fast pace. This recent update enables the general availability of Deployment pipeline APIs.

The Shift to Modern Accounting: Moving From Manual Processes to Automation

Bob Boyne, Solution Lead at Tridant held a panel discussion with BlackLine customers IFM Investors and Spirit of Tasmania to discuss their implementation of BlackLine

Workday Adaptive Planning Automated Integration With Xero

Automate data flows from Xero (or any cloud system with an API) to Workday Adaptive Planning “We are a fast growing and expanding global business that needs to be able to respond and act quickly. It was tedious extracting and importing data every time we needed to refresh our actual financial information in Workday Adaptive […]

TTI's journey to a Cost to Serve model

Techtronic Industries (TTI) a distributor/marketer of power tools partnered with Tridant to further expand their enterprise planning solution and & build out a Cost to Serve (CTS) model to achieve a competitive advantage. The CTS model applies a cost allocation methodology to determine the true cost of servicing TTI’s customer channels.

Sandfire's Journey Implementing Anaplan

Transitioning to a global planning and analysis platform that seamlessly integrates with the existing platform to develop a fit for purpose operating model for a global entity.

Financial Planning and Analysis Consulting Services, Everything You Should Know

Outsourced FP&A strategy consulting services ensure your business can access the objectivity and expertise it needs and deliver better insight and decision making.

Top 6 Financial Planning and Analysis Software in 2021

Thinking about financial planning and analysis software? We’ve created a quick guide to the best FP&A software in 2021 that will help your business thrive.

How to Choose the Best Financial Planning and Analysis Tools

With financial planning and analysis tools, what’s best for one business may not suit another. Here’s how to choose the best FP&A tools for your organisation.

Rolling Forecast Best Practices: A Framework for FP&A Leaders

Effective financial forecasting, with rolling forecasts, enables improved accuracy, less budget prep time, and more profitability. In 2020, almost 30% of finance officials said they expected to convert to rolling forecasts.

Demystifying Snowflake Usage with Data Analytics Tools

When initiating your Snowflake cloud data warehouse journey, how do you predict usage and costs, avoid overruns, and uncover opportunities to improve performance?

Building a rolling forecast with Workday Adaptive Planning

Finance teams need to respond in real time to drive business resilience. Rolling forecasts offer a way to course-correct quickly, with enough insight and confidence to make critical decisions.

A recommended approach: Multi-cloud strategy with Snowflake

Multi-cloud is growing in popularity as a key enterprise architecture strategy to assure business continuity with seamless access to applications, helping businesses move between different cloud environments to maximise their flexibility.

The Value of Data

How do you capture, consolidate, and automate organisational data for real-time insights to drive business success, taking into account market conditions? Here are our 4 key ways to effectively leverage your organisation’s data to improve business performance.

A Holistic Approach: Integrating financial and non-financial data

For a comprehensive view of business performance, risks and challenges, CFOs need to integrate their organisation’s financial and non-financial data for meaningful insight and factors that can impact business operations.

Tableau Nested LODs - A Dummy’s Guide

#TechTalk 2020 Most Popular | Where Nested LOD expressions work, do not work and importantly, why it does not work. Includes the exception to the Nested LOD ‘rule’.

Building a business case for finance transformation

Digital transformation has accelerated across industries due to the need for flexibility and a faster response to changing market conditions. In the current dynamic business environment, failing to achieve a high level of responsiveness will reduce a company’s ability to thrive.

SPS 515: The 4 Step Guide to an Agile Reporting Framework

New regulatory requirements like SPS 515 are casting a spotlight on the data readiness of super funds.

Migrating IBM Planning Analytics onto AWS – A Recommended Approach

Tridant validated IBM Planning Analytics could run in AWS, with uninterrupted operations, continuous visibility, while maintaining service levels at all times.

COVID-19 has exposed the need to smarten up supply chains and logistics.

“Statistical forecasting and machine learning to gain accuracy in demand forecasting is 100% where the focus of supply chain is these days,” says Peter Symons, chief revenue officer, Tridant in Company Director magazine, Nov 2020.

3 Exemplary Practices with BlackLine: Account Reconciliation, Transaction Matching & SAP

Enhance the value of your BlackLine investment | Account Reconciliation: Impact of Approval on Auto Certification Rate | Transaction Matching: Native ERP Tool vs BlackLine | SAP Tips | Month-end Optimisation Tools

How to grow a business during tough economic times, with Alec Jeffery

CPA Australia's InTheBlack magazine interviewed Alec Jeffery, co-founder & executive director, Tridant. Alec discusses business resilience strategies and shares how Tridant was able to diversify to not only survive the crisis, but thrive.

Keeping Up with Regulatory Requirements: COVID-19 Superannuation Early Release Scheme

The Australian Tax Office launched the COVID-19 Superannuation Early Release Scheme to support Australians experiencing financial hardship. How do super funds keep up with its regulatory requirements?

Predicting Superannuation Rollouts for Early Action

The topic of member rollouts is critical in the financial services market. Use your data to make a difference. With predictive analytics, your super fund can build optimal retention planning, and proactively address member attrition.

5 Best Practices for Successful Remote Implementations

Every technology implementation requires diligent project management to ensure outcomes are delivered on-time and within budget. In the current environment, cloud-based systems are proving vital to business continuity. Critically, many new technology systems will be implemented remotely.

The Power of the Sparkline

These small, data-dense graphics are often overlooked when representing data-heavy reports. Sparkline charts are perfect for representing the data intense in a simple and succinct word-sized graphic, adding context and value to even the blandest of data grids.

Covid-19 Economic Impact – Analysis with Power BI and Snowflake

Covid-19 has impacted the performance of many business sectors. This study examines the financial performance of Healthcare, Retail, Industrials, Energy, Telecommunication, Real Estate, Metals & Mining, Technology, and Streaming Media by looking into their stock price and business volumes from May 2019-April 2020.

60-Min Investigation: Building a Chatbot

At Tridant, we are seeing increased queries from organisations keen to understand virtual assistant technology and witness firsthand the use cases and value that AI and chatbots deliver to organisations.

Sneak Peek: Watson Assistant with Salesforce & Zendesk

IBM Watson Assistant integration with Service Desk. How-to Guide for Integrating Watson Assistant with Salesforce and Zendesk.

Benchmark Testing of Snowflake using Tableau

Oswald Almeida investigates the performance of Snowflake on data sets of various sizes like TPCH_SF1 (6M rows) and TPCH_SF10 (60M rows) using Tableau.

Tableau 2020.3 Review: Top 5 New Additions

Tableau Software announced platform update 2020.3, enabling users to output to and update external databases directly from Tableau Prep Builder.

Introducing Tableau Metrics – 5 Great Functions in Tableau 2020.2

The top 5 functions in Tableau 2020.2, and how to best leverage the new Metrics capabilities for improved reporting. Even when on the go.

Tridant announces MEIO Solution: Efficiently Synchronise Inventory Replenishment in the Extended Supply Chain

Tridant announces multi-echelon inventory optimisation application to efficiently synchronise inventory replenishment in the extended supply chain.

Oracle Construction Technology Summit 2019 - Tridant

Tridant attends the Oracle Construction Technology Summit 2019. Director, Alec Jeffery, speaks on margin protection using modern methods.

Getting data out of IBM Cognos TM1 into Tableau for Visualisation

Many organisations have TM1 and many now have Tableau too. So, I get asked almost on a weekly basis by people, “How do I get TM1 data into Tableau?”

Tableau Data Day Out, Tableau Prep, Role Based Pricing & Much More

Recently the Tridant team attended the Tableau Data Day Out event in Sydney as well as spending the prior 2 days engaging with the Tableau team.

A Magic combination: Anaplan + Tableau - Anaplan Tableau Connector

Tableau and Anaplan are very complimentary and when used together can actually be a magic combination for presenting your plans and results.

Lessons from Executive Dashboarding (#3): Dividing a measure by 0 (or a negligible denominator)

Today’s blog is all about a very annoying issue faced when you divide a numerator by either a 0 or an almost negligible denominator.

3 ways of excluding values from Filter display(s) in Tableau - Tridant

Today’s blog is all about the ‘out-of-the-box’ functionality in Tableau that allows you to restrict what values are displayed in Quick Filters.

Zoos Victoria - A Conversation with David Methven - Tridant

Zoos Victoria Director of Digital Engagement, David Methven, shares his thoughts on the value of liberating data from the confines of spread-sheets and making it more visible across the organisation.

Tridant Jointly Wins Award For Tableau Dashboard Creation - Tridant

The in-house Tableau team of a major CPG company consisting of 9 members including Tridant’s Raymond Chan, received a ‘best of the best’ award for their outstanding collaborative work.

Tableau Data Day Out 2017

TM1 Integrated with Salesforce or SugarCRM - Tridant

TM1 (IBM Planning Analytics) provides the perfect engine to integrate TM1 with a CRM like Salesforce or SugarCRM which is cloud based. Here's how.

An Overview of IBM Vision 2017 - Tridant

For the past few years, IBM Vision has been the premier global conference for finance. Here's an overview of IBM Vision 2017.

Release of Cognos Analytics 11.0.6 - Upgrade from Cognos 10 - Tridant

IBM has just released the next version of its Cognos Analytics enterprise platform, version 11.0.6 (or R6). Here's why you should upgrade from Cognos 10.

Rich Text Commentary for your Cognos Reporting - Tridant

Here, we introduce another option of Cognos reports for you to consider that utilises the integration between IBM Cognos and IBM Cognos TM1.

The Alteryx Download Tool - Tridant

If you would like to connect to your own SaaS application, the Alteryx ‘Download’ tool is the perfect option to explore via a simple drag-and-drop interface.

Tridant Achieves IBM Platinum Level Business Partner - Tridant

IBM has recognised our long-term commitment and dedication to our clients by awarding us the accolade of IBM Platinum Level Business Partner.

Deploying TM1 Workload on AWS - Tridant

In this blog I have listed factors to take into consideration for deploying TM1 Workloads on AWS, based on my recent field experience.

Adaptive OfficeConnect - Adaptive Insights Officeconnect Installation - Tridant

Adaptive OfficeConnect is a game-changer allowing an organisation to deliver high-quality, instantly updated management reports within the Microsoft Office Suite.

The Future of TM1 Hierarchies - TM1 Dimension - Tridant

This post talks about the future of TM1 hierarchies, which will allow you to hold multiple discrete rollups or consolidations within the same dimension.

Tableau vs Power BI - Tridant

Why are organisations still buying Tableau when Power BI is perceived to be free? Here's the comparison.

IBM Planning Analytics: Deep Dive Part 2 - Tridant

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) is the new front end for TM1 which assists in creating dashboards and visualisations via just drag and drop.

IBM Planning Analytics: Deep Dive Part 1 - Tridant

Here’s a deeper dive into some IBM Planning Analytics topics from lessons learned and some tips & tricks from the Tridant team.

Introduction To Alteryx - Alteryx Presentation Slides - Tridant

Alteryx makes it simple to quickly blend your data in a repeatable drag-and-drop workflow, without needing any special tools or programming skills.

The Future Is Now: Integrated IM, BI & FPM In The Cloud - Tridant

It’s time to consider a more modern architecture for your data warehouse, BI and TM1 solution.

IBM Cognos Analytics: Planning An Efficient Upgrade - Tridant

IBM’s Cognos Analytics enables business users to use the latest technology to better manage their organisation and achieve that competitive edge.

Your Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Process needs Predictive Analytics - Tridant

When it comes to planning, budgeting and forecasting, companies need predictive analytics to deliver accurate and timely plans, budgets and forecasts.

6 Key Benefits of IBM dashDB: Cloud Data Warehouse - Tridant

IBM dashDB is a fully managed in-memory cloud data warehousing service for developers, database administrators, business analysts, data scientists and more.