Do you get those jokes about being in the bookkeeping department? Is it a Herculean effort for you to produce the monthly accounts (only to feel foolish that you have to field questions that you could have answered proactively with more time to interpret the numbers)? Why is it only the finance department that seems to want an integrated system? Why is your most exercised skill the art of spreadsheet pivot tables?

I was a Controller and it was miserable. With the benefit of hindsight, a stint as an IT Director (and yes folks, it’s not as easy as it looks), a role now where I see many different finance organizations (or all shapes and sizes) and plenty of red wine.  I think I know why.

The integrated ERP has lost its coolness. I say we make ERP cool again, and I think there’s nothing more hip than JD Edwards.

Author: Phil Walton

Phil Walton is an Certified Accountant and has been a Controller, then IT Director, in California over a global JD Edwards E1 installation and, having selected and implemented Insight himself to address the growing controls problems and efficiency weaknesses caused by spreadsheets, joined InsightSoftware.com in 2006 as Regional Manager for the Western Region and in 2011 became the VP of Sales, Americas. Phil has presented at Open World and Collaborate conferences, and many Quest and local User Groups.

accounts, Controller, ERP, Finance, JD Edwards, spreadsheet

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