Take the Financial Management Quiz!

Strong financial management is one of the keys to success for companies in the technology and media industries. To stay competitive, organizations are setting aside their inflexible, on-premises systems for a cloud-based financial management system that enables them to support current and future business needs, manage uncertainty and risk, and drive more intelligent decision-making across their entire organization.

Take the Financial Management Quiz to establish what kind of buyer you are, and we’ll instantly deliver the most helpful content, so you can achieve your financial management goals.

1. Where are you in your financial management journey?

We need an agile financial management system to support our new subscription business model We need a cloud-based financial management system that will support our ability to excel at transformational events like M&As We need to modernize our quote-to-cash (Q2C) system so we can be more agile

2. What is your biggest financial management challenge?

Our financial management system doesn’t enable us to successfully leverage transformational events like IPOs and divestitures Our Q2C system is composed of siloed systems and fragmented workflows Our subscription billing solution has a high cost of ownership

3. Why is improving your financial management important to your organization?

We want to exploit the value of our data, but our Q2C system doesn’t enable us to do so We want to gain access to new revenue streams via a subscription business model We want to be able to excel during transformational milestones like acquisitions and spin-offs

4. What would be the biggest business benefit of a cloud-based financial management solution?

Ability to eliminate data silos and accelerate plan-execute-analyze cycles Ability to achieve optimal outcomes from transformational events Ease of new subscription business model application integration and implementation

5. What is your biggest financial management challenge?

Our current subscription billing solution involves too many billing systems and systems of record Our current financial management system doesn’t support the type of accurate real-time data analysis we need for transformational events Our current Q2C system doesn’t enable us to conduct “what if?” scenario planning

6. What do you wish your current financial management system could do differently?

I wish our current subscription billing solution integrated better with ERP and CRM systems, and product catalogs I wish our current Q2C system had our CRM, financial management, and planning and analysis apps integrated into a single system I wish our current financial management system could be agile in reacting to change so we could handle events like acquisitions

7. Regarding digital acceleration, what are you trying to accomplish?

We want to better react to new transformational events We want to support new business models for increased revenue We want to create a decision-ready organization

8. What do you see as the biggest benefit of a cloud-based financial management platform?

It would enable us to conduct planning, modeling, and scenario analysis during key pivot points of our company’s evolution It would enable us to modernize our Q2C system so it would serve as the foundation for enterprise-wide commercial operations It would reduce complexity by consolidating transactional and subscription business systems into a single cloud system

9. Why is a financial management service provider’s customer service important to you?

We would have the support we need to support new business models We would have the support we need to achieve transformational excellence We would have the support we need for best-in-class Q2C

10. What are the likely consequences for your business if you don’t improve your financial management?

We won’t be able to deeply analyze changes and explore how we will respond to them We won’t be able to generate steady revenue streams via a new subscription business We won’t be able to achieve above-average outcomes from transformations consistently