Recent TRG blog posts

The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s objective was to find a flexible financial solution for use in a nonprofit setting in more than 1,500 sites around the world, and to stay up-to-date with current platforms, operating systems, and databases.

Companies spend millions of dollars developing and documenting their processes, policies, and controls, yet have little visibility into whether they’re being followed. With thousands of transactions to screen and systems being accessed by hundreds or thousands of employees whose statuses change daily, the process of monitoring for breaches—either accidental or intentional—can be both expensive and overwhelming. A strategic and automated approach is, therefore, essential.

The development of the Industrial Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing industry is in the midst of being shaped by the emerging industry trends. Today’s manufacturers have to meet their customers’ expectation of providing unique capabilities, precise specifications and constant accuracy in their products. It's critical for industry professionals to work out a clear definition of what they are, how they will evolve, and how they can boost the company's operations both now and in the future. 

In a more digitalised world, the finance leaders are expected to be forward-looking, evolved from their traditional role to provide data-driven analysis and insights. However, in reality, many CFOs still find it is difficult to keep up with the development, and therefore, is unable to deliver deep insights to support the risk management to spot new opportunities, weather economic shocks and volatility.

In July, Workday released its global “Finance Redefined” study, conducted by Longitude, which surveyed more than 670 finance leaders across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South Africa to get their vision and strategy on the future of the finance function and finance leadership.

You have probably experienced many cases where you’ve encountered the CV of the perfect candidate, who possesses an outstanding experience and checks all of your boxes. However, throughout the probation period, the candidate turns out to be unfit for your team and your organisation.

For a company located at a single site, the decision to upgrade or transition to a new financial management solution is relatively straightforward. Organisational systems and employees are all conveniently located under one roof, and the decision-making process is a linear journey.

Birst’s Connected Data Prep empowers business people to access and prepare data with a user-friendly, visual experience that eliminates the need for complicated scripting. Not only that, with Connected Data Prep you can network your analytics with data from colleagues, other departments, or your IT organisation, enriching your insights for smarter, more trusted decisions.

The International Labour Organisation's "World Employment Social Outlook" report has made some noteworthy predictions for the recruitment of the Asia-Pacific region and Vietnam for the coming year. Overall, the jobs outlook seems to be good for the near future, and Vietnamese job market is getting hotter than its neighbours in the region. 

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The data lake concept centres on landing all analysable data sets of any kind in raw or only lightly processed form into the easily expandable scale-out Hadoop infrastructure to ensure that the fidelity of the data is preserved.

Since its inception, the primary objective of business intelligence has been the creation of a top-down single source of truth from which organisations would centrally track KPIs and performance metrics with static reports and dashboards.

This stemmed from the proliferation of data in spreadsheets and reporting silos throughout organisations, often yielding different and conflicting results.