Sponsor: Oracle
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: John Van Decker, John O'Rourke
Type: Audio (30 minutes)
How do you streamline the financial close process while ensuring financial statement quality? In this program, two leading industry experts help you solve that challenge.
First, John Van Decker, Research VP, at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., discusses why it’s important for financial close solutions to be designed for users to manage the entire close process. You’ll hear about the key elements that will guide your organization towards a ‘world class close’. And you’ll learn about the critical touch points and synergies needed between governance, risk, and compliance and enterprise performance management solutions.
Then John O'Rourke, Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle Corporation, discusses what Oracle is doing to help their customers streamline the end-to-end close process. Learn how to address the new XBRL filing requirements. Discover how to improve your management reporting and business insight. And find out how to integrate your governance, risk, and compliance with your enterprise performance management.
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About John O'Rourke, Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle Corporation
John O'Rourke is Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle Corporation, focusing on EPM products. With a background in accounting and finance, John has over 25 years of experience in the software industry, and 13 years of experience in Product Marketing at Hyperion and Oracle.
John has also held positions in strategic marketing and product marketing at Dun & Bradstreet Software, and Kenan Systems before joining Hyperion. John has a BS degree in accounting from Bentley College and an MBA from Boston College.
About John Van Decker, Research VP, Gartner
As part of the administrative applications, compliance and business intelligence teams, John looks after the research areas for everything that is CFO-related. John is the North American lead for these areas and focus on how to bring a technology solution into an enterprise, including the software, services and change management that will be required to achieve business value.
He has spent many years on the fence between the IT and Finance organizations, alternating back and forth several times over a 23 year career. As a user, developer and implementer of financial management and operational applications, John has also worked for a software firm as VP of Strategy and spent over 5 years as an industry analyst in my focus areas.
