Microsoft FRx has been around the block a few times. This financial reporting and analysis software sprung out of its namesake, FRx Software Corporation, way back in 1991. Just to put that birthday in perspective, here are a few other things that happened in 1991: After the Internet became available for unrestricted commercial use, the […]
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The end is near: Microsoft to end all support for Windows XP
Microsoft has announced that all support for Windows XP will end on April 8, 2014. If you’re still running this version after support officially ceases and desists, you won’t receive technical support or important security updates for your Windows software. Since Windows XP is the second most common version of the Windows operation system, you stand […]
Report: Managing and Retaining Data Tops 2013 Technology Priorities for Accounting Firms
A recent survey from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) shows that managing and retaining data tops the list of technology priorities for North American accounting firms. Lately we’ve seen exponential increases in both the volume and the complexity of information in the accounting industry. As volume […]
Benchmarking the Finance Function: Manual vs. Automated Accounting Systems
Accounting Web posted an excellent article today highlighting the fact that “nearly two-thirds of finance departments in US companies and one-half in Canadian companies are still using a manual accounting system.” Accounting Web learned this surprising tidbit from the recently published fourth annual report from the Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) and Robert Half, Benchmarking […]
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What You Can Learn from the USPS Data Governance Audit Report
A report issued by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General has concluded, through a series of thorough audits, that the USPS suffers from a bad case of poor data governance. Like many public sector entities, the USPS is struggling along with the national economy. Yet as one of the largest IT infrastructures in […]
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Eliminate EDGAR XBRL Validation Errors using IBM Cognos FSR from IBM
nexDimension is pleased that its technology partner, IBM, a leader in integrated XBRL filing, announced that its IBM Cognos FSR product is the only major XBRL creation software solution that filed without any EDGAR Filer Manual (EFM) XBRL validation errors in the latest filing period. (An EFM validation error is an indication of non-compliance with […]
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Microsoft and IBM Cognos C7 Join Forces
nexDimension is pleased that two of its technology partners, IBM, a leader in corporate performance management (CPM), and Microsoft are officially collaborating to provide customers world-wide with budgeting, planning & financial statement consolidations solutions that are ideally tuned for the Microsoft technology platform. Both organizations are allocating resources and dedicating sales & marketing teams to […]