Beyond Historical Concepts: Building a Future-Ready Controlling Function
August 18, 2026
Insights from the Adriatic Controlling Conference We continue our blog series highlighting the standout sessions from this year’s Adriatic Controlling Conference with Beyond Historical Concepts: Driving Future-Ready Controlling, presented at the 21st Adriatic Controlling Conference (26 May, Hotel Mons, Ljubljana) by Christian Brumm, Head of Finance Operations Excellence at Zalando and co-author of Agile Konzepte ...
Read moreAI in CPM: Is Your Finance Team Spending Time on Data or Decisions?
July 9, 2026
Artificial intelligence has officially evolved from a futuristic talking point into an active, conversational partner within modern finance architecture. Yet in many finance departments, a critical friction point remains: teams still spend up to 70% of their time collecting, cleaning, and validating data, leaving only a fraction of their time for actual decision-making. For Corporate ...
Read moreThe infrastructure challenge behind enterprise AI
June 18, 2026
AI-Ready Data Series — Part 3 In the previous article, we focused on one of the most important foundations of trustworthy AI: context. Lukas Zimmermann’s session at our AI Success Starts with AI-Ready Data event showed why AI-ready data is not just about moving data into a modern platform or building another dashboard. AI systems ...
Read moreWhen Dashboards Replace Guesswork: Resalta’s Journey to Real-Time Operational Controlling
June 16, 2026
Insights from the 21st Adriatik Controlling Conference How do you manage a portfolio of 229 active projects across seven countries, spanning two distinct business models, with some contracts running for 25 years? That was the opening question posed by Aleš Jurak, Chief Operating Officer at Resalta, during his presentation at this year’s Adriatik Controlling Conference ...
Read moreFrom Reactive Reporting to Proactive Controlling: Lessons from Zavarovalnica Sava
June 11, 2026
Insights from the 21st Adriatik Controlling Conference At this year’s 21st Adriatik Controlling Conference, dedicated to the modernization of controlling, one session stood out. Matic Hren, Information Solutions Architect at Zavarovalnica Sava, took the stage to walk a room full of finance and controlling professionals through a real-world case study: how a single infrastructure decision ...
Read moreData Chaos or Single Source of Truth? Pure AI vs. a Hybrid Semantic Layer
June 5, 2026
Imagine the following scenario: your finance department reports revenue that is 10% higher than the sales team’s figures. Meanwhile, executive management receives a third and fourth version of the exact same key metric from two different AI agents. Sounds familiar? In an era when companies are scrambling to implement artificial intelligence as quickly as possible, ...
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