Most finance teams, however, still spend too much time in manual, spreadsheet-based processes—collecting, consolidating and validating data before they can even begin to analyse it. Because of that, finance professionals are often too slow in delivering the plans, budgets, forecasts, reports and value-added analysis that management requires. So, leading organizations are investing in capabilities to drive greater speed, agility and foresight—to help them anticipate and respond to the unpredictable forces driving the economy.