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IDU NEWS AND INSIGHTS


When AI is bad for business!
The industrial revolution brought about massive changes in how we work that rippled across society. Machinery replaced human labour in...
Mar 3, 20213 min read


Register today for the IDU User Conference Sessions!
The IDU Team will be hosting two User Sessions on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th of March, respectively. Each session will be 1 hour...
Feb 24, 20211 min read


Finance teams love IDU
The internet has brought many things to our fingertips, even more so over the past year, from buying groceries to hosting meetings,...
Feb 15, 20212 min read


BURGER KING® South Africa highly recommends IDU
Every day, more than 11 million guests visit BURGER KING® restaurants globally. Founded in 1954, BURGER KING® is the second-largest...
Feb 9, 20212 min read


Typical budget cycles are no longer fit for purpose
Do you look back with nostalgia to a time when the financial year was 365 days long? Twelve months to ponder change and plan new...
Feb 4, 20213 min read


2021 and the rise of the real-time data driven CFO
Many businesses are looking for innovative solutions to planning as they brace themselves for the rollercoaster year of 2021. Visionary...
Jan 22, 20212 min read


Removing friction from the world in 2021
In my October column, I grappled with the utopia and dystopia of building a business today, where social distancing and remote working...
Jan 12, 20213 min read


Another win for IDU
IDU has once again been recognised as a Leader in the Budgeting and Forecasting Category and High Performer in the Corporate Performance...
Dec 22, 20202 min read


IDU selected as one of the best budgeting solutions for 2021.
IDU is delighted to have been selected as one of the best budgeting software solutions for 2021 by Digital.com. Digital.com, a leading...
Dec 17, 20201 min read


How to drive user uptake in a world without a user manual
Hands up when last any of you read the user manual for anything. And not out of any pig-headedness or sloth. Because you simply don’t...
Dec 3, 20203 min read


5 benefits to automating your financial reporting
The financial close is often a challenging and time-consuming process, and according to Deloitte, it is a process often run by...
Nov 26, 20202 min read


The utopia and dystopia of building businesses today
At the end of the Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, one of the commentators argues that digital technology is neither one thing...
Nov 12, 20203 min read


Say goodbye to say hello
It’s time for a bit of tough love. The health crisis happened and will have ripple effects for months and years. But the time to start...
Nov 4, 20202 min read


IDU leads the way in terms of User Adoption
G2 Crowd, the world’s leading business solution review platform, recently released its Fall 2020 Reports on Budgeting and Forecasting and...
Oct 13, 20202 min read


IDU and Quick Consols form a strategic alliance
IDU, the corporate performance management (CPM) software company who’s award winning solution idu-Concept transforms budgeting,...
Oct 5, 20202 min read


Scenario planning according to Forrest Gump
Back in 1995, a research feature in MIT Sloan Management Review recommended that businesses turn to scenario planning to remove tunnel...
Sep 29, 20203 min read


Green shoots of recovery start today
Within 48 hours of COVID-19 lockdown being announced, I know of a boutique clothing company that pivoted their entire organisation to...
Sep 8, 20203 min read


How do we plan in the face of uncertainty?
According to Heraclitus “The only constant in life is change”, and never before have we felt this so acutely. Even before the Covid-19...
Aug 28, 20202 min read


Public Cloud 2.0
The remote work horse has bolted and it’s going to have far-reaching consequences, even on the technology that makes it possible in the...
Aug 14, 20202 min read


Why technology is no longer an option
If it feels like the pace of technology change is accelerating that’s because it is. Each major technological step forward spurs further...
Aug 6, 20204 min read
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