inlumi blog

We live in volatile times where business challenges and changes occur every day at an accelerating pace. At the same time technology is also driving change starting with the digital behaviour of customers and all other activities in the entire value chain causing increased storage of so-called big data, which is also impacting the CFO Office.

Louise Baudou, Consultant at inlumi Sweden, describes life at inlumi as a starter.

I was impressed by inlumi the moment I sat down for my job interview, when I could tell that my interviewers were keen on sharing their knowledge. It immediately felt like a friendly environment where you can develop and where people are willing to help you develop; not just your manager or your boss, but everybody.

With Christmas nearly upon us, many people are busy planning for the festive season and starting to look forward to 2020. However, there might just be a nasty late Christmas present in store when Microsoft release their latest security update which is due towards March 2020.

inlumi is honoured to once again have all three of its main vendor partners selected by Gartner as visionaries and leaders in both the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Solutions and the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Close (FC) Solutions.

Oracle EPM 11.2 is the long-awaited sequel to EPM 11.1.2.4. EPM 11.1.2.4 has been with us since February 2015 and is starting to show its age with many company IT departments getting edgy about the end of support for their Microsoft and Oracle Linux platforms.

The hybrid world is still a reality. Systems including Oracle EPM are transitioning to the Cloud, but for many, these are still residing on-premise and this may be the case for some time to come.

What role does EPM integration have in this space? How can we get data into EPM Cloud applications from on-premise data sources? What about extracting data from Cloud sources? Surely these and other questions have arisen in recent years during the implementation of integration solutions in your organisation.

inlumi’s team members are central to our re-wilding and carbon offsetting targets. As of 1 October 2019 all inlumi team members will be carbon neutral, thanks to our partnership with Mossy Earth. For each person working at inlumi, two trees will be planted per month.

Up against some tough competition, inlumi is proud to have picked up an award at this year’s UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards event at the Kimpton Fitzroy Hotel in London on 3 October:

inlumi will always strive to be a company which contributes beyond our client delivery obligations and that includes taking care of the natural environment. We are proud that team members across our seven European locations are equally committed to making a positive impact on the world around them. 

For the few of us who use Oracle EPM products with a Mac, working with Smart View has up until now required some complications. It has meant running a virtual PC and using Excel or Word on that. In June 2019 in the EPM Cloud release, Oracle introduced a Smart View that you could use natively on Mac. Can I finally turn off my virtual PC? It’s time to give the Mac version a go. Here’s my take on Smart View for Mac.