Why Removing Admin Rights Is the Key to Better Cyber Insurance Rates
The cyber insurance application process is no longer simple. What once involved a handful of yes-or-no questions has evolved into a detailed security review. Premiums are increasing, underwriters are asking tougher questions, and organizations are being asked to prove they can prevent the most common cyberattacks. Today’s carriers are no longer satisfied with surface-level controls […]
How Cloud-Native Environments Are Redefining Highly-Regulated Industries
For decades, it’s been widely assumed that highly-regulated industries, like financial services and insurance sectors, can’t use the cloud due to regulatory complexity. This made on-prem legacy systems and data centers the default choice as companies believed they were inherently safer.
Healthy Pets, Happy Employees:
HR leaders are constantly thinking about how their benefits package can support an employee’s entire family. That means not just our human family members, but our pets as well. Like human healthcare costs, veterinary expenses continue to rise, so employees who are pet parents need better options. The way to meet this need while managing […]
How Simplifying Payments Drives Better Financial Performance
This playbook explores how healthcare providers can modernize billing and payments with new technologies. Healthcare companies need a new approach to complicated billing and payments systems if they hope to overcome rising costs, increasingly uninsured patients, and shifting patient expectations. This playbook explores how healthcare providers can modernize billing and payments with new technologies. Discover […]
Artificial intelligence
Since the advent of ChatGPT, several banks are charging ahead to take primacy in harnessing the burgeoning technology. As the banking sector further ventures into the new space, we cover the many internal and external use cases for AI and machine learning technology. INCLUDED IN THIS TRENDLINE Customers Bank deepens ties with OpenAI Banks struggle […]
Indirect Tax Compliance Pressures in Financial Services
Despite being an industry built for compliance, the increasing pressure for accuracy and precision in tax compliance has reshaped the priorities of financial services. This infographic, based on survey data from Sovos, highlights how financial services are being pushed to operate with greater precision and scale. Discover five key points that are transforming how finance […]
The Channel’s Billion-Dollar Blind Spotn
Over 70% of global spend flows through channel partners. Most of the companies driving it can’t explain which partners, programs, or investments are responsible. Across Extu-managed programs with closed-loop measurement, documented sales ROI ranges from 5:1 to 69:1. Most programs never get there because they can’t see what’s working. The State of Channel Attribution 2026 […]
Transforming AP Automation in SAP: A Practical Path to Touchless Invoicingn
Manual AP processes create more than inefficiency. They limit visibility, introduce risk, slow cash flow, and prevent finance teams from focusing on higher-value work. Despite significant investments in SAP, many organizations still rely on manual invoice processing, disconnected workflows, and time-consuming approval cycles. The result is increased operational risk, slower decision-making, and limited visibility into […]
A better approach to energy procurementn
For years, manufacturers could count on stable, predictable energy costs. But rising global demand for natural gas, AI-driven power consumption, electrification, and mounting pressure on the grid have fundamentally changed the market, creating greater uncertainty and exposing manufacturers to more financial risk. In this era of volatility, manufacturers can no longer afford a passive approach […]
What AI Can Do for Your Bankn
Banks are joining companies across industries in embracing the latest AI iterations, and small- and medium-sized firms stand to transform their operations with their investments. This Industry Pulse brings together four articles that explore AI use in banking, including why financial services firms have increased their investment in AI and how this investment can have […]