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David Fellers

Dave is CEO of Bramasol. After joining the company in 2007 as VP of Professional Services, he became CEO in 2011 and has led the company through record-setting growth and revenues highlighted by a successful re-focusing on serving the Office of the CFO. By building a deep and broad consulting practice that leverages our Comply, Optimize, Transform™ disciplines and a track record of co-innovation with SAP, Dave has positioned Bramasol as the go-to partner for clients that are looking to move into the Digital Solutions Economy and/or to leverage the Digital Transformation of finance using SAP S/4HANA.
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Data Visualization is Key to Seeing and Understanding the Full Picture

Tue, Apr 30, 2019 @ 02:47 PM / by David Fellers posted in CEO perspective, data visualization

In previous blog posts, we’ve looked at several key issues facing companies and particularly finance leaders in the Office of the CFO, by covering topics such as Building Finance Innovation on a strong Compliance Foundation, Changing Roles and Responsibilities for the Office of the CFO, The Shift Toward Predictive Accounting, and Analytics is the New Face of Financial Transformation.

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Treasury Optimization Starts with a Global Approach to Cash Management

Tue, Apr 9, 2019 @ 04:12 PM / by David Fellers posted in CEO perspective, Treasury Management, cash management

Companies operating in today’s diverse global environments face unprecedented challenges with regard to managing capital assets, especially cash accounts that are distributed throughout multiple operating entities in different countries.  These challenges are exacerbated within companies that have grown via merger and acquisition (M&A) strategies, which often results in trying to manage cash accounts across a variety of legacy financial systems.

CFOs and treasury departments need to optimize their companies’ cash agility amidst volatile foreign currency exchange (FX) environments while also complying with constantly changing regulatory environments and escalating global competitive pressures.

At the same time, many companies are realizing that leveraging new treasury-focused technologies and best practices in cash management can provide valuable benefits in terms of improving operating results, maximizing asset utilization and enhancing their ability to quickly respond to new opportunities.

Instituting strong enterprise-wide cash management is also saving valuable time and resources, thereby enabling finance staff to better contribute to high-value activities such as analysis, planning and decision support.

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Join Bramasol at SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference 2019

Wed, Apr 3, 2019 @ 07:29 AM / by David Fellers posted in SAPPHIRE 2019, ASUG Annual Conferance

Bramasol, an SAP gold partner, is pleased to participate again this year at SAPPHIRE NOW® and ASUG Annual Conference being held May 7-9 in Orlando, Florida.

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Analytics is the New Face of Financial Transformation

Thu, Jan 10, 2019 @ 05:38 AM / by David Fellers posted in FinancialTransformation-Hot-Tips, CEO perspective, Thought Leadership

People are hard-wired to recognize and interpret faces with amazing speed, accuracy and attention to detail. Even as infants we quickly learn to know our own parents’ faces and to differentiate them from strangers’ faces. Throughout life, the ability to automatically pick up on subtle facial cues and to “read” the meaning behind them are critical factors for streamlining complex social interactions and enabling rapid decisions such as friend vs. foe, and cooperation vs. opposition.

Imagine if you met someone without a face. How would you even begin to interact with them?

Well, that’s how most CFOs and other C-level executives feel when they hear the term “Financial Transformation” without a way to clearly visualize what it means.

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The Shift Toward Predictive Accounting

Wed, Nov 7, 2018 @ 06:06 AM / by David Fellers posted in predictive analytics, analytics, CEO perspective, Thought Leadership

Accounting has traditionally been a backwards looking profession.  Let me be clear that I did not just call accountants backwards people, but in general their mandate has been to document, audit and verify what has already happened.

However, things are changing rapidly in the world of accounting.  As I covered in a recent blog post on The Changing Role of the CFO, there is a major shift toward broader and more forward-looking responsibilities within the Office of the CFO and the accounting profession in general. 

Some of the forces helping make these changes a reality are enterprise-wide integration of advanced analytics, unifying financial information in a single-source-of-truth, movement toward continuous-close processes and the rise of Machine Learning.

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Changing Roles and Responsibilities for the Office of the CFO

Wed, Sep 26, 2018 @ 06:08 AM / by David Fellers posted in CEO perspective, S/4HANA, Thought Leadership

As companies grapple with accelerating changes across most global markets, they face critical challenges for staying ahead of competitors, sustaining growth, maximizing profitability, complying with regulatory requirements and establishing organizational agility to respond quickly to the unexpected.

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Compliance is Not a Sprint; It’s a Marathon.  Your Strategy Needs to Go the Distance

Fri, Sep 7, 2018 @ 06:30 AM / by David Fellers posted in CEO perspective, Thought Leadership

Over recent years, companies throughout the world are experiencing a series of major changes in regulatory and compliance mandates that are disrupting existing accounting and business processes. 

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Building Finance Innovation upon a strong Compliance Foundation

Sat, Aug 11, 2018 @ 04:43 PM / by David Fellers posted in finance innovation, CEO perspective

We can all agree that any physical building needs to have a strong foundation to assure safety of the occupants and sufficient resilience to maintain structural integrity against external forces, such as wind, flood, earthquakes and other potentially damaging events.

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Advanced Analytics Provide the Keys to Compliance, Optimization and Transformation

Wed, Jun 20, 2018 @ 01:40 PM / by David Fellers posted in analytics, financial transformation, Thought Leadership

If you think of today’s businesses as being like complex organisms, then it becomes easier to understand the critical role of advanced analytics in monitoring organizational health and supporting growth. Just as your body’s nervous system, immune responses and circulatory network provide continuous sensory feedback to identify problems and maintain healthy functioning, your company’s analytics processes are critical for organizational adaptation and survival.

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