Insights and perspectives from the CoPlane team on finance operations, AI, and enterprise transformation.
As finance teams lost control to ERP complexity and outsourced processes, a new approach enables experts to reclaim sovereignty—not just requesting changes, but actively implementing them. Learn how subject matter experts can transform from process supplicants to process owners.
Despite decades of digital transformation, enterprise finance operations remain trapped in rigid processes. This post examines how organizational complexity becomes a prison, why current automation approaches fail, and what a truly intelligent finance operation requires.
The Big Four accounting firms operate within a system that transforms regulatory complexity into specialized services. But AI doesn't play by established rules - and it's about to demonstrate that many traditional approaches to compliance may be unnecessarily complex and costly.
The recent Celonis lawsuit against SAP reveals a deeper truth: enterprise software is deliberately designed to trap customers in a walled garden, where the price of exit is prohibitively high.
BPOs are an economic anachronism; the dinosaurs that somehow survived the meteor strike of automation. But their days are numbered.
Enterprise software has transformed everywhere—except in finance and operations. Why? Because ERP complexity isn’t an accident—it’s the business model. Massive implementation costs. Endless complexity. Vendor lock-in disguised as 'modernization'. For decades, ERP vendors have profited from keeping enterprise systems just complex enough to require perpetual maintenance.
The back-office of large enterprises is being held hostage by a triumvirate of third party service providers (Big ERP, Big BPO, and Big 4) with a vested interest in maintaining an inflationary, low-productivity regime. AI offers a way out.