Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Client Story August 19, 2025 Innovative Data Visualisation Tool Transforms Microsoft Tax Department’s Complex Internal Processes Microsoft’s tax department, which serves the many legal entities across this large global organisation, was at a pivotal moment. While it was effectively meeting the needs of those internal entities, the group recognised their processes were largely manual and particularly inefficient. The team wanted to transform itself to drive efficiencies, both within the department and across the larger… Whitepaper August 16, 2018 Automating the Financial Services Industry: Opportunities Abound, and APAC Firms Are Leading the Way Across major industries, robotic process automation, or RPA, is being used as part of an organisation’s digital transformation strategy to automate burdensome, high-volume and time-consuming business processes. Best suited for rule-based transactional and repetitive tasks involving structured and/or semi-structured data, logic-driven robots, or “bots,” are used to capture and interpret… Client Story April 9, 2021 Global Chocolatier Adopts Privacy Technology to Prevent Data Exposure Data privacy has become a strategic priority as companies adapt to comply with rapidly proliferating data privacy laws. Recent years have seen the adoption of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the more recent California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), and similar regulations. These safeguards require companies to document the types of protected personal data used in… Survey January 24, 2022 Strategic Convergence: Three Focal Points That Require CIO/CFO Collaboration As CIOs strive to foster a data-first mindset throughout their organisations, they’ll discover that their CFOs are targeting the same objective in their finance groups — to make better decisions and take smarter risks. Protiviti’s 2021 Global Finance Trends Survey, an annual global survey of CFOs and finance leaders, shows that CFOs are strengthening their already-intense focus on data analytics… Podcast April 19, 2023 Podcast | ESG and Data Management – with Alyse Mauro Mason and Mark Carson and Zachary Unger Data management is a critical component of an organisation’s reporting and required disclosures, whether they are for regulatory authorities or stakeholders. The needs are no different when it comes to environmental, social and governance (ESG) – an area of growing global importance for organisations worldwide. In this podcast, Protiviti Associate Director Alyse Mauro Mason interviews Protiviti… Podcast Transcript June 16, 2023 Transcript | ESG and Data Management – with Alyse Mauro Mason and Mark Carson and Zachary Unger Data management is a critical component of an organisation’s reporting and required disclosures, whether they are for regulatory authorities or stakeholders. The needs are no different when it comes to environmental, social and governance (ESG) – an area of growing global importance for organisations worldwide. In this podcast, Protiviti Associate Director Alyse Mauro Mason interviews Protiviti… Whitepaper July 27, 2022 Balancing Opportunity and Risk: Security for RPA Platforms Robotic process automation (RPA) was first used to execute predetermined, rules-based tasks twenty or so years ago. Since then, RPA has functioned as a virtual workforce for businesses, which benefit from its power to collect data, execute processes rapidly and unerringly, and facilitate higher levels of quality — while enhancing customer satisfaction.We’ve previously addressed at length the… Newsletter November 13, 2024 A Director’s Road Map for Effective AI Implementation Almost every organisation around the world is trying to figure out what artificial intelligence (AI) offers and how to deploy it to move the business forward. A road map can help directors engage more effectively in these strategic conversations. With the emergence of generative AI (GenAI), organisations all over the globe are taking a close look at the tremendous promise AI offers in… Resource Guide February 5, 2025 A guide to the EU AI Act: Regulations, compliance and best practices As artificial intelligence (AI) continues its explosive growth within organisations around the world, with virtually every business function exploring opportunities to increase productivity, efficiency and revenue growth, a growing collection of regulations, standards and frameworks around the world is beginning to emerge. Among the most notable of these regulations is the European Union… Blogs April 29, 2022 Validation of Machine Learning Models: Challenges and Alternatives The Potential of Machine Learning (ML) to deliver value to banks has created something of a gold rush in adopting this methodology for banking applications. ML can produce immense benefits when applied to complex nonlinear problems where there is a large amount of data, particularly unstructured data. Use cases for incorporating machine learning in banking include asset management, fraud… Load More