The Hidden Weight of the First 100 Days: What Leaders Really Carry After Acquisition

The deal is signed. The announcement goes out. The congratulatory messages roll in. And then, almost immediately, the weight hits. For CFOs, CEOs, and founders, post-acquisition life is not just operationally demanding—it is psychologically intense. Expectations escalate overnight, governance tightens, and scrutiny increases. The same leaders who successfully built the business must now operate at a new level of rigor, cadence, and transparency. In our previous article, The First 100 Days: Inside the Pressure [...]

2026-03-24T16:10:19+00:00M&A, Planning and Forecasting, Reporting|
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Reporting Agility: The New KPI for Finance Leaders

Reporting Cycles Aren’t Keeping Up For many finance teams, the month doesn’t end when the books close. It ends weeks later — once spreadsheets are reconciled, systems aligned, and the management report is finally ready. The challenge isn’t just the close itself. It’s the pre-close complexity: data scattered across multiple ERPs, manual consolidation, disconnected systems, and last-minute adjustments. Controllers spend days chasing down errors. CFOs are left with stale numbers. In a world where boards [...]

2025-10-01T19:50:07+00:00Business, Data Analysis, FP&A, General, Key Topics, M&A, News, Planning and Forecasting, Profitability, Reporting|
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From Close to Reporting: Are You Keeping Pace with Finance Leaders? 

Every finance leader knows the feeling. The books are closed, the reconciliations are complete, and yet the real work is only just beginning. Reporting packs need to be assembled, investor-ready decks must be polished, and the executive team is waiting — sometimes impatiently — for clarity. For many organizations, this process is still far too slow. Even when the month-end close itself is completed within a reasonable timeframe, the delivery of accurate reporting can drag [...]

2025-10-01T18:20:14+00:00Automation, Business, Data Analysis, FP&A, General, Key Topics, M&A, News, Planning and Forecasting, Profitability|
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Q2 2025 Private Equity Trends: What Leaders at PE-Backed Firms Need to Know — And How to Stay Ahead

Insights from PitchBook’s Q2 PE Breakdown, with practical ways to respond Private equity isn’t standing still — but it’s not racing ahead either. Q2 2025 saw deal activity bounce back, driven by add-ons and a few megadeals. But exits stalled, and fundraising showed signs of consolidation. Underneath the surface, leaders at PE-backed firms are being asked to do more — with fewer resources, tighter timelines, and growing complexity. So what now? At EBM, we’ve [...]

2025-08-11T18:56:37+00:00Big Data, Business, Data Analysis, EBM Software, FP&A, Key Topics, M&A, Planning and Forecasting, Profitability, Reporting|
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The Importance of Accurate Data and Visibility to Reduce Recession Impact

With the fast pace of business, data science is the way to elevate the playing field. Businesses can't get to the top without it. According to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute, data-driven organizations have the potential to increase their revenue by up to 20% compared to their peers. To explore this topic further, we turned to Grigorios Skolidis - the VP of Data Science at EBM - whose extensive expertise in this field [...]

2024-05-31T16:43:03+00:00Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Data Analysis, Data Science, EBM Software, M&A|
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Catalyst has been named Back-to-Back as a High Performer in G2’s Summer Report Grid!

G2 announced that Catalyst® has been listed in their 2023 Summer Report Grid Report – for the second time in a row! Catalyst® achieved High Performer on the Grid Report by receiving positive reviews from verified users in the forecast and budgeting, financial analysis, and corporate performance management categories. The biggest asset of the Catalyst® software, from my point of view, is our ability to understand the results. It gives [...]

2023-12-06T17:06:58+00:00Business, EBM Software, FP&A, M&A, Planning and Forecasting, Point of Sale, Profitability, Reporting, Retail|
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Bearish Conditions Could Set Up Private Equity to Save the Day.

Sitting on record amounts of cash, PE eyes opportunities to grab distressed investments. As the market becomes increasingly bearish and cities across the United States brace for the impact of a potential quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, business owners are left with many distressing questions. How long will this last? How badly will the cash flow be impacted? Will we be able to pay our bills? Will we survive? There is no doubt some [...]

2023-12-06T17:29:57+00:00M&A|
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Will Record Funding Be A Tipping Point for AI?

Artificial Intelligence is steadily growing to be ubiquitous in modern life. From the way our food is grown to facial recognition technology to deep learning that turns big data into actionable insights, new AI technologies are constantly on the rise. And so are the companies that are creating them.   Q2 of 2019 has been a landmark quarter in terms of investments in AI. Funding for AI startups reached a stunning $7.4 billion in Q2, [...]

2023-12-06T17:39:13+00:00Artificial Intelligence, M&A|
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5 Ways IoT Technology Will Make Companies More Profitable in the Next 5 Years

It is estimated that there will be an astonishing 75 billion devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) by the year 2025. While some of these might seem like luxuries to us now (Amazon Alexa or Nest thermostats for example), many more have very real and very practical implications. In the business world, new IoT technologies are growing like wildfire. Here are five areas where we feel these devices will be making a very [...]

2023-12-06T17:42:21+00:00Big Data, IoT, M&A|
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Landlords of the Last Mile

E-Commerce Logistics Demands Lead to Real Estate Boom. Blackstone Group, the world’s largest private equity firm, just completed the single largest private real estate deal in history. So, what did they buy? Lush oceanside property primed for development? Perhaps a commercial district in the heart of the Big Apple, ripe for revitalization? Or maybe a cherry spot in one of the world’s hottest travel destinations? Actually, it’s none of the above. Blackstone just invested $18.7 [...]

2023-12-06T17:45:45+00:00M&A|
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