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Everyone has technical debt. The question is what to do with it. Refactor now? Wait for the next feature? Build on it and hope it holds? If you’re tired of debating whether to clean up or move on, this session helps you frame the debt conversation in a way that supports both speed and stability.
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In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, organisations face a critical challenge: how to modernise their legacy systems while managing costs, maintaining security, and ensuring operational continuity. This exclusive round table discussion brings together CIOs, CTOs, and Digital Leaders to explore best practices for legacy and lifecycle management. Key topics include extending the lifespan of existing systems, mitigating cyber security risks, optimising costs, and integrating legacy platforms with modern technologies. We’ll also delve into sustainability, workforce challenges, and future-proofing IT infrastructures to navigate technological obsolescence.
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Architecture doesn’t happen in diagrams. It happens in minds, seasoned, curious, sharp minds that understand how the pieces fit. But who’s shaping these minds? Who’s growing the next generation of digital architects? If you’re responsible for complex systems, and for the people designing them, this session is for you.
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Everyone has technical debt. The question is what to do with it. Refactor now? Wait for the next feature? Build on it and hope it holds? If you’re tired of debating whether to clean up or move on, this session helps you frame the debt conversation in a way that supports both speed and stability.
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Architecture doesn’t happen in diagrams. It happens in minds, seasoned, curious, sharp minds that understand how the pieces fit. But who’s shaping these minds? Who’s growing the next generation of digital architects? If you’re responsible for complex systems, and for the people designing them, this session is for you.
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Agile delivery often collides with inflexible infrastructures. One team wants to release weekly. Another is waiting six months for a new test environment. Sounds familiar? If your infra team is tired of being the bottleneck, and your devs are tired of waiting, this session opens a path forward.
Read MoreHow RSM Uses Alteryx to Decode Crypto and Blockchain Transactions
RSM, a global tax and audit firm, faced the challenge of processing complex cryptocurrency transactions. Manual methods were time-consuming, error-prone, and hindered efficiency. By adopting Alteryx, RSM automated data extraction, standardization, and analysis, significantly reducing processing time and improving accuracy.
RSM is a global tax and audit firm specializing in assurance, tax and consulting services for middle market leaders. They’ve come a long way from their 1926 beginnings in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The company has 57,000 employees in 120 countries who deliver “future-focused technology powered by human insights.”
RSM urges its clients to “experience the power of being understood,” a promise that the company’s employees will take the time to truly understand them, will bring tailored ideas and insight to their environment and will commit to helping them make confident decisions about their future.
Cryptocurrency is everywhere. An estimated 400 million people and/or organizations around the world currently hold at least one crypto asset. But because of its obscure and sometimes hidden nature – transactions are tracked on a series of anonymous Blockchain registries – there is a common misconception that crypto assets are not liable for taxes.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, tax authorities across the globe are stepping up enforcement efforts around crypto-derived income, placing a burden on individuals and organizations to track transactions and determine tax implications.
Companies who do tax prep have struggled to find an efficient way of analyzing the quickly rising number of cryptocurrency transactions. RSM found themselves in exactly that situation. Their team was taking, on average, two weeks to manually decode 200 transactions with an error rate that hovered around 50%. They knew they needed to find a better way.
“We take data from the blockchain, which is known for being messy, unstandardized, what some people call the Wild West,” says Zack Szykowny, Manager of the Center for Advanced Tax Technology at RSM. “There’s no set ways, just a lot of things that are undetermined.”
The variety of unique wallet addresses and the lack of standardization among the many blockchains created headaches, recalls Alula Zeryihun, Financial Services Tax Manager at RSM. “The manual aspect of the work usually involves people putting together Excel tables that reconcile transactions and activities.”
First off, we said, “How can we empower our people and free them up to do more value-added tasks for our clients instead of sitting there and copying and pasting data? How can we streamline that process?”
The team at RSM turned to Alteryx to help them streamline, decode and standardize all that complex blockchain data. “The question,” Zeryihun says, “was ‘How do you create a standard format so you can categorize all the activities in a manner in which you feel comfortable?’”
To improve RSM’s services to their clients and reduce their reliance on manual processes, Alteryx helped them look for reliable ways to automate. They knew automated analytics could radically reduce both the time and complexity of tracking and analyzing blockchain transactions.
RSM began working with their team of tax experts to come up with proper categorizations for different types of activities. From there, they formatted and flowed data into a digital tracking app so they could generate all of the tax forms, reports and accompanying documents they needed. Here’s how they did it.
We were able to streamline the process and create efficiencies. Without Alteryx, it would have been impossible.
Alula Zeryihun
Financial Services Tax Manager, RSM
All the manual processes that had slowed the team down were gone now, says Szykowny. “It was now feeding into the standard format we have within RSM Digital Tracker. The transformation we’re using Alteryx for is very intricate but then it feeds into standard format, which feeds into our RSM visual tracker. It ultimately produces, in real time, the capital gain loss on all those trades throughout their lifetime – and does it in three different tax methods – and then generates a report that attaches to the tax return.”
The Alteryx impact was profound, Zeryihun says. Tax reports and forms that used to take weeks to compile were now automatically generated and were far more accurate. “With Alteryx, we were able to create a workflow,” Zeryihun says. “Something that would have taken a couple hundred hours to do we are now able to do in less than 10. The end result is happy clients.”
Szykowny stresses the enormity of the time savings. “We’re talking about people downloading and going through 5,000 records at a time.”
We're saving our tax teams hundreds of hours and letting them just focus on their analysis. And we’re getting rid of that human error – that's the beauty of automation.
Zack Szykowny
Manager of the Center for Advanced Tax Technology, RSM
Alteryx helped RSM move from manual, time-consuming processes, to reliable automation that assists analysts in decoding crypto and blockchain transactions in a matter of minutes. This breakthrough not only made crypto taxation a breeze but held – and continues to hold – immense potential for broader applications beyond tax-related use cases.
The bigger opportunity here, according to Zeryihun, is in enabling standardization and efficiency across the blockchain ecosystem. Manual efforts and reconciliation that are done using traditional Microsoft solutions leave room for improvement. “A powerful software like Alteryx can enable people within this space to be more nimble,” Zeryihun says, “and to do more with less.”
Zeryihun concedes that, before his team could ever get off the ground automating, they had some convincing to do within RSM. “In the early stages of prototyping, Alteryx played a big part in helping us come up with quick workflows and solutions that we could show to people and say, ‘Here’s an example of a minimal viable product that we can put together.’”
Once they had people on board, they were able to democratize and expand their efforts by creating a digital tracker app with a simple front end. That way colleagues didn’t have to be Alteryx experts or even know how to use the tool to derive value from it. “Their day-to-day lives aren’t connected to Alteryx,” Zeryihun says. “But on the back end, we’re able to empower our people through the solutions that we built. That’s a very powerful thing.”
Since the team started working with Alteryx, they’ve gone far beyond their tax use case. “We’re talking to our audit teams, our consulting teams – people within our organizations that are servicing our clients – and we’re coming up with really unique ways of adding value,” Zeryihun says.
Szykowny points to how his team’s breakthroughs in standardizing complicated data have driven confidence and change within the organization. “Having that standardization can help applicability across all different lines of business. It’s one of the biggest challenges we have in anything that’s new, especially in automation. Just getting people comfortable with all that is a unique challenge but change management always is with any sort of automation. Alteryx helps people get to that level of comfort that makes them confident in the output.”
Built repeatable workflows for generating tax reports while radically increasing speed and reducing error rates
Non-data experts at RSM can extract value from the tool, pulling data and building their own simple reports while supporting change management efforts
Began with a single tax team and went on to add value in other departments by stressing efficiency and standardization
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Digital Transformation is redefining the future of health care and health delivery. All stakeholders are convinced that these innovations will create value for patients, healthcare practitioners, hospitals, and governments along the patient pathway. The benefits are starting from prevention and awareness to diagnosis, treatment, short- and long-term follow-up, and ultimately survival. But how do you make sure that your working towards an architecturally sound, secure and interoperable health IT ecosystem for your hospital and avoid implementing a hodgepodge of spot solutions? How does your IT department work together with the other stakeholders, such as the doctors and other healthcare practitioners, Life Sciences companies, Tech companies, regulators and your internal governance and administrative bodies?
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Read MoreDécouvrez la dynamique du leadership numérique aux Rencontres de CIONET, le programme francophone exclusif de CIONET pour les leaders numériques en Belgique, rendu possible grâce au soutien et à l'engagement de nos partenaires de programme : Deloitte, Denodo et Red Hat. Rejoignez trois événements inspirants par an à Liège, Namur et en Brabant Wallon, où des CIOs et des experts numériques francophones de premier plan partagent leurs perspectives et expériences sur des thèmes d'affaires et de IT actuels. Laissez-vous inspirer et apprenez des meilleurs du secteur lors de sessions captivantes conçues spécialement pour soutenir et enrichir votre rôle en tant que CIO pair. Ne manquez pas cette opportunité de faire partie d'un réseau exceptionnel d'innovateurs numériques !
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