Overview

November 10

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State and local budget processes are, by nature, extremely complicated.

 

But too many agencies still rely on manual operations and data entry that create unnecessary bottlenecks and pain points in the budget process. Other organizations have financial planning software that competes with their ERP, making it harder to pull data for budget modeling and planning.

 

These organizations need a single solution that enables digital transformation for financial planning, one that complements their existing ERP rather than complicating it. The best budget software actually layers on top of your existing ERP to make your organization’s budget and financial data more accessible and more useful.

 

Join us November 10 at 11 a.m. Pacific/ 2 p.m. Eastern for a valuable webinar on how you can get better control of your organization’s data to streamline and optimize the budget planning process. As a participant, you’ll learn:

 

  • How modern financial software can augment your existing ERP
  • How to leverage data to enable performance-based budgeting
  • How to gain transparency and visibility into grant management, which is crucial in tracking funds from CARES Act, ARPA and other federal sources

 

Speakers

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Brenda Decker

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Brenda Decker most recently spent five years with IBM as a Director for Global Government Industry services. Prior to IBM, Brenda served in Nebraska state government for 37 years, 10+ years as the state's chief information officer with responsibility for state government computing, telecommunications, public safety radio, and video conferencing. Her expertise leading, transforming and managing large IT organizations has created high-performing teams and partnered cross functional public and private organizations. Her work has garnered both local and national recognition for her contributions to government technology.

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Joel Bittick

Regional Manager – SLED, OneStream Software

Joel is a established State and Local Government advocate and CFO process efficiency expert with 18+ years of modernizing Finance offices with technology and talent. One of the joys of his job is seeing his customers finally tap into Finance modernization beyond the promises of ERP to have data transparency and access without the constrictions of Excel. He’s been sharing OneStream into SLED organizations over the last 3 years and is a former USAF officer.

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Justin Marlowe — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Justin Marlowe is a research professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. His research and teaching are focused on public finance, and he has published five books — including the first open-access textbook on public financial management — and more than 100 articles on public capital markets, infrastructure finance, financial disclosure, public financial technology, and public-private partnerships. He is an admitted expert witness in federal and state courts, and has served on technical advisory bodies for the state of Washington, the California State Auditor, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, the National Academy of Sciences, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and many other public, private and nonprofit organizations. Prior to academia, he worked in local government in Michigan. He is a Certified Government Financial Manager and an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and he holds a Ph.D. in political science and public administration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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