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Ideas, guidance and client experiences across procurement, Source-to-Pay, data and business transformation.
Contractor Costs vs Embedded Delivery: UK Rates, Continuity and ROI
Compare UK contractor day rates with embedded delivery, including project savings, shadow buddy cover and the value of continuity through BAU and stabilisation.
Power BI for Finance Teams: Designing Month-End and Approval Reporting
Design month-end and approval reporting around accountable owners, clear status definitions, ageing and reconciled figures. Includes an illustrative worked example and relevant Denova client evidence.
How to Work with Denova: Procurement, Data and the Right Delivery Model
Explore Denova’s Procurement & S2P and Data & BI expertise, with embedded delivery, managed services and projects shaped around your team’s needs.
Procurement Transformation Best Practices: 10 Actions for Lasting Change
Practical actions to help procurement teams prepare data, engage suppliers, support adoption and maintain improvements through digital S2P change.
How an Embedded Developer Helped a Global VAT Team Rebuild VAT Workflow Management on Power Platform
An embedded BI developer helped a global VAT team bring files, approvals and task tracking together on Microsoft Power Platform, creating a path to retiring a costly third-party application.
How a Global Finance Team Built Lasting Capability with Denova
Over approximately two years, Denova colleagues have helped a global pharmaceutical organisation develop its reporting and automation capabilities, maintain essential finance activities and support transformation across finance and procurement.
Power BI Support Services: What Should Your Support Plan Include?
Define a practical Power BI support plan covering refresh failures, source changes, access, defects, documentation and escalation. Compare maintenance with new development and ask clearer questions about scope and response times.
Power BI Performance Optimisation: Why Reports Run Slowly and What to Check
Find out why Power BI reports run slowly. Separate report interaction delays from slow refreshes, then investigate models, DAX, visuals, sources and capacity with a practical symptom-led checklist.
Procurement Operating Model: How to Define Roles, Ownership and Delivery
Define how procurement should be organised to deliver the strategy. Compare structures, clarify decision rights and hand-offs, and use an illustrative responsibility map to align internal teams and external support.
Why Procurement Transformation Stalls
Read about the common reasons for delays in procurement transformations and how organisations can drive progress.
How Denova helped a procurement team flex capacity and strengthen delivery resilience
See how Denova supported a procurement team with ongoing S2P expertise, flexible quarter-end capacity and shadow buddy support for greater delivery resilience.
How a global business flexed procurement and finance support while retaining valuable knowledge
See how Denova helped a global business flex procurement, Zip and accounts payable support while retaining knowledge and strengthening continuity.
How an Embedded Accounts Payable Specialist Restored Control to a Global Finance Function
Read on how embedded AP operations expertise helped a global organisation regain direction over their finance function.
Procurement Change Management: 10 Best Practices for Lasting Adoption
Help employees and suppliers adopt and sustain new procurement processes. Ten practical change-management actions, verified client examples and a reusable change-impact and adoption plan distinguish training attendance from real adoption and operational results.
Power BI Implementation Services: What Should Be Included from Discovery to Handover?
What should Power BI implementation services include? A practical guide to discovery, data readiness, modelling, governance, testing, rollout, training and ownership, with a supplier and client checklist.
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