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When culture and technology align, transformative things can happen. By shifting its mindset to embrace the cloud-based digital tools of modern finance, Microsoft\u2019s finance department has been able to optimize internal operations and drive business partners to action.<\/p>\n

Adopting the tools and techniques of modern finance can increase productivity, impact, and influence for your own company, too. Check out this infographic to find out how we improved forecast accuracy, cut customer response times from minutes to seconds, and saved tens of thousands of hours of work per quarter.<\/p>\n

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