Craig Himmelberger
Director & Principal Analyst

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A product and strategy leader at top global ERP providers, Craig Himmelberger brings depth and international perspective to Finance, Treasury, Quote-to-Cash, and Source-to-Pay system designs and implementation strategies. Excelling in both application and technical domain areas, Craig is an accomplished analyst, advisory board member, and customer advocate. Craig has played a foundational role in successive waves of ERP and Finance innovation. He understands the importance of achieving actionable insight from technology investments, as well as maintaining an accountant’s eye on costs, positive ROI, and measurable benefits. He was a pioneer in user-prioritized design and development initiatives at McCormack & Dodge/Dun & Bradstreet Software, PeopleSoft, SAP, and Oracle, among others, to ensure that customer/user business priorities can be always reflected in how technology is designed and applied. Prior to joining 3Sixty Insights, Craig was the foundational designer for the ERP, Finance, and GRC research practices at SAPinsider, building on his decades of experience within the SAP ecosystem to define and organize how the voice of the customer is reflected and amplified. He came to that role from a board-level advisory position at Trovata, the first widely-available, standardized software technology to leverage available bank API’s to escape the failure of batch-oriented ERP approaches based on yesterday’s bank statements to access, organize, and build real-time insight from transactional finance data using natural language processing and AI-driven Business Intelligence. Craig’s ERP application vendor credentials speak for themselves. Most recently at Oracle, where he won the 2018 Oracle Fintech Design Jam by consensus of all participating teams, Craig was a leader in the move to bring professional product management, and user-prioritized design principles, to Oracle’s ERP Cloud suite of applications. Prior to Oracle, Craig spent over a decade in SAP’s solution and industry product areas, leading Finance, ERP, and Treasury teams to firmly establish SAP as the clear leader among top international organizations for addressing key strategic business challenges. While not engaged in dialogue related to global ERP, Finance, Treasury, and other application areas, Craig devotes time as a volunteer in Coalition for a Better Acre (CBA)’s “Youth Educational Success” after-school program, focused on tech education for the leaders of tomorrow. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance, With Distinction, from Babson College.

Playground Rules for the World of Work

My colleague, Jennifer Dole, got me started this week with an extremely thoughtful piece on one of my lightning rod favorite topics—youth sports. (If you haven’t read Bob Bigelow’s book, Just Let the Kids Play, you really should). Because Jennifer […]

The Opaqueness of Corporate Culture

Hat tip to The Economist‘s Bartleby column (and its unnamed author, Philip Coggan) for continuing to shine the light on possibly the most powerful business force on the planet — “corporate culture.” In my earliest career, “corporate culture” both built, […]

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Square Meets the Moment with Afterpay

Square, the digital payments giant co-founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has this week acquired Australian fintech company Afterpay. The announcement has already made the rounds; plenty of outlets have proffered their own predictions of the effects this acquisition will […]

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Market Alert: Immedis Pay Reengineers the Way Companies Remit Cross-Border Payments to Employees, Tax Authorities, and Statutory Third Parties

What Happened In mid-July 2021, Immedis announced the availability of Immedis Pay, an automated solution for organizations to manage cross-border payments to their beneficiaries, including employees, tax authorities, and statutory third parties. Built on the foundation of everywhere-local expertise in […]

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Research Agenda: Finance Research Practice H2 2021

Companies have benefitted from rapid deployment of cloud-based ERP. “Customization” once delayed legacy implementations, but now “Low/No Code” environments enable personalization and better adaptation to unique business requirements. As AI, IoT, and other acronym-rich trends increase the pace of change, […]

Tuning Up Your ERP/Finance Infrastructure

To judge the ultimate immaturity of the “Cloud” ERP/Finance solution market, look no further than the broad success of vendors offering MDM (Master Data Management) solutions. Ironically, one of the perennial leaders in the space is one of the biggest […]

Fintech, meet Foodtech

Markets are easily distracted by Fintech news. Just the other day, I found myself meandering around the internet researching a series of Fintech acquisitions that amounted to fewer than $8M in 2021 sales to a single-billion-dollar shrinking dinosaur. I woke […]

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Research Agenda: Finance Research Practice 2021

Companies have benefitted from rapid deployment of cloud-based ERP. “Customization” once delayed legacy implementations, but now “Low/No Code” environments enable personalization and better adaptation to unique business requirements. As AI, IoT, and other acronym-rich trends increase the pace of change, […]