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.
Getting global payroll right is mission-critical, and a significant share of the responsibility for it falls on CIOs, naturally. Absent order for the enterprise software ecosystem touching global payroll, so much can go wrong. This profoundly affects an organization’s people. The infographic here delves into the specifics around outsourcing global payroll—the seven warning signs that you should do, the three major upsides for your organization, and more. Read the full Research Note here: Research Note: Outsourcing Global Payroll: The Impact on Data Security & Compliance. Read the full Research Note here: Research Note: Outsourcing Global Payroll: The Impact on Data Security & Compliance.
Payroll is a mission-critical activity. Personal fulfillment and career advancement are important, but for most people the main reason they go to work is for a paycheck. Get it wrong, and the ramifications can be swift and bruising. Nearly half (49 percent) of the workforce is willing to tolerate just two problems with their paycheck before beginning a new job search, according to The Workforce Institute at UKG. This is probably because 69 percent of individuals would experience financial difficulty if their paychecks were delayed for a week, according to results from a 2020 survey conducted by the American Payroll Association. It’s a phenomenon other data corroborate. Nearly four-fifths (78 percent) of the workforce lives paycheck-to-paycheck to make ends meet, according to CareerBuilder, whose findings […]
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 global payroll, Immedis Pay gives companies local payments expertise across the globe to simplify payments, increase accuracy, and eliminate challenges with compliance. Cost savings from the use of Immedis’ network of API-connected local payment network providers and banking partners are significant. Immedis Pay currently delivers 99.98 percent error-free payments in 145 currencies across more than 200 countries. Background As part of its global payroll offering, Immedis has been expediting payments for customers since the vendor’s inception in 2016. The coincident expertise and global reach put […]
The first decade of the 2000s saw a sea change in IT spending. Until about 2009, spending oversight was starkly different from what it has become at most companies today. Chief Information Officers were generally happy to sign off on anything that stayed within their budget, so IT departments were free to make the technological and system decisions they thought would be best since they would be supporting that technology should anything go wrong. In the last decade or so, however, there’s been a shift. It’s far more common today for every purchase decision to go through finance and other departments, involving colleagues who may be unfamiliar with the provider or the ultimate use of the system and potentially slowing the adoption process (3Sixty Insights […]
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, rapid system updates and increased leverage of available capabilities become more and more valuable. Putting predictive, intelligent, and mobile capabilities into the hands of front-line resources will further increase the payoff. The Financials and ERP practice at 3Sixty Insights plans to explore these and other themes over the next 12 months: Concrete vs. Abstract Finance: A New Way for Organizations to Look at ERP Enterprise Structure vs Line-of-Business Initiatives: Achieving Balance in Location of Power Suite vs Point Solutions vs Specialized Systems: Where Should Finance […]
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, rapid system updates and increased leverage of available capabilities become more and more valuable. Putting predictive, intelligent, and mobile capabilities into the hands of front-line resources will further increase the payoff. The Financials and ERP practice at 3Sixty Insights plans to explore these and other themes over the next 12 months: Concrete vs. Abstract Finance: A New Way for Organizations to Look at ERP Seeing Through the Haze: Where is Real Value in the Cloud? Data vs Information: The Rise of Analytics Enterprise Structure vs […]
