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Thack Brown, Senior Vice President at SAP, summarizes his keynote address from the Financials/GRC 2017 conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Topics covered include: The various ways that finance professionals roles are currently changing How SAP solutions are helping customers evolutions in the finance space Key examples of customer successes…
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