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Lensing Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 & ISO 27001 Compliance: Reinforcing Data Security Commitment for Customers

Lensing Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 & ISO 27001 Compliance: Reinforcing Data Security Commitment for Customers

Lensing Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 & ISO 27001 Compliance: Reinforcing Data Security Commitment for Customers

Lensing Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 & ISO 27001 Compliance: Reinforcing Data Security Commitment for Customers

Lensing Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 & ISO 27001 Compliance: Reinforcing Data Security Commitment for Customers

Lensing Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 & ISO 27001 Compliance: Reinforcing Data Security Commitment for Customers

Lensing Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 & ISO 27001 Compliance: Reinforcing Data Security Commitment for Customers

Lensing Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 & ISO 27001 Compliance: Reinforcing Data Security Commitment for Customers

Business

Everest is now Lensing

The product is live and we are grateful to our many customers who are building their businesses around it. Now, this team is ready to say we’re there—we summited—which means it’s time to drop our code name, Everest. We are now Lensing.

Business

Hot take: ERP rollouts should be led by HR

There are many analogies for ERP, but I like this one: Your ERP is a scaffold. It’s a flexible structure that molds to your business. You can use it to push parts of your business into new arrangements, but you can’t push too far—culture and people are stronger, and they push back.

Business

AI will make your best accountants more valuable, not obsolete

Most conversations about AI and accounting blur two things that aren't the same: accounting as a process and accounting as a discipline.

Business

13 perfect uses for AI in professional services

Everyone likes to use this one famous statistic to argue that post-sale work is valuable: That increasing customer retention 5% can boost revenue 25-95%. It’s compelling. It is also from 1991. And this is our point: Post-sale teams, and even their stats, get neglected. Though AI is now helping.

Business

One big global ERP implementation barrier? Culture

If the goal of an ERP is to scaffold around a company’s workflows and support its far-flung operations, many leaders underestimate how varied those operations actually are. Or how fragile they are when they come into contact with culture.

Business

The Lensing x Ramp integration is now live

Ramp serves over 50,000 customers giving the world true, autonomous expenses and finance—which is what makes Ramp and Lensing such logical partners.

Business

Why I think finance leaders should be “multilingual”

Any finance leader who is not deeply interested in information flows  is, I think, not understanding where finance is headed. Forget forecasting. Forget number crunching. Finance is becoming about information flows and the ability to understand the business well enough to change it.

Business

How I spend my first 100 days as CFO

I’ve worked for five companies in five industries, and one thing seems universal: Everyone assumes that their processes and systems are a given. That whatever steps they take are necessary, that any software is capturing numbers correctly, and that the finance leadership has a full view. But this is rarely the case.