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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

Transformation

Steel, stars, and physics—the secrets within Lensing’s rebrand

After five years in stealth, we'd built the first complete ERP this century. We had $1B running through the platform. And, this team is so remarkably humble, you'd hardly know it; what our customers can do with our AI tools is extraordinary. And so, the question was, how do we turn that calm confidence into a language that speaks for us?

Transformation

30 hard truths about your next ERP project

If your team had a chance to start your current business over, would you build it differently? Most leaders say they would. You probably know much more now than when you started or joined. The team here feels the same about enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.

Transformation

4 tales of finance-led transformation [complete guide]

When they write the history of this decade, historians will say that this is when finance leaders assumed their full executive authority.

Transformation

The most daring CFO digital transformation

This former CFO of NBC, Delta Airlines, Amazon, and elsewhere found himself at a technology company where he pursued an acquisition. It was controversial. Eventually, he sold the entire business to prove it out.

Transformation

A look inside NYT’s media transformation success

In 2014, The New York Times was struggling. Tech platforms were lifting its journalism for “content.” Digital entrants like BuzzFeed and HuffPost were stealing readers. The paper’s transformation into a digital publishing powerhouse was a miracle. It owed that to one woman.

Transformation

A connected CxO's guide to real-time revenue intelligence

For the past decade, enterprise software companies operated on a comforting fiction that annual contracts, quarterly board decks, and a well-tuned Salesforce instance were sufficient infrastructure to scale a SaaS business. That fiction is now expensive.

Transformation

What SaaS CFOs need to know about running profitable professional services

The goal of many professional services teams is not, initially, to be profitable. It is to help the company reach product market fit by making customers successful, and to do whatever is necessary. But these teams go through phases and eventually must cover their costs. In this guide, I discuss how to set this team out on a course to profitability.

Transformation

CFO-ing in the polycrisis—an emergency handbook

When multiple global crises converge, the finance function becomes the last line of defense. It has become increasingly difficult to predict, prepare, or govern at a global scale—so the premium on doing so has risen. Dramatically.

Transformation

How to manage your ERP "complexity debt"

As you grow, your financial systems become complex. That complexity functions like debt. Thinking about ‘financial software debt’ offers useful clues for knowing how much to take on and how to keep yours serviceable.

Transformation

It’s now ‘survival of the fintech fittest’ when fighting for growth

CFOs are adopting a more active style of management. Their job descriptions have grown 19% longer, and they are contributing more project-level financial strategies earlier on in the business planning cycle.

Transformation

10 physical goods companies that launched a successful subscription

Subscriptions are great for all the reasons low-margin recurring revenue is great—you can plan against it, the marginal costs are (often) low, and it diversifies your revenue.

Transformation

How to launch a subscription service step-by-step

We believe the future belongs to finance teams that can iterate, test, and support many business models and currencies. That’s why it’s so important that all companies—especially those that manufacture and sell goods—be able to experiment with high-margin subscription offerings.

Transformation

Should you launch a subscription when you sell physical goods?

Pick any two public companies where one primarily sells physical goods and the other sells software. Compare their gross margins. The difference is usually clear.