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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.

AI

Why I joined Lensing

Until last week I worked at JPMorgan Chase & Co. where I had a wonderful run leading innovation, digital, platforms, and enterprise solutions working with world-class individuals on some very difficult client-facing problems at a global scale.

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

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?

AI

Aperture Issue 001 | What F500 CIOs want from AI

The essential choke point, new AI metrics, and should you let employees name agents? | Issue 001

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.

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.

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.

AI

What do execs want from AI? This newsletter

Why is none of the AI news about the enterprise?

Fintech

Consolidating many ERPs into 1—a practical guide

M&A is all fun and gains until it’s time to integrate the businesses. Then you run into a challenge: Should you consolidate the new company’s financial systems, build an integration, or defer? You must decide this in an environment of extreme uncertainty: You’ll almost never know enough about the target company’s workflows.

AI

The end of AI tourism

AI tourism is about to end. Companies rolled out LLM licenses to everyone, and while it’s been exciting, I think we’re going to see a backlash. CFOs are about to get very excited about SaaS again.

Insight

Your 5 ERP integration choices—select wisely

Integrating an ERP is no easy matter for teams that do it maybe once in their career. But what about teams that integrate dozens of ERPs every year? What do they know?

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.

Fintech

M&A synergy capture: A brief guide

An estimated 16,000 businesses were acquired last year, according to Bain & Company. Of those, 11,000 will likely fail. The chief cause is that the new owners didn’t have the financial and inventory insight to make them work.

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.