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Automation vs Agentic AI: What Finance Teams Need to Know
Discover how automation and agentic AI differ in finance and learn why simple rules-based workflows are no longer adequate in complex O2C environments.
Part 1: “How Enterprise CFOs Build a Data Strategy for Better Decisions”
Discover how modern CFOs use data strategy, AI, and real-time dashboards to improve cash flow, optimize working capital, and drive smarter decisions.
Why IT Leaders Are Finance’s New AI Partners (And What That Means for Enterprise Transformation)
For years, IT departments had a reputation in finance circles: they were the department that
AI Agents Redefining Finance: How Sidetrade’s Aimie is Powering the Next Era of Cash Performance
In a market where CFOs face relentless pressure to safeguard EBITDA and cash, financial transformation
Four Macro-Transformations Shaping CFOs’ Perspectives: Part Four – Generational Transformation
The rise of automation, AI, and big data are transforming back-office processes and their infrastructure. The growing volume, variety, and velocity of data is transforming finance by enabling better customer insights, improved risk management and fraud detection.
Four Macro-Transformations Shaping CFOs’ Perspectives: Part Three – Value Transformation
CFOs play a critical role in driving their organization's path to innovation while generating long-term value for stakeholders.
Four Macro-Transformations Shaping CFOs’ Perspectives: Part Two – Workforce Transformation
While ever-evolving technology can facilitate many aspects of the finance function, from risk mitigation to virtual assistance, it is not an effective replacement for human qualities such as creativity, empathy, leadership, relationship context, or collaboration.
Four Macro-Transformations Shaping CFOs’ Perspectives: Part One – Leadership Transformation
In response to this accelerated pace of change and uncertainty, pragmatic leaders must plan for resilience and adaptability. This requires a new way of thinking about strategy, and CFOs should consider the following elements of people, process, and technology to build their capacity for resilience.
Sidetrade Repositions Shared Services Centers Through Value, Purpose & Growth-Led Transformation
Sidetrade offers AI-powered solutions for intelligent automation, advanced analytics, customer engagement, and risk management. By leveraging AI and buyer insights from the world’s largest Data Lake in Order-to-Cash, Sidetrade enables SSCs to automate repetitive tasks, enhance accuracy, and free up resources for more strategic activities. The journey from tactical to strategic Order-to-Cash starts with optimizing data, technology and operations. The Shared Services Centers can help their CFOs turn O2C into a data-driven strategic advantage to create a forward-looking approach to payments, best-collection action, and dispute and risk strategy.
The Power of the End-to-End O2C Platform vs. Point Solutions
The Power of the End-to-End O2C Platform vs. Point Solutions Determining whether a point solution
How Sidetrade Is Evolving Cash Application Technology
How Sidetrade Is Evolving Cash Application Technology I have spent over 10 years working with
Engineering Blog
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Platform
Why more AI output is making most teams slower
Generation got cheaper and comprehension did not. An internal update that used to be one slide is now five, and everyone downstream pays for the extra four.
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Future
The next wave of Enterprise AI will run on intelligence we control
Most enterprise work does not need the most powerful model in the world. Once good-enough intelligence runs in open weights, cost and control decide the architecture, and the hard part of agents is everything around the model.
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People & Process
Introducing PodFlow, our AI-native R&D operating model
How Sidetrade R&D takes an idea all the way to something a customer can use: what PodFlow is, what was slowing us down before it, and where every human decision sits.
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Platform
The agent is the easy part
First in a series on what enterprise collections agents need beyond the model: why an agent harness, not the model itself, is what makes an AI decision safe to run at scale.
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People & Process
You are nothing without your team
Five days in Portugal, 120+ Sidetraders, 18 projects and AI in nearly every one of them. Why our annual hackathon is the most important week in the engineering calendar.
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Platform
Why we run Sidetrade IQ on ourselves first
Sidetrade IQ is the internal deployment of the platform our customers get as Aimie IQ, on the same framework, the same models and the same controls. Why inside first is how the intelligence scales out.