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Damon Fletcher, ex-CFO of Tableau, on Great Analytics

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我拥有超过十年的财务和分析经验，曾在Tableau和DataRobot担任CFO。我亲身经历了数据分析在财务决策中的重要性，以及在云计算时代有效管理云成本的挑战。在Tableau，我们通过数据驱动的方法，成功地将业务模式从传统的本地软件交付模式转变为订阅模式，并通过对关键指标（如年度经常性收入、净美元留存率和客户留存率）的密切关注，实现了业务的持续增长。 在Caliper，我们致力于帮助企业更好地了解其公共云和其他消费服务的成本和使用情况。我们利用先进的分析技术，特别是预测性机器学习和季节性模式分析，帮助客户预测未来的云成本，并通过生成式AI模型为客户提供可行的成本优化建议。我们不依赖于生成式AI进行复杂的计算，而是利用更可靠的统计和机器学习模型进行数据分析，确保结果的准确性和可靠性。 我建议企业应立即开始数据分析，不要等到数据完全清理后再进行分析。专注于对业务最重要的指标，避免关注过多指标而迷失方向。对于云成本管理，我建议财务团队与IT部门或开发团队合作，定期审查云成本，并追究工程师的责任，以确保资源得到高效利用。通过这些方法，企业可以有效地控制云成本，并实现显著的成本节约。

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Today’s guest is perhaps the leading CFO name in data and analytics, the ex-CFO of Tableau and DataRobot. Now as Founder & CEO at Caliper, Fletcher draws on over a decade of executive experience at the intersection of finance and analytics. At Caliper, his mission is transform cloud cost and usage data into actionable insights

In this episode Fletcher discusses 

  • The relationship between analytics and the CFO

  • Subscription, net dollar retention, customer retention, and annual recurring revenue as key metrics 

  • Getting from CFO to CEO and the learning curve 

  • How we rely on AI and predictive ML and seasonal patterns to find anomalies

  • Getting to base analytics and starting in AI

  • Challenges and waste with cloud and holding engineers accountable

  • The opportunity to  save 30% on cloud spend

  • Moving from Excel to Google Sheets

Connect with Damon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damon-fletcher-bb8a6614/)

https://calipersoftware.ai)