"Until 2025, HPE's finance team lived by a Monday ritual: a 90‑minute operational review powered by a 100‑page PowerPoint and hundreds of hours of manual prep. That weekly effort held the company's heartbeat but left little time to focus on what mattered most-making faster, smarter decisions. CFO Marie Myers decided to change that. Partnering with Deloitte, HPE's finance team built "Alfred," an AI‑powered platform running on HPE's Private Cloud AI infrastructure."
"Nicknamed after Batman's trusted butler, HPE estimates Alfred has removed about 90% of the manual effort that once went into preparing the weekly review. It has cut HPE's financial reporting cycle time by about 40% and processing costs by at least 25% But the real story isn't the technology-it's the transformation. Myers and Gustav van der Westhuizen, COO for finance and strategy, had to come up with ways to reskill HPE's finance professionals-more than 3,000 strong."
HPE replaced a weekly 90‑minute operational review that relied on a 100‑page PowerPoint and hundreds of manual hours with an AI-powered platform named Alfred. Alfred runs on HPE's Private Cloud AI infrastructure and removed about 90% of the manual effort involved in preparing the weekly review. The platform shortened the financial reporting cycle by about 40% and lowered processing costs by at least 25%. Leadership invested in reskilling more than 3,000 finance professionals to work alongside AI. Leadership underscores that humans must remain in the loop despite advanced AI capabilities.
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