About this feature: Operational systems serving the financial value chain have traditionally worked separately from financial analytic software because their architectures and business functions have been different. But new federal rules governing corporate reporting and disclosure are demanding an analysis of many more details about a company’s key transactions — precisely those found in FVCM systems. So, says Aberdeen Group analyst Alex Veytsel in this InSight report, the time is ripe for a closer link between the transactional and the analytical: