Finance Automation

Plainfield – October 27, 2026 -- PairSoft has appointed Vijay Vidiyala, an enterprise software executive with more than 20 years of experience, as Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) to lead its product and engineering teams in building AI-driven solutions for the office of the CFO.

Vidiyala brings Model N and SAP experience to PairSoft's product organization

Vidiyala most recently led product, engineering, and operations teams across the U.S., Europe, and India at Model N. There he helped shape the company's SaaS transition strategy. Before that, he spent a decade at SAP, leading product development and go-to-market activities for cloud solutions.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Snowflake's sales finance team has cut its monthly forecast and variance analysis from more than a week to a few hours. It did so by giving its CoCo AI standing context about company data, terminology and workflows.

Profile cuts steps per answer from 3.0 to 1.3

Across 44 finance users, those with a 'GTM Finance' profile reached an answer in about 1.3 steps, against about 3 steps for those without one (Snowflake internal CoCo usage, February to May 2026). Without the profile, the AI spent roughly three steps per session finding the right data source and resolving terminology.

Each extra step adds about 0.05 credits, roughly 10 cents at US$2 per credit. A five-step session therefore costs about three and a half times a one-step session. At every step count in the data, sessions with the profile cost less than those without.