Signal HPE calls its 18-month finance AI journey transformative

Summary

Deloitte offers Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a case of AI raising the strategic weight of the finance function. Marie Myers, the company's executive vice president and CFO, describes the finance organization's last 18 months as transformative. She explains that AI is being used so that finance teams can act as strategic partners, drawing on data and technology to create value across the enterprise. Myers adds that the company has rethought the purpose of finance, shifting from traditional stewardship toward proactive leadership made possible by digital transformation. The example illustrates the report's claim that strategy-leading finance chiefs scale their influence through cloud, automation and AI. Elsewhere HPE is shown opening agentic AI tools to its finance staff.