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Innovation is the heartbeat of your forward progress.

Your business changes quickly—and we’re constantly developing products and services to help you meet those new challenges and stay ahead of trends. At Forvis Mazars, innovation is critical to driving our forward vision. It’s embedded in our core values and a key component of our Unmatched Client Experience®

We listen to understand your problems and ultimately deliver solutions-based approaches to address those issues. Our forward vision can help you achieve your business goals.

Our Approach to Innovation

EDGE: The Innovation Lab of Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a firm of the future, aimed at delivering fresh ideas, and EDGE is our team dedicated to innovation. Our passion is delivering technology tools that help solve your biggest problems.

Be bold.
We push boundaries to execute a forward vision for you.
Challenge the status quo.
We question conventional wisdom to create relevant new tools.
Unleash creative potential.
We embrace the spirit of innovation to unlock untapped potential and drive meaningful change.

The mission of our EDGE team comprises two pillars.

The two pillars of the Innovation Lab at FORVIS.
To develop valuable technology solutions for both our internal and external clients.
To strengthen our culture of innovation at Forvis Mazars.

EDGE Process

The EDGE team uses a well-established but continually evolving process to take an idea from inception through development and delivery to you and our service delivery professionals. There are five steps in our process: Ideation, Research, Design, Execution, and Market.

The EDGE Process at FORVIS: Ideation, Research, Design, Execution, and Market.
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    Ideation: Generate and grow ideas through crowdsourcing and facilitated discussion and activities.
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    Research: Study the market to gauge the value of an idea to potential users.
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    Design: Refine the business problem being solved and create a high-level design of the proposed technology solution to validate its viability with clients and prospects.
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    Execution: Define, build, test, and launch the technology solution.
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    Market: Collaborate with users to ensure the value of the technology solution and to maintain a robust product road map.

Featured EDGE Products

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Clari³ty® Solutions
This tool combines an interactive analytics platform with insightful analysis to identify challenges in your ability to drive change and help you make better data-driven decisions through evidence-based and validated diagnostics.
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LeaseVision
Our three-part lease accounting tool assists in the adoption of and accounting for FASB 842 and GASB 87 lease standards by helping reduce key pain points that you face during implementation.
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TaxCred PRO™ for Clean Energy
Learn about the clean energy tax credits and deductions you or your business may be eligible for and how much tax benefit you potentially could receive.
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Industry Focused Innovation

CFR Benchmarking: IDD & Behavioral Health
This New York IDD & Behavioral Health Organization benchmarking platform provides insights from interactive analytics dashboards so you can compare operational metrics to your peers.
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Denials Management Monitoring
Our reporting and measurement tool uses real-time insights to provide root-cause identification of preventable insurance claim denials and monitoring of trends over time.
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Financial & Scenario Modeling for Higher Education
This multiyear planning tool, powered by Synario, can help higher education institutions easily manage, configure, and visualize numerous financial and strategic scenarios.
HFS+
Reduce the friction of preparing cost reports for Medicare with HFS+ Powered by Forvis Mazars, an intuitive cost preparation service.
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ProBank Advisor®
This compliance advisory portal connects your institution's compliance team to our experienced compliance professionals who can answer questions, provide document reviews, and more.
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Program Economic Analysis for Higher Education
Unlock the full potential of your academic portfolio.
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Pulse for CHCs
This interactive dashboard with tools helps community healthcare organizations understand and evaluate various financial and operational factors like pay, productivity, financial strength, and more.
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The Reporting Solution
This web-based application can help local governments streamline the preparation of annual reports through an efficient and simplified process.
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SALT Explorer
Our digital state and local tax (SALT) platform provides sales and use tax estimates, helping you save time and reduce risk.
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Taxable Income Automation
This tool allows you to automate your taxable income through a centralized cloud-based platform with controls that allow for on-demand processing, reporting, and much more.
Workforce Productivity Management
This interactive dashboard with tools can aid in developing strong workforce management and provide healthcare firms with a clearer understanding of escalating costs.
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EDGE brings a breadth of entrepreneurialism to our firm. As we focus on the future and plan to position ourselves in a rapidly evolving industry, EDGE has helped our team and clients cultivate and organize bold new ideas that will change the industry. We can either wait and hope innovation happens or be intentional and have the talented EDGE team help navigate the unknown.”
– Chris Reavis, Vice President, Insurance Industry, Charlotte, North Carolina

Innovation Leader

Meet Forvis Mazars' EDGE leader
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