the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices. 

In August 2007, CFO Research Services launched a research program to explore the ways in which the role of the finance team has changed in recent years. This report presents the findings of our online survey of 255 senior finance executives. 

 Nucleus Research offers advice on calculating the return on investment (ROI) for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. 

See what Nucleus Research says on how you can get up and running faster, gain real-time access to labor data, and save valuable time by adopting a time and attendance solution from Kronos. Read this paper and learn why real time access to time and attendance data and other Kronos advantages reduce payroll inflation, manual processes and more. 

Closing the books and reporting financial results are core functions of any finance department, but the most successful companies are achieving closes at the fastest rates.  This informative white paper explains how you can close faster and shorten decision-making time in order to gain edge over your competitors. 

In this paper, discover the results that Esker research found indicating that accounts payable automation can typically save organizations 40 to 60 percent of operational and administrative AP costs. Also explore the abundant benefits that automated processing of vendor invoices can help business like yours achieve. 

Companies and their stakeholders have always had high expectations for their finance teams. But this research program reveals that, most recently, these pressures- from regulators, from investors, and from competitors&#$5; are pushing companies to look for more from their finance teams in two main, but often conflicting, areas. 

This research report explains how to ensure long-term viability in the financial services industry by depending on your ability to invest wisely in projects, meet regulatory targets and avoid the costly and public failures that brought down so many other organizations in the financial services industry. 

This research from Freeform Dynamics, based on a survey of end users,  identifies the challenges faced by IT departments and suppliers on software licensing, and offers advice to organisations on dealing with software licensing. 

CFO Research conducted a survey with senior finance executives working at U.S companies to explore the factors that motivated companies to make changes to their financial management systems in the past, as well as systems-related challenges they are currently facing. This resource presents the findings of that study. 

Learn how midsize companies can rapidly adopt Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) technologies while minimizing training, support and ongoing costs in this research note from Nucleus Research. 

Emerging markets offer huge potential for technology companies to expand. This report from Grant Thornton assess the opportunities in a range of emerging markets.