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Metro Atlanta YMCA Better Aligns its Mission, Member Engagement, and Marketing Communications Activities Using Birst by Birst October 19, 2009 - (Free Research) In an attempt to tailor and more effectively promote its programs, the Metro Atlanta YMCA turned to Birst for a new set of Business intelligence (BI) tools. Birst delivered with features that included automated dashboards and adhoc reporting at a fair price. Read on to learn the benefits YMCA experienced when they switched to Birst.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

Cloud Financials Come of Age by Intacct Corporation March 17, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper discusses how cloud financial solutions provides a much needed benefit for small to midsize companies. Continue reading to discover the many benefits cloud financial solutions can have for your company.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How Cloud Computing Helps Finance Leaders Achieve Greater ROI for Their Companies by Intacct Corporation March 17, 2010 - (Free Research) In this webcast you'll hear from Frank Colich, vice president of finance with 3TIER, on how his company reduced its financial close time by five days. And Intacct CFO Marc Linden discusses how cloud applications can simplify and streamline any organization. Watch this webcast to learn more about how cloud computing helps gain more ROI.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Preparing for 2010: What Cloud Computing Means to Finance by Intacct Corporation March 17, 2010 - (Free Research) Making sure your financial management systems areis cost effective is very important is. It’s just as important as increasing the productivity of your limited staff or making sure your financial system can easily scale as your business grows. This webcast will explain how cloud computing can provide a solution that meets all the above factors;.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Governance, Risk and Compliance for Life Sciences Companies by SAP America, Inc. November 01, 2008 - (Free Research) To find out how senior executives view their financial processes, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed a global sample of mostly financial executives in September 2008. Some respondents focused on the importance of developing processes that reduced costs and improved efficiency. Others acknowledged the importance of cost and efficiency..  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

Surviving and Thriving in a Challenging Market: How Customer-centric Strategies Can Help Financial Services Firms Weather Market Volatility and Economic Uncertainty by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution February 20, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper explains how financial services firms across the industry and around the globe can use customer-centric strategies and CRM tools to maximize the value and loyalty of their client base and gain insight into new areas of opportunity.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence by SAP America, Inc. June 02, 2009 - (Free Research) The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Building a Best-Run Finance Organization by SAP America, Inc. June 01, 2008 - (Free Research) This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Managing Risk In Perilous Times: Practical Steps to Accelerate Recovery by SAP America, Inc. June 02, 2009 - (Free Research) In this research, we examine the lessons that have been learnt from the current financial crisis, and propose ten practical lessons that could help to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

A Complete View Of The Enterprise: Linking Operational And Financial Planning In Global Organizations by SAP America, Inc. May 01, 2008 - (Free Research) In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Enterprise Performance Management - Financial Excellence and Beyond by SAP America, Inc. February 01, 2008 - (Free Research) Read why top CFOs are shifting from their traditional financial role dealing with standardized business processes and systems to that of change agent and strategic advisor to the CEO.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Cashing in on Customer Intelligence in the Financial Services Industry by Infor CRM October 22, 2009 - (Free Research) In this 1to1 Executive Dialogue, Don Peppers and Steve Muran talk about the importance of customer retention, the need to integrate disparate sources of data, and the opportunity for financial institutions to rebuild customer trust as a means to competitive advantage.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Comply With XBRL: Automate Compliance with U.S. and European Financial-Reporting Standards by Information Builders June 19, 2009 - (Free Research) A new standard file format, Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), for submitting financial reports to the SEC in the United States is being mandated for June 2009. Both the creation of, and reporting from XBRL, are functions performed by the same new tool described in this paper.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Industry Intelligence: International Financial Reporting Standards for Hedge Funds by Advent Software, Inc January 04, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper introduces hedge funds and hedge fund service providers to IFRS.  (WHITE PAPER)

Dimension Data's Flexible Staffing Solutions Provide Vital Resources to Financial Services Company by Dimension Data February 24, 2010 - (Free Research) Dimension Data's Staffing Solutions team was assisting a Financial Services Company to build out its new IP-based network, when it was asked to also assist the Company in providing expertise in developing their NOC process and procedures from the ground up. Read on to learn more.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

Demonstrating Business Value: It Pays to Assess and Understand the Total Cost of Ownership of IT Investments by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd November 02, 2009 - (Free Research) This IDC Analyst Connection takes a closer look at the key parameters in establishing the appropriate financial objectives in an organization's decision-making framework.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

Reduce DR Risks: Learn How Clinical Financial Services Uses i365 to Reduce DR Risks and Reassure Clients by i365, A Seagate Company January 11, 2010 - (Free Research) Slater used EVault SaaS initially to back up just his firm’s transaction data. He was pleased by the automation and daily email verifications, and with the support he received from i365. So when he thought about how best to prepare his IT and DR processes for an upcoming review, i365’s EVault Remote Disaster Recovery service seemed a natural fit.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

Bringing Visibility and Control to Financial Asset Management by Tidal Software December 10, 2009 - (Free Research) BlueCrest Capital Management Tidal Enterprise Scheduler when they needed to make critical business processes visible to upper management and centralize scheduling and management of nightly data downloads; as well as integrate disaster recovery processes into job scheduling efforts and migrate away from heavily scripted point solutions.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

Analyst paper: Mobile Banking Creates a Bright Spot Within the Struggling Financial Services Industry by BlackBerry July 27, 2009 - (Free Research) Mobile banking is quickly growing in popularity among young, affluent, tech-savvy smartphone users in America and Canada. As a result, financial institutions will have a highly interactive and expandable line of services and devices they can use to engage their customers.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

Tackling the IFRS Transition in the US by SAP America, Inc. March 16, 2010 - (Free Research) The SEC will likely require companies to report in both GAAP and IFRS formats during the first official IFRS transition year and for two years prior. Accordingly, our customers want to know how SAP supports parallel reporting.  Read this paper to learn which options SAP recommends and find out which is best for your organization.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Expert Guide to Single Sign-on for Financial Firms by Imprivata January 18, 2010 - (Free Research) In this expert e-guide, discover 2 types of SSO and how to prepare your financial firm for an SSO deployment. Also learn how to ensure SSO implementation is in line with current authorization and access control policies. Plus, review the numerous benefits of SSO as your firm adopts new application platforms and adds to the network infrastructure.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Financial Guide: How to save Money and Create Value in a Tough Economy by Planon January 15, 2009 - (Free Research) Real Estate and Workplace industry metrics and studies strongly suggest that hidden value on the balance sheet can reside within real estate and workplace assets.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Lessons Learned: Survey of Financial Services Companies Uncovers Data Governance Trends by DataFlux Corporation January 22, 2010 - (Free Research) In the summer of 2009, DataFlux conducted a survey to understand data management trends in the financial services industry. The research examined how this industry is approaching managing its data, the breadth and depth of data governance in this sector, what motivates data management strategies, and more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Data Quality and Cost Reduction by DataFlux Corporation January 22, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper reviews aspects of cost reduction and examines some typical financial accounting expense categories. This paper also looks at how data quality services can be applied in those examples to reduce expenses, and examines the potential for applying data quality management as a way to manage and reduce organizational expenses.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Justifying Your Technology Investments Through ROI by KnowledgeStorm Webinars (E-mail this company) April 27, 2004 - (Free Research) As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

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