This whitepaper explains why automated reconciliation is quickly evolving into a competitive necessity. The costs associated with manual reconciliation, the benefits from automation, and the best reconciliation workflow model will all be discussed. 

Today’s global supply chains are marked by lack of visibility and long decision-making times that make it difficult to plan and execute with the speed and precision required by today's volatile markets. This paper explains how to establish a highly collaborative, demand-driven planning process that will help you overcome these modern challenges. 

In this e-guide, readers will learn more about the basics of ERP and how to reduce maintenance and support costs for these systems. 

From improvements to project planning and requirements management to testing, QA and reporting, read this white paper to find out what's new in version 11.0 of HP's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Quality Center Enterprise applications. 

This Aberdeen Group Research Brief explores the current business challenges faced by companies striving for success with respect to sales and operations planning (S&OP). It delves into the priority allocated to S&OP, the maturity levels associated with S&OP, and the role of technology enablers. 

Based on interviews with CFOs and senior finance executives at six leading international companies, this report presents the strategies they are using to infuse flexibility into their planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes in order to detect and address the constantly changing market realities of today's stubbornly volatile global economy. 

Something as seemingly trivial as a truck hitting a telephone pole can suddenly leave health care employees unable to access clinical applications and patient data. This tip discusses how providers can create, and update, business continuity plans to ensure that key systems and processes are maintained. 

Is your organisation ready to explore the benefits of cloud computing? Read this white paper from IBM and discover how an enterprise architecture approach can help you take the first critical steps to success with Cloud. 

To embrace the new instant-on, mobile, interconnected business world, IT organizations need to transform their infrastructure and data centers to support agility. This video series features 10 expert tips for planning your IT transformation. Check out this brief video for tips 7-5. 

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. 

The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions. 

Server virtualization has proved to be an advantageous in disaster recovery situations because if physical servers have been destroyed, it’s easy to restore backups to virtual hardware. Learn how healthcare facilities can benefit from adding server virtualization to disaster recovery plans, while maintaining compliance. 

In today's instant on world, instant results can put your enterprise ahead of the competition. To embrace this new view, enterprise IT must overcome complexity and critical constraints. This resource explores how organizations can meet today’s instant on demands efficiently and cost-effectively.