Does your business rely on spreadsheets for performance management? Spreadsheets require labor-intensive manual processes and are highly error-prone. Learn how you can replace or augment your spreadsheets with planning applications that integrate easily with spreadsheets, leveraging the best of your existing investment. 

This edition of BI Trends and Strategies opens with a piece by Lou Agosta on the need for data warehouses to adapt to new data types, innovation and big data. Alan R. Earls also offers advice for incorporating spreadsheets into your BI programs without problems and Richard Herschel calls for universities to step up their BI and analytics programs. 

Read this paper to learn how Sage Fixed Assests software eliminates the need for spreadsheets and is designed specifically for the tracking of fixed assets to reduce over payments on taxes and insurance while improving your bottom line. 

Despite being so important, the process to create the annual report, the 10-K and the 10-Q is still stuck in the Middle Ages. This paper explores the history of annual reporting, the process of manually creating the annual report, and how to bring this process into the 21st century. 

This e-book offers insights on the benefits and value that financial reporting automation solutions can offer. Read on and learn about: High-performing organizations and their ability to automate financial reporting, low-performing organizations and why they are mired in complex and manual processes, and more. 

Companies worldwide are affirming the value of archiving as a best practice for managing data growth, completing faster application upgrades and much more. Inside this white paper, learn how archiving can help support data retention compliance initiatives and mitigate risk for audits and electronic discovery requests. 

<p>Discover 5 key steps to creating a practical data retention policy and achieving information governance in this essential resource. Find out how smart policies can help you streamline e-discovery processes and ensure that important email documents are preserved.</p> 

This special eight-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Microsoft, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. 

If you’re like most midsize companies, the only way to grow the business is by being smarter and nimbler than the next guy. Watch this short video to see how you can be instantly executing your business strategy based on the latest, most accurate information, while the other guys are still trying to figure out exactly what just happened. 

Manual data entry can be cumbersome and time-consuming. This case study outlines how Wales & West Utilities successfully streamlined its SAP data loading and extraction process across multiple business areas. Discover how it uploaded over 750,000 transactions to save 2,284 working days over the course of just six months. 

More IT pros are considering implementing a cloud environment, but they soon realize that building a private cloud means overhauling their entire existing data center infrastructure. Learn how moving to the cloud takes more than putting a layer of cloud management software on top of your existing servers, storage and networks. 

In this paper, learn why centralized policy management, automated order processing and asset management, and end-user self-service are key ingredients for any organization trying to control the proliferation of wireless mobile devices and spiraling costs.