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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 |

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function by SAP America, Inc. January 23, 2009 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Research Note: CFOs Must Continue to Focus on XBRL and IFRS, Gartner FEI CFO Study Finds by IBM July 31, 2012 - (Free Research) This white paper details a Gartner research study that analyzes the lack of attention to XBRL and IFRS projects by IT organizations and details recommendations for improving disclosure management strategies.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

CFOs on Managing Finance Technology by Workday December 14, 2012 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Renewed Finance Function: Extending Performance Management Beyond Finance by SAP America, Inc. September 2008 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Sap business suite now available on Sap Hana by ComputerWeekly.com February 2013 - (Free Research) This analyst report from Nucleus Research assess the impact of SAPs decision to power SAP Business Suite by its SAP HANA in memory database technology.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

Ventana Research “Keys to a Fast, Clean Close"-2012 benchmark report by SAP America, Inc. December 2012 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Web 2.0 at Work: Departmental Use Cases by Oracle Corporation August 2008 - (Free Research) With the introduction of Web 2.0 technologies into your enterprise, you can greatly increase the value of your company's most important assets. Leading companies are harnessing Web 2.0 technologies and applying them to build their next-generation workplaces.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Financial Services Report: Reshaping ICT, Reshaping Business by ComputerWeekly.com November 2012 - (Free Research) This report from Fujtsu assesses the IT trends and prioirties in the financial services industry.  (IT BRIEFING) READ ABSTRACT |

CFO Research Study - Linking Numbers and Narratives by IBM July 2012 - (Free Research) Many companies are incorporating narrative elements into both internal and external reporting. However, adding a narrative analysis to financial reports can take a substantial amount of staff and management time. Companies today need more automation, more variance analysis/explanations, and less keying of information into spreadsheets.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Extracting the Full Value of SEC Filing Software by IBM December 2011 - (Free Research) The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission has forced organizations that file reports with it to automate most of the steps, leading most companies purchase software that helps them do so. This paper by Ventana Research explains the value of automated tagging software and how implementing such a strategy can lead to an elevated ROI.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Building Relationship Capital: Client Relationship Management for the Capital Markets by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution January 2011 - (Free Research) Current market trends in investment banking research demand a rapid, sophisticated response, not just in terms of corporate strategy, but in the technologies to support these strategic moves. Learn how CRM technology helps capital-markets firms streamline investment-banking activities, increase brokerage trade volume and meet compliance challenges.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Managing Costs More Effectively by SAP America, Inc. December 2011 - (Free Research) This Ventana Research paper identifies the IT components that can be used to identify ways to improve cost management for success in today's recovering yet volatile market.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The GeoTAX ® Enterprise Tax Management solution by Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software The GeoTAX ® Enterprise Tax Management solution provides you with the necessary tools to centralize all your corporate tax jurisdiction processing needs and supports critical tax compliance issues.  (SOFTWARE PRODUCT)

The Renewed Finance Function - Extending Performance Management Beyond Finance by SAP AG June 2009 - (Free Research) 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.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

The Relevance Revolution: Making the Move from Personalized to Individualized Marketing by Portrait Software September 2008 - (Free Research) This paper explains the challenges marketers face today and how innovative, next generation campaign approaches are beginning to separate the best from the rest.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How Financial Firms Can Improve Business Integration Capabilities and Increase Straight-Through Processing Efficiency by Sterling Commerce, An IBM Company September 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses the increased demand placed on financial services organizations to improve their straight-through processing (STP) levels across all business units.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Social Enterprise: Using Social Enterprise Applications to Enable the Next Wave of Knowledge Worker Productivity by Oracle Corporation October 2008 - (Free Research) Enterprise social applications are the next generation of collaboration and productivity tools, capturing the interpersonal knowledge of workers and the implicit connections among people, systems, and data.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Why Companies Fail: And the Information Imperatives to Help Ensure Survivability by Kalido June 2008 - (Free Research) Companies are failing at an unprecedented rate. Read this paper to learn how Kalido's Active Information Management software can help companies accommodate the kinds of information required to stave off failure.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

CW+: Roundtable: Managing IT assets and tracking total cost of ownership by ComputerWeekly.com October 2010 - (Free Research) Today’s economic climate means IT departments are under pressure to deliver both never-fail applications and service levels that meet business needs, while also reducing costs.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Easy Integration of Microsoft Office Excel with the SAP Business Suite for Financial Data by Winshuttle, LLC December 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper describes how SAP customers use Winshuttle solutions to automate the shuttling of financial data between Microsoft Excel and SAP transactions.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Fixed Asset Management Strategies and Best Practices by Sage Software February 2012 - (Free Research) Challenges to control fixed assets include lack of accurate physical asset inventories and inadequate tools and resources to adapt to changing tax laws and methods. Read this white paper to learn best practices for managing fixed assets and how control will help you save time and money.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

HP Enterprise Services eZine: Industry Edge – Financial Services Edition by Hewlett-Packard Limited July 2012 - (Free Research) Flip through this comprehensive vendor ezine and find out the innovative technology changes forward-thinking financial service providers are implementing. Discover the top 9 financial services trends of 2012, the opportunities the cloud offers businesses in the financial services industry, and much more.  (EZINE) READ ABSTRACT |

Gain visibility, insight and control with the CFO Performance Insight solution from IBM by IBM June 2012 - (Free Research) This brief video introduces an analytics platform that combines predictive analytics with what-if analysis, giving CFOs valuable insight into financial performance and paving the way for smarter, more reliable enterprise decision-making.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Video: Smith & Nephew talk about why they outsourced with HP to provide a finance and administration BPO services platform for growth and competitiveness by Hewlett-Packard Company March 2013 - (Free Research) In this brief webcast, David Trollope, Senior Vice President of Global Financial Systems at Smith & Nephew, discusses their decision to outsource their financial business processes. Continue on to discover the criteria they focused on while choosing a BPO partner and gain insights on what they learned throughout the process.  (VIDEO) READ ABSTRACT |

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