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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 |

Unified Budget Planning and Consolidation by SAP America, Inc. March 16, 2010 - (Free Research) Learn how to plan, forecast and budget more effectively with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, bringing order to business planning processes and offering embedded support for financial consolidation.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Budget Adjustments for CIOs In Lean Economic Times by ASG Software Solutions March 22, 2008 - (Free Research) This Forrester report examines a variety of cost-reduction techniques by budget category and impact.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices in Reconciliation: A Practical Guide for Asset Managers by Advent Software, Inc July 2008 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER)

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

Justifying Your Technology Investments Through ROI by KnowledgeStorm Webinars (E-mail this company) April 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 |

Governance, Risk and Compliance for Life Sciences Companies by SAP America, Inc. November 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 |

Back Office Outsourcing and Investment Reporting - A Guide for Investment Advisors by Advent Software, Inc January 2006 - (Free Research) In investment reporting, customers expect detailed reports of irreproachable accuracy, delivered with no delay or excuses. This whitepaper will serve as as a guide for Investment Advisors.  (WHITE PAPER)

Building a Best-Run Finance Organization by SAP America, Inc. June 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 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 |

Comply With XBRL: Automate Compliance with U.S. and European Financial-Reporting Standards by Information Builders June 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 |

A Complete View Of The Enterprise: Linking Operational And Financial Planning In Global Organizations by SAP America, Inc. May 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 |

IP Address Management Webinar by Infoblox April 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this webcast, which discusses the problem of flat budgets, rising costs, and competing priorities, and explains how automating core network services has proven to be a helpful solution.  (WEBCAST) 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 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 |

Tackling the IFRS Transition in the US by SAP America, Inc. March 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 |

Building the Case for Business Intelligence ROI in a Turbulent Economy: 6 Tactics You Can Use by IBM November 2009 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn how to strengthen your organization's business intelligence investment in the current economic environment, which has seen budget cuts in virtually every area. This paper offers tips for making a tangible business case for BI investments.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Application Performance Management: Optimizing the Economics of Web Transactions by CA March 2010 - (Free Research) View this exclusive webcast with key experts from Gartner and CA to learn how to achieve true performance and availability management for your mission critical, revenue-generating applications.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Ten Ways SMBs Can Get More from Their IT Budgets by Dell and VMware December 2008 - (Free Research) Virtualization technology presents a number of opportunities for driving capital and operational efficiency for SMBs. Read this brief paper to learn ten cost-saving strategies.  (ARTICLE) READ ABSTRACT |

The Prologic Report: Technology in Fashion by Oracle Corporation February 2010 - (Free Research) This report focuses on the challenges and issues faced by the UK fashion sector whilst providing a crucial insight into strategies for surviving and prospering in the current economic climate. It also examines investment priorities for IT budgets, and satisfaction with current systems.  (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 |

Data Quality and Cost Reduction by DataFlux Corporation January 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 |

Optimizing Daily and Routine Maintenance in the Oil & Gas Industry through Project Portfolio Management by Oracle Corporation August 2009 - (Free Research) Project portfolio management solutions, such as Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, help oil and gas executives successfully manage their daily and routine maintenance projects, by enabling them to more effectively manage resources, capture best practices and complete projects on-time and within budget.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Security on a Budget by Global Knowledge May 2009 - (Free Research) We need to establish cost-effective security as a standard practice. This should be a long-term goal, not just one inspired by a tough economy. This paper explores several innovative ideas to help your organization save money on company security.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Portfolio Construction and Trading: Seven Key Factors in Evaluating Order Management Systems to Close the Gap by Advent Software, Inc January 2009 - (Free Research) This document examines the current state of Order Management Systems (OMS) portfolio management capabilities, identifies major challenges and "pain points" that firms encounter, and outlines seven system attributes needed to overcome them.  (WHITE PAPER)

Cost Savings with Centralized Virtual Desktops by Citrix May 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper provides a close examination of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and how it may dramatically lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Read this paper to learn about the current cost of PC management and how virtual desktops can be deployed using existing budgets.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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