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. 

View this brief video to learn how the University of Cincinnati is becoming more cost-effective and better serving its students by distributing its dollars to the programs that need it through the budgetary visibility that SAP software gives them. 

IBM Cognos software helps K-12 organizations increase visibility and improve decision making, driving improved student performance, lowered cost of interventions, greater productivity, and lower operating costs. 

Test Drive IBM Cognos Express in the Cloud! Check out this easy online trial of IBM Cognos Express. Take a closer look at selected reporting, analysis and planning capabilities – without installing any software on your system. You can access the trial online for up to four hours and repeat the trial as often as you like. 

This brief white paper provides an overview of how performance management can help midsize companies meet challenges using IBM Cognos Express, an integrated, one-stop business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies. IBM Cognos Express is a cost-effective choice for performance management. 

Financial institutions are under pressure to make better decisions. Real-time decisions depend on access to information and the technology available to analyze it. This paper outlines an option that aggregates all of the content from across the entire organization to enable a holistic view of each case, reduce risk and support accurate decisions. 

Increasing numbers of enterprises are incorporating project portfolio management in their strategic planning. And just as individuals use financial reports and analyses to consider various investment options, the enterprise uses an analysis called the Business Case to evaluate various project proposals for inclusion in the project portfolio. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude talks about releasing government datasets to the public and why open data will drive the next industrial revolution. We also review the latest test version of Windows 8 and see how it shapes up for tablet computers and business users and much more. 

This paper discusses why CFOs should care about the cloud and how the approaches of IT and finance executives differ when it comes to cloud computing. 

Read this brief paper and learn how IBM Cognos can lead finance teams into the next generation by offering driver-based budgeting with vastly shorter planning cycles, flexible rolling forecasts, faster and more reliable financial close and consolidation, tighter control over operational performance, swifter reporting capabilities and so much more. 

<p>Read this presentation transcript to get an in-depth understanding of what fixed assets management is, why it’s getting so much attention lately, how it can help you improve your bottom line, and what your software and implementation options are.</p>