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Comply With XBRL: Automate Compliance with U.S. and European Financial-Reporting Standards by Information Builders June 19, 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 |

Controlling Microsoft Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence by Information Builders Inc. (E-mail this company) August 2006 - (Free Research) Enterprises can take control of the burgeoning number of unsanctioned spreadsheets by adopting a policy of centralized master spreadsheet generation. Learn how WebFOCUS creates fully summarized, organized, and styled Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas already in place, lowering the potential for keystroke and logic error.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Selecting a Performance Management Solution Built on Leading Technology by PROPHIX December 2009 - (Free Research) Businesses, especially finance departments, are challenged to be more effective at acting upon key performance indicators (KPIs). Flexible, yet powerful analytical tools can increase visibility to operational drivers. Read this paper to learn about technology solutions that can remove the responsibility of powerful performance management from IT.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Automated IP Address Management: How to Cut Costs and Better Align your Network with Business Initiatives by Infoblox March 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this white paper for a discussion on network changes; IP address management; Core Network Services solutions; and the benefits of integrated, automated IP.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

TDWI Best Practices Report: Strategies for Managing Spreadmarts: Migrating to a Managed BI Environment by Pentaho Corporation March 2010 - (Free Research) Information consistency and reliability is essential for accurate business analysis. Yet, the lack of controls around the use of spreadsheets wreaks havoc on organizations every day, costing money and credibility. Read this report to learn how companies can benefit by migrating to Pentaho’s low-cost open source managed BI solution for spreadmarts.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Meeting Compliance Objectives in SharePoint® by AvePoint, Inc. February 2009 - (Free Research) This document is intended to aid IT administrators and other stakeholders responsible for managing SharePoint deployments, in planning and implementing a comprehensive, reliable, and efficient compliance strategy appropriate to their organizational needs.  (WHITE PAPER) 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 |

From Chaos to Order - Winning the Information Management Game by Oracle Corporation April 2009 - (Free Research) This paper explores how businesses can capitalize on a free, easy-to-use, rapid web application tool for the Oracle Database that will help consolidate personal databases, spreadsheets, and other data to create a single point of truth for everyone in the company.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function by SAP America, Inc. January 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 |

The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence by SAP America, Inc. June 2009 - (Free Research) The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Datawatch Dashboards™ - Data Visualization Made Easy!™ by Datawatch Corporation February 2010 - (Free Research) Datawatch Dashboards is a Flash-based, fully interactive dashboard solution that gives all levels of users a visual overview of operational performance with drill down capabilities allowing users to monitor, measure & manage KPIs.  (TRIAL SOFTWARE) READ ABSTRACT |

Data Conversion in a System Migration: Best Practices for Compliance and Continuity by Advent Software, Inc January 2009 - (Free Research) This document is designed to help firms understand their data conversion options. It outlines what data is critical and must be converted for compliance purposes and business continuity, what data is not critical, the relationship between data conversion and reporting, and what to look for in a new technology provider relative to data conversion.  (WHITE PAPER)

Economist Intelligence Unit: Business intelligence Putting information to Work by SAP America, Inc. January 2009 - (Free Research) Business intelligence (BI) can be considered critical to the very existence of most organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore whether and how companies are using BI to improve their businesses; to identify the obstacles they encounter in its use; and predict how BI will evolve in the next ten years.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Total Economic Impact of CA Identity Manager by CA February 2010 - (Free Research) In January 2010, CA commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying CA Identity Manager (CA IM). Read this paper to learn what they found.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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 |

BPM Taxonomy Whitepaper - Dan Woods - Sponsored by SAP and Accenture by SAP America, Inc. March 2009 - (Free Research) This paper provides a survey of the practices and technology related to business process management (BPM). Basic concepts are explained, the transformational effect on the enterprise is examined, and the value that BPM can create is analyzed. The paper then presents a survey of the vast array of technology that is related to BPM.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Enterprise Performance Management - Financial Excellence and Beyond by SAP America, Inc. February 2008 - (Free Research) Read why top CFOs are shifting from their traditional financial role dealing with standardized business processes and systems to that of change agent and strategic advisor to the CEO.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Metro Atlanta YMCA Better Aligns its Mission, Member Engagement, and Marketing Communications Activities Using Birst by Birst October 2009 - (Free Research) In an attempt to tailor and more effectively promote its programs, the Metro Atlanta YMCA turned to Birst for a new set of Business intelligence (BI) tools. Birst delivered with features that included automated dashboards and adhoc reporting at a fair price. Read on to learn the benefits YMCA experienced when they switched to Birst.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

Dell Asset Recovery Services by Dell, Inc. and Intel October 2009 - (Free Research) To protect your company's assets and reputation, Dell's Asset Recovery Services help ensure that sensitive information does not fall into the wrong hands while also promoting environmental stewardship through our efforts to achieve zero-landfill and zero-export policies.  (DATA SHEET) READ ABSTRACT |

Getting Started With E-mail Archiving for Exchange by Sherpa Software May 2008 - (Free Research) This document discusses the reasons e-mail archiving is necessary, the benefits of archiving messages, the different options available for archiving, and how administrators can determine which option is best for a given company.  (WHITE PAPER) 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 |

Beyond FTP: Securing and Managing File Transfers by Linoma Software March 2010 - (Free Research) Every day, millions of files are exchanged all over the world by corporations, government entities and other organizations. Most file transfers use the popular protocol known as FTP. This paper will examine how FTP has become the standard for business-to-business file transfers and the key pitfalls that face management using this open protocol.  (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 |

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 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 |

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