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Best practices for streamlining financial processes and reporting in SAP environments by Dolphin October 12, 2011 - (Free Research) In this e-book, get expert advice and ideas on how to improve critical financial processes such as order-to-cash, controlling, general ledger, accounts receivable and financial reporting.  (EBOOK)

Financial process automation leads to better performance by Dolphin April 05, 2013 - (Free Research) Financial reporting can be time-consuming and expensive if done manually. In this expert guide, learn how automating financial reporting can offer your organization key benefits and discover recommendations on how to get started.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

A Faster Year-End Close by Prophix Software October 02, 2012 - (Free Research) A well thought out financial process provides your decision makers with the most up-to-date, accurate data and information whenever they need it. This paper outlines the benefits of a properly designed and implemented financial process.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Disclosure Management for budgeting, planning and forecasting -- the next frontier? by IBM October 31, 2012 - (Free Research) This resource explains how disclosure management can lead to significant productivity gains when used for statutory reporting, and evaluates the viability of this strategy as an option for improving budgeting, planning, and forecasting (BPF) financial processes.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

P&G “tapped” into HP’s best-in-class financial processes, enhanced productivity and cut costs by Hewlett-Packard Company September 30, 2010 - (Free Research) This case study explains how the leading consumer packaged goods company Procter & Gamble (P&G) was able to improve service levels, advance speed to market, reduce operating costs, and more by enlisting the right partner to take on its transactional accounts payable (TAP) processes.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

Fortifying the Financial Close-to-Disclose Process white paper by SAP America, Inc. October 31, 2012 - (Free Research) In today's economic climate, it is more important than ever for a company to achieve faster, more accurate financial closing and reporting.  Check out this white paper to learn about common targets for improving financial close, and get tips for how your business could optimize its financial processes.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Six tips for getting the most out of SAP Workflow by Dolphin November 21, 2012 - (Free Research) View this expert E-guide to learn more about how you can implement SAP Workflow in your organization. Discover how a properly designed SAP workflow will help your business with automated routine financial processes with areas like asset accounting and auditing.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Case Study: Compliant and In Control: Sysmex America Tackles J-SOX with Security Weaver by Security Weaver November 08, 2010 - (Free Research) In January 2008 Sysmex America deployed SAP for financial processes. While SAP access lets employees streamline workflow, it also created a potential SOD problem. Learn how Security Weaver has allowed better control of user access to its financial system, clearer role definitions, and a clear, accurate data trail suitable for any possible audit.  (CASE STUDY) 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 27, 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 |

Not Small Change: World-class Financial Automation Delivers Dramatic Benefits (BusinessWeek Research Services) by SAP America, Inc. March 16, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper by BusinessWeek and SAP discusses how replacing manual and disjointed financial processes with an enterprise wide system cuts costs and improves operational performance. Automated financial value chains can reduce costs by up to 45 percent and improve productivity by up to 50 percent.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

HP Procurement Services: Boost Margins with Proven Global Spending Strategies by Hewlett-Packard Company August 31, 2010 - (Free Research) This resource explains how outsourcing your procurement activities to a trusted business partner can help you reduce costs, improve productivity, increase compliance, and more. See how you can set the stage for financial success by reading on now.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Innovation in Financial Management: How Workday Is Breaking the Barriers of Legacy ERP by Workday December 31, 2011 - (Free Research) Traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are too heavy, too complex, and too expensive. Read this paper to discover an alternative ERP strategy that provides the agility, visibility and controls beyond basic accounting needed in today’s climate of constant change, increasing regulatory oversight, and instant information access.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Gain visibility, insight and control with the CFO Performance Insight solution from IBM by IBM June 30, 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 |

Cloud Computing: A Silver Bullet for Finance? by Workday February 23, 2012 - (Free Research) Questions regarding security, performance, privacy, risks, and actual cost and value have kept CFOs and other finance leaders from making the leap to cloud services. This paper delves into some of the risks versus the rewards of the cloud delivery model and sets out to determine if cloud computing is truly the silver bullet for finance.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Drive Finance in Real Time with SAP HANA by SAP America, Inc. December 07, 2012 - (Free Research) With speeds up to 100,000 times faster than traditional business analytics software, SAP HANA can provide your organization with deep insights into large volumes of financial data, enabling smarter financial and managerial decisions. Check out this comprehensive e-book to learn more about SAP HANA's power to transform financial processes.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Skills needed for a cloud computing success by SunGard Availability Services February 24, 2012 - (Free Research) In this expert e-guide, explore the essential IT skills you need to master to achieve cloud computing success. Discover why each of these skills is important to have in your organization, and how you can go about aquiring these skills.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Financial Performance Management: Optimize Financial Performance for a Competitive Edge by SAP AG January 23, 2009 - (Free Research) Applications for financial performance management, part of SAP® solutions for enterprise performance management, cover the full life cycle of financial management and put you in control of performance.  (ARTICLE) READ ABSTRACT |

Essentials of Financial Consolidation Applications by Prophix Software August 28, 2012 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to find five tips to simplify your financial consolidation process.  (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 01, 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 Total Economic Impact™ of Building Operational Performance Reporting Applications by Actuate July 2008 - (Free Research) Forrester found that by moving from a legacy reporting platform to a more flexible and dynamic reporting environment organizations can realize benefits around greater employee efficiency and improved visibility and consistency of financial information.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

Align Finance with Lean Manufacturing: 9 Actionable Items by Infor September 2008 - (Free Research) This on-demand event identifies the incongruities and provides nine action items to align finance with Lean manufacturing, and reduce waste in accounting and costing. You'll learn 9 pragmatic recommendations for improving your lean performance results.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Whitepaper: A smarter way through your extended close cycle–Automated Financial Close Management (FCM) by IBM October 2012 - (Free Research) This white paper reviews the processes involved in a company's extended financial close process, the problems associated with a manual effort, and the benefits of using an integrated and automated single-platform solution for Financial Close Management (FCM).  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Financial Forecasting: Room for Improvement for People, Process and Technology by SAP America, Inc. November 2012 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to discover why stakeholder collaboration is one of the keys to forecasting accuracy.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Monitoring for SAP: High-Risk Financial Transactions in Real Time by Security Weaver February 2009 - (Free Research) For corporations using SAP, identifying and controlling risky financial transactions is a major undertaking. This paper examines the monitoring challenges faced by finance and reveals the many advantages of real-time transaction monitoring for SAP.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Accelerating the Financial Close CFOs’ Insights into the Benefits of a High-Quality Close by SAP America, Inc. July 2011 - (Free Research) In this analyst report, learn how the financial close process can not only be used to inspire confidence by reporting externally, put critical financial information into the hands of managers faster, allowing them to react more effectively to changing markets.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

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