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Evaluating Financial Management Software ...Is it time for a change? by Microsoft March 2008 - (Free Research) Financial management software that becomes disjointed can impact the success and profitability of any business. Read this paper to learn how your business can streamline processes to manage accounting, project management, payroll and human resources.  (WHITE PAPER)

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 |

Drive Finance in Real Time with SAP HANA by SAP America, Inc. December 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 |

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 |

Spotlight on IT - Sustained Growth through Operational Excellence by SAP America, Inc. July 1967 - (Free Research) This paper-one of four function-specific papers-is based on the IT responses and follow-up interviews with technology executives who participated in the 2008 Economist Intelligence Unit operational excellence survey sponsored by SAP.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Whitepaper: Extending the value of Business Intelligence with ‘Disclosure Management’ by IBM October 2012 - (Free Research) This white paper details on the relationship between financial reporting and business intelligence. Learn more about how applying new disclosure management technology to financial reporting can extend the value of existing BI tools.  (WHITE PAPER) 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 |

Innovation in Financial Management: How Workday Is Breaking the Barriers of Legacy ERP by Workday December 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 |

Thinking through Uncertainty: CFOs Scrutinize Non-Financial Risk by IBM Line of Business June 2008 - (Free Research) Risks can impact the top and bottom line and eventually every risk is expressed in the company's share price.  (WHITE PAPER)

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 |

5 Steps to Reducing Downtime: Best Practices for Windows Server Application High Availability by Marathon Technologies September 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses five steps for protecting Windows Server applications from downtime, offering established best practices to reduce potential single points of failure and ensure rapid recovery or continued operations in the event of failure.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

5 Styles of Business Intelligence by MicroStrategy Incorporated June 2008 - (Free Research) This paper looks at the historical development of BI applications and BI technology, and concludes that five common Styles of BI have evolved during the past decade - each style representing a certain characteristic usage.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The age of compliance: Preparing for a riskier and more regulated world by SAP America, Inc. August 2010 - (Free Research) Events such as the financial crisis and the Gulf oil spill have provided fresh impetus for efforts to gain better oversight and coordination across risk and compliance functions. Read this white paper to learn how the integrated management of risk and compliance has developed among corporates in multiple countries and industries.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Augmenting the Value of ERP to Achieve the Perfect Plant by Apriso Corporation September 2008 - (Free Research) This paper reviews multiple compelling issues of establishing and maintaining connectivity to manufacturing operations to achieve the Perfect Plant through an existing ERP system.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Business Case for Enterprise Disaster Recovery Planning: Calculating the Cost of Downtime by Iron Mountain September 2008 - (Free Research) Given the enormous long-term costs and implications of a systems interruption, companies need to carefully define and implement plans to mitigate losses. This paper arms you with how to build a strong business case for a recovery plan.  (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 |

Long-Term Data Protection and Retention: Finding the Correct Balance by Quantum Corporation March 2009 - (Free Research) Tape remains the most cost effective, energy efficient and reliable program technology for storing large amounts of inactive, off-line or near-line data while complimenting disk-based data protection and retention solutions. Read this paper and find out why.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

White Paper: The Dynamic Warehousing Infrastructure - Establishing a Foundation to Meet New Information Requirements by IBM January 2009 - (Free Research) Learn how to create a roadmap for a truly dynamic warehousing infrastructure, and move ahead of your competition with your business intelligence system.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Workday Advantage: Financial Management in the Cloud by Workday March 2013 - (Free Research) In this video, an HR financials expert discusses the benefits and possibilities of SaaS and cloud-based HR functions.  (VIDEO) READ ABSTRACT |

Web Threats: Challenges and Solutions by Trend Micro, Inc. January 2009 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to better understand Web threats and their impacts, as well as why conventional methods fail to protect against these threats and the characteristics of a new approach required to ensure security, regulatory compliance, and business continuity.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Overview by Oracle Corporation January 2011 - (Free Research) This paper explains how Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications are complete, prebuilt BI solutions that deliver intuitive, role-based intelligence for everyone in an organization - from front line employees to senior management - that enable better decisions, actions, and business processes.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Disclosure Management for budgeting, planning and forecasting -- the next frontier? by IBM October 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 |

The Superstar CFO - Optimizing an Increasingly Complex Role by SAP America, Inc. May 2007 - (Free Research) Read this CFO Research study to understand how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Public Sector Business Analytics: The Path to Better Decision Making and Agility by SAP America, Inc. July 2011 - (Free Research) This white paper evaluates the use of analytics and business intelligence for improving decision making in public sector organizations, as well as the benefits which prebuilt analytic applications can achieving across multiple organizational functions.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Technology Implications of IFRS adoption for U.S. Companies: More than a technical accounting change by Deloitte July 2009 - (Free Research) In this publication, we explore the technology implications associated with IFRS conversion and discuss: Evaluating the potential technology impact; how companies can prepare technology and systems changes related to IFRS adoption; Major differences between U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and IFRS and much more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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