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. 

Hear TIBCO Spotfire's John Callan discuss how you can perform total spend analysis, drive supplier consolidation, identify maverick spend in a user-friendly, visual analysis environment and address a range of KPI's. 

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. 

To help companies form their 'down economy' contingency plans, IDC performed an analysis of past recoveries from economic recessions to find out the type of impact these recoveries had on companies and what the implications are on IT operations and ongoing support. This paper gives the details. 

When customers walk into their local bank, few consider the complex network of IT systems that go into ensuring core systems stay up and running. After a loss of data, it was common for individual file restores to take several hours. CFDS enlisted the help of Colorado-based HEIT, an integrator and reseller with expertise in financial industry IT. 

Oracle Financial Analytics provides organizations with better visibility into factors that drive revenues and shareholder value. Oracle BI Applications are powerful, pre-built solutions that enable organizations to implement more quickly, with less risk and at a fraction of the cost required to build traditional business intelligence solutions. 

The Internet enables prospects to search for you rather than the other way around. You must place expertly crafted content wherever prospects might be searching. Marketers are leveraging a new methodology called Intelligent Content Strategy to attract more prospects that are looking for their solutions. 

This white paper identifies the many challenges companies face when implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in corporate reporting and explores tightly integrated solutions that together centrally manage data and metadata on a unified platform--the first step in implementing a complete performance management solution. 

BlueCrest Capital Management Tidal Enterprise Scheduler when they needed to make critical business processes visible to upper management and centralize scheduling and management of nightly data downloads; as well as integrate disaster recovery processes into job scheduling efforts and migrate away from heavily scripted point solutions. 

Data quality is an elusive subject that can defy measurement and yet be critical enough to derail any single IT project, strategic initiative, or even a company as a whole. This paper from Business Objects examines an overall approach to data quality ROI including 6 key steps to help you realize tangible ROI on your data quality initiative. 

In June 2008, CFO Research Services conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The research looked at what kinds of alliances companies are forming and how finance sees itself working with internal and external partners to establish and assess successful alliances. 

This ABI Research white paper examines the use of smartphones as tools for mobile field workers as a replacement for rugged devices. Through interviews with multiple companies with we found that the TCO of owning smartphones was 14% - 85% less than rugged devices. 

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.