To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability. 

The global economy has gone through a painful restructuring in the last year. The economic downturn has however presented many opportunities for firms to cut costs and enhance their productivity. In this webcast you'll learn how to leverage those opportunities using Blackberry® solutions for accounting firms. 

Wipro analysts gathered information from 106 IT organizations in North America, Great Britain, and Germany in March 2009. This whitepaper explores contributing factors that determine the optimal refresh rate for laptop and desktop PCs, using examples from the firms that participated in the survey. 

Most analysts, including Enterprise Strategy Group, agree that performing only a periodic backup leaves data at risk, and they find that this is a major concern among the IT professionals they survey. The answer to this concern is Cisco Small Business Network Storage Systems (NSS) and Cisco Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files software. 

This white paper discusses the increased demand placed on financial services organizations to improve their straight-through processing (STP) levels across all business units. 

In this research report, we examine five of the critical issues that are creating new opportunities for the accounting profession and nine key strategies for obtaining competitive advantage. 

How does a firm or fund manager assess his/her research management needs and choose the best solution? This document helps by identifying pain points in the research workflow that RMS must address, describing how RMS supports investment process and decision making, and highlighting key features to consider when evaluating RMS solutions. 

This videocast takes a close look at what companies should consider before embarking on an SAP virtualization project, including costs, skills, data center and hardware requirements. 

Law firms have had to develop new strategies to compete and win in a legal market that contains greater uncertainty than any that has come before it. This paper will briefly outline strategies for success in the evolving legal marketplace. 

In this webcast, learn how Brunel University solved their email management challenges of massive email growth, lengthy tape backups and long searches. Discover how to develop an email archiving strategy that automatically captures, preserves and manages all corporate emails for compliance regulations. 

The objective of this paper is to present the buyside with a framework in which to understand the changes in the U.S. trading market, to offer a vision for the trading platforms that will support this new world and to explain why the future belongs to independent broker-neutral systems supplied by software firms rather than sellside brokers. 

Join us for a discussion with Tommy Thompson, IT Security and Compliance Coordinator at Williams Company and Bob Shapiro, Principal Business Analyst at OpenPages, in which we will uncover strategies for implementing a more effective IT risk and compliance management program.