This extract from Michael Blackstaff's book, Finance for IT decision makers, teaches you how to make effective business and financial cases for IT projects. 

This case study describes how leading Internet services and media company AOL Inc. outsourced finance and administration (F&A) services in order to improve accuracy, productivity, visibility, cost-efficiency, and more. 

Active Directory users often have their accounts locked out or forget their passwords.  This download empowers users to perform self service password resets and unlock their accounts eliminating helpdesk calls resulting in increased productivity and reduced costs. 

The convenience and ubiquity of email as a business communications tool has exposed enterprises to a wide variety of legal, financial and regulatory risks associated with outbound email. This report summarizes the findings of Proofpoint's sixth annual survey of enterprise attitudes about outbound email, content security and data protection. 

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. 

One of the stated goals of the Microsoft Windows Vista release is to greatly improve the overall security of the Windows operating system and curb the impact of malware. To this end, Microsoft redesigned both the least user and administrative... 

This analyst report from Nucleus Research assess the impact of SAPs decision to power SAP Business Suite by its SAP HANA in memory database technology. 

McAfee solutions cover all the critical elements of security medium businesses need: desktop and server protection, data protection, email and web security, and compliance. Total Protection for Secure Business provides comprehensive protection against the most lethal threats and exploits - in one package, from one trusted and proven vendor. 

This document describes the SAP NetWeaver Identity Management products, which cover most of the core functionality for implementing an identity management solution, including a virtual directory. 

By following established best practices, you have the opportunity to both reduce the risks associated with a data breach and improve the overall efficiency of your media management program. Check out this E-Guide to learn the five key Best Practices Areas that your organization needs to know about, and more. 

This whitepaper sets out some of the key rules, guidelines and associated risks for FINRA member firms and suggests ways that organisations can use technology to protect themselves and their RRs. In addition, it looks at some of the other issues that enterprises may encounter when enabling the new internet. 

This paper reviews the steps some organizations are taking to draft, implement, and enforce risk mitigation policies for removable media, and how technologies available today, and appearing on the horizon, are helping. 

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.