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Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function by SAP America, Inc. January 23, 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 |

Five Ways to Reduce Your Audit Tax by Lumension June 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Taxes are certainly not fun, but there is something worse: an audit. The good news is that there are ways to reduce the audit tax burden. This whitepaper outlines five methods organizations should consider to streamline their compliance efforts and thereby reduce their audit tax.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Infrastructure & IT Operations Management - Free Software Download! by Splunk March 02, 2010 - (Free Research) Reduce the time to troubleshoot IT problems and security incidents to minutes or seconds, instead of hours or days. Monitor your entire IT infrastructure to avoid service degradation and downtime. Try this 60 day free trial now!  (TRIAL SOFTWARE)

Ten Questions to Ask Before Choosing an Outsourcing Provider by Advent Software, Inc February 12, 2010 - (Free Research) There are many reasons why outsourcing with Advent OnDemand℠ may be the right answer for your firm. These are just ten of them. Find out why nearly 500 investment management firms have staked their future on our outsourcing services.  (WHITE PAPER)

Symantec Powered Backup to Disk Appliance from Dell: Enterprise Functionality with SMB ease of use; Dell's new PowerVault DL2100 by Symantec Corporation January 25, 2010 - (Free Research) SMBs are often left in the dust when it comes to D2D backup – the price is too high, setup too taxing on IT resources, and vendors don't have lower-capacity offerings suited to SMBS. Not anymore. This podcast highlights a new D2D backup solution that is an ideal match for the needs of an SMB.  (PODCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

3PAR Thin Provisioning: Eliminating Allocated but Unused Storage and Accelerating ROI by 3PAR January 01, 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses the problem of allocated, but unused, storage—the storage that has already been assigned to applications and file systems, but has not actually be written to. It also considers the high tax organizations pay to provision storage in typical environments.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Intelligent Metrics Ensures Success by IFS July 01, 2007 - (Free Research) Read how GED Integrated Solutions went through the process of identifying and implementing metrics to drive its business process improvement program in 2002 and has since learned many important lessons in how to track and leverage business metrics to improve operational performance.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

22 Marketing Metrics for Business Executives: An actionable guide to marketing analytics and marketing’s impact on the bottom-line by Birst December 31, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn about a core set of marketing-related metrics that can be understood and tracked by every executive, especially those in marketing. These metrics are necessary to keep executives, especially in marketing, on top of financial, market, and customer trends, as well as sales and marketing benchmarks.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Justifying Your Technology Investments Through ROI by KnowledgeStorm Webinars (E-mail this company) April 27, 2004 - (Free Research) As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Hurwitz: Virtualization is Not a Silver Bullet by CA October 30, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this white paper for a discussion of the many benefits of virtualization, how it has evolved, and how it intersects with data center optimization strategies.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Nota Fiscal Compliance in Brazil : On Demand Service Lowers Risk and Costs by Crossgate February 23, 2010 - (Free Research) According to a new law, Brazilian companies must now comply with Nota Fiscal Eletronica (NF-e). This will gradually replace hard-copy nota fiscals with an electronic counterpart. Since most systems were not designed for such extensive regulation, many companies find it best to leverage a service provider to manage this as an outsourced service.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Complying with Brazil’s Nota Fiscal Electronica (NF-e) by Crossgate February 23, 2010 - (Free Research) According to a new law, Brazilian companies must now comply with Nota Fiscal Eletronica (NF-e). This will gradually replace hard-copy nota fiscals with an electronic counterpart. Since most systems were not designed for such extensive regulation, many companies find it best to leverage a service provider to manage this as an outsourced service.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Metrics-Based Sales Productivity – Delivering Dividends for Forward Thinking Sales Organizations by IBM March 05, 2010 - (Free Research) New Sales Performance Management solutions enable sales leaders to align technology to business need and strategy. Read this paper for a series of discussions related to the metrics-based sales productivity solutions that forward thinking sales organizations are employing to harness the power of the pipeline and take advantage of sales analytics.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Service Benchmarking and Measurement: Using Metrics to Drive Customer Satisfaction and Profits for Contact Centers by Microsoft June 01, 2009 - (Free Research) The ability to measure, monitor, assess, and track KPIs is critical to any organization's ability to manage its service operations. This report reveals how “Best-in-Class” contact and call center firms, distinguish themselves from the others.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

Measuring Call Center Key Performance Indicators To Optimize Cost, Quality by Contactual, Inc. February 15, 2010 - (Free Research) In a recent interview, SearchCRM.com spoke with Eric Zbikowski, co-founder and managing partner at MetricNet, LLC, a provider of performance metrics and scorecards for corporations worldwide to learn tips for measuring call center KPIs without sacrificing call quality.  (PODCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Plan Now for Licensing Windows 7 by Dell, Inc. and Intel July 22, 2009 - (Free Research) This Forrester Research paper will show you how analyzing your options for upgrading to Windows 7 can save you down the road. One of the first steps IT managers should take is to determine their firm's Windows 7 licensing strategy and how it fits into their broader Microsoft relationship.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Versant Object Database 8.0.1 Software Development Kit (Trial) by Versant Corp. March 03, 2010 - (Free Research) Managing the persistent state of complex object graphs, empowering agile developers to work more efficiently. Designed for massive scale transactional systems and eliminating processing-intensive O/R mapping layers.  (TRIAL SOFTWARE) READ ABSTRACT |

Populating a Data Quality Scorecard with Relevant Metrics by DataFlux Corporation June 2008 - (Free Research) Too often, data governance teams rely on existing measurements as the metrics used to populate a data quality scorecard. But without a defined understanding of the relationship between specific measurement scores and the business's success criteria..  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices for Event Management by BMC Software, Inc. April 2009 - (Free Research) This BMC webcast will present a methodology for identifying the metrics that have the most impact on critical business applications and for creating exception events to notify of critical application problems.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Attunity Oracle-CDC for SSIS, version 2.1 by Attunity January 2010 - (Free Research) The Attunity Oracle-CDC for SSIS product simplifies & accelerates CDC implementation while enabling efficient, real-time data integration in low latency. It leverages existing SQL Server investments to reduce resources and costs.  (TRIAL SOFTWARE) READ ABSTRACT |

Tackling the IFRS Transition in the US by SAP America, Inc. March 2010 - (Free Research) The SEC will likely require companies to report in both GAAP and IFRS formats during the first official IFRS transition year and for two years prior. Accordingly, our customers want to know how SAP supports parallel reporting.  Read this paper to learn which options SAP recommends and find out which is best for your organization.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Comply With XBRL: Automate Compliance with U.S. and European Financial-Reporting Standards by Information Builders June 2009 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Management Mandate to Reduce Costs Leads to Increased Productivity by SEGUS Inc August 2009 - (Free Research) Learn how an Alabama company seeking a replacement tool for their mainframe administration and automation discovered SEGUS’ Smart products that not only delivered better functionality with a good GUI, but would save the company $80,000 over a five year period, while also avoiding future costly upgrade fees.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

The Evolution of IT Operations by ASG Software Solutions February 2010 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn how organizations have improved service delivery, and at the same time they have also turned their focus to presenting business value more positively.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Presentation Transcript: Top Hyper-V Deployment Scenarios by Dell and Microsoft March 2009 - (Free Research) In this transcript, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down some of these scenarios, with details on how Hyper-V can provide benefits in test and development situations and business continuity.  (PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT) READ ABSTRACT |

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