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Not Small Change: World-class Financial Automation Delivers Dramatic Benefits (BusinessWeek Research Services) by SAP America, Inc. March 16, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper by BusinessWeek and SAP discusses how replacing manual and disjointed financial processes with an enterprise wide system cuts costs and improves operational performance. Automated financial value chains can reduce costs by up to 45 percent and improve productivity by up to 50 percent.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Beating the Bad Guys: Strategies to Mitigate the Malware Threat by RSA, The Security Division of EMC November 23, 2011 - (Free Research) While there is no silver bullet to eliminate cybercrime and malware, there are ways to mitigate risk, requiring a combination of multiple technologies to protect endpoints, online sessions and transactions. View this paper to examine the regulatory environment and uncover successful strategies for beating the bad guys.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Whitepaper: Extending the value of Business Intelligence with ‘Disclosure Management’ by IBM October 30, 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 |

Buying Considerations to Ensure Data Warehouse Project Success by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd May 31, 2012 - (Free Research) This white paper looks at the time-to-business value of financial services data warehousing technologies. Read on to learn how the selection process should take into account real-world implementation hurdles and outlines the data warehouse features buyers should look for when comparing vendors and technologies.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Capturing a Competitive Advantage with a Secure Payments Infrastructure by Intel May 05, 2011 - (Free Research) A number of factors are driving financial institutions to re-evaluate their payment methods.  These factors include regulations such as Single Euro Payments Area in Europe, which calls for new payment vehicles for customers. Find out how one financial institution was able to meet compliance demands by utilizing a secure payments infrastructure.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Leveraging XBRL for Value in Organizations by ISACA August 18, 2011 - (Free Research) This white paper was developed jointly by ISACA and IFAC, providing guidance on how to leverage value from XBRL initiatives and compliance requirements, with examples and case studies included.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Growing Market Share in a Highly Competitive Financial Services Industry by Keynote Systems February 25, 2008 - (Free Research) Financial services organizations strive to retain existing customers and attract new ones, many are introducing new, enhanced services over the Web. Ensure you are providing the best possible experience by focusing your SLM processes on the end user.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Essentials of Financial Consolidation Applications by Prophix Software August 28, 2012 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to find five tips to simplify your financial consolidation process.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Extracting the Full Value of SEC Filing Software by IBM December 07, 2011 - (Free Research) The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission has forced organizations that file reports with it to automate most of the steps, leading most companies purchase software that helps them do so. This paper by Ventana Research explains the value of automated tagging software and how implementing such a strategy can lead to an elevated ROI.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Get Global. Get Specialized. Or Get Out. by IBM Line of Business June 2008 - (Free Research) This paper from IBM explores strategies that can help you capitalize on the opportunities globalization will bring about.  (WHITE PAPER)

What CFOs Should Ask their Software Development Leaders by IBM September 2011 - (Free Research) This paper illustrates a new way of thinking about the funding of IT software projects, one that considers funding in terms of investment, and value as an expansive, longitudinal variable.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Business Value of HP–UX 11i v3 by Hewlett-Packard Limited March 2010 - (Free Research) Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP to assess the financial merits of moving from a HP-UX 11i v2 platform to HP-UX 11i v3 running on HP Integrity Servers over moving to SUN Solaris10 running on Sun Servers. Read this white paper for details.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Advantage of the HP ProLiant DL980 Universal Database Solution vs. Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-­8: A Financial Comparison by HP & Intel® April 2013 - (Free Research) The need to obtain business value from interpreting large data volumes is becoming a necessity for many large and mid-sized organizations. Consult this informative white paper to learn more about how several solution providers have developed hardware and software solutions to provide performance access to large amounts of business data.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Cloud Computing: A Silver Bullet for Finance? by Workday February 2012 - (Free Research) Questions regarding security, performance, privacy, risks, and actual cost and value have kept CFOs and other finance leaders from making the leap to cloud services. This paper delves into some of the risks versus the rewards of the cloud delivery model and sets out to determine if cloud computing is truly the silver bullet for finance.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Business and Financial Benefits of Virtualization by VMware, Inc. June 2011 - (Free Research) When IT executives engage with VMware they often ask themselves many questions, including “How do my metrics compare to my peers with respect to virtualizing my IT environment?”. This exclusive white paper highlights top anecdotes and qualitative research on virtualization's business and financial benefits. Learn more here.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The New Economics of Telecom Networks: Bringing value back to the network by Alcatel-Lucent November 2009 - (Free Research) Network service providers dealing with massive bandwidth demand are struggling to evolve their networks while keeping costs under control. Expenditures must be reduced and revenue per transported bit increased. Read this strategic white paper to learn more about a more value driven approach to network management.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Smarter communications through analytics by IBM November 2011 - (Free Research) As research suggests, investments in data integration and analytics that maximize the value of each customer are worthwhile and create potential for financial gain. To quantify the value of those investments, an illustrative $8 billion communications provider was modeled. Results from this effort are presented throughout this paper.  (WHITE PAPER)

Driving Strategic Planning with Predictive Modeling by Oracle Corporation July 2008 - (Free Research) Uncertainty makes strategic planning complex. Removing uncertainty can create unlimited business value. There are solutions to help organizations overcome uncertainty and achieve results. Read this white paper to learn how to drive strategic planning with predictive modeling.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Maximizing Value Report: A Benefits Analysis of 100 SAP Customers Worldwide by Mainstay Partners January 2008 - (Free Research) In this paper, Mainstay Partners analyzes 100 SAP customer case studies and success stories found in the book, "Maximizing Value – 100 Customer Successes" published in 2006. Learn the results of these 'best practice' companies.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Achieving ROI from Enterprise Communications: A Revolutionary Approach by Thunderhead July 2011 - (Free Research) This white paper provides an overview of how Thunderhead customers have achieved truly revolutionary ROI by streamlining their communications processes through the implementation of the Thunderhead Enterprise Communications platform.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How to Profit in a Downturn: 4 Customer-centric Strategies for Growth in a Challenging Market by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution February 2009 - (Free Research) In this white paper, learn how your organization can use customer-centric strategies and CRM tools to maximize the value and loyalty of your customer base. Gain insight into new areas of opportunity and do more with less in a time of economic uncertainty.  (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 |

Workload-Optimized Systems For Superior Business Value by IBM February 2012 - (Free Research) This brief white paper examines why making the right server choices can help solve many challenges. It contrasts x86 multi-cores with Power Systems and mainframes. Read on to learn how making the right server choices can help an enterprise realize greater ROI while also helping extracting greater business value from the servers that it buys.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

BPM Partners: The Strategic Need to Automate The Last Mile of Finance by IBM February 2012 - (Free Research) Read this white paper and learn about the business challenges and risks in existing manual ‘last mile’ processes dependent on different version spreadsheets, word processing files and unsecured emails, and the benefits and the value of automating ‘last mile’ processes.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

5 Reasons CIOs Are Adopting Cloud Computing in 2009 by Salesforce.com March 2009 - (Free Research) Cloud computing is transforming the way IT departments build and deploy custom applications during lean times and changing the economics of information technology. Here are the 5 reasons why thousands of companies are betting that cloud computing is the right technology strategy for 2009 and beyond.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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