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The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence by SAP America, Inc. June 02, 2009 - (Free Research) The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Top Five Corporate Actions of 2010 White Paper by Advent Software, Inc December 07, 2011 - (Free Research) Accounting for corporate actions accurately is one of the biggest challenges for investment managers, with significant portfolio valuation, performance and tax implications for investors. And its only going to get more challenging due to reporting requirements and mounting activity. Learn how to get a handle on the 5 most common corporate actions.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Performance testing for mobile applications Will your mobile application fail your users? by Hewlett-Packard Company November 22, 2011 - (Free Research) This white paper reviews key mobile trends and analyzes how performance testers must change their testing methodologies to ensure they are accounting for the changes caused by mobile usage.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices in Performance Measurement and Reporting: Understanding the Global Investment Performance Standards® by Advent Software, Inc April 23, 2010 - (Free Research) Whether you are just starting a compliance program or need to fine-tune your existing process, this document will help you understand the steps involved in becoming GIPS compliant. It is not a substitute for the Standards themselves. It is designed to help you understand the value of compliance, what’s needed to achieve it, pitfalls to avoid.  (WHITE PAPER)

A Complete View Of The Enterprise: Linking Operational And Financial Planning In Global Organizations by SAP America, Inc. May 01, 2008 - (Free Research) In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Integrated and Automated Budget, Program and Performance Reporting by IBM February 08, 2012 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn how IBM Cognos FSR with TM1 helps budget and finance teams to automate the generation of complex, process driven reports while maintaining the agency’s current business processes and disclosure management  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Sophisticated insights in Banking - From complexity to client centricity by IBM November 18, 2011 - (Free Research) This white paper outlines steps that financial institutions can take to become more business savvy and efficient in the age of the consumer. Read on and learn how to leverage information and reduce risk, properly set product prices, learn about your clients and more.  (WHITE PAPER)

Building a Best-Run Finance Organization by SAP America, Inc. June 01, 2008 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Business Skill Courseware by SkillSoft Corporation SkillSoft’s Business Skills Library focuses on behavioral skills that are designed for business professionals and key to performance regardless of job responsibility, as well as the skills and knowledge that are relevant to the various areas of functional responsibility in today’s business organizations.  (ASP & SOFTWARE PRODUCT)

Sales Analytics by Oracle Corporation July 11, 2008 - (Free Research) With more accurate sales forecasts and enhanced identification of potential problems and opportunities, Oracle Sales Analytics helps close business faster and increase overall sales revenue. Read this data sheet to learn more.  (DATA SHEET) READ ABSTRACT |

CW+ Quocirca report: Beating IT recession blues by ComputerWeekly.com October 18, 2010 - (Free Research) IT spending is often an issue for any organisation, but especially in harsh economic times it is even more important to see what benefit IT brings to the business. This report looks at the degree to which UK organisations understand what IT is doing for their business, and in particular how some companies measure this and benefit from it.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Close, Consolidate & Report for Dummies by IBM February 08, 2012 - (Free Research) Download this e-book and find out how a unified close, consolidate and report (CCR) process gives leaders timely and accurate insights to make smarter decisions. You also discover features of the ideal CCR solution and learn what to look for in the selection process.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Fast Delivery of Complex Financial Reports - How Leading CFOs Do It by IBM November 14, 2011 - (Free Research) Reporting speed and accuracy are vital today. But it would be wrong to assume that you have to spend more to go faster and do a competent job. This white paper illustrates how some organizations achieved top-tier results in financial reporting and why some did not.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Unleashing GRC intelligence: Driving performance with insight by IBM October 28, 2011 - (Free Research) OpenPages 6 empowers managers with the ability to reduce loss and improve performance through deep insight into enterprise-wide governance, risk, and compliance initiatives.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Operational Intelligence - Boosting Performance with 'Right Time' Business Insight by IBM January 24, 2012 - (Free Research) This report from Aberdeen looks at how leading companies are using business intelligence (BI) to achieve superior performance in sales management, customer service and financial efficiency. Read how your organization can achieve similar performance by following specific steps and actions.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Optimizing the Order-to-Cash Process: Managing Documents throughout the Process by Dolphin October 21, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper examines an array of solutions for SAP customers to optimize the Order-to-Cash processes in ways that contain costs and achieve optimum organizational efficiency, high customer retention and successful cash management.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Business Intelligence for the Small to Medium Sized Business by SAP America, Inc. June 02, 2009 - (Free Research) Based on feedback from almost 650 end-user organizations, this report serves as a roadmap for SMBs looking to improve their analytical capability and achieve Best-in-Class performace through the deployment of BI.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Data Conversion in a System Migration: Best Practices for Compliance and Continuity by Advent Software, Inc January 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This document is designed to help firms understand their data conversion options. It outlines what data is critical and must be converted for compliance purposes and business continuity, what data is not critical, the relationship between data conversion and reporting, and what to look for in a new technology provider relative to data conversion.  (WHITE PAPER)

Facilitating “sound practices” in risk management with IBM OpenPages ORM by IBM February 08, 2012 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses operational risk management (ORM) in the context of "Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk," a paper from the Basel Committee.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Business Intelligence Innovation at Gallup by Oracle Corporation March 21, 2011 - (Free Research) Gallup has deployed Oracle's OBIEE Plus suite, Oracle BI Publisher which along with several best practice implementation efforts has provided Gallup a new reporting and business analysis platform. Listen to this podcast to learn more.  (PODCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

S3 Control: Adding Control to Change Management by Solidcore Systems, Inc. There is a gap between change activity & the documented Change Management process. Solidcore S3 Control adds control to change management. It provides visibility into changes in the enterprise IT infrastructure, accountability for employees deploying ticketed changes, & enforcement of change policies. It is available on IBM platforms.  (SOFTWARE PRODUCT)

CSO Insights: A Sales Rep's Digital Admin by DocuSign, Inc. February 07, 2012 - (Free Research) This study examines the benefits of e-signature systems for sales performance optimization.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Financial Analysis Clears the Profit Haze by IBM February 08, 2012 - (Free Research) This white paper by Technology Evaluation Centers discusses the challenges that organizations face when trying to understand their existing business positions and future business scenarios. It focuses specifically on profitability analysis.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Budgeting: Beyond Spreadsheets by IBM January 15, 2010 - (Free Research) With new technologies—such as planning and analysis solutions powered by IBM Cognos® software—companies are automating the process, getting faster reports and data that fuel “what is” and “what if” scenarios. Read this paper to learn more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Making the Cloud Work: Monitoring Requirements for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS by Nimsoft, Inc. January 05, 2012 - (Free Research) Access this white paper to learn how you can monitor and manage public cloud investments including Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), and Software as a service (SaaS), to validate and optimize service quality.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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