When the economy slows, many businesses react by retrenching and cutting costs in order to weather the downturn. While such cost reduction is important, companies often overlook equally critical strategic decisions – opportunities to use valuable business information to strengthen product and service offerings and emerge ahead of the competition. 

Learn how midsize companies can rapidly adopt Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) technologies while minimizing training, support and ongoing costs in this research note from Nucleus Research. 

Read this white paper to uncover a financial system built and designed to address the business needs of today including the latest technologies, functionality, and design ethics. Also find 6 key capabilities of modern financial software. 

Read this expert e-book to learn how new technologies and best practices are being used to help finance departments increase their agility and respond to ever-changing business environments. 

Forrester found that by moving from a legacy reporting platform to a more flexible and dynamic reporting environment organizations can realize benefits around greater employee efficiency and improved visibility and consistency of financial information. 

CFO Research conducted a survey with senior finance executives working at U.S companies to explore the factors that motivated companies to make changes to their financial management systems in the past, as well as systems-related challenges they are currently facing. This resource presents the findings of that study. 

With speeds up to 100,000 times faster than traditional business analytics software, SAP HANA can provide your organization with deep insights into large volumes of financial data, enabling smarter financial and managerial decisions. Check out this comprehensive e-book to learn more about SAP HANA's power to transform financial processes. 

Read this white paper to learn why the Monte Carlo modeling method provides a beacon of financial sanity and reliability at a time when consumer confidence is at an all-time low and managers face new levels of accountability and keen public scrutiny in their decision-making. 

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. 

In this analyst report, learn how the financial close process can not only be used to inspire confidence by reporting externally, put critical financial information into the hands of managers faster, allowing them to react more effectively to changing markets. 

Read this white paper to learn how, by adapting a managed approach to archiving and presenting customer statements, financial services organizations can satisfy regulatory, good governance, and legal requirements. 

This data sheet will outline Oracle Hyperion Planning, a centralized Microsoft Excel- and Web-based planning solution that integrates financial and operational planning processes.