London Life Insurance needed to move quickly after it acquired Prudential Insurance’s entire Canadian business operations. London Life wanted to welcome its new client base and maintain its reputation for providing superb customer service. Read on to learn how a new document composition solution allowed for keeping pace with its expanding business. 

Through the years, accounting standards have changed and older processes need to be refined with the new complexities. This paper discovers how to maintain a master annual report without the risk of inaccuracies with data consolidation. 

Learn how easy it is to get started on DB2 application development. This e-book includes topics such as using DB2 Express-C, writing SQL statements, working with open-source tools and more. This is part of a full e-kit designed for fast, easy DB2 learning. 

This e-book will help you understand why integrating and unifying your closing, consolidating and reporting (CCR) process is critical. Read this to learn about re-engineering your point solution approach to CCR by investing in integrated solutions, how to achieve automation and enhance your ability to manage controls, reduce risks and more. 

This book contains general information about improving performance for DB2 on z/OS and specific information about how BMC products help improve performance. 

Sunbelt Software's new VIPRE Enterprise package is ideally suited to combating legacy and new blended malware threats from traditional viruses to the newest spam and Trojans. 

ESG recently conducted an analysis on Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance. Check out this white paper to learn how the product fared in terms of performance and TCO, and see how the results stack up against other similar arrays. 

Find out how Embarcadero's DB Optimizer™ can help you to quickly discover and fix problematic SQL statements that can cause performance bottlenecks in your database. DB Optimizer™ gives you the flexibility of using a single easy-to-use IDE to test, profile and tune SQL. 

This guide describes the Oracle compatibility features of Postgres Plus Advanced Server. Oracle compatibility means that an application runs in an Oracle environment as well as in a Postgres Plus Advanced Server environment with minimal or no changes to the application code. 

Leading life sciences companies are recognizing the need for synchronized, enterprise-wide pricing and contract management processes. An integrated solution can provide the transparency needed to satisfy auditors, balance pricing with go-to-market strategies, and support sales and finance teams - including accurately predicting margins. 

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. 

Read this brief paper and learn how IBM Cognos can lead finance teams into the next generation by offering driver-based budgeting with vastly shorter planning cycles, flexible rolling forecasts, faster and more reliable financial close and consolidation, tighter control over operational performance, swifter reporting capabilities and so much more.