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 order to combat the ever-evolving challenges of today’s networks, it’s time to head back to school in our exclusive Network Evolution University – Featuring three distinct classes and nine progressive learning lessons that explore all there is to know about next generation networks and how to overcome the challenges they present. 

In this webcast, Forrester Research, Inc. analyst China Martens discusses the changes in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market and the four emerging key trends in on-premise ERP systems. 

Meeting room technology problems are a genuine and largely ignored burden on large British organisations - a single IT manager is called upon to solve 447.2 incidents a year per company. 

Check out this white paper to learn about the latest trends in disaster recovery and business continuity planning. This paper, featuring the survey results of companies across the globe, discusses recent developments in the DR market space and also attempts to discover the underlying causes of DR failure. 

Do you ever wonder how potential buyers view the strategic approaches and tactics you commonly use to entice them? In this Webcast, KnowledgeStorm and SiriusDecisions present the results of a new research study that examine the efficacy of demand creation. 

In this podcast, Ray Wang, Vice President at Forrester Research, offers insight on how to build a business case for enterprise resource planning (ERP) during the economic downturn - and save money in the process. 

There are multiple ways to leverage cloud-based infrastructure for software applications. In this analyst report, Gartner provides a decision framework, including research and recommendations, to help you examine the alternatives. 

This white paper from Aberdeen Research takes a look at how applying analytics capabilities to workforce management can better align people to business goals and strategies to cut costs and improve performance. 

In this podcast, Forrester Research's Phil Murphy tackes the big issues concerning application rationalization: what it means for your business, the key factors driving it and the tangible benefits this approach provides. 

Organizations are often turning to Master Data Management as a key enabler in improving the timeliness, quality and reliability of BI with the ultimate goal of improving business performance. This survey report presents recommendations on the "do and don't" of MDM as well as some findings on the use of open source and manual coding in MDM projects. 

Compiled by SearchManufacturingERP.com editors, this directory includes ERP software products for process and discrete manufacturers of all sizes, as well as all verticals. It includes software that is meant to be deployed on-premise as well as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-demand software. 

In this webcast, industry analyst Mark Bowker will begin his presentation on where virtualization is headed including developments towards cloud computing.