Somewhere between our in-depth consultants’ guides and our short AnalystNotes that discuss specific aspects of IT careers, there is a need for an up-to-dateoverview of IT career structures. This is it. 

Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability.  These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues. 

In an attempt to tailor and more effectively promote its programs, the Metro Atlanta YMCA turned to Birst for a new set of Business intelligence (BI) tools. Birst delivered with features that included automated dashboards and adhoc reporting at a fair price. Read on to learn the benefits YMCA experienced when they switched to Birst. 

This paper addresses these issues with effective solutions for companies to better understand and manage their mainframe software investments. 

In August 2007, CFO Research Services launched a research program to explore the ways in which the role of the finance team has changed in recent years. This report presents the findings of our online survey of 255 senior finance executives. 

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. 

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. 

Poor performing SQL code is costly in terms of dollars and customer satisfaction. Discovering performance bottlenecks once they're in production is costly. 

This paper introduces hedge funds and hedge fund service providers to IFRS. 

Today's tools and technologies for analyzing data enable individual users to access the reporting results they need instead of relying on a financial team to disperse data conclusions. Read this white paper to learn how these tools work and eight steps to help your departments leverage these technologies to gain key information from your data. 

Managing mandatory reports and disclosures can be a complex and time-consuming effort, with high expectations from shareholders and regulatory demands.  Read this interactive e-book from SAP to learn about an application that enables you to experience a pain-free disclosure process, and look at a case study to see the application in action. 

The paper discusses how path coverage is better than branch or statement coverage in testing to uncover security vulnerabilities, including showing how several CWE vulnerabilities could be undetected by branch coverage but detected by path coverage. Download this paper and find out how Cyclomatic Path Analysis can uncover these vulnerabilities.