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 

This paper examines how one solution provider, EMC, is helping customers address electronic discovery challenges by helping customers manage their information infrastructure more effectively. 

In this white paper, learn how the right financial consolidation solution can help you replace silos of inconsistent data with the information and analytic capabilities you need for actionable insight. 

This white paper was written to demonstrate the business value proposition delivered by Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances. This is demonstrated through a description and analysis of the features and superior ease of use delivered by the operating system and management software included in the cost of an appliance. 

This white paper compares Oracle's enterprise tape offerings to the latest IBM enterprise tape offerings and describes how Oracle's industry-leading capacity, performance and flexibility can help IT organizations manage complexity, control costs, and deliver on service level agreements. 

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. 

In this paper, explore tier-3 archive challenges and how to beat them, learn about the impending "era of colossal content," find 12 comparisons between tape and HDD, and get the scoop on modern tiered storage approach that optimizes the storage infrastructure through a combination of SSD, disk and tape. 

In today's economic climate, it is more important than ever for a company to achieve faster, more accurate financial closing and reporting.  Check out this white paper to learn about common targets for improving financial close, and get tips for how your business could optimize its financial processes. 

Because Mid-Vermont's software was not meeting their client expectations they deployed NueMD, an Internet-based practice management solution, resulting in substantial savings in time and money. 

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. 

This white paper explores a virtualization approach that easily enables you to consolidate IT resources, enhance disaster recovery capabilities, and more. 

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.