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 whitepaper outlines the drivers for log management as well as their underlying challenges and drive towards a common set of requirements for evaluation of log management tools. 

This document is designed to be a guide to the Oracle E-Business Suite. It is intended to educate users, developers, managers, and executives of companies using Oracle E-Business Suite to automate and maintain the distribution of business documents 

Find out how Investlink used SAP BusinessObjects tools to enable third-party administrators who work with investment advisors and plan sponsors to build and change statements on an ad hoc basis. 

Learn how whitelisting guards your systems by allowing only approved processes and applications to run on the endpoint and preventing malware and viral programs. With whitelisting technology, you can improve total data security and overall system 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. 

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

Valero Energy Corporation selected SAP because of its ability to provide a central hub for managing all interfaces and Web services, power to serve as a single integration & development platform for nearly all of Valero's business, capability to integrate SAP and non-SAP software systems, and support for synchronous & asynchronous messaging. 

Document automation will add to the company's bottom line, save time, better business processes, and increased control. This paper will demonstrate how to automate the AP process within Oracle E-Business Suite, and what type of investment will need to be made and what kind of benefits can be expected. 

Read this paper for an in-depth discussion of malware identification, naming and classification and an exploration of the most useful ways for administrators to detect and analyze threats. 

Entraction has no reservations about the effectiveness and efficiencies that are possible using device fingerprinting paired with device reputation; this is real data pulled from the user's computer, coupled with fact-based evidence of fraud from that computer's past. Read this case study to learn about how Entraction is fighting fraud. 

This paper explains SAP’s vision for a cross-enterprise GRC solution and the benefits it can provide, defines key terms, and discusses what to look for when evaluating GRC software options. 

The CDRH (Center for Devices and Radiological Health) is in the process of updating their standards and suggested practices. They are going to be more strict with medical device developers. The purpose of this paper is to present the medical device developer guidelines for complying with the "suggestions" of the CDRH.