Read why top CFOs are shifting from their traditional financial role dealing with standardized business processes and systems to that of change agent and strategic advisor to the CEO. 

Read this white paper from SAP for an interview with Kathleen Wilhide, research director of IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions program. 

Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments. 

High-performing organizations take a more practice-based and practical, approach to measuring, managing and enhancing IT performance. Adopt new, flexible solutions to support the way that your organization uses IT to drive operational excellence. 

What Application Performance Management tactics and best practices can you apply to ensure a good end-user experience? What process and strategy can you institute to enable your IT organization to align with the business? What can you do to prepare for the additional complexities that virtualization, cloud and SOA can bring to your environment? 

The articles in this E-Guide include "Application performance management: Developing a strategy", "Understanding the network application environment", and "Application performance management: How to prepare for new applications with an impact analysis". If you've got a question about application performance management, the answer is probably here. 

The SAP BusinessObjects Spend Performance Management application provides full visibility into direct and indirect spend, and helps companies proactively identify cost savings opportunities and supply risks, reduce costs, maintain supply continuity, and increase spend under management. 

Within one single product, BOARD offers all the functionalities needed to build any Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management application without the use of any programming. Its revolutionary toolkit approach provides end-users with an advanced interactive interface. 

Now in its eighth year of publication, The BI Survey by Nigel Pendse is an annual report based on the world's largest independent survey of Business Intelligence and Performance Management users. 

This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices. 

Companies and their stakeholders have always had high expectations for their finance teams. But this research program reveals that, most recently, these pressures- from regulators, from investors, and from competitors&#$5; are pushing companies to look for more from their finance teams in two main, but often conflicting, areas. 

This Webcast can help you put your business intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) needs into perspective with application strategy tips offered by Ray Wang at Forrester Research. 

This data sheet details how an on-site network assessment using Blue Coat PacketShaper can help you identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies on your network quickly and easily.