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. 

As the following pages will demonstrate, the evidence is that improving Business Transaction Assurance presents a real bottom-line opportunity and is moving high up the business agenda. However, companies' current systems are not equipped with the necessary tools to manage and control such transactions. 

Learn how top companies successfully deliver research results to customers and decision-makers. If you want to know more about how to leverage all of your research data, how to communicate insights effectively, and how to get researchers and decision-makers engaged in analysis, you'll want to view this webcast. 

Supply chain visibility ranks as one of the top two application focus areas for companies as part of their supply chain technology investment plans. Supply chain executives view visibility as the main goal for supply chain executives within supply chain initiatives. Read this paper for more. 

Coinstar, a coin conversion company, needed to identify new and profitable locations for their coin conversion machines. They turned to SPSS Inc.'s data integration and analysis capabilities with various demographic and geography-based variables. Read this case study for more details. 

Raymond Boggs, vice president of SMB research for the global market intelligence firm IDC, recently talked to Cisco® about how companies can use unified communications to successfully conduct business in multiple countries - with or without offices in those countries. 

This webcast, featuring Nucleus Research, uncovers research findings from analyzing numerous deployments in business intelligence and performance management within an SAP environment. Discover why many companies are turning to one specific vendor for the benefits it provides over SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse. 

The Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research (formerly the HDMA Research & Education Foundation) recently published an important study concerning data management and data sharing in the healthcare supply chain. This whitepaper discusses the key conclusions of their study. 

This report is a guide for identifying best practices in online content Research Benchmark management and maximizing business benefits of the web. The findings highlight the strategic value of web content management and link the technology and practices of Best-in-Class organizations to top line revenue, customer loyalty, and customer experience. 

Research has shown more than 30 percent of IT spending is on integration, with software costs running into the millions of dollars for large enterprises. 

The Internet has changed the dynamics of technology sales and marketing. While most marketing efforts emphasize generating leads, and most sales efforts are focused on closing sales, not enough consideration is given to the little-understood but vital middle ground of lead qualification. Learn more about industry best practices. 

Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of techniques from statistics and data mining that analyze current and historical data to make predictions about future events. In this Nucleus Research report, learn how your company can achieve ROI from Predictive analytics applications.