the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices. 

A time of unprecedented market volatility and competition calls for a new business strategy. View this video white paper to learn how integrated business planning can help your company align strategic, operational, and financial plans. 

Companies are using technology and other tools to help employees deliver an organization's best collective thinking during each customer interaction. Among them is Hewlett-Packard (HP), which we will feature in this paper. We will also explain why empowering your key customer-facing employees is the new path to achieving extraordinary results. 

IT managers are looking to governance structures and the discipline of risk management to help them make decisions and create sustainable processes around regulatory compliance. Read this E-book to learn more about risk management and evaluating GRC solutions. 

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. 

Efficient call centers that also meet customer expectations is a challenge that many organizations face. Discover the key steps to turning your call center into a strategic asset. 

As the key findings in this report will show, developing or enhancing a spend analysis program and closing process gaps to ensure tight linkage to the sourcing process are straightforward and practical ways to attain greater savings and deliver greater value in this period of uncertainty and strict budgets. 

When employers need to be sure about the backgrounds of people they hire, they call Credential Check Corporation. To do this work, the company utilized Microsoft® Office Outlook® and proprietary access programs, which made it difficult for departments and external suppliers to collaborate with each other. Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM... 

This paper is aimed at helping senior management address its product ROI in a manner that can be directly applied to their everyday management practices. In this report, EMF presents a methodology for calculating the ROI for a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk. 

This free handbook explains why "enabled compliance" is what IT management and CIOs need to maximize mobile worker productivity while optimizing the balance of service quality, cost and risk to the organization. 

Read this brief case study to learn how 1-800-FLOWERS.COM faced the challenge to implement the next stage of a strategy for faxed order communications to accommodate key seasonal spikes in demand while avoiding unnecessary capacity expenditures.