What's arguably the single greatest barrier to the fast close has remained constant - the completion of the intercompany reconciliation process. This paper examines the issues behind intercompany reconciliation and outlines how companies can make impressive progress when they employ software solutions such as those from SAP Business Objects 

In this podcast, learn how to best approach a hardware and software refresh. Gain insight into key systems management considerations for a desktop and server upgrade including costs, security and compliance. 

In this month's issue, learn how to keep compliance a priority in a virtualized environment. Also in this issue, get advice on how to buy hardware for virtual systems, and take a closer look at your storage needs. 

Through IBM client interviews across several industries and other industry and workload analyses, this paper examines the benefits and costs of IBM's CoD offering for high performance business and technical computing. 

This paper illustrates that solutions exist today with a proven track record of success in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing while satisfying their customers' needs. 

Many organizations are looking into virtualization as a means of decreasing capital expenses and launching energy conservation initiatives. This paper explains why one must consider how business processes, administrative rights, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and security strategies will need to change before jumping into a deployment. 

Most companies today recognize the operational efficiencies and benefits to be gained by removing paper from business processes that rely on documents. Read this whitepaper to learn about a document management solution that can automate many of your business processes, removing the need for paper forms, saving you time, and saving you money. 

This whitepaper examines and quantifies the costs and benefits of backup with deduplication storage as strategic assets for data protection. Three organizations in different industries are discussed as case studies. 

The SAP® Business One application offers a single, affordable way to manage your entire business – from sales and customer relationships to financials and operations. Designed specifically for small businesses, it helps you streamline processes, act on timely information, and accelerate profitable growth. 

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 paper examines many of the concerns associated with virtualization and describes how the breadth of security experience, focused under the IBM Security Framework, helps customers better understand and prioritize these risks, and helps build a strong security posture that positions organizations to reap the full rewards of this technology. 

This guide is intended to help advisors who are considering going independent or who have already struck out on their own to better understand and navigate their technology options.