WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2008
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.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 03 Apr 2009 | Published: 16 Jan 2009
This paper discusses best practices for identifying legacy applications that are of little or no value to an organization and provides details on removing/retiring them while keeping application data accessible for reporting and compliance purposes. The processes contained here are designed to save your company money, time, and resources.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 22 Feb 2010 | Published: 22 Feb 2010
This paper explores the characteristics, advantages, and challenges of composite applications in more detail.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 16 Jan 2009
Data growth is on the rise and organizations need an alternative to extra hardware to manage this growth. Data archiving provides highly effective Information Lifecycle management. Read this white paper for 9 steps to successfully implement an ILM solution.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2006
In investment reporting, customers expect detailed reports of irreproachable accuracy, delivered with no delay or excuses. This whitepaper will serve as as a guide for Investment Advisors.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 16 Jan 2009
Best practices and new technologies available for provisioning databases for test and development environments are outlined in this white paper. Using this as a guide, organizations can save time and resources, meet regulatory compliance standards, and streamline database provisioning processes for test and development environments.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
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.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 22 Jan 2006 | Published: 10 Jan 2006
The Financial Services Industry pervades the entire IT industry. This guide gets you up to speed on essential financial areas such as Regulatory Compliance, Business Continuity, Financial Reporting, and Financial Management.
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ANALYST REPORT:   Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008
To find out how senior executives view their financial processes, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed a global sample of mostly financial executives in September 2008. Some respondents focused on the importance of developing processes that reduced costs and improved efficiency. Others acknowledged the importance of cost and efficiency..
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 17 Mar 2010
Regulatory compliance tops the list of concerns among healthcare and life sciences IT professionals with 86% of healthcare IT decision-makers rating it as a high or critical priority over the course of the coming year. Check out this paper to find out more!
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009
This document examines the current state of Order Management Systems (OMS) portfolio management capabilities, identifies major challenges and "pain points" that firms encounter, and outlines seven system attributes needed to overcome them.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009
This white paper explains how financial services firms across the industry and around the globe can use customer-centric strategies and CRM tools to maximize the value and loyalty of their client base and gain insight into new areas of opportunity.
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WEBCAST:   Posted: 01 Mar 2010 | Premiered: Available On Demand
In this webinar, RightScale presents typical lifecycle scenarios that you accomplish today in your datacenter – and show how you can execute them on the cloud in a more automated and repeatable manner.
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