June 09, 2009 - (Free Research) Organizations can benefit from the advantages of 10GbE, consolidation on Dell PowerEdge blade servers, and virtualization with VMware. By implementing 10GbE solutions, organizations can enjoy the economies they hoped to obtain by consolidating and virtualizing their server environment, along with increased performance, reliability, and security.
September 09, 2009 - (Free Research) Virtualized servers are yielding dramatic cost savings through consolidation of physical resources, reductions in power and cooling requirements, and slashed operational expenses. It’s delivering a magnitude of benefits that many businesses find virtually amazing. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the benefits of server virtualization.
June 02, 2009 - (Free Research) In this research, we examine the lessons that have been learnt from the current financial crisis, and propose ten practical lessons that could help to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management.
September 2008 - (Free Research) In August 2007, CFO Research Services launched a research program to explore the ways in which the role of the finance team has changed in recent years. This report presents the findings of our online survey of 255 senior finance executives.
June 2008 - (Free Research) This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.
January 2007 - (Free Research) The power of an information availability solution lies in its ability to transform any nonproductive, non-profitable downtime into the optimum level of value-producing business uptime.
July 2008 - (Free Research) This whitepaper explains why automated reconciliation is quickly evolving into a competitive necessity. The costs associated with manual reconciliation, the benefits from automation, and the best reconciliation workflow model will all be discussed.
November 2009 - (Free Research) In this white paper, we take a look at how strong authentication can benefit eCommerce and online services. We will evaluate the risks that identity fraud, phishing and cybercrime pose for online service providers and discuss how strong user authentication can alleviate these risks.
January 2009 - (Free Research) Real Estate and Workplace industry metrics and studies strongly suggest that hidden value on the balance sheet can reside within real estate and workplace assets.
January 2010 - (Free Research) When customers walk into their local bank, few consider the complex network of IT systems that go into ensuring core systems stay up and running. After a loss of data, it was common for individual file restores to take several hours. CFDS enlisted the help of Colorado-based HEIT, an integrator and reseller with expertise in financial industry IT.
February 2010 - (Free Research) A business can save 1-2% of its turnover by replacing paper invoices and optimizing related processes. Electronic and automated invoice processes can return a savings of 60-80% compared to traditional paper processing. Projects typically result in a payback period of 0.5-1.5 years. This report imparts useful information for achieving these results.
June 2009 - (Free Research) The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its
accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls
May 2007 - (Free Research) Read this CFO Research study to understand how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.
January 2007 - (Free Research) This paper explains SAP’s vision for a cross-enterprise GRC solution and the benefits it can provide, defines key terms, and discusses what to look for when evaluating GRC software options.
May 2008 - (Free Research) Bankinter, a multichannel bank, chose to work together with Intel and Infogroup in order to benefit from Intel® Core™ 2 Processor with vPro™ technology which it believed could meet its desktop platform manageability challenge.
July 2009 - (Free Research) In this paper you will learn the best practices and the bottom-line benefits in multi-channel inbound marketing. Read on to learn more about multi-channel inbound marketing and how Infor CRM Epiphany Inbound Marketing for Retail Finance can help drive revenue out of each customer interaction.
May 2008 - (Free Research) 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.
January 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper examines how organizations can meet the challenges of a down economy by extending capital asset performance, reducing maintenance costs and providing decision support guidelines around capital allocation.
January 2010 - (Free Research) This paper reviews aspects of cost reduction and examines some typical financial accounting expense categories. This paper also looks at how data quality services can be applied in those examples to reduce expenses, and examines the potential for applying data quality management as a way to manage and reduce organizational expenses.
September 2008 - (Free Research) Infor ERP LN is an advanced, easy-to-use ERP solution that brings together a wide range of business functions to serve the needs of leading discrete and project-based manufacturers in industrial industries. Check out this demo for more details.
February 2010 - (Free Research) International Decision Systems (IDS) acquired an existing Swing-based desktop equipment finance application whose protocol was deemed inefficient and difficult to maintain making it necessary to find an alternative. Read this paper to find out how Hessian provided the interface-based remote invocation needed and outperformed the previous solution
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