May 01, 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.
May 24, 2011 - This eBook is written for IT and BI professionals as well as business executives involved in BI decisions. It introduces BI and analytics for midmarket organizations plus practical advice on how to get started on deploying a BI system, from building a business case to evaluating BI technology.
January 12, 2012 - Discover how you can improve the performance of applications by 5-50 times and boost productivity with a next-generation approach that incorporates service-level assurance and managed WAN optimization.
November 22, 2011 - Many CSPs are looking towards Carrier Ethernet services – a way to more rapidly and efficiently deliver the bandwidth requirements and service requirements. If not properly managed, however, operating costs could end up increasing instead of being cost-effective.
September 30, 2011 - Based on interviews with CFOs and senior finance executives at six leading international companies, this report presents the strategies they are using to infuse flexibility into their planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes in order to detect and address the constantly changing market realities of today's stubbornly volatile global economy.
June 28, 2011 - Managing application problems on the mainframe can be inefficient. View this video to understand how a solution that bridges application monitoring across mainframe and distributed systems can aid application performance. Get the information you need to identify and resolve issues sourced to the mainframe from an application perspective.
February 02, 2011 - What should IT professionals examine to reap the maximum potential of SOA and BPM? This paper looks at some critical areas of focus.
December 19, 2011 - Read this paper to learn about a business-specific solution that is designed with forward-thinking brands in mind. With all industries considered and all accepts of selling considered from sales to customer relationship management, this new system may fit all of your needs.
December 12, 2011 - This white paper helps you manage more data in a cost-effective way. With data volumes tripling every two years, Oracle advanced compression delivers compression rates of 2 to 4 times across all types of data and applications. Read this to learn more about how it can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.
December 28, 2011 - Heathcare insurance provider Aetna uses IBM WebSphere DataPower appliances every day, processing more than eight million production requests daily. In this presentation you will learn how WebSphere DataPower appliances are a key element in Aetna's holistic approach to service oriented architecture (SOA).
December 28, 2011 - In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls.
December 12, 2011 - In this BeyeNETWORK transcript of a webcast, industry expert and author Cindi Howson details the current state of business intelligence (BI) adoption, the business impact and offers BI best practices from both organizational and technical perspectives.
January 20, 2012 - Read this brief white paper and learn how many business intelligence (BI) teams, such those at Electronic Arts (EA), are shifting their perspective on extract, transform and load (ETL) job scheduling to an enterprise-oriented view, elevating efficiency and offering greater control and data accuracy.
January 05, 2012 - This white paper describes how enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology can improve efficiency by automating business processes, offering a fully integrated suite of business management applications, and providing flexible and customizable reporting.
January 28, 2011 - Senior managers who have balked at the cost and complexity of adopting technology such as business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) should consider IBM Cognos Express as a way to adopt these technologies while minimizing time to benefit, deployment costs, and support costs.
March 07, 2011 - SAP users preparing to invest in functionality such as business intelligence (BI) or performance management (PM) should consider an IBM Cognos application.
November 15, 2011 - To better understand how today's organizations are using analytics, a survey was conducted amongst a global sample of nearly 3,000 executive managers and analysts. Based on the results, this study offers recommendations on how organizations can strengthen their analytics capabilities to achieve a long-term advantage.
January 05, 2012 - This case study details how HP's Finance & Administration (F&A) services helped AOL Inc. succeed. Read on to learn more about HP's F&A services.
June 28, 2011 - This video demonstrates how using the same application performance management solution in each stage of an application development contributes to organization’s success by enabling all teams to speak the same language and further reducing the total cost of ownership.
January 20, 2012 - A key component of operating a successful IT infrastructure is application performance management (APM), for which business transaction management (BTM) plays an important role in ensuring a positive end-user experience. APM helps organizations focus on end-to-end monitoring, measuring, and resolution of end-user problems.
December 28, 2011 - If your company is looking to overcome the challenges of fax and e-mail customer orders while gaining the efficiencies of automated, electronic processing of transactions into your SAP system, then read this white paper as it outlines essential factors you must consider first.
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