Enterprise Financial Management Solutions

In this webcast, featured thought leaders from Volkswagen, Gartner, and Seeburger will discuss how market leading organizations are proactively consolidating their B2B integration strategy to achieve shorter production times. In this webcast, featured thought leaders from Volkswagen, Gartner, and Seeburger will discuss how market leading organizations are proactively consolidating their B2B integration strategy to achieve shorter production times, faster order...

A new version of ITIL provides more practical guidance and a service lifecycle approach that reflects how IT operates in the real world. Increase financial transparency, service delivery performance and customer satisfaction with a service catalog. “With ITIL Version 3, the Service Catalog has matured to become one of, if not the most important undertakings within IT." The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has become the de facto standard for IT service...

Learn why deploying a Service Catalogue is an essential early step in the adoption of ITIL and how it will deliver significant ROI, improve operational efficiency and enable end-to-end IT service management. Many organizations implementing the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) as part of their IT service management framework begin with the Configuration Management Database (CMDB). While a CMDB is a key piece of any successful ITIL implementation, there...

Whether your motivation to replace your legacy mega-suite is strategic, financial or purely operational, look no further. Use the set of proven and actionable best practices documented in this white paper to successfully transition from a mega-suite deployment. Read on and join the growing list of companies who've retired their mega-suite. A Network and Systems Management (NSM) platform is a critical part of your business’ technology infrastructure, enabling your IT staff to...

The outsourcing and offshoring landscape has changed considerably in the last few years. Read this guide to understand the emerging trends in outsourcing for 2008. The outsourcing and offshoring landscape has changed considerably in the last few years. Despite the fact that the opportunity for cost savings has been reduced, major gains in both capabilities and processes mean that outsourcing continues to be an attractive option for many companies. Offshore spending is...

This document will help you plan to make a major storage purchase by explaining how to maximize your storage budget, how to negotiate with vendors, and how to make storage decisions without politics. This document will help you learn to effectively negotiate all aspects of the storage puchase process. The points explained in this document are: ▪ RFIs and RFPs ▪ Defining current state ▪ Using a storage reference architecture ▪ The purchasing process ▪ Rating RFP responses ▪ Devil in the...

In this technical white paper we show how MySQL Cluster on Multi-Core Intel Xeon based on the Intel Core2™ micro-architecture in combination with the Dolphin Express cluster. In this technical white paper we show how MySQL Cluster on Multi-Core Intel Xeon based on the Intel Core2™ micro-architecture in combination with the Dolphin Express cluster interconnect becomes a `real-time´ DBMS suitable for markets with extremely low latency or `real-time´ requirements. Low latency is...

Oversight Systems takes continuous controls monitoring to the next level by combining user access rights testing with its patented Real-Time Transaction Inspection. Preventive controls combine with real-time detective controls to provide best p… Most financial processes don't operate inside a vacuum of a single financial system or perfectly defined roles that eliminate all segregation of duties conflicts. Real world compliance demands a complete, closed-loop control...

While the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance continue to add up, executives must recognize the hidden costs. This paper discusses how SOX’s ongoing requirements affect the companies who cannot afford to repeat the compliance efforts. Consultants. Rising audit fees. Dozens of new internal auditors. Executive meetings. Revenue-generating projects put on hold. The tangible costs of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance hit almost every public company in the United States and will soon...

Through a combination of an invitation-only online survey and survey intercepts, 222 corporate financial leaders from across the U.S. participated in this study on corporate attitudes toward Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. "Powerful Validation" of Sarbanes-Oxley: 79% of Financial Execs Report Stronger Internal Controls. Despite the high costs of compliance, most financial executives (57 percent) describe their company's Sarbanes-Oxley compliance as a good investment for...

Successful quality and compliance is a continuous improvement process that demands a closed-loop control structure. Oversight Systems provides results and a leveraged environment for improving quality in financial operations. Sarbanes-Oxley demands quality in financial reporting. While the initial costs of SOX compliance have been extraordinarily high, companies can achieve a return on investment by approaching their SOX compliance with a mindset to drive quality...

Oversight Systems automates the analysis and testing of auditors and fraud examiners to reduce ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs and provide quality assurance for financial operations. Oversight Systems automates the analysis and testing of auditors and fraud examiners to reduce ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs and provide quality assurance for financial operations. As a virtual auditor, Oversight continuously monitors 100% of the transactions and...

Today's financial system makes identity theft inevitable by relying on none-too-secret identifiers. Preliterate societies often fear that knowing somebody's real name imparts supernatural power over that person. To protect themselves from evil magicians, people in such societies share their true name only with family and close friends. Ironically, in today's financial system, if you know somebody's name, you have the power to take out financial transactions in their name...

This whitepaper examines some of the key trends within the U.S. ATS market, and provides clear categorizations of some of the platforms vying for market share. This report also provides U.S. equities market share estimates and future projections. Market fragmentation continues to increase as new alternative trading systems (ATSs) enter what appears to be an already overcrowded U.S. equities market. There are at least 35 potential execution venues for U.S. equities. While most of the...

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. In today’s business environment, two opposing forces dominate the investment advisory landscape. On one side there is continuing downward pressure on fees. On the other ever-growing customer expectations as to the range and quality of services they receive. As a result, investment advisors...

This paper will describe core processes which are critical to fully leverage an MFS application. Marketing organizations face increased pressure from the C-suite to show accountability for brand building, customer acquisition and retention investments. Additionally, Sarbanes-Oxley stipulations require marketing to document its spend and the processes involved in executing on those plans. Finally, marketing also finds itself competing with other line of business...

An EMM application can lead marketers through a process of translating a creative/business strategy into a concrete set of marketing outputs. Traditional marketing concerns such as brand value, differentiation in the marketplace and awareness building are not decreasing in importance. If anything, marketing is becoming more concerned about these as the ways to reach audiences are exploding even while many of the traditional channels are fading in importance. For example...

EMM delivers to a future vision where marketing has one platform like the operational backbone of a company which uses ERP or a sales/services organization which uses CRM. EMM delivers to a future vision where marketing has one platform like the operational backbone of a company which uses ERP or a sales/services organization which uses CRM. Today EMM is making that big transition from visionary to main stream. Having a single platform that automates the core processes of the...

This paper discusses the challenges faced by today’s enterprise IT departments and outlines ten steps for successful compliance. You’ll learn what organizations like yours can do to protect information and comply with regulations, while enhancing business performance. Understanding the full scope and interdependency of risk in today’s complex and distributed business environment is important for achieving compliance with governmental mandates and industry...

You're invited to join Workday VP of Integration Annrai O'Toole as he reveals the company's vision for making integration a seamless function of core HR and financial systems. THE INTEGRATION INTERVENTION IS HERE You're invited to join Workday VP of Integration Annrai O'Toole as he reveals the company's vision for making integration a seamless function of core HR and financial systems. In just 60 minutes, he'll share how Workday's acquisition of Cape Clear and its powerful ESB...

A new generation of on-demand business applications has matured that is designed specifically to meet the challenges of the 21st Century workplace. A new generation of on-demand business applications has matured that is designed specifically to meet the challenges of the 21st Century workplace. Designed to be delivered as a service, these applications effectively shift almost all of the cost and complexity of traditional on-premises applications from the customer to the...

Workday applications’ functionality models the way that businesses operate, with the flexibility to adapt the technology to fit your unique business requirements today, but perhaps more importantly, as they change over time. Today’s CFOs recognize that their aspirations to make a difference - in their finance organizations, companies, and the business world - will be catalyzed by the proper technology. The right technology significantly enhances the probability of success...

Workday sees an opportunity to deliver revolutionary improvements at all levels of application development, Workday is capturing this opportunity by embracing innovation from the ground up. Application development architectures are changing rapidly to leverage the Internet, new technologies, and innovative approaches in software engineering. These changes are increasing developer productivity, speeding application deployment, and enabling greater application...

This webcast discusses what's happening in the data center today, including Juniper's vision to address data center challenges and gain an understanding of data centers in terms of the new architecture. This webcast discusses what's happening in the data center today, including Juniper's vision to address data center challenges and gain an understanding of data centers in terms of the new architecture. This webcast also examines financial savings of the new data center...

Discover how leading edge industrial equipment and machinery manufacturers are finding success with help from integrated business systems from Microsoft Dynamics. Read case studies, white papers and more. Return for free offers each month When you and your team brainstorm, does the concept of uninhibited information flow come to the top? This SPI Research white paper analyzes some of the factors Service Organizations executives should consider prior to analyzing their...