WHITE PAPER - This paper explores the characteristics, advantages, and challenges of composite applications in more detail.
Posted: February 22, 2010 | Published: February 22, 2010


Topics:  Composite Applications Software | Enterprise Resource Management | Financial Services Industry | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Integration Server Hardware | ROI

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: August 10, 2009 | Published: January 5, 2009


Topics:  Asset Management (Finance) | Business IT Alignment | Financial Management | Financial Reporting | Financial Services Industry | Order Management Systems | Portfolio Management (Finance) | Workflow Software

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: August 10, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2006


Topics:  Budgeting | Financial Applications Software | Financial Services Industry | Investments | Outsourcing | Reporting Software | Systems Management

ANALYST REPORT - 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..
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: November 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Process Automation | CFOs | Chemical Industry | Consumer Packaged Goods Industry | Economic Environment | Financial Reporting | Financial Services | Financial Services Industry | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Life Sciences Industry | Retail Trade Industry | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Cost Benefit Analysis | ERP | Financial Management | Financial Reporting | Financial Services Industry | Financial Systems | Manufacturing | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Balance Sheets | Business Intelligence | CFOs | Financial Industry Organizations | Financial Management | Financial Metrics | Financial Reporting | Financial Services | Financial Services Industry | Financial Systems | Risk Assessment | Risk Management | SAP (Product) | Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: April 3, 2009 | Published: January 16, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Banking Industry | Business Intelligence | Compliance (Systems Operations) | ERP | Financial Services Industry | Health Care Industry | Information Management | IT Spending | Legacy Applications Software | Retail Trade Industry | ROI | Telecommunications Industry

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: April 1, 2009 | Published: January 16, 2009


Topics:  Banking Industry | CRM | Database Administration | Database Management | Databases | ERP | Financial Services Industry | Health Care Industry | Human Resources Management | Load Balancing | Load Testing | Regulatory Compliance | Retail Trade Industry | Storage Best Practices | Telecommunications Industry | Testing

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: April 1, 2009 | Published: January 16, 2009


Topics:  Banking Industry | Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Content Archiving | CRM | Data Management | Databases | ERP | Financial Services Industry | Health Care Industry | Information Management | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | IT Infrastructure | Retail Trade Industry | Storage Capacity | Telecommunications Industry

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: February 20, 2009 | Published: February 20, 2009


Topics:  Asset Management Services | Budgeting | Business Process Management | Collaboration | CRM | Financial Services Industry | Workflow Management Coalition | Workflow Software

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Accounting | Benchmark Testing | Best Practices | Business Processes | Financial Services Industry | Fixed Assets | Performance Testing | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Management | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: January 22, 2006 | Published: January 10, 2006


Topics:  Financial Applications Software | Financial Management | Financial Service Providers | Financial Services | Financial Services Industry | Financial Systems | Money Laundering | Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance