capital
RSS capitalThe perfect storm: Why now is the time for open source
White Paper The global economy is in free fall, with no geographic region or industry unaffected by the scarcity of capital, market volatility, and reduced consumer spending. There is less capital to invest in new... [17 Sep 2009]
Linking Risk Management Systems to Front and Middle Offices in Capital Markets Firms
White Paper A key to gaining competitive advantage in today's marketplace is linking front office, middle office and risk management teams to ensure timely, consistent views of data from pre-trade analysis through return and risk modeling. [16 Sep 2009]
Optimize Your Warranty Reserves: Sophisticated Data Modeling and Automated Forecast Accuracy Is the Key to Right-Sizing Your Warranty Reserves and Putting That Lazy Capital Back to Work
White Paper The good news is that best practices and available information technologies can redefine the way warranty reserve forecasting is performed. An organization can extract data from its present operational systems, apply sophisticated... [16 Sep 2009]
Maximizing Shareholder Value With SAS Enterprise Risk Management
White Paper Uncertainty in business makes it difficult to accurately predict and avoid large fluctuations in the performance of capital across the firm(s). Companies who successfully measure and act upon risk-adjusted returns are... [16 Sep 2009]
Building Scale for the Utility Company's Future
White Paper While there may be help in making the capital investment in physical and information technology infrastructure for intelligent grid and new generation, utilities will still need to make the best economic decisions in... [16 Sep 2009]
The R-O-I of Globally Integrated Operations: Strategies for Enabling Global Integration
White Paper Business leaders in the new economic environment face intense pressure to cut costs, and optimize resources and capital productivity on a global basis. In a truly "Globally integrated enterprise," work flows to places... [16 Sep 2009]
Improving Sustainability and Use of SQL Server at Microsoft
White Paper Microsoft IT identified the opportunity to reduce operating and capital expenses by implementing a SQL Utility service. The SQL Utility service relies on the Compute Utility and Storage Utility and provides a layer of... [16 Sep 2009]
Operational Risk: Where Is the Value?: A First Order Approximation
White Paper Its method calculates an upper and lower bound for the cost of capital incurred from taking on operational risk. This paper focuses on finding the true tangible value of investing in upgrades (such as technology... [16 Sep 2009]
SAS Responds to the Challenge of the Fast Close
White Paper As such Fast Close timescales, the elapsed period between 'Period End' in local businesses and the announcement of audited group earnings is widely watched by the capital markets, investors and other stakeholders. [16 Sep 2009]
Journal of Management Excellence - Creating Value
White Paper The most well known indicator is economic value added (EVA) which includes a charge against profit for the cost of capital. The principles underlying TVI are as old as control theory. Accountants audit a company by... [15 Sep 2009]
VoIP Service Quality Monitoring Using Active and Passive Probes
White Paper Service providers and enterprises all over the world are rapidly deploying Voice over IP (VoIP) networks because of reduced capital and operational expenditure, and easy creation of new services. Voice traffic has... [11 Sep 2009]
Microsoft Unified Communications Datasheet: Smart Decisions for Extraordinary Times
White Paper In addition, Unified Communications enables you to avoid capital expenditures by optimizing your communications infrastructure, including consolidating messaging, telephony, and voice mail systems and by eliminating... [05 Sep 2009]
Capital Asset Planning
White Paper Long reliant on a maze of disconnected spreadsheets and manual processes, capital asset planning has historically been a thorn in the sides of organizations large and small - the problems of incorporating multiple areas... [02 Sep 2009]
Challenges to Semiconductor Capital Equipment Manufacturers: Managing Complexity, Delivering Flexibility, and Providing Optimal Service
White Paper Semiconductor Capital equipment is a very intricate business, as the term suggests. Semiconductor Capital equipment manufacturing companies tend to be low-volume businesses with a large product mix. Due... [02 Sep 2009]
HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server:A Highly Available, Flexible, Simple Approach to SQL Server Consolidation White Paper
White Paper The result of this proliferation has too often been low levels of utilization, high capital costs, large amounts of stranded capacity, poor availability, and - as the most dire consequence - an ongoing management burden. [02 Sep 2009]
