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Use ROI Analysis for Business Software Investments

whitepaper As they must do with any major investment, finance and technology leaders must develop a Return-On-Investment (ROI) model to justify software purchases. In many cases, organizations find it difficult to identify the indirect benefits and costs...

Tags: business management

[12 May 2008]

Releasing Resources to Support Growth - The Long-Term Benefits of Finance Transformation

whitepaper This survey of senior finance executives in North America reveals that the finance function has freed time and resources to pursue high-value activities like decision support and financial planning and analysis as a result of transaction...

Tags: transaction processing

[11 May 2008]

Technological Innovation Improved, Move Completed Issue-Free With Service Plan

whitepaper For more than 15 years, the Ministry of Finance in the Netherlands has operated in a Microsoft IT environment. The personalized assistance enabled by the service offering, including an assigned technical account manager, allows the Ministry of...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

The Fast Close: Achieving Quick Wins and Big Wins

whitepaper The "fast close," a concept used to describe a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and close its books quickly, is re-emerging as an important project for today's global finance function.

Tags: back-office

[11 May 2008]

Yangtze Power Improves Business Intelligence With Integrated Database and Analysis Tools

whitepaper The database interfaced with 10 systems, including finance, human resources, contract management, power generation management, and safety and control management. China Yangtze Power Co. Ltd is China's largest publicly listed utility.

Tags: knowledge and data management

[11 May 2008]

German Association Discovers a New Level of Efficiency and Flexibility With Business

whitepaper The association selected Dynamics NAV as the business management solution to integrate and upgrade its IT system with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 as the database, along with the following Dynamic NAV modules: Finance Management, Supply Chain...

Tags: systems integration

[11 May 2008]

Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management

whitepaper Hyperion's 2007 survey (2007 Business Finance Hyperion Mid-Enterprise Survey) of requirements for business intelligence (BI) and enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions revealed the differences in requirements, evaluation criteria, and...

Tags: erp, enterprises, survey, criteria

[08 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News The finance minister for India, Palaniappan Chidambaram, decided to extend the tax holiday enjoyed by software companies in the country by one year to March 2010, although this decision must be ratified by parliament.

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

Oticon Hears the Value of Performance Management With Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

whitepaper Oticon's finance department wanted to improve its key functions and processes, namely financial consolidation, budgeting, planning, forecasting, and reporting with an integrated solution. Oticon chose a solution that would satisfy its financial...

Tags: finance

[06 May 2008]

Agency Cuts Time to Process Home Loans by 67 Percent, Boosts Quality 300 Percent

whitepaper The Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA) was using an aging, inflexible IBM System i-based (AS400) solution to manage the process of financing affordable home loans for low-income Coloradans.

Tags: groupware - workflow

[06 May 2008]

Microsoft Sharpens Its Forecasting With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

whitepaper Towards the end of 2006, its corporate finance team decided to build a forecasting solution based on Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. Microsoft produces a financial performance forecast nine times a year, with three quarterly...

Tags: application servers

[06 May 2008]

Apparel Stores, External Consultants, Finance, and Production Get Instant Data and Cut Steps

whitepaper Microsoft Dynamics AX soon became the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, cutting task time and helping manage sales, manufacturing, finance, and distribution. As Tanner Companies, a 77-year-old women's apparel enterprise, grew to 1,700...

Tags: erp

[03 May 2008]

FSA warns banks to wise up on security

News One of the recommendations the FSA made as a result of the audit was that finance firms should appoint a senior manager with overall responsibility for data security. BT Global Services finance industry sector MD Andy Nicholson said in a statement...

Tags: fsa, disclosure, bank

[25 Apr 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?

Comment Utility companies have the most mobile workers - lots of field service engineers rushing round reporting faults - and finance organisations have the most external workers - all those inter-company financial transactions.

Tags: distributed working, networks

[24 Apr 2008]

Croydon inks £83m deal with Capgemini

News The new deal runs until 2013 and covers all the council's IT and telecoms infrastructure and networks, 4,000 desktop PCs and key business applications, including finance, procurement and customer service.

Tags: outsourcing, capgemini, croydon

[23 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned

News stuck to its forecast for sluggish 2008 revenue growth of between three and 15 per cent in the face of weaker online-advertising demand in sectors such as finance, retail and travel. Yahoo! posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit yesterday...

Tags: profit, microsoft, yahoo

[23 Apr 2008]

WEEE takes council computers to Africa

News Duncan McLeod, director of finance at Brent Council, said reusing IT equipment rather than recycling was the main reason for working with Computer Aid International because of the huge difference it makes in developing countries.

Tags: weee, africa, computer aid, council

[21 Apr 2008]

Single-sign-on system makes sense for logistics firm

News For instance, the finance system requires users to change their passwords every 60 days. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus B is for Botnets C is for CMA

Tags: password, argos, security, sign

[21 Apr 2008]

VoIP a perfect fit for Gieves and Hawkes

Case Study The company's back office is split into two locations with design at Savile Row and finance and distribution at an office near Hampton Court. Bespoke tailor Gieves and Hawkes has moved over to a VoIP link between its two back offices to improve...

Tags: viatel, bt, voip

[15 Apr 2008]

Gartner: Data Center Consolidation - 3

whitepaper The attendee of this webcast will learn what drives data center consolidation and why data center managers must become finance, environment and marketing managers.

Tags: data center

[14 Apr 2008]

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