Business Financing

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines steps that financial institutions can take to become more business savvy and efficient in the age of the consumer. Read on and learn how to leverage information and reduce risk, properly set product prices, learn about your clients and more.

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 | Published: 18 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: More than ever, small businesses need to efficiently control costs and optimise cash flow, but how, and what role does automation play in this process?

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, healthcare providers who invest in EHR technology may be eligible for financial incentives.  However, because incentive dollars arrive after implementation, many practices continue to see cost as a primary barrier to adoption. Read on to learn about the full range of financing options.

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 | Published: 15 Sep 2011

EBOOK: This e-book describes how using a cloud-based suite of applications and services integrated with a community of experts and trading partners can fuel the collaboration needed to improve your performance and profits.

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 | Published: 04 Nov 2011

IT BRIEFING: This research from management consultants, Xantus, shows that while there is still a lack of clarity and a reluctance to fully commit to the cloud, there is a general acceptance from CIOs of the benefits and a growing commitment to develop those benefits.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this report to read about an IDC study that found the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) to have a 438% ROI over three years, improving both IT and end-user productivity.

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 | Published: 14 Dec 2011

PODCAST: This podcast event provides important real-world perspectives on what virtualization is helping companies achieve, and offers suggestions on how to plan, deploy and managed virtualized environments.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Premiered: 10 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.

Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009

EZINE: The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more.

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

VIDEO: Watch this brief video to learn more about HP's Finance and Administration services and how your organisation could benefit from outsourcing these operations.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: A new approach to Business Process Management (BPM) is the use of BPM and SOA together in a layering strategy. This white paper explores the BPM layered concept and offers a case study of how ABN AMRO, one of the world's largest financial institutions, has benefited from its deployment.

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

CASE STUDY: This case study will shed important light on how service management software, in particular, is helping to improve productivity and provide real-time visibility into critical financial data.

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2011

CASE STUDY: 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.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn about the business challenges and risks in existing manual ‘last mile’ processes dependent on different version spreadsheets, word processing files and unsecured emails, and the benefits and the value of automating ‘last mile’ processes.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses an exclusive survey where CFOs weighed in on their perceptions and understanding of cloud computing. Read more about what this CFO survey reveals about the potential economic and efficiency benefits of the cloud.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Based on feedback from almost 650 end-user organizations, this report serves as a roadmap for SMBs looking to improve their analytical capability and achieve Best-in-Class performace through the deployment of BI.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Accounts payable remains a manual and often inefficient business process. Read this white paper for a discussion of best practices options and a solid approach to implementing solutions for automating and optimizing Accounts Payable in the SAP environment.

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 25 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document is designed to help firms understand their data conversion options. It outlines what data is critical and must be converted for compliance purposes and business continuity, what data is not critical, the relationship between data conversion and reporting, and what to look for in a new technology provider relative to data conversion.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the concerns and goals of the modern CFO during this crucial, post-recession recovery period. Topics discusses inside are the increased need for fast, acurate and keeping up with governance, risk and compliance (GRC) while moving forward.

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 | Published: 19 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Alpha ImageWorks 9000 centralizes patient records into a single, secure repository, providing easy access, accelerated processing time and billing, and significant time saving in reviewing patient records.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: If you want to move beyond the traditional finance role and play a more visible, pro-active role in supporting business decision making, read this white paper today.

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2011

CASE STUDY: This case study explores how one small financial organization was able to significantly reduce operating costs by partnering with with an outsourced, secure email archiving specialist.

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explains why automated reconciliation is quickly evolving into a competitive necessity. The costs associated with manual reconciliation, the benefits from automation, and the best reconciliation workflow model will all be discussed.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

WEBCAST: IT managers need a performance system that reflects modern changes in information technology, touches on all pillars of the organization, and conveys IT's value to the business. Watch this webcast to learn about a comprehensive, out-of-the-box solution that simplifies IT management.

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Premiered: 23 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: In late 2010, a survey of over 400 senior finance executives in the US on the value of business intelligence (BI) applications was conducted by CFO Research Services (CRS). The results are very informative and can be found in this report.

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 | Published: 29 Mar 2011

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: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

EBOOK: This guide helps organizations assemble the right people, make the right investment in a solution and helps finance create best practices to ensure a successful XBRL compliance. Read this now and learn what XBRL is, how it works and why it’s mandated, best practices to prepare for an XBRL mandate, who to involve in the mandate process and more.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

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: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses operational risk management (ORM) in the context of "Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk," a paper from the Basel Committee.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Reporting speed and accuracy are vital today. But it would be wrong to assume that you have to spend more to go faster and do a competent job. This white paper illustrates how some organizations achieved top-tier results in financial reporting and why some did not.

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Published: 14 Nov 2011