Budgeting White Papers

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Rolling Forecasts Enable Accuracy and Agile Business Planning
sponsored by Prophix Software
WHITE PAPER: This white paper, based on findings from a survey, identifies the necessary tools to enable rolling forecasts along with the benefits, such as increased profit margins, of utilizing this strategy.
Posted: 28 May 2014 | Published: 31 May 2013

Prophix Software

OMERS boosts efficiency and tightens financial controls
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this fascinating case study to learn how implementing expert solutions for financial reporting, planning, and forecasting greatly helped OMERS improve processes and overall efficiency.
Posted: 05 Nov 2013 | Published: 05 Nov 2013

IBM

Disclosure Management for Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting: the Next Frontier?
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This resource explains how disclosure management can lead to significant productivity gains when used for statutory reporting, and evaluates the viability of this strategy as an option for improving budgeting, planning, and forecasting (BPF) financial processes.
Posted: 26 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

IBM

IDC: The Business Value of Entry-Level Enterprise Storage
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: In this short white paper, learn how to deploy the next-generation of entry-level arrays to businesses that are budget-conscious, but also cannot afford to compromise on technology.
Posted: 24 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

Hitachi Vantara

Budgeting for Mid-Market Companies
sponsored by Prophix Software
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to gain an understanding of the capabilities of financial budgeting software and how your organization can benefit from leveraging it.
Posted: 04 Sep 2012 | Published: 04 Sep 2012

Prophix Software

Risk and Reward:Are you still using Spreadsheets for Budgeting and Forecasting?
sponsored by Centage
WHITE PAPER: Modern financial software enables business to collaborate with visibility, reliability, and accountability in a controlled environment. This paper explains the issues with spreadsheet budgeting and helps business find better financial software for easy long-term planning.
Posted: 19 Jul 2012 | Published: 19 Jul 2012

Centage

Data Sheet: ORSYP Capacity Optimization Assessment
sponsored by ORSYP
WHITE PAPER: Discover how performance and capacity management software can help prevent your infrastructure from becoming too complex and costly to operate. This white paper outlines how your organisation can optimise their IT environment with this software.
Posted: 31 May 2012 | Published: 31 May 2012

ORSYP

Why Should CFOs Care About the Cloud? Because IT Sees it Differently
sponsored by Host Analytics, Inc
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses why CFOs should care about the cloud and how the approaches of IT and finance executives differ when it comes to cloud computing.
Posted: 13 Apr 2012 | Published: 13 Apr 2012

Host Analytics, Inc

Integrated and Automated Budget, Program and Performance Reporting
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IBM Cognos FSR with TM1 helps budget and finance teams to automate the generation of complex, process driven reports while maintaining the agency’s current business processes and disclosure management
Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

IBM

Managing Costs More Effectively
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This Ventana Research paper identifies the IT components that can be used to identify ways to improve cost management for success in today's recovering yet volatile market.
Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

SAP America, Inc.

Getting Started: A Manager's Guide to Implementing Capacity Management
sponsored by TeamQuest Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Many IT departments have chosen to throw hardware at performance and capacity problems. In the past, that approach has worked, however times and management challenges have changed; demanding a different approach – capacity management. This guide is designed to help those IT leaders who are now looking to assemble a capacity management approach.
Posted: 12 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

TeamQuest Corporation

What CFOs Should Ask their Software Development Leaders
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates a new way of thinking about the funding of IT software projects, one that considers funding in terms of investment, and value as an expansive, longitudinal variable.
Posted: 20 Sep 2011 | Published: 20 Sep 2011

IBM

Six Common Mistakes that Plague IT Projects and Three Keys to Avoid Them
sponsored by AtTask
WHITE PAPER: When it comes to IT projects, there are a number of common mistakes – and too often project managers avoid the problems that those mistakes create instead of facing them head on. Inside this white paper, learn about the 6 most common IT project mistakes and 3 ways to avoid them.
Posted: 12 Aug 2011 | Published: 12 Aug 2011

AtTask

How To Increase Productivity and Reduce Costs Across The Enterprise
sponsored by AtTask
WHITE PAPER: Although the current economic situation is improving, many organizations are opting to keep operational expenses on a tight leash, and some have decided to freeze hiring and re-evaluate project budgets. Learn how project management tools can help drive strategic planning and decision making for greater efficiency in your organization.
Posted: 12 Aug 2011 | Published: 12 Aug 2011

AtTask

How To Align Corporate Strategy with Project Execution
sponsored by AtTask
WHITE PAPER: The biggest challenge for IT leaders today is making sure that projects are aligned with the strategic and financial goals of their organizations. Learn why implementing a project and portfolio management (PPM) approach could help simplify your objectives. Gain insight on PPM topics such as allocating resources, capacity planning and more.
Posted: 12 Aug 2011 | Published: 12 Aug 2011

AtTask

Why Third Party Data Storage Maintenance is Right for You
sponsored by MSDI
WHITE PAPER: Third party maintenance companies offer cost effective maintenance and support agreements that save as much as 40% in ongoing maintenance costs while keeping service levels agreements (SLA's) the same, if not improving them. Read this comprehensive white paper to see if third party maintenance might be right for your organization.
Posted: 07 Jul 2011 | Published: 07 Jul 2011

MSDI

2010 Asset Management Operations and Compensation Survey Findings
sponsored by Advent Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER: In this survey you will learn how asset management has changed over the years and the different challenges asset management professionals have been facing.
Posted: 18 May 2011 | Published: 17 May 2011

Advent Software, Inc

Legally Avoid the Data Tax
sponsored by Talend
WHITE PAPER: Fiscally conservative IT organizations should try to minimize their expenses and leverage their IT budgets. Understanding the data tax and where potential savings reside is a good place to start. This white paper explains how this data tax is being levied and provides valuable advice from our data tax advisors on how to legally circumvent this tax.
Posted: 10 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

Talend

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting: Software Evaluation and Selection Guide
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses the challenges of planning, budgeting and forecasting in a spreadsheet environment and highlights the advantages of using a software solution designed specifically for planning, budgeting and forecasting.
Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 11 May 2009

IBM

Thinking of Cutting Your Team’s Training Budget? Think Again!
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper will explain how education and training programs from SAP are now offered in a wide variety of delivery options to meet the needs of today’s workforce. This paper will also introduce you to the flexible training options now available from SAP, as well as some innovative new offerings just released in the last few months.
Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

SAP America, Inc.

Building a Robust Business Case for High Quality Master Data
sponsored by Melissa
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the key elements for building a proper, quantified business case. It presents the measures that are favored by corporate finance departments, and helps develop a strong business case for data quality and MDM projects. A number of real-life examples with quantifiable benefits are also included.
Posted: 19 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

Melissa

Building the Case for Business Intelligence ROI in a Turbulent Economy: 6 Tactics You Can Use
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how to strengthen your organization's business intelligence investment in the current economic environment, which has seen budget cuts in virtually every area. This paper offers tips for making a tangible business case for BI investments.
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

IBM

Enterprise Performance Management: Key to Rapid Response for Today’s Successful Midsize Companies
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss some of the ways in which the new unpredictability of external market forces has escalated the value of precise internal forecasts and quick decision-making for these companies. Read this paper to learn about Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management technology offerings.
Posted: 15 Jan 2010 | Published: 15 Jan 2010

Oracle Corporation

Business Case Development Best Practices for Data Center and IT Projects: Speed Up Your Project Approval and Start with Confidence
sponsored by HP & Intel®
WHITE PAPER: How do companies create winning business cases to justify key data center and IT initiatives and speed-up the budget approval process? Read this paper for tips and best practices for how to succeed in the budget approval process and business case development.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

HP & Intel®

Meeting Economic Challenges Through Accelerated Virtualization
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: With the current economic state the way it is CIOs must rethink how they manage IT costs and operations. This white paper will take a closer look at how virtualization can help cut down the costs as well as improve efficiency of the data center.
Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

DellEMC and Intel®