Business Performance Management White Papers

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: 01 Jun 2008

WHITE PAPER: The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: A recent global study from Cranfield School of Management found organizations are too internally focused and did not use sufficient external information or benchmarking. A better understanding of management processes is needed. That is why we introduced our view on the management process: strategy-to-success. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2008

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns?

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Requirements definition and management is an activity that has the potential to deliver a high, fast ROI. This white paper explains the characteristics of a good requirement and presents ten steps to better requirements management. Read on to learn how better requirements translate into easier, higher quality projects.

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on the automation of accounts payable processes - a task that used to be largely paper-based and cumbersome.

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Published: 27 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: Explore the changing role of the CIO, and the blurring of the line between IT and finance, as CIOs begin to function as strategic advisors to the executive team.

Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper captures the experiences of six large companies running SAP applications using IBM® System p™ virtualization.

Posted: 17 Jun 2008 | Published: 16 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss key perspectives and strategies for new asset management programs within the most capital intensive and revenue producing area of today's businesses.

Posted: 16 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper proposed several actions financial executives can take to become agile CFOs.

Posted: 12 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2006

WHITE PAPER: This white paper summarizes the issues of secure search for large organizations and explores the pros and cons of traditional enterprise search versus federated search.

Posted: 10 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper analyzes the issues of conventional data warehouse design process and explains how this practice can be improved using a business-model-driven process in support of effective Business Intelligence.

Posted: 04 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the costs of IT asset proliferation and the advantages of the IBM view of IT optimization as a strategic, ongoing process.

Posted: 14 May 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

WHITE PAPER: Take a look at how organizations are taking strides to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities - in short, to close the gap between strategy and execution.

Posted: 24 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews the productivity issues facing midsize businesses and discusses how Oracle Application Express (APEX) improves employee productivity and enhances development efficiencies.

Posted: 17 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

WHITE PAPER: The most powerful ERP systems have long been designed to facilitate enterprise performance management (EPM). Learn how to select and use the right tools to execute and effective EPM strategy.

Posted: 12 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2004

WHITE PAPER: Read this CFO Research study to understand how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.

Posted: 01 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 May 2007

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how improved supply chain visibility can be attained through use of an SOA.

Posted: 27 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization technologies can allow small and medium-sized businesses to reduce hardware costs and optimize IT. If your business is not currently using this technology, checkout this survey to gauge how your peers are addressing virtualization issues.

Posted: 09 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

WHITE PAPER: Sandy Carter, Vice President of SOA and WebSphere Strategy, IBM Corporation, takes readers through a specific roadmap on how, where, when, and why to embrace a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy in her new book.

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 | Published: 22 Oct 2007

WHITE PAPER: Learn the performance challenges that IT departments face with feature-rich, high-volume corporate intranet portals and discover simple ways to improve response time by as much as 30% for a better overall user experience.

Posted: 10 Oct 2007 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

WHITE PAPER: Inefficient sales order processing can cause companies to miss tremendous opportunities for improved profitability. Learn how automating the sales order process can eliminate the inefficiencies and limitations of manual order processing.

Posted: 04 Oct 2007 | Published: 04 Oct 2007

WHITE PAPER: Explore four Customer Relationship Management (CRM) deployment scenarios and how to choose a CRM solution that will best meet your company's needs today and support your business as it grows and evolves.

Posted: 26 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

WHITE PAPER: Business drivers for SOA are attributed to three needs; information availability, flexibility and manageability. This paper provides an overview of the approaches to adopting SOA to help your business determine which approach will best suit its needs.

Posted: 17 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

WHITE PAPER: CRM solutions, like Siebel, automate complex business processes where high levels of application performance are crucial. Read this whitepaper to learn best practices in Siebel CRM Performance Management.

Posted: 07 Sep 2007 | Published: 07 Sep 2007