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Case Studies
Management Firm Keeps Costs Low and Boosts Productivity With Hosted ERP Solution
Mar 2009
Gregory Greenfield & Associates, Ltd. (GG&A), manages 22 regional malls throughout the United States on behalf of numerous private investors and investment firms. When an international investment...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Ferromatik Milacron Reduces Administration and Process Costs Through Application Consolidation
May 2009
Ferromatik Milacron Maschinenbau GmbH wanted to standardize critical business processes, while retaining the maximum degree of flexibility for the subsidiaries and comply with accounting standards...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Sercomtel S.A. Telecomunicacoes Realizes 25% Productivity Gains and Greater Financial Transparency
May 2009
Sercomtel S.A. Telecomunicacoes wanted to Comply with fiscal and tax regulations, as well as requirements imposed by Brazil's national telecommunications agency, Agencia Nacional de...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Servientrega Integrates Human Resources and Financial Data and Accelerates Payroll Procedures
May 2009
Servientrega wanted to integrate financial and Human Resources (HR) information systems to consolidate up-to-date data online to enable timely strategic decision making and improve the operating...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Shanghai Hi-Tech Control System Boosts Profit Margins, Improves Inventory Management
Jun 2009
Shanghai Hi-Tech Control System Co. wanted to share inventory data between locations across China and replace a sales system that was not properly configured, ensure internal transactions could be...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Xstrata Consolidates Reporting, Streamlines Change Management, and Gains Visibility Into Best Practices
Jun 2009
Xstrata wanted to centralize management of 32 global financial consolidations annually across five business units, approximately 2,000 entities, and multiple ERP systems with many different...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
OC2 Improves Efficiency of Automation Processes With Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
Jul 2009
OC2 wanted to provide the small business with a reliable, affordable, and comprehensive professional services automation solution for more efficient internal personnel, financial, and project and...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
IDBI Bank Improves Profitability With Integrated Management Accounting System
Jul 2009
IDBI Bank was restructured into several customer-focused business units to streamline processes and improve customer service. Following the restructure, the bank needed to develop a system to...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras Establishes Efficient Administrative Systems to Support Airline Launch
May 2009
Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras wanted to implement a robust solution to support operations in record time for an airline and develop in-house tax, accounting, and human resource processes,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Production Services Network Goes Live With ERP Planning System in Six Months With Further Roll Out in Two Years
Jun 2009
Production Services Network (PSN) wanted to build a scalable, robust platform to develop and incorporate best practices and industry standard processes that can be utilized all across and ensure...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
De Post - La Poste Improves Order Management With Standardized Enterprise Resource Planning Solution
Jun 2009
De Post - La Poste wanted to select and implement applications for financial management and procurement and ensure the company's ability to integrate the new solution with its existing...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Engineering Company Automates Processes and Reduces Costs With New Business Software
Jul 2009
IPSH is a major engineering company based in Malaysia. Founded in 1987, the company enjoyed rapid growth and expansion of key business areas. However the company's growth was placing a strain on...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Open Text Accounts Payable for Oracle Enhances Accounts Payable Process to Reduce Costs
May 2008
Accounts Payable (AP) has historically been a paper and labor-intensive process that has come under management scrutiny, given the emphasis of businesses on containment of cost and productivity...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Choosing the Right Asset Management Tool for Your Operation
Jan 2009
Asset management solutions can be as rudimentary as a log book or a basic Excel spreadsheet, or as expensive as a sophisticated enterprise-wide tool that can cost hundreds of thousands or even...
Provided by Motorola
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White Papers
Proactive Outreach: Keeping Your Patients Happy and Your Costs Low
Feb 2009
Healthcare facilities are facing many of the same challenges and demands as other industries. As a Healthcare Provider it can be difficult and costly to provide the kind of personalized care and...
Provided by Avaya
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White Papers
5 Ways to Reduce IT Audit Tax
Aug 2009
Taxes are certainly not fun, but there is something worse: an audit. Combine the two in a risk and compliance scenario and you have the onerous "audit tax," a figurative term used to describe the...
Provided by Lumension
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Case Studies
Yum! France Expands Its Performance Analysis Capability for Its Two Major Restaurant Brands
Jul 2009
Yum! France owns the Pizza Hut and KFC brands in France and is part of the worldwide Yum! group which was spun off from Pepsico in 1997. Yum! France wanted to enable common financial consolidation...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Greven City Council Modernizes Administration and Improves Performance by Up to 70%
Aug 2009
Greven City Council operates six servers simultaneously to meet the database needs of approximately 70 different specialist processes within the city's local administration. The challenge was to...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Pearson Gains Real-Time Enterprise Performance Insight With Standardized Reporting and Planning
Aug 2009
Pearson wanted to cut monthly close times by standardizing and consolidating financial reporting for three major global businesses and reduce software licensing and management costs. The challenge...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The Myth of One Version of the Truth
Dec 2008
Most organizations have many different definitions of the business rules they work with on a daily basis. The real question: How does an organization decide which definitions are valid and which...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The Path to EPM Success
Jun 2008
An EPM system is most effective when it is applied to the entire organization. But a completely centralized approach to EPM is unrealistic in most large companies. For companies that have many...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Driving Insight to Action: Advance From Strategy to Success
Apr 2009
The immediate response of the accountant to this heightened requirement for quality information has been to view the solution as lying within the domain of IT, with information management...
Provided by Gartner
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White Papers
The Future of Financial Reporting: A Market Perspective
Jul 2008
Following on the heels of corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Parmalat, Livedoor, and others internationally, investors around the world are demanding stricter corporate governance and...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Oracle's Financial Management Solutions: Preparing U.S. Companies for the Transition to IFRS
Apr 2008
As the U.S. enters the period of historic debate over global accounting and financial reporting standards, companies should be preparing for change. Whether one is on the path to becoming an early...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Google Apps 2nd Wind ROI Case Study
Sep 2009
Nucleus Research conducted an ROI study with 2nd Wind Exercise and found that this 300-user specialty retail company achieved an ROI of 837% and a one-month payback. 2nd Wind replaced its existing...
Provided by Google
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White Papers
Managing Risk & Uncertainty - An Executive's Guide to Integrated Bus Planning
Sep 2009
A time of unprecedented market volatility and competition calls for a new business strategy. Integrated business planning can help you keep your finger on the market pulse, reduce planning...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Managing Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards
Jul 2008
Inevitably, corporate financial reporting will be in a state of flux for the foreseeable future. The IASB has ambitious plans to facilitate the convergence of local and country standards with...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Why Now May Be Time to Move From MAS 90/200 to Microsoft Dynamics GP
Jun 2009
Companies change ERP systems because they are dissatisfied with their current system, or they understand that its limitations are hampering the effective, efficient operation of the business. They...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Agile Foundation for Competitive Advantage: Oracle Tuxedo Enables Speed, Innovation, and Efficiency in Financial Services
Jan 2009
Unrelenting competition is transforming the financial services industry, spurring firms to reinvent themselves to win customers and asset share. At the same time, organic growth, operational costs...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Electricity Authority of Cyprus Reduces Customer Query Response Times From Two Hours to Minutes
Aug 2009
The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) wanted to establish a new system to resolve customer queries more efficiently and improve the speed and accuracy of customer billing. The challenge was to...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Panostaja Oyj Provides a Competitive Edge for Subsidiaries With Effective Reporting System
Sep 2009
Panostaja Oyj wanted to obtain a scalable and reliable financial reporting system to meet the needs of the quickly growing business, which had doubled in annual revenue and number of business...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Cliffs Natural Resources Cuts Month-End Close From Seven Days to Four Days, Standardizes Reporting
Sep 2009
Cliffs Natural Resources wanted to replace spreadsheet based reporting, which was costly and prone to late delivery and shorten month-end reporting time to ensure the Asia Pacific management team...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Hyro Asia Improves Its Profile, Gets Closer to Top Accounts With Integrated CRM System
Sep 2009
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Australian Securities Exchange-listed Hyro Limited, Hyro Asia develops and implements digital services for use across multiple channels including online, mobile, and...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Data to Intelligence: The BI Advantage for Financial Services
Jun 2008
Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage.
Provided by SAP
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Case Studies
C&S Migrates to a Common Scalable Platform, Driving Efficiency and Reliability While Improving Controls
Sep 2009
C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene wanted to control user access to critical data and monitor financial processes without manual intervention and maintain data continuity across multiple systems. The...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
AT&T Inc. Upgrades to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to Centralize Accounting Processes
Oct 2009
AT&T Inc. wanted to upgrade the company's existing Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to accommodate recent communications industry acquisitions and more easily incorporate...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Smooth Transition: Preparing for IFRS
Oct 2009
The SEC proposes that 2014 be the first year for US registered companies to file their financial statements in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) format. This white paper covers...
Provided by Epicor Software
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White Papers
Getting Ready for IFRS
Oct 2009
Successful businesses around the globe have shown time and again that what at first glance may appear as a difficult and costly change in regulation can be an opportunity for efficiency and market...
Provided by Epicor Software
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White Papers
Accounting for Employee Benefits Under IFRS: An IFRS Publication
Feb 2009
This paper highlights some of the significant differences between International Accounting Standard (IAS) 19 and US generally accepted accounting principles (US GAAP) for post-employment benefits,...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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Case Studies
CEVA Logistics Improves Global Financial Reporting and Consolidation Processes
Nov 2009
CEVA Logistics wanted to integrate two disparate, legacy consolidation and reporting systems following the company's merger with TNT Logistics and EGL Global Logistics (freight management and...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
CFOs on Managing Finance Technology: Systems-Related Challenges and How Companies Address Them
Dec 2012
Challenged by an inflexible financial management system? You're not alone. Finance executives everywhere are seeing the need for a system that can easily adapt to changing priorities and...
Provided by Workday
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Case Studies
Bunten and Associates: Small Accounting Firm Saves Nearly a Full Day of Work Each Week With Server Software
Apr 2010
Bunten & Associates provides small businesses and individuals with payroll, accounting, and tax services. The firm wanted to improve its management of customer information, so it began to use...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
vCom Success Story - Monterey Mushrooms
Nov 2012
Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. is the country's largest and only national marketer of fresh mushrooms for sale to supermarkets, foodservice and ingredient manufacture operations. Monterey had no...
Provided by vCom solutions
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Case Studies
Price Chopper Supermarkets Simplifies Business Analytics, Achieves Better Business Results With Solution From Mainline
Jul 2012
The Price Chopper Supermarkets, was faced a number of challenges relating to the company's business intelligence strategy and tools. Price Chopper had an aging Cognos reporting system using old...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Whitepapers
LifeSize Brief: Are Video Conference Solutions HIPAA Compliant?
Sep 2012
Products and technology are not inherently HIPAA compliant or non-compliant. Organizations are. There is no governing agency, commission or standards body that certifies HIPAA compliance. It is up...
Provided by LifeSize Communications, Inc.
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Whitepapers
A Web-Based Public Accountability System for IHE
Dec 2010
With the projected steep increase in enrollment, accountability in Indian Higher Education (IHE) is going to assume importance in the years to come. The existing institutional level accountability...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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Podcasts
IT Governance
Jun 2010
In this podcast, the speakers discuss about the IT Governance. The Governance is clarity around accountability for decision making and accountability for service delivery for technology. There are...
Provided by Accenture
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Case Studies
App-to-App Integration Helps Company Simplify IT Accounting
Dec 2011
This company is a provider of high-performance networking infrastructure products that help service providers, enterprises and public sector organizations. The organization needed to enter project...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Integration Transforms Fund-Raising at US College
Dec 2011
This US college has approximately 300 faculty and staff members. Fund-raising is integral to the success of today's private colleges. To satisfy its donation objectives, this college needed to...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Application Integration Improves Fund-Raising at a US University
Dec 2011
This US university is a private research educational institution that offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs. To improve the effectiveness and accountability of these...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Demand Deposit Account (DDA) Framework With Proven Resilience
Nov 2009
The impact of low cost demand deposits on the U.S. financial system cannot be overstated. They create liquidity in the economy and enable banks to generate profits as well as comply with statutory...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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Whitepapers
Storage Switzerland: Don't Let Storage Eat Your Cloud ROI
Jun 2012
The investment that an organization makes in their virtualization or cloud initiative is significant, but so is the ROI (Return On Investment) that these projects deliver. The challenge is that...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012: What's New and What's Different
Apr 2012
The new upgrade to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 provides substantial opportunities for organizations to gain better control over their hardware and software resources. It is...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Visibility, Alignment, & Optimization, Part III: Workforce Optimization Real Customers, Real Results
Mar 2012
Organizations committed to workforce visibility, alignment, and optimization are well positioned to dominate in the new economy. These high-performing organizations achieve their goals via a...
Provided by Workday
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White Papers
Evolution and Thinking of the Accounting Supervision Mode of China's State-owned Enterprises
Nov 2011
State-owned enterprise is an important and indispensable component of China's national economy. Transformation and innovation of accounting supervision mode of State-owned enterprises play a...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Whitepapers
Acumetrics, See how a plastics manufacturing company improved it's planning capabilities by integrating its sales, operations and financial forecasts.
Jan 2012
See how a plastics manufacturing company improved its planning capabilities by integrating its sales, operations and financial forecasts.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Transforming spreadsheets: planning, budgeting and forecasting for midsize companies
Jan 2012
A spreadsheet-based approach to performance management won't meet the challenges facing growing midsize businesses. You need confidence in the information you're using for critical...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Study on Rational Application of eXtensible Business Reporting Language
Feb 2011
Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) has developed rapidly since its birth as one of accounting information processing standards and the latest technology. The governmental departments...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Enriched Format Text Categorization Using A Component Similarity Approach
Sep 2011
Text categorization has been widely studied for years. However, conventional plain text categorization approaches which work good in plain text behave poor when they are simply applied to enriched...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Improved Algorithms for Data-Gathering Time in Sensor Networks II: Ring
Nov 2009
The authors address the problem of gathering information in sensor webs consisting of sensors nodes, wherein a round of communication sensor nodes have messages to be sent to a distant central...
Provided by Taylor & Francis Group
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White Papers
Active SAR Antennas: Design
Feb 2009
The paper presents the design guidelines for Active SAR Antennas followed for the development of COSMO SkyMed SAR Antenna Subsystem. They have brought to define the antenna architecture, the RF,...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
A Modal Description of Multiport Antennas
Jun 2011
This paper presents a modal description of multiport antennas that leads directly to a rigorous network representation and simple quadratic expressions for gain, efficiency, and effective area....
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Transmission of 3D Scenes over Lossy Channels
Sep 2009
This paper introduces a novel error correction scheme for the transmission of three-dimensional scenes over unreliable networks. The authors propose a novel Unequal Error Protection scheme for the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
A Flexible System Level Design Methodology Targeting Run-Time Reconfigurable FPGAs
Nov 2007
Reconfigurable computing is certainly one of the most important emerging research topics on digital processing architectures over the last few years. The introduction of Run-Time Reconfiguration...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Performance Modeling and Analysis of Flash-Based Storage Devices
Apr 2011
Flash-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs) will become key components in future storage systems. An accurate performance model will not only help understand the state-of-the-art of SSDs, but also...
Provided by George Washington University
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Whitepapers
High Availability for Business-Critical IT Services Using Oracle's SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers
Dec 2011
As organizations strive to minimize planned and unplanned downtime, the importance of IT infrastructure choices, administrative skills, and operational processes increase. A system fault that...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Summit Bank Counts on Toshiba's IP Business Telephone System to Maximize Customer and Inter-Branch Communication
Apr 2009
Summit Bank has grown into a 22-branch network serving Central and South Arkansas. With a focus on personalized service for consumer, business, mortgage and investment accounts, Summit Bank offers...
Provided by Toshiba
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White Papers
Migrating a website to Drupal
Oct 2011
Drupal's advantages for running enterprise websites are well established by such companies as FedEx and The Economist, as well as The White House. But many who would like to use it hesitate...
Provided by Acquia
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Case Studies
Suncorp Partners With NetApp to Transform IT for Competitive Advantage
Mar 2011
The Suncorp Group is a leading trans-Tasman diversified financial services company. They need to merge disparate legacy technology environments to lower costs, simplify administration, and gain...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Financial Services
Sep 2009
A global financial institution, Rothschild Bank AG has numerous branch offices with IT managed centrally from Zurich. Their business need is to attain visibility across a multi-location,...
Provided by Tripwire
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Whitepapers
HIPAA: Healthcare Transformation to Electronic Communications
Sep 2011
This white paper provides a brief overview of HIPAA regulations and how healthcare organizations are using technology to assist with compliance. It discusses network faxing, explores some of the...
Provided by OpenText
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Webcasts
When No Press is Good Press - July 2011
Jul 2011
Yesterday's approaches to combating malware are no longer sufficient. Already this year we've seen an extraordinary number of high-profile security breaches. Whether you're a small business or a...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Migrating a Web Site to Drupal
Aug 2011
Drupal's advantages for running enterprise web sites are well established by such companies as FedEx, The Economist, and The White House. But many who would like to use it hesitate because they...
Provided by Acquia
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Case Studies
West Asset Management Collects on Winning Agility With IBM XIV
Mar 2011
West Asset Management (WAM), a subsidiary of the West Corporation, is one of the top-rated companies in accounts receivable management sector in the United States. To thrive in a competitive...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Accelerating the Financial Close CFOs' Insights into the Benefits of a High-Quality Close
Jul 2011
CFO Research, inc conducted a series of interviews with top finance executives at large, multinational companies from around the world. The goal was to gain insight into the impacts that...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
How Best in Class Plan, Budget and Forecast in Today's Dynamic World
Jul 2011
Highly effective financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting can successfully enable decision making even in periods of unprecedented change. Download this Analyst Insight written by Aberdeen...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Imbuing Unstructured P2P Systems With Non-Intrusive Topology Awareness
Jan 2009
The random nature of unstructured P2P overlays imbues them with enhanced self-properties. Most of the algorithms which make searching in unstructured P2P systems scalable, such as dynamic querying...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Case Studies
A UK-Based Media Company Transforms Its Finance and Accounting (F&A) Operations in Collaboration With TCS
Oct 2010
The media company embarked on a program to simplify and standardise its back office services to implement their corporate strategy as well as support a culture which embodied the company values....
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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Case Studies
A Large Fortune 500 Financial Services and Insurance Company Boosts Field Sales' Productivity Through a TCS-Implemented Salesforce.com CRM
Mar 2011
TCS's client is an international financial services company that provides insurance, wealth management, and financial solutions. The company required an on-demand CRM solution that would integrate...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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Case Studies
A Leading Money Transfer Company Uses TCS Expertise to Increase Vendor Engagement
Apr 2011
TCS' client is a leading global money transfer company who wished to develop a vendor collaboration platform that would facilitate a seamless information highway between the company and its...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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Case Studies
Yum! France Expands Its Performance Analysis Capability for Its Two Major Restaurant Brands
Jul 2009
Yum! France owns the Pizza Hut and KFC brands in France and is part of the worldwide Yum! group which was spun off from Pepsico in 1997. Yum! France wanted to enable common financial consolidation...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Greven City Council Modernizes Administration and Improves Performance by Up to 70%
Aug 2009
Greven City Council operates six servers simultaneously to meet the database needs of approximately 70 different specialist processes within the city's local administration. The challenge was to...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Pearson Gains Real-Time Enterprise Performance Insight With Standardized Reporting and Planning
Aug 2009
Pearson wanted to cut monthly close times by standardizing and consolidating financial reporting for three major global businesses and reduce software licensing and management costs. The challenge...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
The Myth of One Version of the Truth
Dec 2008
Most organizations have many different definitions of the business rules they work with on a daily basis. The real question: How does an organization decide which definitions are valid and which...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The Path to EPM Success
Jun 2008
An EPM system is most effective when it is applied to the entire organization. But a completely centralized approach to EPM is unrealistic in most large companies. For companies that have many...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Driving Insight to Action: Advance From Strategy to Success
Apr 2009
The immediate response of the accountant to this heightened requirement for quality information has been to view the solution as lying within the domain of IT, with information management...
Provided by Gartner
-
White Papers
The Future of Financial Reporting: A Market Perspective
Jul 2008
Following on the heels of corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Parmalat, Livedoor, and others internationally, investors around the world are demanding stricter corporate governance and...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Oracle's Financial Management Solutions: Preparing U.S. Companies for the Transition to IFRS
Apr 2008
As the U.S. enters the period of historic debate over global accounting and financial reporting standards, companies should be preparing for change. Whether one is on the path to becoming an early...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Google Apps 2nd Wind ROI Case Study
Sep 2009
Nucleus Research conducted an ROI study with 2nd Wind Exercise and found that this 300-user specialty retail company achieved an ROI of 837% and a one-month payback. 2nd Wind replaced its existing...
Provided by Google
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White Papers
Managing Risk & Uncertainty - An Executive's Guide to Integrated Bus Planning
Sep 2009
A time of unprecedented market volatility and competition calls for a new business strategy. Integrated business planning can help you keep your finger on the market pulse, reduce planning...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Managing Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards
Jul 2008
Inevitably, corporate financial reporting will be in a state of flux for the foreseeable future. The IASB has ambitious plans to facilitate the convergence of local and country standards with...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Why Now May Be Time to Move From MAS 90/200 to Microsoft Dynamics GP
Jun 2009
Companies change ERP systems because they are dissatisfied with their current system, or they understand that its limitations are hampering the effective, efficient operation of the business. They...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Agile Foundation for Competitive Advantage: Oracle Tuxedo Enables Speed, Innovation, and Efficiency in Financial Services
Jan 2009
Unrelenting competition is transforming the financial services industry, spurring firms to reinvent themselves to win customers and asset share. At the same time, organic growth, operational costs...
Provided by Oracle
-
Case Studies
Electricity Authority of Cyprus Reduces Customer Query Response Times From Two Hours to Minutes
Aug 2009
The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) wanted to establish a new system to resolve customer queries more efficiently and improve the speed and accuracy of customer billing. The challenge was to...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Panostaja Oyj Provides a Competitive Edge for Subsidiaries With Effective Reporting System
Sep 2009
Panostaja Oyj wanted to obtain a scalable and reliable financial reporting system to meet the needs of the quickly growing business, which had doubled in annual revenue and number of business...
Provided by Oracle
-
Case Studies
Cliffs Natural Resources Cuts Month-End Close From Seven Days to Four Days, Standardizes Reporting
Sep 2009
Cliffs Natural Resources wanted to replace spreadsheet based reporting, which was costly and prone to late delivery and shorten month-end reporting time to ensure the Asia Pacific management team...
Provided by Oracle
-
Case Studies
Hyro Asia Improves Its Profile, Gets Closer to Top Accounts With Integrated CRM System
Sep 2009
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Australian Securities Exchange-listed Hyro Limited, Hyro Asia develops and implements digital services for use across multiple channels including online, mobile, and...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Data to Intelligence: The BI Advantage for Financial Services
Jun 2008
Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage.
Provided by SAP
-
Case Studies
C&S Migrates to a Common Scalable Platform, Driving Efficiency and Reliability While Improving Controls
Sep 2009
C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene wanted to control user access to critical data and monitor financial processes without manual intervention and maintain data continuity across multiple systems. The...
Provided by Oracle
-
Case Studies
AT&T Inc. Upgrades to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to Centralize Accounting Processes
Oct 2009
AT&T Inc. wanted to upgrade the company's existing Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to accommodate recent communications industry acquisitions and more easily incorporate...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Smooth Transition: Preparing for IFRS
Oct 2009
The SEC proposes that 2014 be the first year for US registered companies to file their financial statements in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) format. This white paper covers...
Provided by Epicor Software
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White Papers
Getting Ready for IFRS
Oct 2009
Successful businesses around the globe have shown time and again that what at first glance may appear as a difficult and costly change in regulation can be an opportunity for efficiency and market...
Provided by Epicor Software
-
White Papers
Accounting for Employee Benefits Under IFRS: An IFRS Publication
Feb 2009
This paper highlights some of the significant differences between International Accounting Standard (IAS) 19 and US generally accepted accounting principles (US GAAP) for post-employment benefits,...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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Case Studies
CEVA Logistics Improves Global Financial Reporting and Consolidation Processes
Nov 2009
CEVA Logistics wanted to integrate two disparate, legacy consolidation and reporting systems following the company's merger with TNT Logistics and EGL Global Logistics (freight management and...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Botswana Brings 60 Per Cent of Local Councils Up to Date With Accounting
Nov 2009
The Botswana Ministry of Local Government needed to automate its business management systems to reduce a huge backlog of unclosed manual accounts in local authorities. The ministry worked with...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Scientific Firm Grows Government Business More Than 100 Percent With Accounting System
Nov 2009
RJ Lee Group tackles technically challenging problems with a team of more than 250 material and forensic scientists, chemists, physicists, and computer scientists. When the company started winning...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Linking operational and financial planning in global organizations
May 2008
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...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Video Whitepaper: Managing Risk & Uncertainty
Nov 2009
A time of unprecedented market volatility and competition calls for a new business strategy. Integrated business planning can help you keep your finger on the market pulse, reduce planning...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
The bottom line on asset availability
Dec 2009
Keeping your plant assets up and running is crucial to productivity and profit, but most facilities don't really know if they are running at peak efficiency. A 1% improvement in plant availability...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Preparing U.S. Companies for the Transition to IFRS: A Guide for JD Edwards Customers
Jun 2009
Companies transitioning to IFRS will inevitably find themselves having to capture data and gather additional information in new ways.. They may need to use new accounting definitions and...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
IBM: Your e-Invoicing Enabled Supplier
Apr 2009
Accounts Payable departments are still engaging in manual entry of incoming paper invoices. Challenges with managing paper invoices can have negative impacts on operational accuracy, process...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Business Process Services for Finance and Administration - Accounts Payable Solution
Nov 2007
For many organizations, the financial settlement cycle can be slow and inefficient, encumbered by the management of paper files and error-prone manual processes. The IBM Business Process Services...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
ABE's Invests in ERP to Streamline Processes, Work Across Multiple Currencies and Prepare for the Future
Aug 2008
New Zealand Company ABE'S Real Bagels manufacturing bagels and bagel crisps which are sold in New Zealand and Australia. To capitalise on growth opportunities and the planned expansion into...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
SpiceJet Improves Transparency and Control With IBM Airline Office and SAP ERP
May 2009
SpiceJet is one of India's most dynamic low-cost airlines, with 19 aircraft flying to 18 destinations across the country. With a range of separate systems for accounting, purchasing, inventory...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Paper-Free AP: Automated Processing of Vendor Invoices
Jan 2010
This paper presents the unique value of a comprehensive platform to streamline Accounts Payable processes that run on paper documents — at levels ranging from basic "quit paper" solutions to...
Provided by Esker
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White Papers
White Paper Spotlight: "IT Outsourcing Essentials" Research Series from IT Consulting Int'l
Nov 2004
Inside Volume I - "Collaboration Fundamentals: Preventing Client/Vendor Process Mismatch" * A Process Compatibility Matrix Diagram * Real Life Process Mismatch Examples * Visual Aid to...
Provided by IT Consulting International
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Case Studies
NYK de Mexico S.A. de C.V. Integrates Operating and Accounting Systems, Increases Operational Efficiency
Dec 2009
NYK de Mexico S.A. de C.V. wanted to integrate the company's administrative systems with its accounting system to achieve operating efficiency and minimize duplications in data capture between the...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co. Achieves Unified Management of 80 Life and Property Insurance Businesses
Dec 2009
China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co. wanted to realize unified financial management of nearly 80 subsidiary companies and more than 400 branch centers and 700 branches and implement a system to...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Prudential Overall Supply Moves to Hosted IT Model, Improving System Availability, Reliability, and Security
Jan 2010
Prudential Overall Supply (POS) wanted transition from an unsupported, batch-oriented, data processing-based IT system to an integrated, real-time, Wide Area Network (WAN)-based corporate-wide...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Four Seas Mercantile Completes Financial Accounts 50% Faster
Jan 2010
Four Seas Mercantile wanted to maintain accurate predictions of consumer tastes and consumption rates in each region of operation and allow deeper analysis of regional activities based on...
Provided by Oracle
