Financial Management

HR is a necessity when you have employees. And what could be better than taking a set of duties - which although a necessity, are not a core competence - off your plate?

As the saying goes, what you can't measure, you can't manage. You may understand the importance of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), but how do you measure them?

Perhaps never in the history of commerce have businesses been required to adapt so fast to changing conditions as those driven by the introduction of the internet. Of the world's six billion inhabitants, over 1.9 billion use the internet.

Thomson Reuters QA Studio, powered by Palantir, provides easy and rapid financial time series analysis, multi-asset class portfolio simulation, factor testing, and other portfolio analytics.

For most organizations, consolidation is the starting point and primary initial driver for their virtualization efforts. By enabling the sharing and pooling of resources, virtualization has become a proven, adept and widely adopted technology in allowing organizations of all sizes to achieve some of their most important technology consolidation initiatives.

Virtualization deployment will continue to grow dramatically, fueled by a variety of factors, including continued use of virtualization to support consolidation efforts; growth of virtualization use in mission-critical applications and workloads; growth in virtualization among small and midsize organizations; successful deployment of virtualization as a strategic initiative to enhance business agility; and virtualization as the foundation for next-generation cloud computing services.

SAP Supplier Management Software (SAP SRM) rapid-deployment solution delivers fast results to optimize operational procurement. Reduce costs with essential SAP software that is preconfigured to support your core procurement processes and implemented at a fixed price by SAP Consulting.

Is an on-demand CRM application or an on-premise CRM application more advantageous for your company?

Scale-out storage technologies have rapidly gained popularity over the past several years, successfully crossing the chasm from niche technology to mainstream enterprise solution.

Software Asset Management associated costs have once again risen as a high priority for IT, and rightfully so. This paper offers information on technology that manages software assets cost efficiently, cost effectively in a low risk environment.

Today, as IT departments struggle to design and implement solutions capable of managing exponential data growth with strict requirements for application scale and performance, many of them are turning to in-memory data grids (IMDGs).

Become acquainted with the script logic functionality available in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.x, version for SAP NetWeaver. Review use cases for script logic, its architecture, various ways to execute it, and a few basic key words. Designed for individuals who will be end users of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation or who require a product overview. The goal is to work with the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Web interfaces.

'The Superstar CFO; After the Crisis' follows up on a piece of research SAP commissioned from CFO Research back in 2007 when the business world was confident after nearly a decade of steady growth. Today things are different with western economies bumping along the bottom and companies uncertain about what the future might bring. So with that in mind the CFO Research team set off to interview companies in all four regions of the world to get a feel on what they were thinking.

Today, businesses must work smarter, not just harder-and to do it, they must use information to compete. With growing demands on data resources, companies need to derive greater value from their existing information. But this information is often scattered throughout the organization. To survive in the current tough economic environment means building successful enterprise information management strategies. Find out how.

Analytics has moved from the specialty of a dedicated few to a necessity for broad groups of business professionals to do their job. This white paper considers the use of analytics and business intelligence in the banking industry for improving decision making and the benefits of prebuilt analytic applications for achieving this objective across many functions in a banking organization.

This white paper outlines the role compensation has in a company's ability to attract and retain the best talent.

This white paper outlines the best practices for designing and implementing salary structures.

To survive in today's marketplace, small to mid-sized businesses are increasingly using the power of company-wide goal alignment to generate strong financial performance, increase productivity and create a more cohesive culture than their larger competitors.

Vocalocity, a leader in hosted communications platforms, has partnered with Cisco to deliver an agile, cost-effective, technologically innovative phone solution.

Financial executives need to have a no-compromise approach to financial modeling and application choice, irrespective of where these applications are deployed.

The purpose of this report is to provide guidance on how best to streamline sales and use tax management.

Four tips for lean supply chain improvements in manufacturing operations and six technology tools to automate these best practices.

Examining the construction industry's move from point solutions towards project-based ERP.

AB World Foods has a highly complex supply chain, driven in part by the nature of its globally sourced and distributed products as well as by the demands of growth and acquisition. With Infor SCM Demand Planning, the company cut costs while also improving service levels.

Find out what characteristics you should take into account when selecting Sales and Operations Technology and how Infor10 Sales & Operations Planning respond to those needs today.