Management and Careers White Papers

The CFO Guide to Budgeting Software

A mid-sized business needs the same financial performance control and measurement capabilities as a large corporation, but in a solution that's affordable, easy to implement and scalable. This guide simplifies the search by helping CFOs understand the 10 must-have characteristics of today's best financial performance management solutions.

Sponsor: Centage Corporation

Transition from Spreadsheet Budgets to Packaged Application

This white paper details the problems that go with spreadsheet-based budgeting as well as the advantages of packaged applications. It also proposes a road map to help start the transition of your budgeting from a spreadsheet platform to an enterprise packaged application. The goal is to help SMBs plan their transition to a budgeting solution that delivers more collaboration but with more control, accountability, and budget compliance.

Sponsor: Centage Corporation

Better Cash Flow Management: Recession-Proof Your Business

Cash is the lifeblood of most small to mid-sized organizations. So why rely on error-prone spreadsheets for forecasting cash flow and risk making the wrong decisions? This white paper explores what a best-in-class budgeting and planning application could offer in the spreadsheet's place.

Sponsor: Centage Corporation

Centage/IOMA Budgeting Survey: Benchmarks and Issues

How are other financial professionals dealing with the issues you face? This report offers you an inside peak into what the minds at over 200 financial executives are thinking and doing to impact their own bottom line.

Sponsor: Centage Corporation

Is Your Database Ready For Your Company's Future?

This brochure is targeted to executives and will cover all the business benefits of DB2. No matter what industry or market you are in, data has become more than just details of recorded transactions, events and customer records - it's the lifeblood of your business, as vital as cash.That makes your database a critical part of your business. Can it stay a step ahead of the demands that your customers, employees and partners place upon it?

Sponsor: IBM

An Innovative Approach to Managing Requirements

Requirements management is an integral part of developing successful software products. Effective requirement management ensures that product and business objectives are met by providing approved and up-to-date requirements accessible to all members of the project team. It ensures that projects are delivered on schedule by providing a means to analyze and communicate changes to requirements.

This paper provides a thorough and detailed examination of a comprehensive requirements management solution. It also examines how requirements are authored, captured and traced through the downstream lifecycle, and how configuration management concepts such as versioning and base lining can be leveraged to achieve advanced requirements management capabilities.

Sponsor: PTC

11 Key Marketing Trends

Are you looking for ways to turn marketing possibilities into better results? Interactive marketing can help you achieve differentiation, attract prospects and hold profitable customers, regardless of whatever new channels come and go. Read this white paper to learn more about the results of our annual IBM® Unica® marketing survey.

Sponsor: IBM

Broker-Dealer Case Study: Reduced Compliance Burden with Perimeter's Message Archive

A broker-dealer, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is the preferred broker for 130 financial advisors employed by 50 small, independent advisory firms across the United States. These firms sell financial products, such as mutual funds, stocks and life insurance, to high net worth individuals. The broker-dealer selects the products the advisors offer, provides expertise, training and collateral, and delivers a technology platform for its advisors. These unique characteristics allow them to give its affiliated advisory firms the flexibility and resources of a large brokerage, while preserving the culture of personal service that customers expect from smaller companies.

Sponsor: Perimeter E-Security

High Definition Application Performance Management

Organizations are increasingly recognizing the need for a cohesive approach for application performance monitoring (APM) that addresses the application and its supporting environment holistically. This report, featuring research from the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring, provides an overview of a five-dimensional APM approach.

Sponsor: Opnet Technologies

Empowering Your Mobile Workers

Today's most productive employees are mobile, and your company's IT strategy must be ready to support them with 24/7 access to the business information they need across a range of mobile devices. See how corporations are meeting the many needs of their mobile workers with the help of Box.

Sponsor: Box

2011 FFIEC Authentication Guidance: A New Standard For Online Banking Security

The long overdue update to the FFIEC Guidance on Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment is now officially in effect, setting a new standard for online banking security. The online banking threat landscape has changed dramatically, creating a significant gap between previous FFIEC recommendations and those security measures that are actually effective in mitigating online banking fraud. As a result, financial institutions and their customers are at risk and fraud rates have spiked. This whitepaper provides an overview of the updated Guidance and the threat landscape which helped define it, examines why previous security measures are no longer effective, and why new methods like out-of-band authentication with transaction verification are key to protecting online banking today.

Sponsor: PhoneFactor

Managing the Performance of Critical Applications

Using traditional processes and separate management tools that monitor only one aspect of the IT operation proves to be ineffective and prevents IT from reaching its efficiency objectives.

Sponsor: Opnet Technologies

Five Ways IT Can Ride the Coming Growth Wave

CIOs and the IT organizations have an opportunity to help position the enterprise to ride the wave of a growth curve. This white paper from Oracle discusses five ways IT can support the enterprise's transition from a contraction to growth mode.

Sponsor: Oracle

Positioning the CIO as a Powerful Business Partner with IT Portfolio Governance

In this whitepaper, learn how you can become a visionary portfolio manager and transform IT into a streamlined revenue and profit center.

Sponsor: Oracle

Best Practice Insights: ITIL Service Operation

Service Operation, the fourth book in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3 publications, assists readers in developing management practices to ensure customers are satisfied and receive the value they expect. BMC experts have compiled an overview based on Service Operation, including valuable commentary, practical guidance and real-world examples.

Sponsor: BMC