WHITE PAPER - What's arguably the single greatest barrier to the fast close has remained constant - the completion of the intercompany reconciliation process. This paper examines the issues behind intercompany reconciliation and outlines how companies can make impressive progress when they employ software solutions such as those from SAP Business Objects
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Accounting | Accounting Software | Compliance (Finance) | Financial Applications Software | Financial Management | Financial Reporting | Regulatory Compliance | SAP (Product) | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

WHITE PAPER - There are many elements that impact a company's brand. Concentrating on a select few lets you control financial investment while maximizing the returned benefit. This SAP Executive Insight focuses on efforts that target a key set of brand-related opportunities and describes how companies can strengthen brand value even in a recession.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: June 5, 2009


Topics:  Branding | Business Process Management | CRM | Customer Loyalty | Customer Satisfaction | Economic Environment | Knowledge Management | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Management | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - The paper provides valuable evidence about the benefits of achieving aligned operational excellence. In it you'll discover why companies that build and align their operational capabilities for strategic advantage earn a distinct execution premium in their business performance.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | CEOs | CRM | ERP | IT Infrastructure | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Regulatory Compliance | ROI | Six Sigma | Strategic Planning | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was a dramatic action designed to quickly stimulate an economic recovery in the United States. This SAP Executive Insight examines some of the major challenges agencies face with respect to this stimulus plan. It describes how governments can transform their organization to devote more resources..
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: June 5, 2009


Topics:  Collaboration | Economic Environment | Government Agencies (U.S.) | Investments | Project Management | Regulatory Compliance | ROI | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - Combining SAP ERP with SAP Incentive Administration and SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks provides a complete contract management solution. With this solution, you will increase market share, capture business intelligence, reduce overpayments and duplicate claims, improve compliance, and increase productivity.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: June 5, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Contract Management | Contracts | ERP | ERP Software | Life Sciences Industry | Productivity | Regulatory Compliance | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - The Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research (formerly the HDMA Research & Education Foundation) recently published an important study concerning data management and data sharing in the healthcare supply chain. This whitepaper discusses the key conclusions of their study.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Management | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Visualization | Data Visualization Software | Health Care Applications Software | Health Care Industry | HIPAA Compliance | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Management | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - SAP® solutions for governance, risk, and compliance help you institutionalize compliance throughout the enterprise. Across operational, financial, global trade, and environmental compliance activities, you can reduce costs and risks while boosting productivity and increasing your competitive advantage.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Business Process Management | Compliance (Finance) | Compliance Best Practices | Data Governance | Data Integration | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - This SAP Executive Insight examines specific concerns that confront utility executives in today's economy. Further, it describes how gaining greater business visibility and transparency can enable organizations to execute decisively and effectively in this challenging climate.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Management | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Service Management | Circuit Boards | Economic Environment | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Generation Equipment | Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) | Regulatory Compliance

WHITE PAPER - In this research, we examine the lessons that have been learnt from the current financial crisis, and propose ten practical lessons that could help to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Economic Environment | Financial Management | Financial Reporting | Regulatory Compliance | Reporting Software | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - Traditional approaches to risk management emphasize mitigation, focusing on the readily apparent risks facing a company in the areas of security, privacy, credit, regulatory, technology, fraud and more. These threats are, of course, important and must be addressed.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Disaster Planning | Enterprise Resource Management | Financial Reporting | Payroll Software | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

CASE STUDY - Companies and their stakeholders have always had high expectations for their finance teams. But this research program reveals that, most recently, these pressures- from regulators, from investors, and from competitors&#$5; are pushing companies to look for more from their finance teams in two main, but often conflicting, areas.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Accounting Software | Billing Services | Billing Software | Business Management | Financial Management | Financial Reporting | Financial Services | Financial Transaction Processing | Regulatory Compliance | Reporting Software

WHITE PAPER - According to a September 2006 benchmarking survey conducted by the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG) and SAP on governance, risk, and compliance (GRC ), most organizations today have a reactive approach to GRC management - a fire-drill method of channeling precious resources and management attention to address specific regulatory...
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Architectures | Business Intelligence | Business Structures | Compliance (Finance) | Data Governance | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Assessment | Risk Management | Supply Chain Intelligence

WHITE PAPER - In this research paper you'll learn about the top challenges facing storage professionals in Europe and information about Data Domain deduplication storage systems.
Posted: May 30, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Regulatory Compliance | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Tape Backups

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Email archiving, management and compliance solution for Exchange server that is easy to install and requires minimal administrative effort. Store all corporate email in an easily accessible central location.
Posted: May 28, 2009 | Published: May 28, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Electronic Discovery | Email Archiving | Email Archiving Software | Email Management Software | Network Capacity | Network Performance Management Software | Regulatory Compliance | Server Accelerators | SMBs

PRODUCT LITERATURE - These slides offer a broad overview of some common compliance topics and an overview of the Hardware Security Model that can help address current security issues.
Posted: May 21, 2009 | Published: May 14, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Systems Operations) | Hardware | Regulatory Compliance | Security | Security Audits | Security Hardware