ANALYST REPORT - In June 2008, CFO Research Services conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The research looked at what kinds of alliances companies are forming and how finance sees itself working with internal and external partners to establish and assess successful alliances.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Communications | Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Metrics | Business Models | Business Performance Management | Business Process Modeling | Business Processes | Business Systems | CEOs | CFOs | CIOs | Communications Networks | Financial Management | Financial Reporting

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: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Metrics | Business Models | Business Performance Management | CEOs | CFOs | CIOs | Financial Management | Financial Metrics | Financial Transaction Processing | Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

WHITE PAPER - Business process management provides a new management discipline, a new suite of software technologies and tools, and a new IT implementation style based on concrete links between strategy and execution. This white paper explains SAP's place in the BPM landscape and describes its new offering in that arena, NetWeaver BPM.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Activity Monitoring | Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Metrics | Business Models | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Process Modeling | Business Processes | Business Structures | Business Systems | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | NetWeaver | SAP (Product) | Value Chain Management | Value Chains

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides a survey of the practices and technology related to business process management (BPM). Basic concepts are explained, the transformational effect on the enterprise is examined, and the value that BPM can create is analyzed. The paper then presents a survey of the vast array of technology that is related to BPM.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Models | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Process Modeling | Business Processes | Business Structures | Business Systems | CEOs | CIOs | ERP | Model Driven Architecture

VIDEO - This keynote describes the frustrations of modern knowledge workers in their quest to actually get some work done, and solutions for how to guard yourself against all those distractions.
Posted: May 14, 2009 | Premiered: May 14, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Best Practices | Business Models | Business Processes | Java | Software Development Tools

PODCAST - In this Podcast, Dr. Volker Hildebrand, VP CRM Product Management, SAP, will discuss these significant trends and outline SAP's approach to a new generation of CRM that will help companies not only survive the current economy but emerge as a leader in the long run.
Posted: April 14, 2009 | Premiered: April 14, 2009


Topics:  Brand Loyalty | Business Models | Competition | CRM | Customer Interaction Services | Customer Profiles | Customer Satisfaction | Economic Environment | Market Trends | Strategic Planning | User Experience

WHITE PAPER - Improving interaction between IT architects and their business clients ensures that what their teams produce moves the client's business forward. This paper discusses five things you can do right now to improve collaboration with business users.
Posted: April 1, 2009 | Published: March 27, 2009


Topics:  Business Communications | Business Development | Business Models | Collaborative Product Development | CRM | Customer Self-Service | Customer Service Best Practices | IT Service Management | IT Workforce | SQL

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines: -Issues that are driving industry interest in services access and onboarding. -Factors that impact successful implementation. -Key business model considerations and how they impact the business, technical, operational, and partnership dimensions. -Steps that Network Operators can take to ensure they maximize the benefits.
Posted: March 26, 2009 | Published: March 26, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Models | Partnerships | Service Creation | Telecom Provisioning | Telecommunications Carrier Systems | Telecommunications Industry | Telecommunications Service Providers | Telecommunications Services | Telecommunications Systems

PODCAST - Join Ashok Reddy, a Director of Product Delivery Organization at IBM Rational, to examine the changing role of business analyst at IBM and discuss how this pivotal role is helping to drive more effective product and project delivery and keeping teams aligned to the business outcomes.
Posted: March 16, 2009 | Premiered: March 13, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Models | Business Structures | Marketing | Security

WHITE PAPER - Check out this white paper that discusses the findings of an IDC survey of over 600 IT organizations worldwide. The survey identifies issues confronting IT departments that are adopting service models and to better understand the status and priorities of key functions and processes that underlie successful implementation of IT service management.
Posted: February 17, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Applications Management | Budgeting | Business Models | Business Process Automation | Enterprise Systems | IT Service Management | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn about the Business Model for Information Security, which takes a business-oriented approach to managing information security that is both predictive and proactive as it adapts to changes, considers the organizational culture and delivers value to the business.
Posted: February 10, 2009 | Published: February 10, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Business Models | CobiT | Data Security | Enterprise Systems | Information Security

WHITE PAPER - This paper addresses the relative importance of the strategic and innovative facets of IT in the area of e-Commerce.
Posted: February 6, 2009 | Published: February 6, 2009


Topics:  Architectures | Business Management | Business Models | Design Verification | eCommerce | IT Service Management

WHITE PAPER - Learn more about the changing role of IT in business. This report includes research targeted towards senior executives responsible for managing and deploying information technology in pursuit of business objectives.
Posted: January 29, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Models | Customer Loyalty | Disaster Recovery | Executive Management | Investments | SOA | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper is meant to help operators embrace a new strategy for differentiating and competing successfully in a market characterized by flux.
Posted: November 17, 2008 | Published: November 17, 2008


Topics:  Business Models | Capacity Planning | Collaboration | IP | Outsourcing | Telecommunications Carrier Systems | Telecommunications Services | Telephony Systems

WHITE PAPER - Project-centric manufacturing business models that involve outsourcing and short product lifecycles expose manufacturers to a number of risks they were not vulnerable to previously.
Posted: July 1, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Models | ERP | Outsourcing | Productivity | Risk Management | Supply Chain Management