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The Agile CFO: Enabling the Innovation Path to Growth
sponsored by IBM Line of Business
WHITE PAPER: This paper proposed several actions financial executives can take to become agile CFOs.
Posted: 12 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2006

IBM Line of Business

A Comprehensive Best Practice Approach to Business Resilience and Risk Mitigation
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper serves as a comprehensive, best-practices approach to business resilience and risk mitigation. Common types of risk and the steps organizations must take to develop an effective risk mitigation strategy are discussed.
Posted: 29 May 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

IBM

Beyond Disaster Recovery: Becoming a Resilient Business
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll learn how to determine risks, calculate impact, evaluate your current structure's response and test overall resiliency.
Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Published: 27 Oct 2008

IBM

Delivering Supply Chain Excellence
sponsored by IBS, International Business Systems
WHITE PAPER: This document concentrates on IT's contribution to Supply Chain Execution and Management.
Posted: 03 Apr 2008 | Published: 08 Nov 2006

IBS, International Business Systems

Data Center Transformation
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at HP's approach to Data Center Transformation and how it can help enterprise data centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth.
Posted: 14 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.
Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009

SAP America, Inc.

Service Orientation and Its Role in Your Connected Systems Strategy: Building Distributed Applications
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents the Microsoft Corporation vision for service orientation and service-oriented architecture in enterprise computing.
Posted: 20 Oct 2008 | Published: 18 Oct 2008

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd

Why Should You Consider Procurement Outsourcing? A Holistic Approach towards Vertically Integrated to Virtually Integrated Business Process Services
sponsored by Wipro
WHITE PAPER: Procurement Outsourcing is defined as a process wherein organizations take a calculated approach of moving some of their processes around source to pay to a specialist.
Posted: 13 Jan 2009 | Published: 13 Jan 2009

Wipro

The New Face of IT Service Management: Aligning Business, Development and Operations Teams for Strategic Advantage
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This research shows that a lack of trust in IT's ability to deliver business value is one of the biggest hurdles that enterprises face in bringing IT and business closer together.
Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

IBM

Mastering New Challenges in Text Analytics: Making Unstructured Data Ready for Predictive Analytics
sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters
WHITE PAPER: This paper briefly defines text analytics, describes various approaches to text analytics, and then focuses on the natural language processing techniques used by SPSS Inc.'s text analytics solutions.
Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters