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Web 2.0 at Work: Departmental Use Cases sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: With the introduction of Web 2.0 technologies into your enterprise, you can greatly increase the value of your company's most important assets. Leading companies are harnessing Web 2.0 technologies and applying them to build their next-generation workplaces. Posted: 03 Apr 2009 \| Published: 01 Aug 2008 TOPICS: Blogs \| CRM \| Financial Management \| Financial Reporting \| Human Resources Management \| Marketing \| Sales and Marketing Software \| Social Networking \| Tagging \| Web Applications Software \| Wikis

The Business of Sustainability: Information Technology as a Catalyst for Short and Long-Term Profitability sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read how SAP software can help your company manage risks and exploit operational and business opportunities regarding social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Posted: 22 Jul 2009 \| Published: 03 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| Business Process Management \| Business Structures \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management

The Future of Financial Reporting: A Market Perspective sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd WHITE PAPER: Following on the heels of corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and others, global investors are demanding stricter corporate governance and compliance requirements for publicly held companies. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the issues, principles, and technologies underlying new requirements in corporate governance. Posted: 05 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 Jul 2008 TOPICS: Accounting \| Accounting Industry \| Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Compliance (Finance) \| Corporate Governance \| Corporations \| Financial Management \| Financial Reporting

Building a Long-term Strategy for IT Sustainability sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Intel IT is engaged in developing a broad, ongoing sustainability strategy to help Intel consume fewer resources and emit less waste. In analyzing the business case for IT sustainability, we identified the bottom-line benefits and defined the metrics that enabled us to effectively reduce our environmental footprint. Posted: 27 May 2009 \| Published: 01 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Enterprise Systems \| Environmental Compliance \| Environmental Standards \| Green Data Center \| Green Storage

Making Business Relevant Information Instantly Available to More Users sponsored by SAP WHITE PAPER: Executives, managers, and business users need the ability to quickly discover, collect, analyze, and share relevant information and they need to be able to answer their own questions as they have them. Read this quick report to learn more about a solution that addresses just these needs. Posted: 19 Jun 2009 \| Published: 19 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Management \| Data Management \| Decision Support Systems \| Information Management \| Knowledge Management

Improving Intercompany Reconciliation for a Faster Close sponsored by SAP America, Inc. 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: 08 Jun 2009 \| Published: 02 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Accounting \| Accounting Software \| Compliance (Finance) \| Financial Applications Software \| Financial Management \| Financial Reporting \| Regulatory Compliance \| SAP (Product) \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Managing the Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper identifies the many challenges companies face when implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in corporate reporting. The Oracle solution provides the high level of analysis and transparency that companies need in today's demanding and uncertain global financial reporting environment. Posted: 05 May 2009 \| Published: 01 Jul 2008 TOPICS: Business Development \| Business Integration \| Business Intelligence \| Data Center Management \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Migration \| Financial Management \| Financial Services \| Financial Systems \| International Oracle Users Group

IT Optimization as a Source of Sustainable Competitive Advantage sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the costs of IT asset proliferation and the advantages of the IBM view of IT optimization as a strategic, ongoing process. Posted: 14 May 2008 \| Published: 01 Oct 2007 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Development \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| Business Strategy \| Competition \| IT Infrastructure

Five Things Your IT Resources Should Be Telling You - And Aren't sponsored by Unisys WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper describes the types of information IT managers should expect to gain from leading-edge IT resource governance tools. Posted: 22 Jan 2009 \| Published: 22 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Collaboration \| Executive Management \| IT Management \| IT Managers

Journal of Management Excellence - Introducing Management Excellence sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: A recent global study from Cranfield School of Management found organizations are too internally focused and did not use sufficient external information or benchmarking. A better understanding of management processes is needed. That is why we introduced our view on the management process: strategy-to-success. Read this whitepaper to learn more. Posted: 05 Jun 2009 \| Published: 05 Jun 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| Business Process Management \| CIOs \| Operational Metrics (Systems)