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Top Ten Reasons to Automate Operating Expense Controls
sponsored by ExpenseWatch.com
WHITE PAPER: Manual processes are error-prone, time-consuming and costly. Learn the top ten reasons to automate operating expense controls.
Posted: 01 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

ExpenseWatch.com

The Total Economic Impact™ of Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Management Pack, and Provisioning and Patch Automation Pack
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Learn how Oracle's comprehensive industry leading configuration management and provisioning automation solutions help you reduce application management costs while delivering greater control and compliance.
Posted: 15 May 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

Oracle Corporation

Small Business Networking: The Basics
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Small business networking begins with a secure, reliable, fast data network foundation. This paper fleshes out 7 ways small business networking can transform your company.
Posted: 02 Feb 2009 | Published: 02 Feb 2009

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Using enterprise architecture to develop a blueprint for improving your energy efficiency and reducing your carbon footprint
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns?
Posted: 09 Apr 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2008

IBM

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

Intel Corporation

Using Master Data in Business Intelligence
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Improve planning, building, and deploying a master data management (MDM) environment. Consider an evolutionary – rather than revolutionary – approach to MDM, and examine how to use MDM with business intelligence applications and an underlying data warehousing environment to improve decision making.
Posted: 18 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

SAP America, Inc.

Strategies for Profitable Growth: Sap for Professional Services
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: With customer demands rising and prices falling, service excellence alone is no longer enough to ensure future growth and profitability. Read this white paper to explore strategies, practices, and tools that can help your business achieve p...
Posted: 24 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2005

SAP America, Inc.

Technology Implications of IFRS adoption for U.S. Companies: More than a technical accounting change
sponsored by Deloitte
WHITE PAPER: In this publication, we explore the technology implications associated with IFRS conversion and discuss: Evaluating the potential technology impact; how companies can prepare technology and systems changes related to IFRS adoption; Major differences between U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and IFRS and much more.
Posted: 28 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Jul 2009

Deloitte

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

SAP America, Inc.

Leveraging Integration to Weather the Economic Storm
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights four primary ways to use integration to make your business better during a down economy. You'll discover how, with the right integration plan and supporting software in place, your company can increase efficiency, minimize expenses, and streamline and accelerate core processes.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

Information Builders