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whitepaper Cliffs Natural Resources Cuts Month-End Close From Seven Days to Four Days, Standardizes Reporting2009-09-01 Oracle
  Cliffs Natural Resources wanted to replace spreadsheet based reporting, which was costly and prone to late delivery and shorten month-end reporting time to ensure the Asia Pacific management team has time to review consolidated regional results before submission to the U.S. head office. The challenge was to extend and improve management reporting across all areas of the business at individual and consolidated group level. Cliffs Natural Resources engaged Oracle Certified Partner M-Power Solutions to implement Oracle's Hyperion solutions to aid the company in defining requirements; designing, building, testing, and deploying the solution; and deployment project management and Contributed to a shortening of the month-end cycle from seven days to four days, by using Hyperion, not spreadsheets, to derive monthly management and statutory results.

Tags: Business Functions		   
whitepaper Google Apps 2nd Wind ROI Case Study2009-09-01 Google
  Nucleus Research conducted an ROI study with 2nd Wind Exercise and found that this 300-user specialty retail company achieved an ROI of 837% and a one-month payback. 2nd Wind replaced its existing Microsoft Exchange environment with Google Apps,reducing IT costs while improving cross-company communication and collaboration.

Tags: Business Functions, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Securing Online Banking on an Unprecedented Scale2009-09-01 RSA Security
  This large commercial bank in Asia serves over 12 million customers. The challenge was to offer compelling eBanking services with reliable security measures to protect transactions and reassure customers and to integrate new solution smoothly with bank's existing platform to minimize downtime and service disruption. Bank deployed RSA SecurID hardware tokens distributed to eBanking customers with training in their use and benefits and RSA Authentication Manager deployed in just six weeks to manage access rights.

Tags: Security Administration, Financial Services		   
whitepaper C&S Migrates to a Common Scalable Platform, Driving Efficiency and Reliability While Improving Controls2009-09-01 Oracle
  C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene wanted to control user access to critical data and monitor financial processes without manual intervention and maintain data continuity across multiple systems. The challenge was to eliminate requisite manual coding in maintaining critical mainframe systems and increase employee productivity across the organization to execute operations more efficiently. C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene reviewed the objectives and strategies of the finance; payroll; trade management; and, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) processes and assessed process challenges and identified and prioritized capabilities required to address the challenges.

Tags: Business Functions		   
whitepaper SBI Sumishin Net Bank: A Full-Banking Service, Internet-Only Bank2009-08-31 IBM
  Headquartered in Tokyo, SBI Sumishin Net Bank is an "Internet-only" bank established as a joint venture between SBI Holdings and Sumitomo Trust & Banking. In Japan, competition in the Internet banking business has been intensifying. In this environment, SBI Sumishin Net Bank, Ltd. aimed to bring to market a broad product lineup in a shorter period than other financial institutions. Development of a totally new Internet banking platform was characterized by the use of an accounting system application package and a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework.

Tags: Financial Services, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper 5 Ways to Reduce IT Audit Tax2009-08-26 Lumension
  Taxes are certainly not fun, but there is something worse: an audit. Combine the two in a risk and compliance scenario and you have the onerous "audit tax," a figurative term used to describe the expenses a company incurs when deploying resources and manpower to satisfy the burgeoning set of internal and external compliance and audit mandates. The good news is that there are ways to reduce the audit tax burden. This whitepaper outlines five methods organizations should consider to streamline their compliance efforts and thereby reduce their audit tax.

Tags: Financial Services, Data Tools, Business Functions, Data Tools		   
whitepaper Un-risky Business - The role of Location Intelligence in Insurance Risk Management2009-08-24 Pitney Bowes
  Location has long been a critical element to the insurance industry. Understanding where a property is located, in relation to its risk elements, is a core factor affecting an insurance carrier's loss exposure and profitability. The importance of understanding 'where' in relation to a multitude of risk elements has become an even more critical process. Read this whitepaper to find out why location information becomes the foundation of knowledge that is nothing less than the difference between profitability and disastrous loss.

Tags: Financial Services, Financial Services		   
whitepaper Integrating the Cisco Unified Presence Server in Your Unified Communications Network2009-08-06 Global Knowledge
  Have you ever sat down and tried to count the times that you've called other people, just to get a busy tone? Or, maybe you've tried to send them an Instant Message just to sit there and wait forever for a response and didn't know why? In this white paper, we will discuss an option that will allow our users to see availability status information of other users in the network via the Cisco Unified Presence Solution (CUPS) version 7.0.

Tags: Network Technologies, Intrusion - Tampering, Financial Services, Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper Greven City Council Modernizes Administration and Improves Performance by Up to 70%2009-08-01 Oracle
  Greven City Council operates six servers simultaneously to meet the database needs of approximately 70 different specialist processes within the city's local administration. The challenge was to speed up slow, computer-intensive operations, such as the monthly payroll run, and enable parallel running of processes and improve the daily backup, which prevented processing or accessing online applications after 10 p.m. Greven City Council worked with Oracle Consulting to minimize the hardware the city council needed by implementing Oracle Database 11g with Real Application Clusters and achieved a marked improvement in performance across all departments as a result of facilitating the running of parallel processes, including accounting processes.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Pearson Gains Real-Time Enterprise Performance Insight With Standardized Reporting and Planning2009-08-01 Oracle
  Pearson wanted to cut monthly close times by standardizing and consolidating financial reporting for three major global businesses and reduce software licensing and management costs. The challenge was to build transparent, consistent, agile financial management and planning infrastructure to gain real-time enterprise performance visibility and increase competitive advantage and ensure compliance to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) requirements. Pearson upgraded from multiple instances and versions of Oracle's Hyperion Enterprise to a single global instance of Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management and rolled out Hyperion Financial Management to 300 reporting units in 60 global locations using 80 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environments.

Tags: Financial Services, Business Functions