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Compliance with SOX and other new corporate reporting requirements is costly and challenging for many companies to implement, as the SOX act covers many different areas of business practices for internal controls and financial reporting. Get this whitepaper now and see the impact the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has on Information Technology.

The Marcus Buckingham Company, an ADP Company, commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying StandOut. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of StandOut on their organizations. To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this investment, Forrester interviewed several customers with experience using StandOut. StandOut is an integrated suite that pairs a technology platform with coaching to help organizations achieve their talent activation goals. Prior to using StandOut, the interviewed organizations did not have a structured program to improve and measure employee engagement and performance. Organizations used annual surveys and annual performance reviews, and some even encouraged weekly check-ins, but there was no guidance on how to complete these tasks, and the data t

Account-based marketing (ABM) has recently become a popular term among business-to-business (B2B) marketers. ABM refers to a marketing practice where efforts focus on a predetermined set of customers who meet certain criteria. A set of customers can be narrowly defined and specific—like CIOs, or decision makers at Fortune 100 companies. It also can be more fluid and based on a set of parameters—like marketing directors at financial institutions or technology companies. At its core, ABM combines long-standing marketing best practices with new technologies. It allows marketers to target the right prospects with personalized marketing messages and then automate their entire customer acquisition process

Account-based marketing (ABM) has recently become a popular term among business-to-business (B2B) marketers. ABM refers to a marketing practice where efforts focus on a predetermined set of customers who meet certain criteria. A set of customers can be narrowly defined and specific—like CIOs, or decision makers at Fortune 100 companies. It also can be more fluid and based on a set of parameters—like marketing directors at financial institutions or technology companies. At its core, ABM combines long-standing marketing best practices with new technologies. It allows marketers to target the right prospects with personalized marketing messages and then automate their entire customer acquisition process

Account-based marketing (ABM) has recently become a popular term among business-to-business (B2B) marketers. ABM refers to a marketing practice where efforts focus on a predetermined set of customers who meet certain criteria. A set of customers can be narrowly defined and specific—like CIOs, or decision makers at Fortune 100 companies. It also can be more fluid and based on a set of parameters—like marketing directors at financial institutions or technology companies. At its core, ABM combines long-standing marketing best practices with new technologies. It allows marketers to target the right prospects with personalized marketing messages and then automate their entire customer acquisition process

Identity theft is a major obstacle financial organizations must overcome to maximize the potential of online banking. USB strong authentication tokens with built-in smartcard technology combat identity theft and fraud, while helping banks meet regulatory compliance.

The following insights should be used as a resource for Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) as they lead or support their organisation through a cloud adoption journey. It is designed to provide an overview of cloud adoption drivers, costs, risks, and benefits, as well as raise important questions about staffing and technology decisions that are critical to success. It is also intended to help inform business cases, while surfacing measurements and indicators specific to cloud environments that impact the bottom line. The foundational guidance provided is a collection of insights captured and distilled from direct conversations and engagements between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and customer CFOs representing an extensive range of industries.

A Harvard Business Review Analytics Services White Paper Finance is constantly tested to keep pace in today’s business environment. To keep up, planning needs to become a continuous process that spans departmental boundaries and enables managers to collectively realign resources to respond to market changes. Organizations must streamline disparate sales and operational planning with traditional financial planning and analysis by using technology to connect people, data, and processes across the organization. Download this white paper to discover the three steps to moving towards finance-led integrated business planning recommended by the Harvard Business Review.

Finance is constantly tested to keep pace in today’s business environment. To keep up, planning needs to become a continuous process that spans departmental boundaries and enables managers to collectively realign resources to respond to market changes. Organizations must streamline disparate sales and operational planning with traditional financial planning and analysis by using technology to connect people, data, and processes across the organization.

For many years, large corporations have employed financial planning and analysis professionals to oversee budgeting, planning, forecasting and analysis. But the sea-change in technology, data and the competitive landscape is having a sustained impact on the FP&A function as it transforms from a predominately budgeting function to a forward-focussed strategic contributor. Now, as new cloud technology makes implementing modern FP&A quicker and cheaper, the function has become more accessible to medium-sized, or even smaller, organisations. There is a nascent but growing realisation that this corner of the finance function should be demanding more of an organisation’s attention, large or small, because having accurate and timely visibility, further into the future, could mean the difference between success and failure in today’s highly uncertain and volatile business environment.

For many years, large corporations have employed financial planning and analysis professionals to oversee budgeting, planning, forecasting and analysis. But the sea-change in technology, data and the competitive landscape is having a sustained impact on the FP&A function as it transforms from a predominately budgeting function to a forward-focussed strategic contributor. Now, as new cloud technology makes implementing modern FP&A quicker and cheaper, the function has become more accessible to medium-sized, or even smaller, organisations. There is a nascent but growing realisation that this corner of the finance function should be demanding more of an organisation’s attention, large or small, because having accurate and timely visibility, further into the future, could mean the difference between success and failure in today’s highly uncertain and volatile business environment.

For many years, large corporations have employed financial planning and analysis professionals to oversee budgeting, planning, forecasting and analysis. But the sea-change in technology, data and the competitive landscape is having a sustained impact on the FP&A function as it transforms from a predominately budgeting function to a forward-focussed strategic contributor. Now, as new cloud technology makes implementing modern FP&A quicker and cheaper, the function has become more accessible to medium-sized, or even smaller, organisations. There is a nascent but growing realisation that this corner of the finance function should be demanding more of an organisation’s attention, large or small, because having accurate and timely visibility, further into the future, could mean the difference between success and failure in today’s highly uncertain and volatile business environment.

Planning & Financial Management addresses this broad business issue. Planning & Financial Management is one component within the Aprimo Suite. The entire suite is based on our Enterprise Marketing Backbone that reduces total cost of ownership and connects your marketing technology with the rest of the enterprise.

In this whitepaper, we argue that traditional models for estimating HCIT costs are inadequate and overlook several business-critical variables. Our intention is not to provide a comprehensive TCO model, but to expose and examine the operational considerations that most TCO models fail to recognize or account for, and to equip executives to ask the right questions about the cost of delivering clinical and financial results stemming from technology procurement

"This live workshop will explore the technology and value behind the Smart Load Balancer. During this workshop, you'll: - Learn differences between Smart Load Balancers and Legacy Load Balancers. - Understand the value of Smart Load Balancers in traditional and modern use cases. - See a live demonstration of Avi Networks’ Smart Load Balancer in action. Leading enterprises across financial services, media, technology, oil & gas, and eCommerce have already made the switch to Avi Networks. To watch the workshop, fill out this form."

Learn about the challenges involved in combating first-party fraud and emerging best practices

This framework will help you decide which MSSP best meets the needs of your financial institution

For most financial institutions, it’s no longer a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’ they’ll be attacked.. If you’re like most financial institutions, you have controls that identify breaches, but need proper procedures that’ll enable you to recover from such an event. In this presentation at the CUNA Technology Council Conference, Tom Neclerio, BAE Systems’ VP of Cyber Consulting Services, discusses the current threats across the financial marketplace and explores strategies for implementing a successful incident response program as outlined in the FFIEC’s cyber resilience guidance.

One of the major challenges facing manufacturers' marketing teams in their efforts to make reseller co-op marketing more effective is at the very heart of what defines the century-old co-op marketing concept -- the coordination and execution of programs and financial transactions across two separate organizations. Today, when the manufacturer is working with hundreds if not thousands of different resellers, the scale and breadth of the effort can be overwhelming. However breakthroughs are not only possible today,but quite achievable by applying specialized and fully integrated technology solutions, bringing co-op marketing management into the modern age.

During this webcast, you will learn: Why the traditional financial close process is so challenging How to begin the conversation about process improvement How technology improves accuracy and saves time

"Three key market dynamics are currently driving the need for transformation in almost every industry: 1) The need to leverage digital technologies to drive the core business 2) Next generation online consumers and socially networked buyers 3) The financial crisis Companies are under tremendous pressure to bring digital technologies at the center of their business to remain competitive, innovate, create new revenue streams, and drive greater customer intimacy. As a result the need to leverage technology to significantly reduce the cost of going to market while driving growth has led to increasing interest in software-based business models. "

Three key market dynamics are currently driving the need for transformation in almost every industry: 1) The need to leverage digital technologies to drive the core business 2) Next generation online consumers and socially networked buyers 3) The financial crisis Companies are under tremendous pressure to bring digital technologies at the center of their business to remain competitive, innovate, create new revenue streams, and drive greater customer intimacy. As a result the need to leverage technology to significantly reduce the cost of going to market while driving growth has led to increasing interest in software-based business models.

Modern solutions like CA PPM continue to raise the bar above last-generation IT demand management tools, continuously providing new features to ease the burden of the PMO, the financial manager, the resource manager and the product manager. In the last few years, new vendors looking to exploit the large and increasingly influential project and portfolio management (PPM) market have developed modules that “snap” into their SaaS platforms. These vendors claim their tools are easy to install, easy to manage and save customers money. It sounds too good to be true. And for most organizations, it is. Carefully consider whether you need a PPM solution that is only capable of providing low-level functionality for the project manager, or if your organization could benefit from PPM technology that provides 360-degree optics across your organization, delivers actionable business intelligence and enables extensive modeling and forecasting capabilities to make data-driven business decisions.

Although typically thought of as an artifact of legacy computing, batch processes remain vital to today’s real-time enterprises. Behind the real time systems that power the real time enterprise, such as customer order fulfillment, account management, supply chain scheduling and optimization, or financial trading systems, are regularly-updated back office business systems. Over the years, batch technology has evolved from script-based automation to rules or policy-driven workload automation.

Financial services organizations have a unique relationship with technology: electronic data and transactions are the core of this industry. Financial services firms remain vigilant because they are constantly under attack. Hackers that gain access to customer accounts or financial data can profit either by using it themselves or by selling it to other criminal organizations. - There are many differences between perception and reality when it comes to security in this industry. For example, its emphasis on fraud prevention creates the perception that financial services is highly evolved in terms of its security readiness. However, this study finds that financial services firms’ security is on a par with the security of firms in other industries. - Regulations may lead to change and investments, but they also take time to take effect. Organizations should not wait for such requirements before they make improvements. Neither should they assume that compliance gives them full protection. Regulations cannot cover every aspect in such a fast-paced environment.