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New Plan Excel Realty Trust Integrates Enterprise Content Management Initiatives and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Given its size, New Plan faced a number of challenges related to efficiently managing business content, and exchanging information and documentation with internal and external audiences. New Plan's accounts payable function, for example, relied on manual procedures that required regional offices and corporate headquarters to process invoices. In addition, the...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Accounts Payable, Oracle Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Microsoft Excel, Enterprise Content Management, New Plan, Content Management, Web Technology, Sarbanes-Oxley, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance; Case studies 2007-10-31
50+ Ways to Improve Your Accounts Payable: Are 19th-century procedures making company inefficient? An accounts payable team is at the core of a corporate accounting department, and if it isn't functioning properly then the monthly accounts cannot be prepared promptly, the company will not, at any point in time, know of its total liabilities, budget holders spend...; Tags: Accounting, Accounts Payable, Payment, SAS Institute, Accounts Payable Team, Operational Accounting, Finance; Webcasts 2007-10-04
Imaging & Workflow Automation: The emphasis on corporate cost containment and productivity enhancement during the past decade has prompted accounts payable professionals to seek new ways to automate traditionally paper-based, labor intensive processes. The need to document and secure the intrinsic risks associated with the payment process within the protocols set forth by the...; Tags: Accounts Payable, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Imaging, EMC Corp., Automation, PayStream, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Document Management, Operational Accounting, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting; White papers 2006-03-06
Accounts Payable: Tracking Obligations to Suppliers, Controlling Cash Flow, and Making Sound Cash Management Decisions Is Now Easier Than Ever: You need to make sound cash management decisions about which bills to pay and when to pay them. You need to know who gives the best discounts and which vendors you buy from most often. OPEN SYSTEMS Accounting Software OSAS Accounts Payable application helps you track your obligations to suppliers...; Tags: Management Decision, Accounts Payable, Supplier, Printing, Document Management, Channel Management, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing; White papers 2005-08-15
inView AP - Beyond In-Boxes and Out-Boxes: How Automation Is Changing the AP Landscape: Today's account payables professionals spend much of their day handling paper, resolving vendor disputes, attempting to keep up with phone calls and other onerous processes in the effort to move invoices from the "in" box to the "out" box. Even though elements of automation have been introduced in the last...; Tags: Accounts Payable, Associated Press, Payables, Automation, Operational Accounting, Finance; White papers 2005-08-05

Accounting for Success With Content Management: Save Time and Money With Integrated Processes for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable: Accounting has its own forms of "content" (including invoices, bills, payrolls, and budgets) and its own fully regulated management processes - for recording and summarizing business/financial transactions as well as analyzing, verifying, and reporting results. This white paper looks at how an integrated content management solution can improve these processes...; Tags: Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, EMC Corp., Content Management, Web Technology, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance; White papers 2005-02-10
HP Case Study: Procter & Gamble: Procter & Gamble (P&G) is a world-class consumer packaged goods company that manufactures and markets consumer products for everyday use. P&G was looking to identify a capable partner to help improve service levels, reduce cost of operations, and provide a rewarding work environment for transitioned employees. P&G chose to transition...; Tags: Accounts Payable, Hewlett-Packard Co., Procter & Gamble Co., Operational Accounting, Finance; Case studies
Accounts Payable at the Speed of Light: Every business day, Anonymous Conglomerate's accounts-payable team - serving subsidiaries Nameless Petrochemical NPC and American Convenience Stores ACS - faces a classic business problem: they must process and pay, in a timely manner, almost 14,000 invoices. In 1997 NPC and ACS implemented the Accounts Payable Workflow APW, a solution built...; Tags: Accounts Payable, Payables, Worktiviti Workflow Solution, Operational Accounting, Finance; Case studies
The Dirty Little Secret of Accounts Payable Is...: The "Dirty Little Secret" of Accounts Payable is ... it costs a lot to pay a bill. According to a Hackett Benchmark Study, world-class invoice processing is over $10 less per invoice compared to companies not following best practices - such as eliminating paper-based processes. At 10,000 invoices per month,...; Tags: Accounts Payable, Invoice, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance; Webcasts
Invoices Flow Through Accounts Payable at Marathon Oil Company: The accounts payable AP groups at Marathon process over 3 million invoices a year. Over 50% of the invoices are handled via EDI Electronic Data Interchange. The remaining 1.5 million paper invoices are candidates for electronic document imaging. For years, the invoice process was both very traditional and time consuming....; Tags: Accounts Payable, Invoice, EDI, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance; Case studies
Streamline Purchase-to-Pay for SAP: EMC's end-to-end accounts payable solution lets a company automatically consolidate it's purchase-to-pay information and then manage it inside SAP. The listener will hear how one leading food industry container manufacturer successfully responded to increasing volumes of invoices to achieve faster processing, higher employee productivity, and cost savings.; Tags: Accounts Payable, Streamline, SAP AG, EMC Corp., Storage, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Finance; Webcasts
Marketing Agency Boosts Productivity 17 Percent With Workflow-Based Document Solution: Advantage Sales and Marketing wanted to improve the speed and accuracy of its accounts payable process. The company implemented software products provided by Microsoft Gold Certified Partner KnowledgeLake, based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Now, invoices are handled 40 percent faster, productivity in accounts payable is up 17...; Tags: Marketing, Accounts Payable, Microsoft Corp., Workflow, Operational Accounting, Finance; Case studies
Lexmark Technology Saves Company $100,000+ Annually, Streamlines Accounts Payable Process: Microfilm is a photographic process that stores images of paper documents, such as magazines, newspapers, invoices and forms on reels of high-contrast film usually 16mm or 35mm wide. But it's what comes before that, and after that, which makes it so complicated and clumsy. But, using its own multifunction and...; Tags: Accounts Payable, Lexmark International Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance; Case studies

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Late breaking news: Microsoft investigates reports of Office Word 2002 SP 3 exploited in the wild: From Bill Sisk, security response communications manager for Microsoft: Microsoft Security Advisory (953635) Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution Published: July 8, 2008 Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Microsoft Office Word 2002 Service Pack 3....; Tags: Attacker, Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Security, Office Suites, Software, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-08
EMC taps ex Microsofter Maritz to fend off Microsoft Hyper-V: It takes one to know one. At least that's what EMC hopes as it appoints former Microsofter Paul Maritz to head up its lucrative VMWare unit, not coincidentally on the same day that Microsoft formally released its much anticipated Hyper-V to market. The departure of longtime...; Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Microsoft addresses 9 security vulnerabilities with 4 "Important" bulletins: Microsoft announced 4 "Important" security bulletins today that cover 9 separate vulnerabilities. Of note were vulnerabilities reported in Windows DNS server and client, and within SQL Server. Briefly, the vulnerabilities involve: Cache poisoning and insufficient socket entropy flaws in Microsoft DNS Server A remote...; Tags: Attacker, Microsoft SQL Server, Vulnerability, Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Outlook, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-08
U.K's most spammed person receives 44,000 spam emails daily: When you get so much spam that your anti-spam provider decides to use you in a marketing campaign, your spam problem turns into an asset for the community, and researchers running honeypots can only envy you for the sample of spam emails you receive on a daily basis. According to...; Tags: Orange PCS, Internet Service Provider, U.K, Spam Email, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-08
SIMORE dual SIM converter smartchip: Ever wanted to put two SIM cards into your GSM/3G phone so you can have two phone numbers or separate voice and data accounts? Now you can. Read the original article and watch a video here: FrankenBerry, It's Alive! by Jason Perlow; Tags: SIM Card, Phone, Flash Memory, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow, simore, sim, mobile, 3g, gsm; Image galleries 2008-07-07
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Twitter as a PayPal killer? Umm, not so fast: * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest Editorial by Dan Glass A recent blog proclaiming that Twitter could soon become a rival to PayPal made me shudder in fear. The blog author postulated that Twitter could offer a method to...; Tags: Payment, PayPal, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Security, Finance, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-07