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- Corporate Performance Management: What CEOs Want From Their CFOs Today
- The paper shows that CFOs are seeing good performance management as strategic support for the company, not just a part of the reporting routine. With the advent of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act, the definition of performance management is evolving again. A recent CFO Research Services survey found that 65 percent...
- Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Performance, CFO, Corporate Performance Management, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Basel II, Sarbanes-Oxley, Financial Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Financial Services, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Financial Planning
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Building a Foundation for Consolidation in a Compliance-Driven World
- New standards for corporate accountability and regulatory governance demand timely, accurate financial information. Your finance organization needs next-generation consolidation solutions to ensure compliance integrity and efficiency, faster closing, and streamlined financial statement preparation. This webcast will explain first-hand how others have improved the consolidation process to meet statutory and management...
- Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Financial, Consolidation, Compliance, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Finance
- Webcasts
- Selecting the Right Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Solution
- With stakeholders counting on your organization for an accurate view of future operating performance, the importance of your planning, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities is rapidly increasing. As a forward-thinking organization, how do you evaluate the merits of the available solutions? In this webcast, you will learn how to manage your...
- Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Budgeting, Forecasting, Sales Force Management, Financial Services, Sales
- Webcasts
- Consolidation and Corporate Reporting - Ensuring Quality and Control
- For most companies, consolidating financial information for internal and external reporting has become routine. But the evident shortcomings of manual intervention, maintenance of spreadsheet-based "shadow systems," questionable data, a lack of clear insight, and minimal accountability are causing many companies to carefully re-think their consolidation and reporting processes. This web...
- Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Consolidation
- Webcasts
- Planning for the Enterprise - Leveraging Best Practices to Elevate Performance and Ensure Future Compliance
- Planning provides a high-level picture of the business, an understanding of operational performance drivers, a sense for the impact of operational plans on financial results, and visibility into opportunities and risks. Enterprise planning helps financial executives shed light on one of their most critical blind spots - likely future performance....
- Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Financial, Performance, Compliance, Best Practice, Planning, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts
Additional Resources
- Details, details, details... more on the Microsoft flaws from today
- Thought I'd explore some of these bugs a bit more... first, Tipping Point released one of the vulnerabilities that Larry reported earlier, listed as a stack overflow issue in Microsoft Office Jet Database Engine. The stack overflow isn't what's interesting, what's interesting is the attack vector itself. To be fair to...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Database Engine, iDefense, Flaw, Exploitation, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, CSS, Microsoft Office, Security, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft to raise Windows Small Business Server price 80 percent
- When Microsoft starts shipping its Windows Small Business Server 2008 product later this year, its price will be substantially higher -- as much as 80 percent -- than the current version of Small Business Server. Surprisingly, some testers and at least one market researcher don't seem fazed...
- Tags: U.S., Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Product, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, CAL, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft appeals $1.4 billion EU fine
- On May 9, Microsoft asked a European court to overturn a $1.4 billion fine imposed by the European Commission for Microsoft's alleged failure to comply with an antitrust ruling against the company. The fine (originally tallied at about $1.3 billion) -- on top of the $1.2 billion...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Law, Operating Systems, Sales Force Management, Servers, Software, Business Operations, Sales, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Gmail can be used as "Spam Bazooka"
- Gmail can be used as "Spam Bazooka"Vital that this Gmail vulnerability is fixed,something of which I am certain [b]Google[/b] developers are fully aware. Thanks are due the [b]INSERT[/b] team for finding this hole (and for the responsible way in which they have reported it) and to Garett for publishing this...
- Tags: E-mail providers, Google Gmail, Spam Bazooka
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- A brief summary
- A brief summaryCompare with CFOIn many parts of the world, the CFO must be a chartered/certified accountant. In the US, this is now also (essentially) the case, due to SOx, and SOx is there as a result of accounting scandals.IT continues to disregard formal qualifications and licencing. Maybe the CIO...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Databases, IBM AIX, SOx, shareholder, AIX 5.3, Schwartz, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Comcast considering bandwidth caps, surcharges
- Today's Press of Atlantic City had a tiny sidebar on a troubling trend of bandwith caps and surcharges coming down the proverbial pipe from Comcast: Comcast Corp., the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, is considering setting an official limit on the amount of data that subscribers can download per...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Broadband Reports, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Tcp/Ip, Business Services, Internet, Networking, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Data Portability: The Microsoft angle
- MySpace unveiled on May 8 yet another industry initiative to allow users and developers to share their social-networking data -- a goal Microsoft also has in its sights. The first partners announcing their participation in MySpace's Data Portability initiative include Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket (also owned by News...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., MySpace, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- How much are your friends worth?
- News Corp. revealed yesterday that its new media subsidiary Fox Interactive Media (FIM) has missed this year's revenue target of $1bn by 10 per cent. FIM's portfolio is dominated by MySpace which accounts for the majority of its revenue, bringing into question once again the ability to monetize the huge...
- Tags: Advertisement, Google AdWords, News Corp., MySpace, Advertiser, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless
- News Corp. confirmed what had been reported for weeks: Fox Interactive revenue isn't going to hit its targets. The problem: Social networking is still very hard to monetize. Does inventory matter when you can't sell it? Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s operating chief, delivered his state of MySpace...
- Tags: Social Media, MySpace, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery (right). Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Microsoft going it alone? Not exactly
- Microsoft going it alone? Not exactlyI'm with you....Facebook - why on earth would MS do it? It just doesn't make any sense - hell look for new business models, don't just play dumb catch up!More over here - http://diversity.net.nz/ms-considering-a-facebook-purchase/2008/05/08/It's called flounderingWhen they can't go forward, they can't go back, and...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Microsoft Corp., revenue, VCSY, Vertical Computer Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Facebook is the new Google as exodus of top xooglers continues
- The latest high-level executive to leave Google for Facebook is Elliott Schrage, who headed the corporate communications team. When the top person responsible for Google's messaging across all products and for its international policy leaves this points to a serious change within the company. Facebook has been...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- IPReplicator (zip)
- IPReplicator enables organizations to quickly backup, protect, recover, distribute and share files - Globally. IPReplicator provides scalable, secure & automated file replication, disk-to-disk backup and Website publishing over TCP/IP based LANs, WANs and the Internet - even thru firewalls. Benefits include: continuous backup and quick recovery for Windows servers o...
- Tags: Network, LinkPro, IPReplicator, Backups, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-05-07
- SWFMenu (zip)
- SWFMenu is an application that helps you create impressive and professional Flash menu within 3 steps. The program offers Flash menu with auto-width, macro-style templates, tree-view templates that support external XML, sounds customization, dynamic template changing, HTML code viewing and copying, automatic menu updating, image customization, multiple language characters and...
- Tags: Menu, AntsSoft, SWFMenu, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-05-07
- How do I... Wrap text around an image in Scribus?
- For many businesses the creation of various printed materials is a must. Especially when outsourcing is not an option, you are going to have to create you own professional looking print media. And within your creation you are going to need to know some of the tricks of the trade....
- Tags: Trick, Creation, Jack Wallen, Scribus, Desktop Publishing, Outsourcing, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Download resources 2008-05-06
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