MenuCostPro is an easy-to-use program for calculating and analyzing menu prices. Ideal for owners of restaurants, bed and breakfasts and small hotels that want a fully functional cost management tool without spending a fortune. MenuCostPro has most of the functions of other software programs costing five times as much: ingredients...
Today's health plans are facing uncertainties that require them to re-examine current processes and seek new ways to maximize Return On Assets ROA from their existing technology investments. One of these uncertainties is the difficult economic climate, which is complicating health plan decisions regarding new technology purchases. Although such investments...
Shin Kong Life Insurance wanted to replace manual budgeting processes with a system that automates workflows to improve efficiency and remove antiquated DOS system and manual operations to minimize accounting errors and improve cost management. The challenge was to implement an application server that ensures high availability for the new...
Yahoo's third quarter earnings weren't the complete train wreck that was expected as the company met Wall Street estimates and announced a long-awaited layoff. The company plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce in the fourth quarter. Yahoo statement, reported net income of $54.3 million,...
Profitability and Cost Management PCM is at the core of enterprise performance management, as it represents the bottom line for every company. However, there are multiple reasons why PCM is of particular relevance, especially today. In most organizations, the indirect costs as part of overall costs are growing. And customer...
As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management PCM also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.
As the owner of one of the world's largest and most complex supply chain ecosystems, HP has extensive and ongoing experience with the critical issues surrounding supply chain cost visibility. Seeking faster and more closely targeted response to shifting marketplace demands, HP developed its own comprehensive strategy framework for managing...
Activity-Based Concepts ABC are very powerful techniques for creating valid economic cost models of organizations. By using the lens of ABC/M, organizations of all sizes and types can develop the valid economic models required for their executives and managers to make value-creating decisions and take actions to improve their productivity...
The traditional "overhead functions" of a business, once widely criticized by internal customers, are becoming today's shared services organizations. The initial consolidation of functions into a single service provider may have been designed simply to remove redundancies and save costs. However, a pleasant, unexpected consequence of shared services can be...
Internet Logger is especially designed to replace the default Win95 Dial-Up Dialog. It adds features like Logging, Multi-User Support, Cost Management, Time Limits, Ability to automatically run programs once connection is made and much, much more.
Encouraging military leaders to look at the business aspects of war is not always an easy task, but the U.S. Navy does it with an activity-based cost management (ABC/M) program that utilizes SAS Activity-Based Management software. Using ABC/M financial intelligence to break down costs by individual activities, leaders identify resource...
In today's economy, the driving force behind global competition can be summarized in a single equation: Value = (Quality + Technology + Service + Cycle Time) / Price. At the same time, the trend towards increasing outsourcing to China seems to focus entirely on the denominator - price. Although outsourcing...
Born from the desks of accountants, Activity-Based Costing ABC is rapidly transforming from a cost management tool to a strategic weapon, as organizations around the world are faced with seemingly unprecedented competitive pressures. The two principal drivers of these pressures are the tangible existence of a global marketplace and shareholder/...
From a strategic cost management perspective, the IT environment is very unique. There are several IT financial planning & charge-back mechanisms that can be used based on variable service levels options, technology refreshment life-cycles, allocation based and usage based cost models to manage cost. The Activity Based Costing ABC and...
Nsauditor Network Security Auditor is a network security software and vulnerability scanner that allows auditing and monitoring network computers for possible vulnerabilities, checking network for all potential methods that a hacker might use to attack it and create a report of potential problems that were found. Nsauditor is a complete...
Taking the Green Route to Printing EfficiencyIt is, of course, important that organisations choose the most environmentally efficient route for their commercial printing. Dependent on the size of the job, there are always occasions when it makes sense to outsource printing. If a company needs 1,000 sets of a 30-page...
Quad core, Chris?You have told us over and over that all you need is Google. You don't need a real OS, real apps, or any processing power to speak of. All you need is a browser, preferably Chrome. Why on Earth would you need a quad core...
What Salesforce did was pricing, not features...What I was talking about that most people missed wasn't the feature set. Of course that isn't new. Even Benioff pretty much admits he stole the idea from Facebook and Twitter.But at the Techcrunch Real Time Crunchup on Friday Benioff said Salesforce was working...
Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...
Organizations are feeling the pressure of economic uncertainty. They strive to closely align IT infrastructure to the business and also face challenges to reduce costs. While virtually every IT organization has multiple management solutions in place, the unfortunate truth is that most companies are struggling to develop a product mix...
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