PMI Group wanted to ensure that PMI Group's enterprise systems are reliable and easily accessible to its globally dispersed workforce and maintain high employee satisfaction, evident in the company's listing as one of the "Best Places to Work in the Bay Area". The challenge was to minimize IT costs and...
Earnouts are those interesting residual matters that pop up in some acquisitions. An earnout exists to provide a transition period between some of the acquired firm’s owners and the new owner/management team. Earnouts are certainly valuable for an acquirer when there are key persons in the acquired organization who can...
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...
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...
Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...
The Corix Group of Companies specializes in providing products and utility solutions for water, wastewater and sustainable energy sectors. Corix has grown in part via acquisitions which resulted in a patchwork of disparate IT systems that was proving costly to maintain. The company was looking for an IT solution that...
In this white paper, we discuss how corporate finance centers can overcome the barriers to a fast, high-quality close. By converging previously disparate disciplines of business intelligence; governance, risk, and compliance; and enterprise performance management, companies can get trusted data into the hands of key stakeholders in a timely...
Indusa Infotech Services Pvt. Ltd's database archive and purge software, ArchivePlus, can significantly improve the efficiency and availability of live production databases. It enables unrestricted access to years of data and multiple archive definitions - while reducing costs and enhancing performance. Based on SQL Server 2008 data management software, ArchivePlus...
Cubus wanted to build on success of Cubis' customizable, Excel-based planning tool, ABC for OLAP, with a solution that consolidates project management, financial management, and strategy management and enable clients to replace disconnected standalone Excel, Word, and PowerPoint-based planning tools with a single application. The challenge was to integrate structured...
China Mobile Henan wanted to eliminate potential system risks to improve the availability of Oracle databases and Oracle E-Business Suite applications and improve the performance of the Oracle enterprise resource planning system. The challenge was to increase the efficiency of monthly and yearly accounting processes. China Mobile Henan engaged Oracle...
The role and use of information technology solutions will be critical to achieving the goals of effective investing and execution, accountability of funds and the transparency and measurement of performance. The depth and breadth of programs require a large array of technologies from applications to execute business and operational processes,...
To determine the potential of Solid-State Drives SSDs to replace Hard Disk Drives HDDs in the enterprise, Intel IT conducted a Proof of Concept PoC that included performance tests, measurement of power consumption, and Total-Cost-of-Ownership TCO analysis. It found that using SSDs to replace data HDDs in disk arrays could...
Nortel today announced that it intends to reduce its workforce by an additional 3,200 positions worldwide over the next several months, almost doubling the total number of laid off employees after 1,800 workers were cut earlier this year.r"There is nothing more difficult than notifying employees, and Nortel is extremely conscious...
Quiznos was experiencing rapid growth of its business. And it needed its planning and financial systems and process to keep pace. It needed to Standardize, integrate, consolidate, and simplify the financial reporting and planning process across all business units. It deployed Business Intelligence BI solution that enables staff to view...
Asciano was formed in 2007 following a merger between rail freight services provider Pacific National and ports and stevedoring operator Patrick. With the merger came the need to standardize on one financial management system that could be utilized by its 8,000 staff Australiawide. To ensure application availability and scalability, the...
The principles underlying TVI are as old as control theory. Accountants audit a company by aligning money, information, and the flow of goods—or core business processes, in more modern terms. It begins to go wrong when information is lacking or when money flows do not align anymore to the core...
As enterprises look to increase business efficiency, IT managers are increasingly asked to maximize network ROI and align the infrastructure with business processes and goals. However, to effectively accomplish this, IT managers need to understand the traffic and applications. Without visibility, it is virtually impossible to optimize the...
Manage Invest is a professional level investment selection, portfolio management and performance evaluation solution. It enables you to manage all of your investments (financial, physical, derivative and fixed income) in one place. Manage Invest provides you with complete control and visibility of all of your investments, income and expenses. You...
The Department of Treasury and Finance provides policy advice to the Victorian Government on economic, financial and resource management, supporting the delivery of its financially responsible and socially progressive policy platform. The Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance DTF sought to obtain an accurate picture of end-to-end system performance to...
IBM and Oracle have been working together for more than a decade to optimize Oracle Database on the IBM POWER architecture running the AIX operating system. Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters Oracle RAC 10g are well proven to take advantage of IBM's POWER6 architecture and high I/O...
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