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financial analysis and Reporting Using XBRL - Click-Through Demo (msi): This is a portable, interactive demo that closely simulates the UI and functionality of an actual solution. Installs to your Start menu and includes a presenter script. Scenario Summary: The creation, analysis, and verification of financial reports is time-consuming and error-prone. Data must be manually re-entered or copied and...; Tags: Financial Analysis, Financial, XBRL, Financial Accounting, Finance; Software downloads 2007-10-05
Chongqing Commercial Bank Improves Risk Management With financial analysis System: Institutions such as Chongqing Commercial Bank are facing increasing competitive pressures as the financial market in China continues to open up to international trade. The entry of numerous local and overseas financial institutions means Chongqing Commercial Bank has to work harder to differentiate its products and services and maintain profit...; Tags: Bank, Financial Analysis, Oracle Corp., Financial, Risk Management, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2007-06-01
SMART financial analysis (exe): Powerful tool for every financial professional or investor, offers great possibilities for evaluating business or portfolio performances. Common size financial statements. It is possible to present financial ratios and diagrams for up to 6 real or future time intervals or up to 6 individual companies.; Tags: Financial Analysis, Financial, Financial Accounting, Finance; Software downloads 2007-04-16
A weak of rants: The trouble with ranting about stuff I cant change is that its pointless - Microsofts Windows Genuine Advantage WGA program will, for example, continue to operate to Microsofts genuine advantage whether I froth at the mouth over it or not. There is, nevertheless, more than enough lying and stealing...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux; Blog posts 2006-10-02
MedLook (exe): Medical billing software for the small to medium sized medical office. Includes patient billing, CMS 1500 paper and electronic claims, patient scheduling, reporting, and financial analysis tools. Flexible, easy to use, customizable, and affordable. Great technical support as a separate purchase option.; Tags: Patient, Financial Analysis, Financial, Financial Accounting, Finance; Software downloads 2005-10-10

Peoplesoft (JDE) Financial Report Writer (zip): Universal Financial Report provides you an integrated financial analysis platform. To create any financial report or perform any online financial analysis you only need define data selections. Real-time comparison and consolidation will become an easy task. You can drill down to the most detail transactions through UFR and export the...; Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Financial Analysis, Financial, Universal Financial Report, Financial Accounting, Finance; Software downloads 2005-08-23
SAS Value Chain Analytics: At Last, Financial Transparency - The Evolution of financial analysis in the Retail/CPG Industry: The ongoing debate about the differences between activity-based costing and value chain analysis has diluted many important issues and prevented many companies from implementing these costing methods effectively. As this paper demonstrates, both activity-based costing and value chain analysis have their proper places in the retail/consumer packaged goods CPG industry....; Tags: Financial Analysis, Financial, Analytics, Value Chain, SAS Institute, Activity Based Costing, Value Chain Analysis, Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Channel Management, Finance, Marketing; White papers 2003-06-01
financial analysis for the Mortgage Industry: The client is one of the largest issuers of commercial mortgages in the world with a global loan-servicing portfolio of more than $ 100 billion. Maintaining a high quality loan portfolio is critical for the client to sustain its leadership position in the securitization market. The client was looking for...; Tags: Financial Analysis, Financial, Industry, Client, TransWorks Information Services, Mortgages, Leadership, Service Level Management, Finance, Capital Structures, Management, It Operations, It service Management; Case studies
PeopleSoft Case Study: Harris Bank: To support its rapid growth, Chicago-based Harris Bank wanted to completely revamp its legacy systems with a new management reporting system able to automate manual processes and improve business decision making, financial analysis, and profitability and risk management across the organization. Using PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management, Harris Bank now has...; Tags: Bank, PeopleSoft Inc., Financial Analysis, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance; Case studies
International Network Services Case Study: Large Aerospace Organization: Prior to initiating any projects around the identified business requirements, the client first needed to understand the business value of what it wanted to accomplish. In order to get funding for the projects, the client team had to present a cost saving analysis to senior management for approval to move...; Tags: Financial Analysis, Financial, Cost Savings, Aerospace, Financial Accounting, Finance; Case studies
financial analysis Solution Firm Realizes a 288 Percent ROI With Web Conferencing: ECI provides agricultural financial analysis and decisioning software to more than 1,000 lending institutions. Because it was costly for the company's salespeople to present in-person demonstrations to potential clients in geographically dispersed areas, the company was using the WebEx Web conferencing technology to give demonstrations, provide technical support, and offer...; Tags: Web, WebEx Communications Inc., Financial Analysis, Financial, ROI, Microsoft Corp., ECI, Web Conferencing, Internet; Case studies

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Windows 7 ship date? The crowd has spoken...: Last month, I kicked off the Windows 7 release date prediction pool with my analysis on why I think Windows 7 will be released in time for the holiday buying season in 2009, picking July 29, 2009 as my entry. At the same time, I invited readers to add their...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Web 2.0 and the end of advertising: The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...; Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA: Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown into a top goal. Finding additional innovation to amplify a SOA's value is therefore always welcome. ...; Tags: Document, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments: As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past month. Stonesoft is one of those companies. Mark Boltz, Senior Solutions Architect, and Greg Mead, Solutions Architect, both of Stonesoft,...; Tags: Network, Environment, Stonesoft, Stonegate Management Center, Security, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?: Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...; Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand: Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...; Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking: Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...; Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China: Both the inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China, according to IDC. The demand from the public, education and financial sectors increased the sales of the SDM Serial Dot Matrix printer, resulting in a 16% increase in Q4...; Tags: Inkjet Printer, Laser, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, NB; Blog posts 2008-05-15
What open source teaches publishers: I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...; Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15