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IDBI Bank Improves Profitability With Integrated Management Accounting System

IDBI Bank was restructured into several customer-focused business units to streamline processes and improve customer service. Following the restructure, the bank needed to develop a system to better assess the performance of each business unit and take corrective action if they were not delivering adequate profit. IDBI Bank engaged Oracle...

Tags: Bank, Accounting, Oracle Corp., Business Unit, Profitability, Accounting System, IDBI Bank, Financial Services, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2009-07-01

Accurate Costing Is Key to Profitability

Companies worldwide are confronting a period of extreme volatility in commodity and other prices as well as exchange rates. This has intensified the challenge of dealing with changing customer requirements, a shifting competitive landscape and business cycle issues. Sustaining profitability in this environment is difficult for even the best-run companies.

Tags: Profitability, SAP AG, Free Trade, Investment, Finance

White papers 2009-06-19

Three Steps to Increasing Profit in the Economic Downturn With Help From a Warehouse Management System

Businesses across many industries are focused on maintaining and increasing profitability in times of modest revenue. The typical response is to stop all process improvement and technology projects and concede that "one just can't afford it now." This line of thinking is a trap. The best time to focus on...

Tags: Warehouse Management System, HighJump Software Inc., Performance, Profitability, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Performance Management, Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2009-01-14

The Need for Profitability and Cost Management

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...

Tags: Business Process, Cost Management, Profitability, Managerial Accounting, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations

White papers 2008-09-01

The Need for Profitability & Cost Management

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.

Tags: Cost Management, Profitability, Managerial Accounting, Finance

White papers 2008-09-01

Structured Neural Network Techniques for Modeling Loyalty and Profitability

Customer satisfaction and customer loyalty are related to key measures of financial performance for firms. The ability to find key drivers for predicting loyalty and profitability is an important step in developing marketing strategies that lead to high quality, long-term relationship with customers. Traditional techniques for modeling the network of...

Tags: Technique, Neural Network, Profitability, Modeling, Research & Development, Productivity, Business Operations

White papers 2005-03-09

5 Keys to Improving Imaging Center Profitability

Join this Webcast to hear about five key business strategies that can help Diagnostic Imaging Centers improve profitability despite increasing competition and high operating costs: Improving referral opportunities, developing, and continue to refine a plan for growth, improving resource utilization, and using financing to the advantage.

Tags: Siemens AG, Imaging, Profitability, Document Management, Investment, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Webcasts

Top Down Vs. Bottom Up

Financial service companies are currently implementing or planning to implement the last major improvement to management reporting. This change will significantly upgrade the quality and quantity of information available to support the professional management of the business. They are moving from a top down design to a bottom up design...

Tags: Line Of Business, SAS Institute, Profitability

White papers

Profiting From Promotions Analysis

In this webcast the presenter explains how to use weekly Electronic Point Of Sale EPOS data from retailer extranets to improve the sales effectiveness and profitability of the Promotional Programmes. Other manufacturers have already used the approach to obtain on-going gains of over 1 million Euros per annum. With the...

Tags: SAS Institute, Profitability, Manufacturer, Analysis, Sales Strategy, Manufacturing, Sales

Webcasts

Additional Resources

A Tale of Two Software Worlds: Old ERP vs. SaaS

To Saas or notVery nice post! I agree with your points about on-premise vendors needing to take the big step, and that they cannot remain blind, if only for the well-being of their companies! I think it?s also important to consider that switching over to SaaS might be one of...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Apple ranks 3rd in smartphones, nipping at RIMs heels

What's more surprising......is Apple failed to dislodge RIM in the quarter the 3GS was launched whilst RIM launched nothing new of note (a new Curve and... err... hmm).Why don't we see what happens over the year and then form an opinion?RE: Apple ranks 3rd in smartphones, nipping at RIMs heelsI...

Tags: Smart phones, Sales strategy, Handhelds, Cellular phones, smart phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Twitter Lists will change the social dynamic

Agree with Mitch's assessment that Twitter Lists will change Social DynamicMitch does a great job of showing why a class system could emerge and how to use lists to level the playing field by unfollowing those who don't follow back but still follow them through lists. If this gains...

Tags: Twitter Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Hearings on climate, cap'n'trade, energy

well dont expect any change economy will always prevail the rest ....Maybe one day when it will be too late to turn around ... people will understand once again too late.. They will have a vibrant economy and a dead sentence quite ironic.. Im full of...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Businesses, tax, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted

First thoughts"the incumbents fought it tooth and nail"Same thing happened in the last 4 industrial revolutions!I'm broadly in favour of your improvements ... with a few caveats ... and will look at the 2 papers you plugged, sorry referenced ;-)"Users should be concerned that the Internet services they pay for...

Tags: Fiber optics, Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Solution

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Enterprise IT's trust level of Google will increase

That pie will increasingly favor Google. Though Google DOES need to support something more like what Amazon does, so you can just rent a Linux box in the cloud that grows and shrinks.Great potential here for Google; p.s. - dont make Yahoo's mistakesThere is great potential for Google from...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Enterprise IT, Google AppEngine, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Financial Viability for Projects 0.1.20 (Windows)

Financial Viability of Projects is used to analyze cash flow for investment projects, calculate net present value, internal rate of return, profitability index, uniform net benefit, IRR incremental and use the best evaluation criterion to select the best projects.

Tags: Project, Financial, Microsoft Windows, ACesar, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance

Software downloads 2009-10-26

Wither Silicon Valley? IT will be driven by emerging markets

WTF does "dead-cat" mean?Dear ZDnet,Please stop trying to make-up terms like "dead-cat" or "dead-finger". Nobody cares.SheeshWell good morning Mr. Happiness and feel good vibe. I wish I could take credit for dead cat bounce but the term has been around---oh let's say---FOREVERhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_bounceRE: Wither Silicon Valley? IT will be driven by...

Tags: Strategy, Communities, U.S.A., Wither Silicon Valley, pure research, information technology, emerging market

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

AMD posts another quarterly loss

If AMD can't produce...a CPU that will compare with Intel in performance they may not be around for a lot longer. They are so completely outclassed by Intel i7 that they aren't even in the ball park. It is hard to believe they can't come up with something ant closer.I...

Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, quarterly loss, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., CPU

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

CTIA: Android and Apps everywhere

Locked UpWe'll only see real growth the market liberalises, and real competition is given a chance -- when I can buy an iPhone/aPhone outright and use it only any network.@leegeeUnfortunately, without those kinds of lockdowns and gaurantees of profitability for the producers & telecoms, there is no incentive for a...

Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, CTIA

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Data governance and IBM System z - Your key to business optimization

The pressure's on and it's staying on. How well you manage your data and deliver it can make the difference between business success or failure. The usage, sharing and processing of electronic data continues to rapidly increase, yet many corporations still complain about being data rich but information poor....

Tags: Webcast, Optimization, IBM Corp., Data Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

Webcasts 2009-09-29