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- Managed Application Delivery - Is Thin Client the Best Answer?
- Are you considering thin clients and wondering if they are right for you? Learn how new models of application delivery are simplifying corporate computing environments and helping companies deal more effectively with their IT security, management, and budgeting needs. Thin clients and server-based computing are only...
- Tags: Budgeting, Thin Client, Intel Corp., Thin Clients, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-04-14
- Banking on Stronger, More Flexible Performance Management Capabilities
- Washington Trust Bank sought to replace a home-grown budgeting application with a system that would support budgeting and forecasting at a transaction level. The bank also hoped to move its performance management processes, which ran on four disparate applications, into one common system. Through a formal selection process, Washington Trust's...
- Tags: Performance, Budgeting, Banking, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Tactical Issues and Best Practices
- Ask most CFOs and finance directors to describe an ideal forecasting and budgeting process, and they'll likely portray it as part of an overall integrated performance management framework, ultimately driven by value-based measures. At the same time, however, they'll admit that this vision involves a significant transformation to their current...
- Tags: Budgeting, Best Practice, Forecasting, News, Financial Services, Performance Management, Sales Force Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sales
- White papers
- Cognos Planning Delivers a More Participative Approach to Planning With Increased Potential for Future Forecasting and "What if" Analysis at Speciality Retail Group
- Speciality Retail Group (SRG) is a men's apparel retailer operating some 80 stores across the UK and Ireland with head offices and distribution centre based at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The SRG finance team decided to take a completely fresh look at budgeting in the knowledge that spreadsheets are not the best...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Budgeting, Analysis, Forecasting, Cognos Planning, Speciality Retail Group, Productivity, Financial Services
- Case studies
- 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
- Informatica Helps Thames Water Maintain Safe Water Supply With Wiser Budgeting
- Thames Water, the utility company serving the region, is faced with a continual demand for upgrading, replacement and refurbishment of its assets. It is estimated that the asset value alone of the company is in the region of £ 20 billion, yet it can only spend £400 million each year...
- Tags: Asset, Informatica, Budgeting, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Download the Hyperion Mid-Enterprise Planning eBook
- Are your company's forecasts accurate? Do you consistently meet stakeholder expectations? Are you confident about when and where you'll add more resources to support your growing business? Can you rapidly respond to changes in your business and market? Have you reduced your company's reliance...
- Tags: small and medium enterprise, workforce, spreadsheet, Oracle Corp., Hyperion Solutions Corp., e-book, custom application, benefit, best practice, budgeting, compensation
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- Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Introducing Immedient's Collaborative Budgeting Solution
- Is the budgeting process cumbersome and time-consuming in your organization? Do multiple iterations, revisions and a lengthy approval process further complicate things? In this webcast, you will learn how the Collaborative Budgeting solution from Immedient, built on Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and integrated with SourceCode's K2.Net workflow engine, provides...
- Tags: Webcast, Budgeting, Industry Standard, Microsoft Corp., Financial Services
- Webcasts
- Microsoft Dynamics GP Demo
- Learn how Microsoft Dynamics GP Financial Management Software can help you improve purchasing, budgeting, invoicing, forecasting, and inventory management so you can improve the productivity and profitability of your business.
- Tags: software, Microsoft Corp., Inventory Management, forecasting, budgeting, Microsoft Dynamics
- Presentations
- The Impact of the newly emerging field of Financial Data Quality Management (FDQM) on Group Reporting and Performance Management Processes
- Data quality management could be regarded as the less glamorous end of the Reporting Supply Chain (RSC). After all, most of the attention and interest are lavished on the latest portal, reporting tool or dashboard. Yet, mismanagement or neglect of underlying balance information or interfaces can place the...
- Tags: analytics, budgeting, dashboard, data quality, financial, financial reporting, forecasting, Hyperion Solutions Corp., performance, performance management, portal, reporting tool
- White papers
- Incorporate Balanced Scorecards Into the Budgeting Process
- Balanced scorecards can improve the budgeting process by helping the company focus on strategic goals, not just on past financial performance. Examine the customer, employee, process, and financial perspectives, and determine the key performance indicators that will measure the progress. The balanced scorecard method will help ensure that the budgeted...
- Tags: Financial, Budgeting, Balanced Scorecard, Marketing, Marketing Research
- Webcasts
- Understand Cost Behavior for Effective Budgeting
- To create an accurate budget, one needs to understand the way that costs behave in the company. Identifying the variable, fixed, and step costs will make the budgeting activities more effective and help in the daily management decisions.
- Tags: Budgeting, Financial Services
- Webcasts
- Federal Wildland Fire Management Agencies Improve Effectiveness of Strategic Budgeting
- The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wanted to replace multiple individual systems with one system that was consistent among all federal wildland fire fighting agencies, so that it could produce more effective budgets for fire management and support a common interagency process for fire management planning and budgeting. IBM...
- Tags: Budgeting, Agency, Financial Services
- Case studies
- Better Budgeting, Beyond Budgeting, Advanced Budgeting
- This webcast explains how to design and implement a state of the art "Advanced Budgeting" system. Advanced budgeting is an innovative approach developed to effectively redesign the organization's corporate planning and budgeting processes. Advanced budgeting systems use relative targets instead of fixed budgets, extend the focus of non-financial and market...
- Tags: Budgeting, Financial Services
- Webcasts
- Making the President's Management Agenda Stick: What Are the Real Implications of Performance-Based Budgeting? (Part 1)
- This is the first of a three-part series focusing on the President's Management Agenda-specifically, initiative five-budget & performance integration in the federal government. This webcast explains the new requirements for leadership in the 21st century-and how they relate to implementing performance-based budgeting in the federal government. It explains about a...
- Tags: Performance, Budgeting, Performance Management, Federal Government, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Government
- Webcasts
- Oxiteno Case: Budgeting and the BSC
- The Balanced Scorecard methodology considers the integration between Budgeting and the BSC as the major pillar in the management principles of a strategy focused organization: making strategy a continuous process. With priorities clearly defined in the BSC, resources must be allocated according to the most strategic initiatives. The information provided...
- Tags: Budgeting, Balanced Scorecard Methodology, Balanced Scorecard, Marketing, Marketing Research
- Case studies
- Using FRx Forecaster: An Advanced Look - Level 300
- Budgeting is always a challenge, but best practices can be learned. This webcast is a great place to start. FRx Forecaster Professional, a precision budgeting and planning solution, is the new benchmark in financial management. Join us for this 60-minute webcast as we take a closer look at budgeting for...
- Tags: Webcast, Budgeting, Financial Services, Financial Management, Financial Planning, Finance
- Webcasts
- Beyond Budgeting and the Balanced Scorecard
- The future of Budgeting is a topic receiving significant attention. Many believe it to be a process that has outlived its usefulness. Addressing this budgeting issue cannot be done in isolation. It is inextricably linked to the future of other tools, such as the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and Activity-Based Costing....
- Tags: Budgeting, Balanced Scorecard, Financial Services, Marketing, Marketing Research
- Webcasts
- Environmental Protection Agency Measures Program Results With Performance-Based Budgeting
- As one of the agency's largest program offices, ORD's annual exercise of compiling spreadsheets and justification documents was time consuming and imprecise. To comply with federal directives as well as its own internal objectives, the office wanted the ability to set performance goals, track them, link them to funding, and...
- Tags: Performance, Budgeting, CGI Group Inc., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office, Performance Management, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies
- Improving the Budgeting Process With Strategic Resource Planning and Budgeting
- This seminar discusses beyond Activity-Based Planning and Budgeting to introduce the concept of Strategic Resource Planning and Budgeting, where costs are classified by what drives them. For each cost driver category, a different budgeting technique is used and the total budget is developed. The linkage to strategic priorities is provided...
- Tags: Budgeting, Financial Services
- Webcasts
