Financial Data Management

Interstate Hotels & Resorts' tape backup systems could no longer handle its growing volumes of financial data, their IT staff installed SEPATON S2100 virtual tape libraries (VTL) to meet both its short and long-term secondary storage needs. This case study explains the process and results. As the largest independent hotel management company in the US

financial information to help achieve a risk reward outcome and that ties that to measurable financial data on your balance sheet. Compliance used to be a periodic and mostly manual project driven by audit dates and deadlines. But those days are gone. Security threats to IT systems are real-time and ongoing. As any company that has suffered a data

With the addition of SAP, 3,500 ARDEC users faced three versions of the truth regarding their financial data; the SAP R/3 transaction system, the SAP Business Warehouse, and their non-SAP systems. There was no option for reports that consolidated all three sources. ARDEC needed to be able to provide accurate turn-around reports to customers.

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Applications for financial performance management, part of SAP® solutions for enterprise performance management, cover the full life cycle of financial management and put you in control of performance. Applications for financial performance management, part of SAP®

solutions can achieve these requirements. Read on to learn more. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a broad set of requirements developed to foster global adoption of consistent data security measures for any organization which processes, transmits or stores card member information. This specification

The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and

To find out how senior executives view their financial processes, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed a global sample of mostly financial executives in September 2008. Some respondents focused on the importance of developing processes that reduced costs and improved efficiency

In this research, we examine the lessons that have been learnt from the current financial crisis, and propose ten practical lessons that could help to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management. Chief risk officers at the world's financial institutions are unlikely to look back fondly on

Read why top CFOs are shifting from their traditional financial role dealing with standardized business processes and systems to that of change agent and strategic advisor to the CEO. Read why top CFOs are shifting from their traditional financial role dealing with standardized business processes

The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of ReputationManager on their organizations. Forrester's aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis. Use this study to better understand and communicate a business case for investing in

There's a focus today on regulatory compliance involving financial reporting, security and data privacy. But there are also tremendous business performance opportunities that can be fueled by the new requirements. This paper details the benefits of continuous compliance, which include reduction of risk and cost. There's a tremendous

a combination of an invitation-only online survey and survey intercepts, 222 corporate financial leaders from across the U.S. participated in this study on corporate attitudes toward Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. "Powerful Validation" of Sarbanes-Oxley: 79% of Financial Execs Report Stronger Internal Controls.

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a leading IT Analyst firm, packaged ERP systems such as SAP's offer good architecture, data management and platform choices, however, ERP's integration to other core enterprise applications can be very complex, necessitating the use of enterprise information management (EIM) and master data management (MDM) strategies in order to maximize an

This white paper describes how iovation ReputationManager™ can help financial institutions address the need for effective fraud management when processing online credit applications and financial transactions. Online fraudsters hide behind multiple virtual identities - either hijacked or forged

Encryption is a necessary defense for securing valuable data because it dramatically narrows the window of unauthorized access to data. The simple fact is that encrypted data is a lot more difficult to steal. Read this whitepaper to learn more about data theft and how to employ encryption to protect

This study provides readers with a framework for evaluating the potential financial impact on their organization of upgrading from a previous version of SQL Server to SQL Server 2008. Forrester's aim is to show all related costs to best give readers a complete understanding of the costs their organizations might incur. SQL

what the drivers are for a company to consider automating its invoice processing, automating data entry & extraction, reducing the high cost of data entry and minimizing errors, increasing revenue recognition with quicker order fulfillment, and automatic notification of confirmation. View this webcast on financial process

of growing message traffic, rapidly-evolving security threats and increasingly complex data protection and privacy regulations. This paper examines such a solution. A new generation of email security solutions is needed to meet the challenges of growing message traffic, rapidly-evolving security threats and increasingly

faults that create issues throughout the system. It is critical to South Field's success that its data center management teams quickly identify and repair data faults. CA's Spectrum can immediately detect the change in configuration. Please view this video for more examples of how CA benefits South Field. Like any global enterprise, South

A new standard file format, Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), for submitting financial reports to the SEC in the United States is being mandated for June 2009. Both the creation of, and reporting from XBRL, are functions performed by the same new tool described in this paper. A new standard file format, Extensible Business

for an integrated offsite disaster recovery solution that would not only protect their data but also facilitate recovery of its key business systems in case of a disaster. In order to meet the requirements of its major pharmaceutical clients, Clinical Financial Services turned to EVault SaaS and EVault Remote Disaster Recovery

A leading global financial institution embarked on a data center consolidation and reclamation project that spanned nearly 2000 servers and 76 EMC arrays. The results included US$4 million in savings by reducing physical storage capacity 40 to 60 percent. One of the world's leading global

budgets, this ratio can shift even more in favor of operations and maintenance, leaving less financial resource to enhance IT services that serve the business.

Microsoft solutions help data center administrators improve the efficiency of their organization at the core infrastructure level, allowing more human and financial resources

households and are staffed by 3,500 employees. All those employees access email, financial systems, human resources and other core corporate applications located in the company's Montgomery, Alabama headquarters. Should those core systems fail, all business transactions at the 46 remote locations would be severely impacted

When a United States-based financial services company needed to decrease latency and address growing bandwidth needs, Ciena provided the solution: a near-zero latency optical network that increased efficiency and improved capacity, reliability, and compliance. When a