The Rise of Alternative Investments CFO Project Volume 3, July 31, 2007
Ten Things to Consider When Selecting a Fund of Funds Manager
Deanna McMahon, MullinTBG, Robert Ryan, MullinTBG, John Chon, MullinTBG

 A CFO Vision for the Year 2012 CFO Project Volume 3, July 31, 2007
Better times lie ahead for financial decision makers, but the building blocks need to be put in place now.
Sonax Group

 Business Settlement Networks: The New Approach to Increase Earnings and Cash Return CFO Project Volume 3, July 31, 2007
Advances in payment processing can enable companies to unlock working capital.
George Fan, JPMorgan Xign

 CASE STUDY: Blythe J. McGarvie CFO Project Volume 3, July 31, 2007
A Personal Perspective on Business Performance Management
Blythe J. McGarvie, Leadership for International Finance LLC

 Delivering a Global Settlement Network for Business CFO Project Volume 3, July 31, 2007
Xign Corporation operates the leading global settlement network for business that transforms accounts payable into a strategic, profit-driven organization.

 Tackling the Costs of Poorly Managed Sales Compensation Plans CFO Project Volume 3, July 31, 2007
Synygy, an authority on sales performance management, is the largest provider of solutions for solving problems related to the management of sales compensation plans.

 What's Troubling Finance? CFO Project Volume 3, July 31, 2007
The CFO function needs to anticipate and accommodate new rules and regulations - not just react to them - for greater corporate success and personal job satisfaction.
Eric Keller, Movaris, Inc.

 ADP CANADA: Cognos Allows Us to Look at Things in Different Ways and Find Real Opportunities CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
ADP Canada is a “business behind the business.” The largest Canadian provider of HR and payroll information solutions, ADP Canada needed to manage the complexities of a steadily expanding client roster aswell as the intricacies of its own corporate planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes. Opportunities for cost savings were going unrecognized, the planning cycle was tedious, and data accuracy needed a boost—until the company implemented a Cognos Enterprise Planning solution.
Jeff Gerkin, Cognos

 Business Intelligence: Solving the ERP Overload CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
Organizations realize there is a wealth of information in ERP data, but the difficulty is finding and leveraging it. To truly maximize return on investment, a business intelligence solution on top of an ERP system is required. Business intelligence is a broad category of applications, including technologies for reporting, analysis, and sharing of information that helps users make better business decisions.

 Compliance - Process and Technology CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
In the Sarbanes-Oxley era, it’s clear that new systems are necessary. New IT and document management software systems offer the right support.
Robert Kugel, Ventana Research

 Data Visualization CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
Interactive, multidimensional, and animated data-representation tools can help improve business processes and the bottom line.
David Adams, Accenture

 Delivering Profitability Through Basel II Compliance CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
Basel II has triggered an upgrade in risk management infrastructure for many banks. These organizations have gained benefits through the evolution of best practices, risk management processes, and scorecard deployment.
Martin O''Connor, Scorex

 Driving the Enterprise CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
Enterprise performance management connects top-line goals wth day-to-day activities, transforming a mountain of data from an enemy into an ally.
Patrick Morrissey, Business Objects

 Enterprise Spreadsheet for Enterprise Planning CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
July 28, 2004 - Cognos has introduced two Microsoft Excel extensions in its Enterprise Planning solution. One is an interface to Cognos Enterprise Planning - Contributor applications. The other is a module that makes it easy for individuals to load data from their personal spreadsheets into Contributor applications and incorporate it into a plan. The former is a new licensed product and the latter is included with a Contributor license.
Robert Kugel, Ventana Research

 Leveraging Industry Data Models CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
The task of building an enterprise data warehouse is greatly simplified by starting with a data model that reflects the business and its industry.
Tim Duning, Teradata, Scott R. Brennan, Accenture

 Microsoft Posts BI Tools for Microsoft Office CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
July 28, 2004 - Microsoft released two new business intelligence (BI) add-ins for Microsoft Office: The Microsoft Office Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services and the Microsoft Office Business Scorecards Accelerator. The former enables Excel-based analysis of data stored in Analysis Services cubes, the latter provides capabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Portal (& Services) to create and manage business performance management scorecards. Ventana Research believes that BI should be on every desktop to improve the performance management capability of everyone in the organization. Ventana Research finds these add-ons as interesting but not yet comparable to other enterprise architected and validated solutions.
Stewart McKie, Ventana Research

 Optimizing the Enterprise CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
Enterprise content management helps to deliver better and faster decision-making by providing employees with timely access to the information they need.
Lee D. Roberts, FileNet Corporation

 Process-Based Approach to Compliance CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
By automating key business processes and financial controls, companies can ensure that reporting and disclosure requirements are defined clearly, performed consistently, and managed effectively.
Annie Ozzimo, PeopleSoft, Inc.

 Tactical Issues and Best Practices CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
Finance executives can gain immediate benefits from tactical solutions and best practices that enable operational managers to adopt forecasting and budgeting processes as key management tools.
Stephen W. Hunt, Accenture

 The Challenge of Change CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
The strategic governance framework offers an approach that continually manages the alignment of strategy, business change programs, projects, and the enterprise architecture.
John Thorp, The Thorp Network

 Tools for the Agile Enterprise CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
Increasingly sophisticated software is helping executives to cope with the challenges of managing financial performance in today’s business environment.
Paul Hamerman, Forrester Research

 When Good Spreadsheets Go Bad CFO Project Volume 2, October 01, 2003
July 28, 2004 - The electronic spreadsheet was the ‘killer application’ driving adoption of the personal computer. It revolutionized how finance people do their day-to-day work, improving their efficiency and expanding the scope of analysis and calculation they can perform. However, the standalone spreadsheet running on a personal computer has numerous deficiencies that make it unsuitable for use in a collaborative, enterprise environment.
Robert Kugel, Ventana Research