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Unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions offer enhanced user productivity and reduced costs from streamlined communications.

The Internet has commoditized virtually every aspect of business, offering individuals, businesses and consumers any information imaginable with the touch of a few buttons.

While economic recovery is clearly in process, your capital and operational budgets are still extremely tight. At the same time, your maintenance organization is being pressured to take a stance of zero tolerance toward safety incidents while reducing maintenance costs and minimizing asset downtime. Read this in-depth Aberdeen Group report, based on responses from 117 executives of successful companies, to find out how best-in-class businesses are proactively managing these challenges. You'll learn these techniques for optimizing maintenance and operations-and more: creating a culture of collaboration among teams across your enterprise; empowering decision makers with appropriate, highly accurate metrics; and leveraging predictive management and analytics to manage assets throughout their life cycle.

Manage physical and virtual assets, maintain your infrastructure and capital equipment and maximize the efficiency of your people, processes and assets with predictive analytics.

IBM Analytical Decision Management revolutionizes how organizations make decisions by optimizing and automating high-volume, operational decisions at the point of impact to drive better business outcomes. In this technical white paper, learn about the architecture, deisgn and execution environments for this leading-edge technology, as well as recommendations on how to manage an implementation of this decision management solution.

Leading companies applying? Predictive intelligence? To proactively mitigate and manage complexity-fraught risks, while bringing value to their bottom line and their brand.

Alpha Now delivers timely and relevant investment insight to help investment management professionals identify emerging trends in the global financial markets and their portfolios.

Thomson Reuters QA Studio, powered by Palantir, provides easy and rapid financial time series analysis, multi-asset class portfolio simulation, factor testing, and other portfolio analytics.

Join fundraising consultant and author Joshua Birkholz and IBM for an overview of the impact predictive analytics can have on your fundraising programs. We'll explore how this data-based approach can help you

Faced with a downturn in funding due to the global economic recession, nonprofit organizations need to improve their donor management capabilities so they can compensate for the reduction of government funding and diminishing level of donor contributions. Predictive analytics provides an effective way to understand and anticipate donor needs in order to increase the success of fundraising and marketing campaigns. Using this technology, nonprofits can gain a significant return on investment by increasing donor contributions, reducing costs and building stronger donor relationships over time. In this white paper, you'll learn how predictive analytics can help nonprofits achieve their funding goals by significantly improving the way they identify, manage and build relationships with donors.

Bloomberg Government (BGOV) is a unique online service that helps business and government leaders understand the business impact of government actions through a combination of in-depth analysis, best-in-class data, analytical tools, and award winning journalism, enabling better decisions. bgov.com

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In this paper, financial executives from a variety of top performing industries discuss systems that they have implemented, like Bill.com, that help them efficiently manage the daily pulse to sustain healthy cash flow.

Small and mid-sized business use Bill.com to help manage their cash flow and make better use of their resources. Here are the top ten things you can do with Bill.com to help take control of your organization's financial management.

This Insight focuses on the 74 SMBs within that group and provides a comparison with respondents from larger businesses. Given the different volumes of invoices and payments these groups handle, what do they have planned for future? Find out!

Egencia launched a revolution in corporate travel nearly a decade ago by empowering customers with powerful technology. Find out more now!

Egencia partners with companies to create intelligent solutions for their unique travel challenges. Find out more in this short video!

In 2006 the world economy was booming, partly on the back of triple-A investment innovations. Then, suddenly, the boom ended. What fascinates the authors is the fact that almost no one saw the 2008 economic crisis coming. In this article, the authors come to terms with the reality that, in economics and business, accurate forecasts aren't possible. Therefore, they say, managers need to develop a different attitude about the future.

Activity-based budgeting has been discussed for some time, but becomes far more practical with a Time Driven Activity-Based-Budgeting (TDABC) model. Using this approach, a company can now link its strategic plan and sales and production forecast to the specific demands for capacity required for implementation. This chapter introduces the powerful new extension of the TDABC model to perform what-if analysis and activity-based budgeting.

Bjarte Bogsnes holds the unique distinction of being the only person to have "blown up the budget" at more than one company: at his previous employer, the European plastics manufacturer Borealis, and at his current one, Statoil, the Norwegian oil giant. A dedicated champion of the Beyond Budgeting movement, Bogsnes takes the concept of rolling forecasting-itself a relatively new approach-one big step further, with dynamic forecasting.

In describing what forecasters are trying to achieve, Saffo outlines six simple, commonsense rules that smart managers should observe as they embark on a voyage of discovery with professional forecasters: Map a cone of uncertainty, look for the S curve, embrace the things that don't fit, hold strong opinions weakly, look back twice as far as you look forward, and know when not to make a forecast.

The What, Why & How of CRM Integration This report contains insights from C-level executives, business analysts and IT engineers, and systems integrators and consultants who design and implement data integration for their enterprise clients.

Think about the process in your company for a minute. How much time and money is wasted waiting for an invoice to arrive, then walking the document around to be coded, approved, and finally paid? Discover how a touchless invoice processing can help.

Get answers to the 20 most important questions to ask an AR automation solution provider by exploring Esker's AR Buyer's Guide.

This buyer's guide provides you with the key topics and the most important questions to ask an AP solution provider so that you can select the most appropriate AP solution to meet both your business and process needs.