Recent Finance White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - ZDNet
Recent Finance White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - ZDNet

• Laboratorios Heel Espana, S.A.U. Automates Business Processes and Improves Access to Information
  Laboratorios Heel Espana, S.A.U. is the Spanish division of the Heel Group, a Germany-based pharmaceutical company that exports homeopathic medicines to more than 60 countries. The company wanted to integrate and automate production, distribution, sales, and financial control processes and standardize technology applications across the Group as well as all business areas. The challenge was to take advantage of the Group's technological and business know-how to create worldwide helpdesk centers and to automate reporting and consolidation tasks as well as minimize production costs. The company facilitated decision making through the consolidation of operational information. It enabled online stock-level monitoring to facilitate cyclical stock assessments for auditing purposes.
• Gruppo Monzino S.p.A. Streamlines Financial and Distribution Systems for Multiple Business Divisions
  Antonio Monzino opened his first lutist's workshop in Milan in 1750. The company wanted to standardize company processes and normalize data. The challenge was to gain a stable, flexible, secure multi-company system that the organization can quickly and easily replicate everywhere. The company worked with Atlantic Technologies, a recent addition to AmaZing Global Technologies, to implement Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financial Management and Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Customer Order Management and Logistics Management. It developed an integrated management system to provide consistent support for different businesses under the holding company's direction.
• Internal Audit and Risk Mitigation - Effective and practical use of the COSO and COBIT methodologies
  This webinar discusses how to align your audit risk assessment, audit ecosystem, audit plan, and audit engagements with the larger organization's strategy, vision, and values. It is designed mainly for internal auditors to help them understand the importance of corporate governance and enterprise risk management, identify risks to corporate strategy, critically review key business processes and objectives, perform a risk assessment, develop a risk-based assurance plan, understand entity-wide controls, and their relevance in the audit plan and then plan a risk-based engagement.
• IT Asset Management - It Is Just Good Financial Sense!
  IT Financial Management toolset, which is built into Asset Management solution, HP Software AssetCenter. This webcast will discuss the reasoning for buying an IT Financial Management system coupled with a lifecycle Asset Management system. It will also show a brief demonstration of our market leading Asset Management toolset.
• Post-Merger Integration Creates One of Germany's Largest IT Service Providers for the Financial Sector
  In 2001, two major financial institutions in Germany - a bank and an insurance company - merged. As a consequence, IT service provision for each was consolidated to form one of the largest IT service providers for financial services in Europe. In order to gain significant cost reductions and strengthen competitiveness, the complexities of integrating and unifying these two large organizations was enormous. Since 2002, Capgemini is assigned to actively accompany the process of post-merger integration on a strategic and operational level. The companywide process has affected 13 locations in Germany and one branch in Singapore. With specific post-merger synergy goals to achieve, the client and Capgemini launched a comprehensive integration program.
• San Diego Unified School District Saves $1 Million Per Year Stopping Over Payments
  The second largest urban school district in California and eighth largest in the nation, San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) sought to replace its many archaic disparate systems. The challenge was to update the architecture from several home-grown, mainframe systems to one modern, web-based business system, in order to be more cost effective and streamlined in the business practices. In 2002, the company made the decision to go with the integrated solutions of PeopleSoft Human Capital Management (HCM), Financial Management Solutions (FMS), and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and use Empower Solutions as an implementation partner.
• Pacific Brands Enhances Financial Processes With Reliable Management System
  When Pacific Brands broke away from Pacific Dunlop, the company retained hundreds of brands - ranging from footwear and sporting goods to home products like linen and bedding - and faced many of the same business challenges that its parent company had faced. That is why Pacific Brands continued using Hyperion Enterprise as its main source of business intelligence, consolidating data for reporting and analysis. More recently, Pacific Brands implemented Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management to standardize the process of recording financial data. With Hyperion solutions, Pacific Brands has dramatically streamlined its financial processes while increasing the integrity of its data.
• First Commercial Bank Achieves In-Depth Analysis and Improves Risk Management
  First Commercial Bank restructured its business in the last few years in response to increasing competition and the internationalization of the Taiwanese financial market. The bank needed to enhance asset and liability management, and create more flexible reporting tools to enable in-depth analysis. Oracle Financial Services Applications (OFSA) helped the bank improve fund pricing and profit and risk management by delivering accurate data to sales managers and senior directors, giving them the ability to adjust formulae, and simulate profit margins for different product types and market conditions. Greater financial control enabled the bank to achieve a pretax profit of TWD 13.7 billion (US$412 million) in 2006.
• Fonterra Co-Operative Group Establishes Global Financial Visibility, Enhances Strategic Planning
  Fonterra Co-operative Group is a leading multinational dairy company owned by 11,600 New Zealand dairy farmers. Its global supply chain connects shareholders' farms in New Zealand to customers and consumers in 140 countries. Fonterra needed a financial system that could increase efficiency across its rapidly expanding operations. Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management enables Fonterra's global employees to save results to a centralized database - eliminating the need to email files. With Hyperion, Fonterra creates multiple budget and forecast scenarios that help project and enhance future performance. Moreover, with Hyperion, all employees are now working on the same system, looking at the same data, at the same time.
• The ABB Group Overcomes Major Liquidity Crisis With Strategic Finance
  The ABB Group, a leading global engineering company, has an illustrious record of innovation and technological leadership in many industries and has helped countries all over the world to build, develop, and maintain their infrastructures. In 2002 and 2003, ABB overcame a major liquidity crisis with the aid of Oracle's Hyperion Strategic Finance. With Hyperion Strategic Finance, ABB was able to conduct modeling and planning for its highly complex business and provide stakeholders with renewed confidence in its financial position.
• MidCentral District Health Board Streamlines Purchasing and Distribution
  The MidCentral District Health Board (MDHB) is responsible for planning and funding health services for about 170,000 people in New Zealand's Manawatu, Palmerston North City, Tararua District, Horowhenua District, and Otaki wards of the Kapiti Coast District. In 1999, the MDHB decided to replace an antiquated financials system requiring extensive manual input with a robust, scalable platform capable of integrating new functionality as required. After evaluating a range of potential solutions, the MDHB selected JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financials, based largely on ease of use and the quality of reports. Seven years later, the MDHB integrated materials management with its financials system and has started testing additional functionality to build out its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) capabilities.
• Spyder Scales New Peaks by Running Lean
  Spyder follows an outsourced manufacturing model, relying on overseas suppliers to produce skiwear and ship the goods to regional distribution centers in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its distribution centers then forward the finished merchandise to its customers. This manufacturing model calls for a solid system - one that Spyder successfully orchestrated using a plain vanilla implementation, reliab