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Welcome to the BPM Magazine Resource Center, Julie Wenzel. Here you will find Webcasts, white papers, product demos/presentations, and the latest industry research. You can browse the vendor booths by clicking on the vendor logos or by clicking on a category below.

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Podcasts

The Finance Challenge of Aligning the Business with Strategic Goals
Philip Peck, Director and Practice Leader for CFO Services at Palladium Group, Inc discusses the role of Finance in aligning financial and operation plans with strategic goals.

White Papers

Oracle Crystal Ball Financial Forecasting and Analyses
Failing to include the impact of uncertainty and risk in your analyses can derail your financial plans. Most financial spreadsheets lack the functionality, capacity, and power required for successful financial management. To create flexible plans that can handle a complex financial environment, you need to move from a deterministic, fixed-input model to a stochastic process that lets you analyze variability and uncertainty. Oracle Crystal Ball utilizes time-series forecasting, simulation, and optimization to help you solve problems in corporate finance, investments, financial risk management, and financial planning. Apply these techniques to new or existing spreadsheets and reduce your risk of uncertainty.

The Future of Financial Reporting: A Market Perspective
Following on the heels of corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Parmalat, Livedoor, and others, global investors are demanding stricter corporate governance and compliance requirements for publicly held companies. Not only are reporting requirements increasing to meet this demand, but accounting standards are changing as well – the goal being transparency beyond the basic economics to better understand how businesses operate and perform. Finance and accounting executives must understand, adapt to, and manage the costs associated with these changes: and doing so opens an opportunity to leverage this shift to better position their companies in the eyes of the investment community. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the issues, new principles, and technologies underlying these new requirements.

Sustainability Matters: Why -- and how -- business is widening its focus to consider the needs of all stakeholders
Companies of all sizes and across many industries have realized that traditional ways of measuring business performance do not account for the needs of all stakeholders. In order to ensure sustainability over the long term, management teams must do more than maximize shareholder profits. They must consider the needs of all stakeholders, including employees, customers, and community members. This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices.

Future Guidance
Download this whitepaper today and learn how today’s enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions provide robust planning, forecasting and modeling applications that can support web-based budgeting and planning, rolling forecasts, predictive modeling, and integrated business planning across functions. An integrated EPM system can eliminate an organization’s dependency on spreadsheets for its planning and forecasting process, provide more control and confidence in the process, improved business predictability and the quality of guidance provided to internal and external stakeholders. This whitepaper discusses the need for better forecasting and planning - integrated Business Planning - to improve the quality of future guidance companies give on expected performance.

Driving Strategic Planning with Predictive Modeling
Uncertainty makes strategic planning complex. Removing, or even mitigating, uncertainty can create unlimited business value. However, most companies lack the strategic planning infrastructure to rise above the unknown. Fortunately, there are solutions to help organizations overcome uncertainty and achieve results. Read this whitepaper to learn more about how Oracle’s business intelligence, financial planning and predictive modeling tools enable companies to deploy a predictive modeling platform to drive strategic decision-making.

Webcasts

Managing Risk and Uncertainty in Turbulent Times: An Executive's Guide to Integrated Business Planning
Most companies plan in silos and in spreadsheets! Time, money and resources will mitigate some pitfalls of this approach but right now it's likely you don't have much of these to spare. Failing to understand the implications of change can lead to difficult conversations with your boardroom, investors or shareholders. You need an integrated business plan that includes finance and operations, all in one process. This will allow you to quickly and accurately assess the big picture, rather than just looking at pieces of a puzzle.

Strategic Planning & EVA Metrics in an International Trading Company
Watch this webcast and learn how to perform more comprehensive financial analysis in less time. You’ll hear how a global trading company reduced its financial plan simulation time from days to minutes – through the integration of long-term planning, treasury strategies and corporate development. Join experts from Oracle & BlueStone as they provide practical insights on Strategic Financial Planning.

Synthesizing Funding Impacts of Market Shifts and Project Investment
As a global mining leader, Anglo American needs to plan and quickly re-plan funding as markets shift and decisions on major project funding require review. View this webcast and find out how they have achieved this and continue to improve funding and operational efficiency. Will Kaffenberger from Oracle, Candice Raybourn from BlueStone International and Jon Kahn from Anglo American talk about the technology that makes it possible.

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