IT & The CFO

The CFO and CIO should be collaborating to make strategic and tactical IT investment decisions. The mission critical investments are outsourcing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resources (HR), Accounting and Finance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics and we also look at innovative approaches like cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS).
 

IT Outsourcing demand increases across EMEA

CEO says SAP would struggle to survive another year like 2009!

Verizon CFO focuses on cost containment

The "great year" of IBM CFO Mark Loughbridge

Gartner: Holistic budgets giving IT room to move

US tech chiefs: innovation can drive economic growth, but only without government interference

The competitive value of business analytics

Wondering about the value of investing in analytics technology? According to new research by IBM, top performing organisations are up to 15 times more likely to be using analytics technologies to support strategic decision making than their less successful competitors.

Report: ERP systems not agile enough for today’s environment

Survey reveals underperforming software is leading to lost opportunities worth up to £300m.

FinancialForce comes of age

FinancialForce is the 2009 manifestation of what had been a two year plus initiative by financial software firm Coda to produce a Software as a Service (SaaS) version of its popular on demand products.

Gartner: 62% of CEOs see IT as key in post-recession strategy

Nearly two-thirds of CEOs have acknowledged the importance of IT in the building of a post-recession strategy, according to a new survey published by Gartner.