Financial consolidation systems are the ‘engine room’ of the corporate finance department, enabling companies of all sizes to comply with regulatory reporting requirements, company law and global accounting standards as well satisfy management’s need for periodic management reporting. But all is not well with standalone consolidations applications that were developed in the 1990’s and which are still commonplace in some of the world’s largest multinationals. According to one recent report, 47 percent of companies have made substantial investments in the last year in their financial close, filing, and reporting. Yet, despite the considerable sums of money invested in the process, management teams across the globe remain dissatisfied with the quality and timeliness of management information.

Every day, hundreds of organizations communicate, collaborate, and drive their business forward with Workday cloud applications. Our customers say they gain unprecedented visibility into their workforce, improve overall productivity, and get the right people working on the most important initiatives—things they could not achieve with legacy systems. And all of this is accomplished with applications that are intuitive and easy to use. Our customers are unique and have different goals, challenges, and priorities. What they share in common is that they all decided to move beyond legacy systems to the cloud with Workday. So, why Workday?

Learn more about HR compliance under Section 6056 of the ACA, including: • New reporting requirements for 2015 • What those requirements mean for your business • What you can do to ensure compliance • Risks of noncompliance

Compliance is one of the top challenges facing any payroll and HR department. It’s up to you to ensure that all personnel business practices follow current laws and that you are keeping proper records to document your company’s compliance. While an efficient payroll system can help to enhance employee moral and boost your reputation, mistakes in record-keeping and compliance can result in punitive penalties– even lawsuits. Of course, no business wants to expose itself to such financial and reputational risk. However, keeping up to date with payroll legislation can be a complex task. It’s reported that as many as one in three small businesses are penalised for incorrect payroll. To protect your company from costly fines and even litigation, you need to stay informed about employment laws, reporting rules, and changing workforce compliance issues. In this guide, we look at the challenges and the payroll solutions that will help your payroll department meet its compliance requirements wit

Meaningful Use Stage 2 increases many of the thresholds that were in Stage 1, but the main focus of Stage 2 is on exchanging structured information among providers and patients. With less than 7% of EHR vendors certified, are your systems and providers ready?

As executive teams look toward an IPO, there are high expectations for accuracy in financial reporting. In order to meet these requirements, companies need to extend their ERP systems to ensure real-time visibility and control over all the company's spend. This paper looks at the issues and possible solutions.

As executive teams look toward an IPO, there are high expectations for accuracy in financial reporting. In order to meet these requirements, companies need to extend their ERP systems to ensure real-time visibility and control over all the company's spend. This paper looks at the issues and possible solutions.

NPMD solutions are typically not directly involved in the actual card cardholder transaction. However, given that many can potentially capture and transmit cardholder data they must be viewed as an integral part of a business’ PCI DSS compliance strategy, especially when investigating data breaches for the purposes of reporting or remediation. Therefore, beyond satisfying your service delivery monitoring and troubleshooting requirements, be sure to verify your NPMD solution protects cardholder data and aids your efforts in PCI DSS compliance.

Securing Federal information and systems is an ongoing challenge. By implementing comprehensive security compliance management methods for data collection, retention, monitoring and reporting, federal agencies can successfully demonstrate a sound framework that meets FISMA requirements.

As recruiting continues its evolution into a more marketing focused function, recruiters are increasingly craving enhanced technology that speaks directly to their needs. But getting executive leadership to understand this fact—and invest in recruiting beyond the generic HR suite—is still an uphill battle. If you band with the right alliances, however, and uncover a vendor solution that can deliver the ROI you need while satisfying your IT and reporting requirements, you will make a strong business case that executives will have difficulty denying.

To meet evolving regulatory mandates, companies around the world are adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), a set of methodologies and disclosure requirements for the preparation and presentation of financial statements. Yet making the transition to IFRS is not just a rote accounting exercise.

With decisions riding on the timeliness and quality of analytics, business stakeholders are less patient with delays in the development of new applications that provide reports, analysis, and access to diverse data itself. Executives, managers, and frontline personnel fear that decisions based on old and incomplete data or formulated using slow, outmoded, and limited reporting functionality will be bad decisions. A deficient information supply chain hinders quick responses to shifting situations and increases exposure to financial and regulatory risk—putting a business at a competitive disadvantage. Stakeholders are demanding better access to data, faster development of business intelligence (BI) and analytics applications, and agile solutions in sync with requirements.

Learn how automating 'Last Mile of Finance' processes can help CFOs and their finance teams meet expanded reporting requirements--including XBRL tagging.

If you're like most IT practitioners, you are busy. You have a million things to do and preparing the reports needed to prove PCI DSS compliance requires time you just don't have. It doesn't have to be so hard. In this practical webinar, PCI DSS compliance experts walk through strategies for taking the pain out of PCI DSS reporting.

If you're like most IT practitioners, you are busy. You have a million things to do and preparing the reports needed to prove PCI DSS compliance requires time you just don't have. It doesn't have to be so hard. Join compliance experts from Terra Verde Services and AlienVault for this practical session on how to take the pain out of PCI DSS reporting. You'll learn: • The key reporting requirements of the PCI DSS standard • The security technologies you need to collect the required data • How AlienVault USM can generate these reports in minutes, not days • How to use your audit reports to improve security on an on-going basis

Employers can use this clear and concise guide to understand what action steps they need to take (and when) in order to comply with the various requirements of the Affordable Care Act.

Compliance with SOX and other new corporate reporting requirements is costly and challenging for many companies to implement, as the SOX act covers many different areas of business practices for internal controls and financial reporting. Get this whitepaper now and see the impact the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has on Information Technology.

Increased assessment, reporting and compliance requirements are going to be difficult to manage from year to year, and organizations without the right strategy, will face a significant increase in costs to audit and report on compliance annually.

Do you need to simplify your financial reporting process to ensure that you are meeting the Sarbanes Oxley requirements? Read this whitepaper to learn more…

LogRhythm, the leader in Log and Security Event Management Solutions, has prepared a "Quick Read" whitepaper to help you understand what's required to ensure compliance with: CIP- 003-1 – Cyber Security – Security Management controls; CIP- 005-1 – Cyber Security – Electronic Security Perimeter(s); CIP- 006-1 – Cyber Security – Physical Security of Critical Cyber Assets; CIP -007-1 – Cyber Security – Systems Security Management; CIP -008-1 – Cyber Security – Incident Reporting and Response PlanningThe whitepaper also contains a compliance reference chart with the specific CIP requirements matched with recommended steps to ensure compliance.

When four of its hospitals needed to transition from manual to automated temperature monitoring, Allina Health sought a solution that would meet its core requirements: timely alerts to problems and automatic data capture for compliance reporting requirements. Ultimately, it was also looking for an enterprise solution that could form the standard for its entire health system. Read this case study to learn why Allina Health chose STANLEY Healthcare’s Wi-Fi-based AeroScout® Environmental Monitoring solution, including MobileView software, as its system-wide standard to build an enterprise foundation for asset tracking, environmental monitoring, and other RTLS capabilities.