IBM Whitepapers
Organisations across all industries are looking to improve the way they plan and manage their finances. With the trend of ‘financial transformation’ gaining traction across a number of finance departments, businesses need to start embracing a number of strategic changes to help them better their budgeting process. This white paper answers eight key questions around strategic financial planning and management, helping you to improve the way your company budgets.
Achieving accuracy in financial planning, budgeting and forecasting has become increasingly challenging in today’s unpredictable business landscape, leaving organisations struggling to make confident decisions that enable future growth. Emerging technologies have helped some companies improve the flexibility of their financial planning however, if the solutions themselves are not able to support the changing needs of the organisation they won’t ultimately improve forecast accuracy. This white paper explores the top challenges organisations face when it comes to financial planning, budgeting and forecasting and outlines how the top performers ensure financial planning and analysis accuracy.
By making the right decisions and following best practices, leading organisations can easily combine the best of on-premise and cloud in order to reap benefits in faster delivery, improved reliability and savings on IT costs.
IBM Cloud Secure Virtualisation, leverages technology from IBM, Intel and HyTrust to simplify compliance demands for organisations in highly regulated industries and provide workload security down to the microchip level. The solution enables a trusted cloud infrastructure that helps address in-house security needs as well as compliance requirements for mission-critical business operations.
In this report we'll look at how a strong foundation in both the cloud and internal data centres are empowering organisations to not only get the best out of their IT Infrastructure today, but is also preparing them to be able to take advantage of new technologies on their way.