BF_IT FINANCE LINK_ Penton Media July 16, 2009 If you want to view this on the web go to: http://enews.penton.com/enews/businessfinance/v/198 ---------------------------------------- ADVERTISEMENT The Transformational CFO Strategic analysts, Saugatuck Technology, discusses the "strategic transformation" of Finance from back-office to leadership. Learn what finance professionals see as the biggest gaps keeping them from making a strategic impact and how they're bridging those gaps to enable Finance's transformation to leadership. Download The Transformational CFO Whitepaper Now https://forms.netsuite.com/app/site/crm/externalleadpage.nl?compid=NLCORP&formid=961&h=6a5596f168d78793224c&leadsource=BizFin_1 ---------------------------------------- TODAY'S ALERTS --How to Improve the Software Acquisition Process Finance organizations play an important role in evaluating software investments. Here are some suggestions on how to do this more effectively. To view the full article go to: http://businessfinancemag.com/article/software-smarts-channeling-your-inner-geek-0716 --Time to Check Your Disaster Recovery Plans Hurricane season began last month, which serves as a good reminder to test your IT disaster recovery (DR) plans. Companies with an outdated DR plan can pay a big financial price. According to a new Symantec study, the average cost for each downtime incident is $287,600. To view the full article go to: http://bigfatfinanceblog.com/2009/07/08/time-to-check-your-disaster-recovery-plans/ --Evaluating E-mail Archive Options E-mail is a mission-critical application for companies, which means they need an e-mail archive system with fast message retrieval; fast, flexible, and comprehensive searching; and high reliability. There are two main e-mail archive options that companies should consider to prevent litigation and compliance headaches: license and purchase a system to run in-house or turn archiving over to an online application service provider in the cloud. To view the full article go to: http://bigfatfinanceblog.com/2009/07/02/email-archiving-for-everyone/ --Welcome to Enterprise 2.0 Social networking for businesses is taking off, as was evident at last month's Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, because it allows workers to collaborate and knowledge share. Where will it be most useful? Social software can be applied anywhere but will work especially well in the areas of budgeting, customer support, governance, and compliance. To view the full article go to: http://bigfatfinanceblog.com/2009/06/29/welcome-to-enterprise-20/ --You Are Your Company's Biggest Security Threat A new study from the Ponemon Institute has found that employees are the biggest security threat to a company's data. The security breaches aren't being committed by disgruntled workers looking to bring down their company -- they're coming from workers who do things like share passwords and download data onto their unsecured mobile devices. To view the full article go to: http://bigfatfinanceblog.com/2009/06/19/you-are-the-biggest-security-threat/ --How Integrated Business Planning Can Help Integrated business planning (IBP) can increase your organization's financial return and improve its strategic position. Learn more by reading Ventana Research's report "Integrated Business Planning: Redesigning Planning for a More Dynamic Business Environment" in the BPM Resource Center. To view the full article go to: http://resources.bpmmag.net/index.html?action=viewSponsors&sponsorID=11&userID=1363 --BPM Summit Presentation: Why Go Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard? The 6th Annual BPM Summit brought together some of the business world's foremost practitioners to explore the transformational role of finance in the enterprise. If you missed the live event, you can still enjoy access to the audio and slide shows from the keynote presentations at our on-demand archive. To view the full article go to: http://bpmmag.net/summit/2008/ --Tell Us About Your Treasury Efforts: Chance to Win a $100 Gift Card How are treasury departments, now in the full glare of the corporate spotlights, marshaling their resources? What strategies and technologies are they mobilizing to keep the lifeblood of their organization flowing? Help us find out by participating in this 10-minute survey. And if you respond by July 24 you'll be entered into a drawing (http://insidepenton.com/research/er/BF/bftreas2009.htm) to win one of two $100 Visa gift cards! 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