Spend Management

Telecom expense management is a critical and well-established discipline that has grown to encompass the challenging problem of mobile device and cost management. And now there's a simple, self-service approach to successful mobile expense management (MEM) that is simple to implement and demonstrates immediate results.

Download the white paper "Evaluating and Contracting for Cloud Financials: Best Practice Considerations." You'll find practical advice and tips to ensure your choice is both cost-effective and right for your organization.

A good financial and accounting system should propel your business forward. It should give you the specific insights you need to spot the storms ahead, help you maximize resources with streamlined processes, and be nimble enough to help you navigate the changing currents of today's business environment. Download this white paper to make sure you have the facts straight about what to look for-and what to look out for.

Most organizations waste millions of dollars every year by improperly managing mobile device and network service expenses. Learn the critical steps to mobile expense management (MEM) and how a SaaS solution can provide immediate return on your mobility investments while ironing out every unnecessary cost.

This new Frost & Sullivan executive brief explores today's trends in audio conferencing, the impact of a diverse user base and how pricing models are evolving to match use.

With this book, you find out how a unified CCR process gives leaders timely and accurate insights to make smarter decisions. You also discover features of the ideal CCR solution and learn what to look for in the selection process. And, you come to understand the close/consolidate/report process and how integrated CCR solutions enhance internal controls and provide better insight into business performance. Find out how a unified CCR process gives leaders timely and accurate insights to make smarter decisions. Download this book to discover features of ideal CCR solution and learn what to consider in the selection process.

In companies of all sizes, the chief financial officer (CFO) is the crucial link between strategy and execution. The CFO acts as a trusted advisor to the chief executive officer (CEO) in mapping out your company's strategic vision, and plays a key role in making sure that vision is realized in all business activities in a profitable way.

Practical Approaches for Spend Management Success.

Examine how forward-looking firms are revamping their lead-to-cash process to impact what matters in the emerging economic environment: strong customer relationships and profitable growth. These firms are achieving a new level of process innovation and integration with powerful new software tools.

Download the report today to get plans to help your organization during this growth-oriented, post-downturn recovery.

This assessment tool will compare your performance with that of over 400 procurement professionals surveyed during August and September.

Practical cost saving benefits of cloud-based email management.

Watch this two-minute video to reveal three key strategies that many companies, including 15 of the 20 most profitable Fortune 100 companies, are employing to realize even more savings from their procurement process.

In this download, a panel presents how their organizations are working to drive continued spend adoption through process-based enablement, category flight planning, team reorganization, and other important initiatives.

The purpose of this research is to better understand the key investment drivers and evolving business objectives of C-Level executives (CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, CMOs) - and how these intersect and shape business/IT investment spending going forward.

Spend analysis has gradually become the top process in the procurement executive's toolbox, placing itself in the top tier of functionalities alongside e-sourcing, e-procurement and strategic sourcing solutions.

For better or worse, most companies have purchased financial software from large-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform suppliers over the last decade. Bust as companies search for ways to lower costs and respond to a difficult business climate, the merits of implementing large-scale ERP platforms have come under close scrutiny. This paper will examine an alternative approach that may be more appropriate and strategically sound for many companies: a best-of-class systems strategy.

Many IT administrators have already learned the hard way that managing the performance and availability of services built on virtualization technologies can be difficult, if not impossible at times.

Spend Matters research has long considered Hackett Group metrics to be the gold standard of P2P benchmarking. As part of the collaboration for the research for this report, Hackett agreed to share with Spend Matters some of the findings from its latest P2P benchmarks.

Spend Matters has long argued that spend visibility and contract management have always been two sides of the same coin. Companies can leverage an integrated spend analysis, contract management and P2P solution set to institute real-time controls to validate a number of possible spend variables.

Project Liberate: Consulting Engagement to help customers understand alternatives when negotiating a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement.

This in-depth report explores the key considerations, including solution portfolio, partnerships and processes.

Consider how you can gain control of cost structures by taking systematic steps to improve operational efficiency. By using efficient, automated processes, you can reduce waste, unnecessary overtime, and other cost factors. Integrated business software systems put this efficiency overhaul within reach, quickly, and affordably.

Through savings generated by improvements in operational efficiency you can continue to fund the IT improvements your business needs. Read a short overview of how BMC Solutions drive operational efficiency.

In the white paper, "Toward Transparency and Sustainability: Building a New Financial Order," you'll see how businesses are building sustainable, stable systems for the years to come, while fulfilling their brand promises.