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• Days of Delinquency

  BNET - 2006-03-13

  The metric known as "Days Sales Outstanding" DSO, a gauge of credit-collection efficiency, is at a 10-year low for U.S. corporations - and that's good news. To many, a low DSO means that a company is collecting its outstanding receivables quickly, and a downward trend suggests that the credit-collections process...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Sales Strategy, Financial Services, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing

• Absence-Minded: The High Cost of Sick Days

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  It's no secret that employees call in sick when they feel fine, but just how often they fib might surprise you. A 2005 survey by CCH Inc., a Riverwoods, Ill.-based provider of information services, found that personal illness accounts for just 35 percent of unscheduled absences. That doesn't mean workers...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Marketing Research, Marketing

• By Popular Demand: Why Buy HR Applications When You Can Rent Them?

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  Growth comes at a price - and often it's a company's human-resources department that has to pay it. Consider Genmar Holdings Inc., a $1 billion maker of recreational boats sold under such brands as Wellcraft, Seaswirl, and Larson. A multiyear acquisition spree made it difficult for the company to obtain...

  Tags: Human Resources, CFO Publishing Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Branding, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Marketing

• Pay-Per-View ERP

  BNET - 2006-02-01

  Over the past few years, a number of software publishers have popularized on-demand delivery of business programs. Most notably, Salesforce.com Inc. and NetSuite Inc. have developed a loyal - some would say messianic - following by offering hosted Customer-Relationship Management CRM software along with other enterprise applications. Salesforce.com's rise to...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CFO Publishing Corp., On-demand, CRM, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software

• Drug Discount Peddlers

  BNET - 2005-10-28

  By gathering and automating huge amounts of pharmacy pricing data and making it widely known, Pharmacy Benefit Managers PBMs have certainly exerted a strong downward pressure on retail drug costs. And they have helped employer drug programs fit nicely into managed-care plans, bringing the co-payment features typical of health maintenance...

  Tags: Health Insurance, CFO Publishing Corp., Health Care, HMO, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Insurance, Pricing, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Marketing

• Who's Minding the Shop?: Keeping an Eye on Web-Surfing Employees

  BNET - 2005-09-14

  Outside of breathing, it's hard to find any activity that 9 out of 10 employees do on a regular basis. Workers who spend two hours a day going online for personal pursuits are spending two hours less each day doing work. Of the group who told Websense they use company...

  Tags: Web, CFO Publishing Corp., Websense Inc., Channel Management, E-mail, Banking, Marketing, Online Communications, Financial Services

• Corporate Performance Management: Advanced Planning, Budgeting, and Business Analysis to Drive Insight Across the Enterprise

  BNET - 2005-08-01

  Weaknesses in traditional management systems are adversely affecting finance's ability to meet the expectations of their Chief Executive Officers CEOs and to confidently provide guidance to their organizations. While nearly all corporations could benefit from improved visibility into results and success drivers, 73 percent of the survey respondents said their...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Budgeting, Survey, Analysis, Corporate Performance Management, Financial Services, Marketing Research, Marketing

• Help Yourself: Customer Self-Service Is Finally Catching on With Consumers

  BNET - 2005-07-06

  In the day-to-day exercise known as living, small gains in convenience are usually the advances most appreciated by humans. That simple fact may explain the corporate obsession with customer self-service. Over the years, companies have spent millions rolling out cutting-edge CRM systems, including automated phone programs and, later, Web-based systems....

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Marketing

• A World of Pain Points

  BNET - 2005-03-29

  BPM software was initially pitched as next-generation budgeting-and-planning software, and plenty of the marketing message behind it is still given over to urging finance execs to leave the spreadsheet behind for purposes of financial consolidation, reporting, and forecasting. But because it relies on powerful database and analytic capabilities to make...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., BPM, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Marketing Research, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Finance, Software, Marketing

• Expense Management: Driving Savings Through Better Information and Spending Policies

  BNET - 2005-03-01

  This article is all about how mid-sized companies drive savings through indirect expense management. Companies use spending information for a variety of purposes, including traditional finance functions required by almost every business. These core functions include activities such as tracking spending, budgeting and forecasting, and auditing, tax, and compliance. Survey...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Channel Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Business Operations, Finance