For Business Process & Applications Professionals

TechRadar™ For BP&A Professionals: Financial Management Applications, Q2 2009

Essential Business Needs Drive High Levels Of Value And Adoption

by Paul D. Hamerman, June 30, 2009

Financial management applications range from essential and ubiquitous tools for accounting and financial reporting to specialized solutions for optimizing process efficiency and cash flow. Compliance is a major requirement underlying several of the solutions, . . .

For CIOs

Should CIOs Capitalize Or Expense IT Investments?

by Lewis Cardin, December 28, 2006

CIOs frequently wonder whether to capitalize or expense an IT investment initiative. Often these decisions are made with insufficient financial analysis — it is not as simple as doing the math and making the call on a standalone basis for individual projects. . . .

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Market Overview 2003: Expense Reporting Systems - Market Maturing as Solutions Reach Limits

by Paul D. Hamerman, September 26, 2003

As the opportunity to automate the back-end process of expense reporting and employee reimbursement is realized, companies will focus on the larger opportunity of upstream integration to effectively manage the expenses themselves.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Deploy Expense-Reporting Applications Primarily in an Online Mode

February 4, 2003

Giga believes that expense reporting systems should be selected based on capabilities to support the mode of use that is most effective from a process execution standpoint, which is usually an online, real-time mode.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Expense Management Product Review: Oracle Internet Expenses 11i

by Paul D. Hamerman, December 23, 2002

Oracle's improved Internet Expenses 11i functionality positions Oracle well in competition with best-of-breed expense reporting solutions, particularly within its own 11i applications installed base.

Enterprise Mobile Expense Management Products Can Save Money but Have Limitations

by Alice Salpeter, October 28, 2002

While the use of wireless auditing firms offer neat and quick savings by eliminating waste, clients are advised to use them carefully and not create silo solutions separated from the wireline and network and communications expense management systems.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

IT Trends 2003: Enterprise Internal Billing

by Alice Salpeter, October 11, 2002

IT managers seek to better understand pricing, billing and provisioning structures. This is required for a more effective management of the numerous external service providers and for a more cost-effective provisioning of user demands.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Travel and Expense Management Can Benefit From Applying Best Practices

by Paul D. Hamerman, September 26, 2002

Enterprises should focus on applying best practices to travel and expense management, where technology is one element of the overall solution.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Geac's Acquisition of Extensity Underscores Challenges of Independent Software Specialists

by Paul D. Hamerman, September 10, 2002

Geac's acquisition of expense management application specialist Extensity highlights the difficulty of independent best-of-breed software vendors whose applications compete with the dominant comprehensive enterprise application (CEA) vendors.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Concur's Acquisition of Expense Management Rival Captura: A Sign of the Times

by Paul D. Hamerman, August 2, 2002

The Captura acquisition is positive for Concur because it lessens competition and adds a recurring revenue stream from a list of predominantly blue chip customers.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Expense Reporting Application Performance: Still an Issue, but Consider the Overall Process

by Paul D. Hamerman, March 25, 2002

While the slow response time of expense reporting and similar B2E applications is a major frustration, the total time of the business process is less affected by the application response time than by the company's business practices and procedures.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Gelco Combines Outsourcing Approach With Improved Web Expense Reporting Functionality

by Paul D. Hamerman, December 7, 2001

Gelco s large customer base and track record in expense management make it a safe choice vs. some best-of-breed software vendors in this space. This vendor should be attractive to midsized companies in the US market.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Searching for the Value in a Complementary Software Vendor Partnership

by Paul D. Hamerman, October 12, 2001

A recently announced partnership between time and attendance vendor Kronos and expense reporting specialist Necho Systems is typical of marketing-oriented arrangements that are designed to generate sales leads, but provide little value to customers.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Expense Management Product Review: Extensity

by Paul D. Hamerman, September 10, 2001

Extensity should be given serious consideration in the selection of an expense management solution for medium-to-large enterprises. The product is at the top of its class in functionality and flexibility.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Expense Management Solutions Evolving to Embrace Travel Booking

by Paul D. Hamerman, August 6, 2001

An integrated approach to automated expense management solutions and online travel booking systems leverages several points of integration between the two applications to improve management and control of the overall travel management process.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Expense Management Product Review: Captura Expense

by Paul D. Hamerman, June 1, 2001

Captura should be regarded as a leading contender in expense management solution evaluations, particularly for companies with significant international operations and travel requirements.

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Expense Management Solutions: International Support Is Improving

by Paul D. Hamerman, April 30, 2001

The leading best-of-breed vendors Extensity, Concur and Captura offer substantial international support in their latest releases and are continuing to improve.