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    Make Room for Lease Accounting Software

    Retail commercial leases are far more complicated than residential leases, says Paula Rosenblum, a director at research firm Aberdeen Group. In addition to common area maintenance, retailers must also contend with calculating taxes as well as percentage-rent and escalation clauses. Lease managers...

    By Esther Shein • April 18, 2005
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    An Ounce of Prevention for Phone Viruses

    A recent spate of electronic infections is giving new meaning to the familiar question, “Can you hear me now?”Strictly speaking, Cabir, Lasco, and Commwarrior are “worms,” not viruses, that target the Symbian operating system used on Nokia series 60 cell phones, which account for about half of al...

    By Esther Shein • April 13, 2005
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    The CFO Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial intelligence’s impact on the office of the CFO continues to evolve, and finance chiefs must be aware of the opportunities it will create for growth. 

    By CFO.com staff
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    People Problems

    In the software universe, a warm fuzzy place filled with flextime and endless rows of foosball tables, acquisitions are generally lovey-dovey affairs, gentle bondings that produce synergies and shareholder value and rivers of free fudge for all concerned. And then there’s Oracle’s acquisition of ...

    By Russ Banham • April 6, 2005
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    Pay-per-view Budgeting?

    Other than iron lungs and bowling shoes, few things in this world are best rented. That statement extends to business software as well. Thin-client computing did spark some interest in rentable software in the late 1990s, but other than some CRM and HR titles, the apps-on-tap approach never reall...

    By Esther Shein • April 5, 2005
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    A World of Pain Points

    When Grand & Toy, Canada’s largest supplier of office products, saw some of its commercial customers defecting to American big-box invaders like Staples and Office Depot, the Toronto-based company brought in a secret weapon: Defector Detector. The software program helps Grand & Toy fight ...

    By Connie Winkler • March 29, 2005
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    ”Lost and Found” IT: Taxi Drivers’ View

    Because IT plays such a central role at both the macro and micro level of American business, it is perhaps the most heavily scrutinized, analyzed, and surveyed sector of the economy. Everyone from research scientists to vendors to end users is constantly being polled about new technologies, spend...

    By CFO Editorial Staff • March 16, 2005
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    The New Face of Identity Theft

    In January 2004, the MyDoom computer virus proved so malicious that Microsoft and other companies offered hundreds of thousands of dollars in reward money for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the virus author. Is it possible that those were the good old days?As this year began,...

    By Peter Krass • March 16, 2005
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    Trouble from Atlanta to Paris

    When last we wrote about Paris Hilton…actually, we’ve never written about Ms. Hilton and were quite prepared to remain the only magazine in America never to do so. But when her name suddenly cropped up in a number of newspaper stories that also contained phrases like “computer security and foren...

    By Scott Leibs • March 15, 2005
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    From Tags to Riches?

    It’s been a bit of a slog for XBRL, the computer code that “tags” a wide range of financial data so that it can be more easily shared and analyzed. Although proponents of the technology have been banging the drum for years, not much has happened. That may change this month, when a voluntary progr...

    By CFO Editorial Staff • March 15, 2005
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    Demo in the Desert

    If you really want to learn about the newest and most promising technologies, forget about the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), that techno-glamourama held each January in Las Vegas. Instead, pay attention to a smaller, less flamboyant event called Demo.Both technology events meet each winter in ...

    By John Edwards • March 9, 2005
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    This Time, It’s Strategic

    It’s time to look under the human-resources hood again. After an extensive technology overhaul in HR, employees now routinely use a number of self-service applications to complete tasks like enrolling in benefits programs, managing vacation time, and making sure their personal information is up t...

    By Scott Leibs • March 8, 2005
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    iPods at the Office

    The ubiquity of the iPod has made its maker, Apple Computer Inc., the world’s top brand. The company received a Valentine last month from marketing research firm Interbrand, which named the Silicon Valley pioneer the most recognizable brand on the planet. Apple, which topped the survey two years ...

    By Russ Banham • March 2, 2005
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    This Is Progress?

    A few months back, an executive in the software industry received an unexpected E-mail — a message from a former classmate whom he hadn’t heard from in years. It was easy for the ex-classmate to track him down: a Google search on almost any senior executive (or anyone residing in the troposphere,...

    By Scott Leibs • March 1, 2005
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    In the Year 2025

    When CFO began publishing, back in the primordial ooze of 1985, each issue contained a sizable amount of technology coverage. The editorial slant made sense. The arrival of IBM’s original personal computer just a few years earlier, and the subsequent release of Lotus 1-2-3, had turned the finance...

    By John Goff • March 1, 2005
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    Same Caller, New Message

    The move to outsource human resources continues to accelerate, despite the fact that the jury is still out on the primary reason to outsource: cost savings.“If you went to [HR] conferences a few years ago, the message was, ‘If you outsource, you’ll save lots and lots of money,'” recalls Robert Cr...

    By Anne Stuart • Feb. 23, 2005
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    Any Storm in a Portal?

    When the technology downturn took the exuberance out of the software business, Mapics Inc., an Atlanta supplier of enterprise systems, decided to shed real estate rather than people. The company made such a commitment to telecommuting that three-fourths of its staff now work from home, client sit...

    By Scott Leibs • Feb. 22, 2005
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    Pressing the Money Button

    When Henry Ijams looks at the way American businesses pay their bills, he sees a mess. “Our European counterparts are flabbergasted when they come to the U.S. and they see that we still make 80 percent of our business-to-business payments by paper checks; they can’t believe it,” says Ijams, manag...

    By John Edwards • Feb. 8, 2005
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    Thumbscrew, 2.0

    Seems those 17th-century Italians were wrong: you can get blood from a stone.In a move that is guaranteed to raise the hackles of finance chiefs at cash-strapped companies, software vendors are attempting to wring more money out of existing customers. Part of the wringing stems from revamped pric...

    By John Edwards • Feb. 2, 2005
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    ”Home-Sourcing” vs. Offshoring

    As many U.S. companies prepare to export jobs overseas, other companies are working to keep them at home — literally — as a substitute for call centers. According to a recent study by consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton, not only is such “home-sourcing” cheaper than traditional outsourcing, but home ...

    By John P. Mello Jr. • Jan. 26, 2005
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    Counterfeits and Cover-Ups

    Is it real?That question may soon be raised even more often in offices, boardrooms, and courtrooms, as digital technology makes it increasingly easier to manipulate and duplicate corporate records.Contracts, deeds, photographs, letters, e-mails, spreadsheets, audio and video recordings, and even ...

    By John Edwards • Jan. 25, 2005
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    Taming Postmerger IT Integration

    To succeed, a merger requires the smooth integration of IT systems and services, but the task often plunges the CFO responsible for ensuring the savings into uncharted territory. Confronted by an immediate technical challenge, companies typically choose one of two questionable routes. Some, feari...

    By The McKinsey Quarterly • Jan. 18, 2005
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    Toward an Imperfect Union

    (Editor’s note: This article was reported before the Oracle-PeopleSoft deal was finalized, but its main point holds true: Customers of both companies have been and will continue to be affected in a variety of ways.)It’s part soap opera, part high-tech celebrity death match — Silicon Valley’s answ...

    By Anne Stuart • Dec. 21, 2004
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    Buyer Beware

    By many measures, outsourcing is a great success story. Service providers may have taken a severe beating from politicians and the press this election season, but they seem to have won the battle that counts most — persuading executives that outsiders can often do nonstrategic work cheaper and be...

    By Don Durfee • Dec. 8, 2004
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    Six Degrees of Cooperation

    Andra Marx knows the value of a good connection. Marx is a senior account executive at IntraLinks, a New York company that provides online meeting rooms in which employees of financial institutions, law firms, private-equity firms, and corporations hash out mergers, acquisitions, and other financ...

    By Yasmin Ghahremani • Nov. 30, 2004
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    Getting a Grip on Performance

    See the guide to business-performance-management software companiesSeveral recent developments in the world of business-performance management (BPM) software may inject new life into a concept that dates back to at least 2000. New competitors are helping to drive down prices, the need to cope wit...

    By Connie Winkler • Nov. 23, 2004