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British Women Bolt for Aussie Blokes: With promises of plentiful sunshine, affordable homes, low crime, good jobs, and lots of single men, Southern Australia is luring Britain's highly skilled, young women to its shores. [more]
Dolphins With a Weight Problem: Dolphins at Kinosaki Marine World in western Japan are on a low fat diet after failing to jump as high as they had previously in their aquatic performances. [more]
Testosterone May Affect Financial Risk Decisions: Testosterone levels may influence men's willingness to make risky financial decisions, according to a new study. [more]
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Microsoft Uses XBRL in SEC Filing: Microsoft Corp reports that it's the first company to submit data to the SEC using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), an XML-based standard that enables quicker financial data analysis. [more]
BPM Initiative: Role-Based Analytics: Today companies realize that planning, budgeting, and forecasting applications are not just tools for the finance department anymore -- sales, marketing, human resources, production, and other departments could improve performance with these aids. [more]
Are We Ready for Mobile Banking?: Although mobile banking attempts haven't succeeded in the United States in the past, experts predict that the current mobile market landscape and improved technology provide a ripe opportunity to kick off mobile banking now. [more]
IBM To Acquire Cognos for $5 Billion: Ottawa-based business intelligence provider Cognos will be purchased by IBM in an all-cash transaction at a price of approximately $58 per share, the companies announced today. [more]
XBRL Use Gains Speed Globally: SEC Chairman Christopher Cox met with securities regulators from Japan, China, Korea, Canada, and Australia to schedule the implementation of interactive data initiatives in financial reporting. [more]
XBRL Still Mysterious to CFOs: Sixty-two percent of CFOs and senior comptrollers think it would be possible to intentionally misstate their financial statement to their auditor, according to a survey conducted by Grant Thornton LLP. [more]
Heavyweight Software for Middleweight Companies: The price points of critical enterprise software packages have dropped sharply in the past decade, putting these tools easily within the reach of midsize companies. [more]
Technology for Talent Management: Intuition is not the best tool to use for succession planning, and employers are realizing that talent management technology could help plan everything from recruiting to retirement. [more]
The Internet Threat: Companies Are Underprepared for Global Disruptions: Here's a question that reveals a huge blind spot in companies' disaster preparedness and business continuity programs: What happens if the Internet goes down? [more]
Corporate Agility Through Analytics: Regardless of the industry, companies that want a competitive advantage must be able to respond quickly to changes in the marketplace. [more]
How To Align HR and BPM: A well-planned technology initiative is one means to bridge the information gap between the HR department and line managers, but even the most efficient and world-class technology system won't make up for managers who lack the skills and commitment to developing people. [more]
SAP To Acquire Business Objects: Business software giant SAP AG will acquire Paris-based Business Objects in a $6.8 billion deal. [more]
Information Is an Ultimate Asset: What is a root cause of missing out on business opportunities, increasing risk and dwindling shareholder value? [more]
Interactive Financial Reporting Making Strides: More than 40 companies are participating in the SEC's voluntary interactive data filing program, and the combined market capitalization of those organizations has capped $2 trillion. [more]
Financial Software: Rent or Buy?: The software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model for enterprise software has been gaining ground, but the traditional own-and-operate model is by no means defunct. [more]
Big Banks Lure Small Businesses: The often overlooked small-business customer is gaining the attention of the largest US banks, which are implementing new products and online tools to appeal to the underdog. [more]
Information Tools Key in a Consumer-Directed Health Plan: A whopping 90 percent of employers that offer a consumer-directed health plan (CDHP) believe communicating the introduction of such plan is the biggest hurdle in implementing one. [more]
IT Alignment From the Ground Up: In discussions of the perennial problem of ensuring that IT's goals harmonize with those of the business at large, attention has mostly focused on the higher managerial levels, in particular the CIO/CFO relationship. [more]
5 Steps for Better BI: An estimated 70 percent of business intelligence (BI) projects fail to meet an organization's expectations, but there are ways to avoid becoming part of that majority. [more]
Moving Knowledge Up in BI: What do Watergate and the Columbia shuttle disaster have in common? [more]