Publications

The right choice* Implementation starts with selection
Businesses are complex organisms. From the production line to sales representatives in the field to accounts receivable professionals in the back office, a company often needs help automating and streamlining its interlocking processes. Enterprise systems offer operational and strategic advantages to companies that employ them; a thorough selection process is imperative to choosing the right system.

Managing IT in through the downturn
This paper explores our approach to cost reduction, underpinned by a framework that addresses strategy, structure, people, processes, as well as technology. By looking at all five dimensions, PwC can help organizations identify tangible, sustainable opportunities to reduce cost and support the delivery of an IT service which genuinely supports value creation and provides a flexible platform for supporting future growth.

Technology forecast: Summer 2008
This new quarterly journal takes its cue from the well-known annual PwC Technology forecast books published for over a decade. The inaugural issue considers how IT is evolving within the context of an emerging management model focused on creating enterprise agility. As authority is pushed out to the edge, what IT enablers will facilitate faster decision making? How will companies manage continuous change and the complexity that results from it? What kinds of collaboration and other Web 2.0 tools can help? What's the next important software suite?

Technology forecast: Fall 2008
Do more with less. Be more innovative. Manage continuous change. Anticipate market shifts. Standardize wherever possible to reduce costs. Be more agile. In scores of conversations with business and technology executives, it has become evident to PricewaterhouseCoopers that many apparently unrelated initiatives share a common challenge: effective management in an era of continuous change without tearing the organization apart by lurching from one initiative or crisis to the next. This issue of the Technology Forecast describes how.

Technology forecast: Winter 2009
This issue explores the future of enterprise applications and their role in creating a foundation for agility in an environment of accelerating change. PwC offers a three-layer framework and rationale for extending the capabilities of enterprise applications further into management. PwC’s solution bridges the gap between strategy and operations by balancing standardization with flexibility to deliver significant competitive advantage through higher performance and more agile strategies and behaviors.

Technology forecast: Summer 2009
This issue explores the impact of cloud computing trends on IT infrastructure and its role in creating a foundation for business agility. It shows how today's IT environments are dominated by a collection of built to order legacy solutions that were designed to deliver functionality in a silo, but not designed for agility and change. That's because these legacy solutions are tightly coupled stacks of logically distinct layers of IT infrastructure (compute, storage, network) and applications. The provisioning and daily management of this infrastructure is also largely non-standard and manual.

How technology helps to create an agile enterprise
Oracle alliance overview

Business Transformation

IFRS is on the horizon: Are your systems ready?
Oracle IFRS whitepaper

10Minutes on realizing ERP value
10Minutes on realizing ERP value discusses how economic downturns can be the best time to undertake a wide range of ERP-related actions

Human Capital Transformation

Creating an agile workforce through human capital and talent management transformation
Oracle human capital transformation overview

Creating an agile workforce: Leading practices in transforming talent management
Oracle human capital transformation whitepaper

Corporate Performance Management (CPM, also known as EPM)

How to leverage technology to drive sustainable corporate business performance
Oracle corporate performance management overview

Achieving value by effectively anticipating and managing change
Oracle corporate performance management whitepaper

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)

Leveraging technology to integrate governance, risk and compliance
Oracle governance, risk and compliance overview

Security and Identity Management (IdM)

How optimizing access, roles, and responsibilities translates directly to business value
Oracle security and identity management overview

From people to process: Unlocking the value of identity and access management with Oracle technology
Oracle security and identity management whitepaper

Finance Transformation and Implementation

SAP and IFRS: Complying with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): Getting your systems ready to meet financial consolidation and reporting requirements

Enterprise Transformation

Customer Effectiveness: The heart of your business*
Advance your ability to win, keep and deepen relationships with your customers.

Governance, Risk, Controls and Compliance

How to navigate risk management and compliance complexity
Leveraging SAP® BusinessObjects™ Process Control to transform risk management into a strategic investment and reduce compliance spend.

Business Intelligence and Enterprise Data Management

How can your organization empower decision-makers to anticipate, manage, and create change
Embrace the Enterprise Decision Management framework to harness the power of your data management, business intelligence, and knowledge management assets.