Quarterly Business Update

Our Quarterly Business Update series provides current insights and market news to benefit today's executives and decision makers. It covers the following key topics:

• Business Intelligence

• Enterprise Resource Planning

• Finance Transformation

• Payments Transformation

• Shared Services and Outsourcing

Payments Transformation

	1/29/2013
China improves the processing of retail payments. This approach is seeing an increase across the country in initiatives and investment in the principles and technologies that will promote consumer spending and maintain retail liquidity.

	9/25/2012
With the increasing number of licenses being issued, the question is how both domestic and international players in the third party payment market can obtain approval to deliver services within the six major categories of service.

	9/14/2012
While cash remains the most popular means of exchange in China, we are seeing a rapid shift towards electronic payment methods.

	5/21/2012
Significant developments in social media and mobile technology has resulted in an intense focus on payment processes across all sectors.

Business Intelligence

	11/26/2012
Is the World Ready for Big Data?; Applications of Advanced Analytics; The Big Divide: CMO vs. CIO; The Technology Challenge; Break the Challenge Down – Bite Size Big Data

	7/6/2012
Business Intelligence is a broad discipline involving strategy and technology and it is designed to provide different stakeholders within organisations across all industry sectors with the right information at the right time to support the right decision.

Enterprise Resource Planning

	1/24/2013
Foreign direct investment in China is growing, and more foreign companies are setting up subsidiaries in China every year.

	7/31/2012
As a business leader, you know that change is the only constant in today’s marketplace. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has far outlived what it originally set out to do.

Finance Transformation

	12/10/2012
The environment in which CFOs operate is constantly changing and is often disruptive. This is particularly true in the current market, which this year is again underpinned by uncertainty and volatility.

	8/16/2012
Finance change seems to be a constant state for many organisations around the world. Change is driven by both external and internal drivers such as regulatory change or cost reduction, which in turn trigger changes in other areas.

Shared Services and Outsourcing

	2/26/2013
In Part two of our second Shared Services and Outsourcing Quarterly Business Update, we highlight how vendor management is evolving and explain how KPMG breaks vendor management in to functional areas that can be reviewed and monitored.

	2/21/2013
Over the past few decades, shared services centres (SSCs) and outsourcing have been widely adopted by over 90 percent of Fortune 500 corporations.

	9/5/2012
Over the past few decades, shared services centres (SSCs) and outsourcing have been widely adopted by over 90 percent of Fortune 500 corporations.

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