Over the past decade, private organizations all over the world have looked to shared services as a way to create competitive advantage, enhance controls and gain greater flexibility. These same organizations have sought more than centralization. They have created SSO’s to leverage technology, develop stronger controls and information flow and generally improve the service these functions provide. They seek to allocate resources to the co...

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