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Atrion Enhances Managed Services and Boosts Profit Margins with Nimsoft

Nimsoft, Inc. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Atrium needed help gaining end-to-end service level monitoring insights and finding a monitoring platform with a strategic vendor partnership that could help support business growth objectives. Read this case study to learn about the problems Atrion faced and how Nimsoft products helped them overcome those challenges.

2009 ERP Report: Hospitality and Entertainment

Panorama Consulting Group — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This part of Panorama’s ERP Report outlines the use of ERP software at companies in the hospitality and entertainment industry, including a comparison of ERP results to other industries. This study includes ERP implementation results surrounding average budget, duration, actual costs, and implementation variables.

Driving Operations through Better, Faster Decision Making

SAP AG — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Software can't tell you how to beat the competition, but it can determine which products and services have the greatest profit margin, who are the most productive employees, or how many pairs of socks customers buy when they purchase particular styles of shoes. Having accurate, timely data takes the guesswork out of the decision-making process.

Finding a Route to Recovery: Four Strategies

Cisco Systems, Inc. — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Some small businesses are proactively finding roads to recovery, using network technology to reposition themselves. Their rules: Rethink the way business has been done, and accelerate recovery by investing in 21st-century technology that raises revenues, controls costs, and/or improves cash flow.

EMA Impact Brief: CA Spectrum Service Assurance Bridges Service Management Gap

CA — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this brief paper to learn how the new CA integrated service management product offers real hope for beleaguered IT organizations that are trying to bring together the pieces to build an integrated service management story.

Webcast: Winning Strategies for the Evolving Legal Marketplace

BlackBerry — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this webinar, you'll learn about the rapidly changing state of law firms, how law firms must pay closer heed to business management issues to remain competitive. You'll hear the voice of the client and what law firms must do to succeed in the face of change.

Winning Strategies for the Evolving Legal Marketplace

BlackBerry — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Law firms have had to develop new strategies to compete and win in a legal market that contains greater uncertainty than any that has come before it. This paper will briefly outline strategies for success in the evolving legal marketplace.

actiTIME 2.0 - Time-Tracking Software

Actimind, Inc. — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

actiTIME is a time-tracking application for small and medium size teams. It helps improve business process, analyze performance and reduce costs. It provides an easy way to track time, manage job assignments, generate reports and prepare billing data.

Product Environmental Footprint And Ecolabeling: An Approach For Both Environmental ...

SAP America Inc — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Business interest in environmental footprinting stemmed originally from an understanding of supply chain vulnerabilities and complexities, and this remains an important driver. However, with growing public concern over environmental issues, environmental footprinting has grown in importance to many businesses.

Six Easy Ways to Control Storage Growth

NTP Software — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Controlling storage growth has become one of the most important challenges for many companies. This White Paper explores six ways that others have used with great success.

Award-Winning VoIP Provider Deploys Five9 in Profit Centers to Launch Marketing Campaigns

Five9 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read case study to learn how Vonage selected the Five9 Virtual Call Center Suite to launch an ambitious campaign to win back over 70,000 customers. Read on to learn how Five9 Virtual Call Center Suite offers superior-quality VoIP, predictive dialer, inbound call capabilities, comprehensive management and customer tracking tools, and more.

Driving Business Process Productivity by Tuning Your Customer-Centric Business Processes ...

Microsoft — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webcast demonstrates how Microsoft Dynamics CRM can be used to capture and manage structured and unstructured sales and marketing customer data within a single, integrated system can help increase your organization's return on investment.

Data Growth - Addressing the Elephant in the Room

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This videocast discusses tiered storage strategies and also tips and tools on how to lower IT investments while optimizing storage efficiency. Download this informative videocast to learn more!

Business Success in a Dark Market: An Inside Look at How the Fraud Underground Operates

RSA, The Security Division of EMC — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The fraud underground is a sophisticated criminal enterprise that operates much like a real-world business. This white paper examines how the fraudster underground operates, the intricate supply chain that supports it, and how it continues to evolve.

Northern Solution Series: Profiting From Real & #45;World Storage Management

Northern Parklife — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The Northern Storage Suite is a management solution by Northern Parklife Inc. that will help reclaim, reduce and maximize your current infrastructure. This article provides four real-world examples dealing with reclaiming capacity, reducing data growth, maximizing storage resources, and involving users while minimizing administration.

Best Practices to Secure any Size Business from Today ' s Top Threats

McAfee, Inc. — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

For best practices on securing your organization from current threats, check out this videocast. Review trends in spamming, data loss, social engineering, and more. Find out how combining the right tools and education increases your level of protection.

Podcast: Best Practices to Secure any Size Business from Today ' s Top Threats

McAfee, Inc. — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

For best practices on securing your organization from current threats, check out this podcast. Review trends in spamming, data loss, social engineering, and more. Find out how combining the right tools and education increases your level of protection.

Dell Virtualization: Simplifying the Path to Profit

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webinar will explain Dell's virtualization approach and discuss Dell's virtualization optimized technologies; explaining the methodologies and approaches taken to help you work with customers to bundle more solutions and services when selling virtualization solutions.

Creating and managing value-driven product portfolios

IBM — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The product portfolio decisions you make today will determine whether your company is relevant tomorrow. To increase the chances of marketing a successful product, organizations must deliver products and services to the consumers they value the most, and they must provide those deliverables when their consumers want them. Read on to learn more.

CA VPM Webcast - On Demand: Unleashing the Potential of Virtualization Management

CA — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

View this presentation for the latest information on virtualization management in the enterprise.

Video White Paper: Seven Tips for Profiting from Lean Times with CRM

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The best time to streamline and turbo-charge the sales process is when competitors are looking the other way. That's why now is a good time to make the shift to a CRM solution that can catapult your organization into the next round of growth.

Growth And Complexity: The Challenges Ahead For Midsize Manufacturers

SAP America Inc — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This is the first in a series of six reports addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by midsize manufacturers.

The Profitability Perspective: How Automated Reporting Drives Better Decisions

SAP America Inc — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Driving sustainable growth requires profitability-focused planning and performance management. This special study highlights some key survey findings, which collectively show that profitability reporting is increasing in importance and the use of technology and more sophisticated costing and reporting solutions is high on the agendas of many...

BI for Business Users: How IT Can Make Business Intelligence Easy for Everyone

IBM — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Today, the latest BI solutions put the power of advanced business intelligence into the hands of more people throughout the organization - improving the speed and accuracy of decision-making from top to bottom. Knowing your business, market, customers, and competition is critical for any organization. Read this for more...

Painting the CPG Supply Chain GREEN

Wipro Technologies — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper offers a solution for businesses to achieve balance between profitability and sustainability by leveraging the platform of packaged implementations.

Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality: Managing Service Quality and Risk to Service ...

CA — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

With the economy down it is important for IT organizations to be as efficient as possible. This means that IT operations, those responsible for the product and health of the enterprise, must have full visibility and control over their resources - and of course, the technology to do so.

Achieving North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Cyber Security Standards

Lumension — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

Learn about NERC compliance challenges and how to ensure audit-readiness by delivering end-to-end vulnerability management, endpoint protection and data protection solutions.

The Five Keys to Organic Growth: How to Drive Profitable Relationships with Predictive ...

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper makes the case for using predictive analytics to drive organic growth, and gives two different methods for measuring financial return.

Who Are My Best Customers & #63;

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Who are my best customers? If you manage sales, marketing, or customer service, you want an answer to that. That's because implementing successful strategies for every customer segment is critical to increasing business profits. This paper describes just a few of the ways that you can use analytics to better understand your customers.

How to Profit in a Downturn: 4 Customer & #45;centric Strategies for Growth in a ...

Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

In this white paper, learn how your organization can use customer-centric strategies and CRM tools to maximize the value and loyalty of your customer base. Gain insight into new areas of opportunity and do more with less in a time of economic uncertainty.

Advanced Consulting Enterprises - Mapping Database Solutions to Your Needs

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Guardianship Program is involved in all decisions like paying bills, medical treatments, rent for each person in its system and to manage this they implemented an Oracle Database and Oracle Developer Tool.

Seven Tips for Profiting from Lean Times with CRM

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

With their rapid speed of deployment, integrated analytics and built-in best practices, on-demand CRM solutions can quickly vault a sales organization ahead of its rivals. And because of their flexible licensing structure, on-demand solutions can be deployed selectively, enabling businesses to deploy only as much CRM as they need.

The Business Justification for Data Security

McAfee, Inc. — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Read this report to learn about the business side of data security as we build a justification model to help you determine where, and how much, to invest in protecting your information assets.

Best Practices in Complex Equipment Manufacturing & #44; Sales & #44; and Service

SAP America Inc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper gives a brief overview of the SAP® solutions used by manufacturers of complex products and equipment to differentiate themselves from the competition through superior-value products and services against low-cost global providers.

Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO ...

IBM — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company—cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. IBM Cognos 8 BI lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.

The Capital Delivery Revolution and Technology: Connecting Capital Planning, Construction, ...

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

This white paper recognizes three principal solution areas in the capital project delivery lifecycle: project design, project execution, and organizational governance. In particular, it addresses the area of project execution and the means available today to drive successful project delivery on a consistent basis.

Increase Profits and Customer Satisfaction in the Communications Industry

Infor CRM — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Leading companies are placing more emphasis on inbound marketing and intelligent customer interactions as the means for building powerful customer relationships that boost profitable growth.

The Path toward Pervasive Business Intelligence at Ferrari North America

Tableau Software — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Organizations in all industries and of all sizes are turning to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) technologies and services to either automate or support decision-making processes.

Improving Process Flexibility: How to Respond Quickly to Changing Market Demands by ...

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This white paper will show that by improving process flexibility and transparency, not only can employees and systems adapt more easily to changing requirements, but existing infrastructure and applications can run more smoothly together for longer, thus raising ROI.

Sustainability Matters: Why - and how - business is widening its focus to consider the ...

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices.

The Alarming Shift in Cybercrime: How Organized Attacks Now Target Your Wallet

Blue Coat — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This paper will examine the shift in the nature of cybercrimes, how the thieves target their victims, and what can be done to prevent them.

Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart Servers -- The Smart Choice for Optimizing your Data Center

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Dell's end-to-end approach helps customers worldwide solve their power and cooling challenges and meet the demands of business growth with industry-standard solutions. They offer solutions you can deploy right now, as well as the right mix of tools, partnerships, and services to help you get the most from your existing infrastructure.

The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance

IBM — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Download this white paper for an extensive summary of The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions.

Brand Management & #45; Leveraging the Power of Integrated Marketing

SAP America Inc — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

The evolution of consumer marketing causes everyone to think in new ways. Instead of reaching consumers through traditional media, Internet, product placement and word of mouth are good alternatives. Check out this paper for more information about integrated brand management.

Maximizing Customer Value with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

Oracle Corporation — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.

The Business Value of Business Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This document provides you with the knowledge to gain a complete understanding of all the issues you'll face when implementing a BI solution. In this paper, you'll find numerous examples of current Business Objects customers who are using BI in a variety of creative ways to make their organizations more responsive, productive, and profitable.

Human Capital Management: How Top Organizations Drive Company Profits Efficiently

SAP America Inc — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

The study finds that the best human capital management organizations constantly reassess their processes to strike a balance in the drive to optimize efficiency, cost, and service delivery in a continually changing environment.

Get the Facts on Information Availability: How to Solve Downtime Challenges to ...

Vision Solutions — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

This white paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can unlock the latent potential of your IT environment and deliver new value for your organization.

Establishing a Culture of Measurement - A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence

Information Builders Inc. — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization.

Taking Control of Your Business: Growing Profitably in the Professional Services Market

SAP America Inc — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST

This paper details how professional services firms can grow and thrive in a difficult market by enhancing project visibility, maximizing resource utilization, improving operational efficiency, and successfully acquiring more customers.