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How to Achieve 100% Electronic AR Invoicing Realistic Steps to Quit Paper

Esker Inc. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper illustrates that solutions exist today with a proven track record of success in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing while satisfying their customers' needs.

Fixed Assets Past, Present and Future: Realizing Maximum Value from Enterprise Investments

TAKE Supply Chain — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This webcast explores the emerging paradigm for fixed asset management -- including new approaches and technologies for tracking the logical and physical deployment of fixed assets within the enterprise to extend asset life, improve utilization, and squeeze every dollar out of a company’s investment in equipment and facilities.

State of Green in the Data Center

IBM — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This session describes the emerging and continually maturing state of green energy management world wide from not only a data center view but a view across the enterprise.

Spend Performance Management - Maximize Savings, Reduce Supplier Risks

SAP America Inc — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

The SAP BusinessObjects Spend Performance Management application provides full visibility into direct and indirect spend, and helps companies proactively identify cost savings opportunities and supply risks, reduce costs, maintain supply continuity, and increase spend under management.

Webcast - Towards a Smarter Enterprise: Driving Business Efficiency and Innovation

IBM — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Join this webcast to learn how organizations can leverage process and technology analysis and planning; then design, execute and govern effectively and efficiently.

Online Trial: Rational System Architect

IBM — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Try IBM® Rational® System Architect® V11.3, which enables business managers and IT professionals to plan, model, and execute changes to improve their business strategy and process as well as the IT systems and infrastructure that support them, enabling successful enterprise planning and transformation.

Video Whitepaper: Managing Risk and Uncertainty - An Executive ' s Guide to Integrated ...

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

A time of unprecedented market volatility and competition calls for a new business strategy. View this video white paper to learn how integrated business planning can help your company align strategic, operational, and financial plans.

Webcast - Turn Your IT Plan into a Competitive Advantage in an Uncertain Market: Harnessing ...

IBM — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Join this webcast to learn how Enterprise Architecture integrated with Portfolio Management is empowered to integrate your strategic goals into your organization's capital planning, business planning and technology architecture activities. In this way, your strategic planning outputs become actionable.

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.

Data Migration for Project Leaders

DataFlux Corporation — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This guidebook provides the answers with a series of detailed sections including essential activities such as planning, forecasting, risk management, team selection, communication and collaboration.

Continuous Innovation for Product and Service Leadership: An Approach Driven by Business Value

SAP America Inc — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The need to keep product and service offerings fresh is not a new concept in business today, but the new approach is involving a network of business partners and even customers in their quest to innovate. This process is called "continuous product and service innovation."

Presentation Transcript: Buying Your BI Solution from Your ERP Vendor: Strategic Business ...

IBM — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This presentation transcript explores the benefits and drawbacks of buying business intelligence (BI) solutions from enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, and shares survey results that reveal whether or not customers who have gone down the sole-sourcing path are happy with their decision.

SAP Pitfalls: How Can You Avoid Them?

AT&T Corp — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

SAP ERP applications can help you increase productivity, reduce costs, and gain strategic advantage. However, they touch every business process across your company and the risk for problems with implementation, management, and upgrades can be high. This paper identifies the most common SAP pitfalls and explains the best ways to resolve them.

Buying your BI solution from your ERP vendor: Strategic Business Enabler or IT Convenience ...

IBM — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This Podcast explores the benefits and drawbacks of buying business intelligence (BI) solutions from enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, and shares survey results that reveal whether or not customers who have gone down the sole-sourcing path are happy with their decision.

HP Integrity Server Blades and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) in SAP application ...

Arrow ECS HP Group and Intel — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Enterprises that rely on enterprise resource planning and business intelligence applications have a solution that can manage exploding volumes of data while lowering cost and simplifying operations. HP Integrity server blades are designed to be always available, always scalable, and always virtualized to support applications such as SAP.

PlateSpin® Recon: Virtual Capacity Management and Consolidation Planning

Novell Inc. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.

Buying your BI solution from your ERP vendor: Strategic Business Enabler or IT Convenience?

IBM — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webcast explores the benefits and drawbacks of buying business intelligence (BI) solutions from enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, and shares survey results that reveal whether or not customers who have gone down the sole-sourcing path are happy with their decision.

PlateSpin Recon: Virtual Capacity Management and Consolidation Planning

Novell Inc. — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Watch this webcast to learn about a new unique workload profiling tool that takes the guess work out of identifying underutilized physical servers and virtual hosts. Learn how to leverage this tool for improved use and longer life of your current hardware.

Optimizing Virtualization to Deliver Best & #45;in & #45;Class Outcomes

VKernel — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This EMA paper (prepared for VKernel) discusses the challenges in achieving virtualization goals in the enterprise and how capacity management can help optimize resource utilization while maintaining performance.

Gaining a Competitive Edge: Streamlining AP and Business Process Automation

Esker Inc. — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper is designed to assist CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, Accounts Payable managers and ERP system administrators in learning, planning and evaluating automation of accounts payable processes to gain added efficiency in today's competitive business environment.

How To Optimize Resource Utilization and Increase VM Densities on Your Existing Hardware

VKernel — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

View this VKernel webcast to learn how to best optimize resource utilization in your current ESX environment. During this 30 minute presentation, we'll discuss how capacity planning is different in an ESX environment, resource alignment, and many other aspects of capacity planning within your current environment.

Databases and ERP Selection: Oracle vs SQL Server

IFS — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

How do Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database platforms compare on reliability, scalability and cost when run under enterprise software? Download this white paper for details.

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.

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...

Compliant Manufacturing Operations In Life Sciences Companies

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

With compliant manufacturing operations, you can deliver quality products to customers consistently and meet good manufacturing practices regulations at the lowest cost possible - all key to leading the competition. How can you achieve such objectives? With software and services from SAP and our partners.

SAP & #174; BusinessObjects & #153; Data Services: One Product For Data Quality and Data ...

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

Introducing SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services breakthrough technology software for the enterprise information management market. The software unifies our leading data-quality and integration solutions - helping your organization to move, transform, and improve virtually any type of data anywhere, at any frequency.

How Manufacturers Can Use Project ERP to Weather Tough Times

IFS — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper discusses how an organization can Survive poor economic conditions with strategic thinking and use of Project ERP by managing a downturn like a variance in a project.

A Fresh Look at SAP’s Software as a Service (SaaS) Solution

SAP — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

After a year of silence surrounding SAP’s newest Enterprise Resource Planning solution, SAP Business ByDesign is back. Read this Aberdeen Group paper for an analyst’s review of the product, including insights on the product’s price, functionality, and versatility.

On-Demand ERP in the Enterprise: A practical CIO guide to implementation

NetSuite — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper sets out a framework for deciding on and implementing on-demand ERP within enterprises.. It examines key concerns such as data integrity in enterprise systems, maintaining compliance and ensuring proper process management, as well as discussing new skills and approaches to help maximize returns on investment.

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...

Measuring the ROI of ERP in SMB: Keeping ERP Projects Alive When You Need Them the Most

SAP America Inc — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This report serves as a roadmap to small to midsize businesses (SMBs) for realizing the maximum Return on Investment (ROI) from ERP implementations.

Performance Management for a Challenging Economy

IBM — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In a challenging economy, the price paid for bad decisions can be dire. Even average decisions can cost your organization dearly. See how information sweet spots and performance management can help you not only weather the storm, but be better prepared to steer your way with greater agility into the upturn.

Garnering Executive Support: Building Your Business Plan for Strategic Meetings Management

StarCite — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this white paper, brought to you by StarCite, corporate travel and meetings professionals will learn why executive support is vital to a strategic meetings management effort and how to garner that support - even if it requires investment and resources from upper management.

Warehouse Management Today: Balancing Financial Pressures and Growing Demands

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

This paper explains why a warehouse management system (WMS) is one of the key technologies required to create a successful adaptive supply chain network. This system enables the extended warehouse to sense and respond to a variety of business requirements and meet complex and changing customer needs.

Leverage ERP for Sales & #38; Operations Planning

IFS — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Read this white paper to learn how to use your ERP to facilitate Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), which helps manufacturers rapidly adjust to changes in the market.

Using enterprise architecture to develop a blueprint for improving your energy efficiency ...

IBM — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns?

Doing Good: Business and the sustainability challenge: An Executive Summary focusing on ...

SAP America Inc — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Read this report on an EIU survey of 320 executives. Focusing on North America case studies and issues, the report reviews the growing importance of sustainability strategies and management and the challenges included.

How Successful Manufacturing ERP Selections Are Made: The Top Things to Look for, Look at, ...

IQMS — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This paper examines the major considerations manufacturers looking to add, upgrade of replace Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software should be aware of. By being cognizant of these aspects you'll ensure that you'll be able to select a solution that best fits your needs, both now and in the future.

Oracle Hyperion Workforce Planning

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

In most organizations, employee compensation and related expenses are the largest line items in the budget. Having control over these expenses is critical to meeting corporate performance objectives. Check out this data sheet to learn more.

Managing SharePoint in an Enterprise Environment

Global Knowledge — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and other SharePoint technologies are excellent tools for a modern, web-based office environment. This white paper gives pointers on managing them.

SharePoint E-Zine Vol.2: Practical IT Strategies for Enterprise Collaboration

SearchWinIT — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This eZine explains planning global enterprise SharePoint deployments, creating custom global search scopes in SharePoint and top tips for harnessing Microsoft SharePoint governance.

Top 10 Tips for Successful Access Control

FoxT — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This paper offers a practical guide to implementing fine-grained access controls with ten aspects that are important to consider when planning an implementation of fine-grained access controls in a corporate server environment.

Best Practices in Extending Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): A Buyer & #39;s Guide to ...

SAP America Inc — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Extending ERP is the focus of this document, which encompasses utilizing more functionality, extending the footprint beyond the core ERP functionality and making decisions between ERP vendors and pure play or "Best of Breed" solutions.

Augmenting the Value of ERP to Achieve the Perfect Plant

Apriso Corporation — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This paper reviews multiple compelling issues of establishing and maintaining connectivity to manufacturing operations to achieve the Perfect Plant through an existing ERP system.

Building Blocks for Enterprise Business Architecture

Infosys Technologies Limited — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

We evaluate the established meta-models and frameworks of enterprise business architecture, and extract the key ingredients to build an innovative meta-model.

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.

Usability as an ERP Selection Criteria

IFS — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

ERP software is often criticized for being complex and difficult to use. Read this paper to learn how to evaluate ERP software for usability.

Reduce the Pain of ERP Upgrades with Better Planning

SAP America Inc — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This Report offers guidance on developing an overall corporate strategy for maintaining an ERP system by providing practical advice for planning and managing an ERP upgrade project.

6 Steps to Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation Success

IFS — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Contact Relationship Management (CRM), and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is complicated. Here are six simple steps to take to manage that complexity.

Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation

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

This paper explains business strategies, trends, and issues related to enterprise resource planning, financial management, operations management, and human capital management that drive the consideration of ESA.