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Five Magic Bullets: Strategies for Improved Enterprise Faxing

Computer-based, network fax servers offer a high quality, low maintenance enterprise fax solution, well-suited for organizations involved in fax-intensive industries. From first-rate administration and development tools to comprehensive integration with existing network resources, fax servers can accelerate document processing and turnaround time while reducing communication costs.

Beyond Email: Integrated Online Tools for Managing The Customer Relationship Lifecycle

Long ago dubbed the 'killer app', email marketing has now reached the height of its potential and is poised to assume its place as the medium of choice for maintaining customer relationships. In fact, despite the threat of spam, marketers are continuing to turn to email marketing initiatives - with impressive results. Email marketing continues to be the most affordable, efficient and personalized way to connect with clients and future prospects.

Maintain Your Focus: Sustaining the Lean Transformation on the Shop Floor

Lean has become the proven approach companies have used in industry after industry to transform into – and maintain position as – leading, dominant, world-class competitors. Yet, many companies that begin the Lean transformation process with energy and resolve fail to sustain and complete the transformation to a Lean organization. Download this white paper to learn more.

PayStream Advisors Analyst White Paper: Imaging and Workflow Automation

A survey of Fortune 1000 finance, treasury and accounting professionals found that 20 to 30 percent of respondents are actively exploring Imaging and Workflow Automation (IWA) solutions. This analyst white paper provides an introduction to IWA, describes the most common forms that solutions take and highlights the benefits they deliver.

5 Ways ERP Can Help You Implement Lean

Why is Lean so popular? Because it delivers what manufacturing companies truly need in today's highly competitive world: shorter lead times, improved quality, reduced cost, increased profit, improved productivity and enhanced customer service.

11 Criteria For Selecting The Best ERP System Replacement

An ERP system is your information backbone and reaches into all areas of your business and value-chain. Replacing it can open unlimited business opportunities. In this white paper are the 11 criteria that will allow you to identify and select the ERP system replacement solution that will meet these expectations.

Procurement Services Provider: Full Service Procurement for Competitive Advantage

This paper introduces the Procurement Services Provider model and how it can help companies significantly reduce procurement costs for greater bottom line value. The paper published by the Aberdeen Group speaks about the value a PSP can bring to an organization and it showcases ICG Commerce as a pioneer for this new service offering.

Lower Costs with On-Demand CRM & Accounting/ERP Solutions

This Yankee Group White Paper, compliments of NetSuite, shows how on-demand applications can significantly reduce cost vs. on-premise applications. See how to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of deploying & integrating CRM & accounting/ERP applications.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Up SaaS Operations

Building a scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS infrastructure can be a daunting undertaking for a software company. This step-by-step guide lets you know what you need to consider.

CPM and The Big 3: Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting for Success

Never has the need for a modern corporate performance management (CPM) solution -- one that unifies the "big three" processes of planning, budgeting, and forecasting -- been more critical to regaining and sustaining the accuracy, consistency, and transparency you expect from your numbers. Read this white paper to learn more.

A PDF Primer

PDF files are prevalent in virtually all market segments worldwide. Most people know and use the term "PDF" but have misconceptions what it can and can't do. The purpose of this White Paper is to explain what PDF actually is and what it's strengths and limitations are.

Managing End-To-End Infrastructure and Critical Applications

With the current demands on today's CIO and IT Managers, implementing a top notch, easy-to-use proactive network, application and server support structure that meets budgetary confines can seem like a daunting task. Until now...

An Introduction to Product Information Management

In today's complex global life sciences marketplace, the ability to manage product information is a daunting task. The ability to ensure greater control over this critical product information has led to the development of a standard for product information throughout the European Union. If your company as not begun to think about PIM, now is the time, download this white paper immediately.

An Introduction to Structured Product Labeling

In February 2004, the FDA issued a Draft Guidance requiring the electronic submission of labeling content to be provided in an XML-based format called Structured Product Labeling (SPL). The purpose of this white paper is for the reader to gain an understanding and prepare for the FDA's new electronic labeling submission standard.

Automating Product-Centric Decisions: RuleStream Advances the Technology of Knowledge Capture

The ability to harness intellectual property and product know-how is a key to competitive advantage. RuleStream appears to have broken through past technological barriers in rules-driven knowledge capture and reuse.

Accelerating Business Processes for Products That Are Sold, Engineered, or Manufactured to Order

Manufacturers of products with highly configurable and ever-changing customer requirements must confront specific challenges and operate far differently than traditional product development environments.

Benefits of On-Demand CRM over Traditional Installed-On-Premise CRM Software Solutions

The high price and complexity of traditional, installed-on-premise enterprise software has left SMBs unable to obtain true integrated Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. On-demand software-as-a-service is changing all that. This white paper discusses the benefits of the on-demand, or hosted CRM and ERP vs on premise CRM and ERP solution and the benefits to the SMB.

Building Reliable IP Telephony Systems

One of the most important pieces of keeping a business afloat is reflected in its voice system. This white paper takes a comprehensive, yet understandable, look into the world of IP telephony systems by defining reliability and availability, and discussing the important pieces to review when selecting a voice system.

Future-Proof Deployment: Online Insight's Market-Revolutionizing Software Technologies

This white paper describes the technologies underpinning the enterprise software solution suite that OnlineInsight offers today in its Fourth Generation products, and explains how our enterprise-class software systems take software "abilities" to new levels.

Best Practices for Mid-Market CRM

In the decade since customer relationship management (CRM) software first appeared on the market, implementation of the enterprise application suite that helps businesses find new customers, retain existing customers and otherwise increase revenues have gained a reputation as being risky ventures, subject to user rejection, cost overruns, and missed deadlines.

Open Your Doors to Your Customers, Partners and Employees

This white paper provides a basic definition of an Internet portal, and then describes a CRM Portal, a portal that is a component of a CRM system. Different kinds of CRM Portals are discussed in terms of who uses these portals and what are they used for.

Business Integration ROI: Building The Business Case For Integration

Business integration is becoming increasingly important for many companies, with the need to streamline processes for efficiency and productivity while at the same time leveraging years of IT investments and becoming a more agile business that can move swiftly to exploit market opportunities and beat competition.

Introducing webMethods Fabric: Realizing the Promise of Business Process Productivity

The goal of Business Process Productivity is to enable enterprises to become both highly agile and highly efficient, allowing them to more easily leverage their existing information technology (IT) assets to address market opportunities and pressures, and to create competitive differentiation through their business processes. This white paper describes how webMethods Fabric helps companies increase Business Process Productivity.

Network Faxing ROI: What You Don’t Know Could Save You Money

Network fax servers take care of fax jobs more quickly, accurately and inexpensively than any standalone fax machine. Sending a fax with a network fax server takes less than one tenth of the time sending a fax manually. In fact, the higher the fax volume, the more money, time and resources computer-based, network faxing can save.

Network Faxing with Castelle Network Fax Servers

Investing in a fax server is like providing everyone in the office with a virtual fax machine, at a fraction of the cost. Read all about the benefits in this informative paper.

Network Faxing and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Easily implemented and integrated with electronic medical record systems, network fax servers can play a valuable role in supporting HIPAA objectives, offering a standardized, enterprise-wide faxing solution, and helping to maintain a high standard of security, efficiency and organization.

Run Book Automation, Job Scheduling For IT Operations

This paper highlights how Run Book Automation Software provides the new level of automation required to automate IT operations and traditional job scheduling tasks, without the costs and management burden associated with custom programming and scripts.

Top 10 Tips for Web-Based Collaboration in SMBs

The following tips can help you select Web-based collaboration software that offers all the features you need to get your entire team working together effectively.

EvolveWare’s S2T Technology - Automated Software Analysis, Documentation & Transformation

Software analysis, documentation, migration, upgrades or replacements are daunting and risky endeavors because they are primarily manual and time-consuming. EvolveWare’s S2T Technology provides a solution to these problems with tools that automate the process up to 90%, thus reducing the time and cost of such initiatives by as much as 40-60%.

Delivering on the Enterprise Business Intelligence Mandate

This white paper discusses the specific business and architectural success factors to consider when selecting one Enterprise Business Intelligence Suite (EBIS) to serve as the enterprise standard.

Deploying an Operational Business Intelligence Architecture

The best business intelligence solutions use a data integration framework to optimize data access and BI processes at the source: the systems that run the business.

Achieving Compliance- Meeting Today's Reporting Requirements With Business Intelligence Technology

Learn about the challenges and solutions for meeting the reporting requirements faced by today’s organizations, with attention to formal government legislation, industry-specific regulations, and internal corporate governance.

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

This paper serves as a synopsis of Information Builders' philosophy of business intelligence. By using this paper as a model, you'll learn how to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization.

The Cost of a Question – Examining Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence Solutions

Reduce the purchase, maintenance, and implementation costs of business intelligence by standardizing on a single solution that meets all of your reporting and information delivery needs. This paper compares the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of BI solutions from Cognos, Business Objects, and Information Builders.

Butler Group on iWay Service Manager

iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment. From an end-user perspective, it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications, without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure.

The Role of ESB in SOA: Creating a Loosely Coupled Integration Architecture

This paper discusses the relationship between ESB, loose coupling, and the effort needed to align IT with business process owners in order to ensure a successful SOA implementation in any organization.

An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments

Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today's business integration requirements? This paper provides an overview of the promises and realities of collaborative SOA environments, and describes how iWay SOA Middleware solutions make the benefits of an SOA achievable, while protecting investments in already-in-place applications, middleware, and information systems.

Your IT Guy Has Enough on His Plate Without Being the HIPAA Police

How is HIPAA Security Rule compliance impacting your IT department? This paper explores some solutions.

Got The Enterprise Software Blues? Appliances to the Rescue

This paper explores how Appliance-based Software Delivery (AbSD) provides a better alternative to both software and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Using Predictive Analytics to Uncover Root Causes and Solve Problems vs. Treat Symptoms

Predictive analytics can be utilized to uncover root causes so that problems can be eradicated. Read this white paper to learn how companies can use predictive analytics treatment and prevention approaches to save time and resources, eliminate root causes of problems, and obtain the actionable insight required to improve marketing effectiveness.

Five Key Building Blocks Help You Realize the Bottom-line Benefits of Predictive Analytics

Building a top-tier analytics practice is an evolution. The best approach is to start small, then scale with each success. Learn how to incrementally build your analytics practice with five customizable building blocks that create a strong foundation for analytical success.

Improving ROI with Predictive Analytics: Six Keys to Unlocking the Value of Customer Intelligence

Read this white paper to learn about the six keys to a structured approach to planning and implementation of a predictive analytics infrastructure. Find out how you can turn customer intelligence data into actionable information for improving the accuracy, efficiency and success of your targeting efforts.

How Fast-Growing Companies Obtain CRM Success

This white paper reveals the most vital elements needed to develop a seamless value chain; one that realistically enables an SMB to develop valuable 2-way relationships with their most valuable customer segments.

Discover Low-Cost Data Handling Breakthrough: MSSO

Surprisingly low-cost technology MSSO/SD4E transforms Excel into an incredibly powerful and completely secure Business Intelligence tool capable of quickly and easily manipulating and analyzing live data directly from multiple, disparate data sources, generating even the most complex and sophisticated analytical reports with a simple keystroke.

Easy Integration of Excel with SAP Solutions for Financial Data

This paper describes how to easily integrate Excel data with SAP solutions and the resulting benefits from such integration – reduction in financial closing time, reduction in data entry resources, and availability of timely data for reporting.

Easing Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance by Giving Business Users Control of Their Data

This white paper describes some easy-to-use data management tools that many companies are using to let business users do complex data updates and reporting tasks effortlessly. This technology is not only easing their Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but is also saving these companies large amounts of time and money.

What to Look For When Considering On-Demand Applications

You’ve made the decision: the overall ease and economics of implementing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) appeal to you, and you have selected an application that delivers what you need for your business. The last hurdle is the service component itself — making sure that critical factors like security, speed, and reliability that will affect your users’ experience meet your standards.

Business-Oriented Architecture: Combining BPM and SOA for Competitive Advantage

In this paper, we will discuss the benefits of BPM and SOA in more detail and show how leading companies have recognized that implementing BPM and SOA together gives them unique capabilities.

Making the Case for BPM: A Benefits Checklist

This paper is intended for groups who want to make the business case for investing in BPM to drive process improvement. It provides an overview of the areas of benefit that companies can expect from BPM as well as concrete examples of value.

What's the Difference Between Workflow Engines and BPM Suites?

Ask 10 different vendors to define BPM or BPM suites, and you will likely get 10 variations of the definition, even though all vendors use the same basic terminology to explain it. Learn more about BPM now.

Introduction To Business Process Management (BPM)

For those individuals or organizations that are being asked to investigate process improvement, Business Process Management (BPM) is a term that frequently associated with the process improvement. This paper defines BPM and explains how it can be applied to help companies achieve process improvement goals.

Software As A Service Overview (SaaS)

This white paper on Software as a Service (SaaS) highlights the application development shifts that software vendors must go through to accommodate SaaS.

Sharing Secrets: Online Insight's Golden Nugget Breakthrough for Relationship Management

This white paper describes Online Insight's vision for the next generation in sales and marketing, driven not by guesstimates about a customer based on ancient demographics and historical purchases, but by up-to-the second needs and preferences measured real-time in a first-hand "collaborative customer conversation."

NextGen Healthcare: How Technology Can Help Make Consumer-Directed Healthcare a Reality

This white paper communicates the value of software technologies that provide a single point of entry for prospects and health plan providers (including agents) to educate a new or renewing insured on the full value proposition of each plan offering.

The Business Value of Master Data Management and Product Information Management

This white paper addresses the value of a company’s ability to integrate, analyze and optimize all types and sources of information throughout the product life cycle.

The Definition of a Business Service for Customer Data Integration

This white paper will define different vendor approaches to developing business services and the relative cost implications of each approach for the customer.

WebSphere Customer Center Product Positioning Paper

This paper gives the reader an overview of the functionality of IBM's WebSphere Customer Center, and explains why IBM is the strategic partner that more Fortune 500 companies select as their strategic platform for Customer Data Integration.

WebSphere Product Center at Panasonic

This case study outlines their success in achieving global simultaneous product launches, correct information for catalogs and advertising, faster price change notifications and better Point of Sale (POS) integration.

Controlling Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence

This paper describes how to leverage WebFOCUS business intelligence software to generate Excel spreadsheets directly from enterprise data sources, consolidating large amounts of data, performing complex calculations, and creating advanced structures like PivotTables.

Got CRM? Small Business CRM Software Guide

The purpose of this whitepaper is to educate small business owners on what, why and how CRM can retain existing customers and help their business grow.

Business Intelligence for Mid-Size Organizations: It's Not Just for Industry Giants

Download this step by step guide to learning how mid-size companies can benefit from Business Intelligence. You'll learn the benefits of BI and why mid-size companies need it for effective decision-making and improved results.

Leveraging Lifecycle Management for Software and Business Adapt Ability

In this white paper, you'll learn how to clearly define business requirements, align them with testing, and evolve development processes to prevent defects.

Virtualization Improves Business Continuity

Business continuity and disaster recovery are made more difficult by the pace of business change. Adapting to market changes requires proactive IT. For the first time, you can consolidate business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning in a heterogeneous IT environment with a single, central automated solution.

Business Process Management: The Key to ITIL Success

This white paper describes how ITIL implementation can be rendered simpler, faster, more effective and more affordable by combining new service-oriented Business Process Management (BPM) tools with the established functionality of task-oriented IT management software.

Realizing ROI from Automating Business Processes

This white paper examines some of the business benefits and potential cost savings that can accrue to an organization that implements a BPM solution.

AutoPlay Media Studio 6.0 Customer Presentation

An introductory view of AutoPlay Media Studio 6.0 from the ground up. Learn all about AutoPlay Media Studio 6.0 and see everything it can do. Create everything from attractive front-end menu systems for CD/DVD-ROMs to full multimedia applications!

AutoPlay Media Studio 6.0 Overview

Designed to empower both software developers and non-developers alike, AutoPlay Media Studio 6.0 brings advanced multimedia development abilities to business users, video producers, educators, content distributors, and anyone with an intermediate level of computer knowledge.

What's New in AutoPlay Media Studio 6.0?

This document outlines the new features in AutoPlay Media Studio 6.0 over previous versions of the product. Built on a solid base of proven predecessors, AutoPlay Media Studio 6.0 is more powerful and flexible than ever!

Technical White Paper on Application Virtualization

This technical white paper reviews the principal tenets of application virtualization; freeing application configurations from OS and infrastructure; gaining centralized command and control over system resources; and dynamically allocating resources to applications based on demand.

The Four Corners of the Earth: The Right Position For Global Manufacturers

Access this white paper to learn how by employing technology to surmount the challenges of globalization, manufacturers can expand their businesses profitably to incorporate new markets, new levels of innovation and new revenue streams.

Industry Leading Solutions for Comprehensive Manufacturing Control

Infor Discrete Manufacturing Essentials are built exclusively for discrete manufacturers, with specific functionality that addresses the industry's essential challenges. The result? For one typical Infor customer, a 50 percent reduction in data processing costs and fully automated management of more than 11,000 items and 200 suppliers.

Presenting a Real-Time Enterprise for Your Company

This exclusive Yankee Group White Paper reveals and examines how mid-size businesses can now build a real-time enterprises and leverage real-time information. Learn how to reduce scattered information and silo databases that prevent your enterprise from achieving operational excellence.

Evaluating Financial Management Software - Is It Time for a Change?

This white paper walks through the key areas of a financial management solution so when you are evaluating current and future financial management software, you are prepared to avoid challenges and maximize your investment.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Enterprise Performance and Scalability

Read how demand planning software packages can help manufacturers to establish baseline sales forecasts, incorporating multiple inputs; perform sophisticated analysis that improves their use of human and capital resources; and better understand their markets and customers.

The Keys to Performance

Key Performance Indicators and To-Do Lists provide the opportunity for a company to more fully utilize information already available within the organization to promote greater efficiency, stronger performance, and continuous improvement – all directed toward accomplishing company-wide business objectives for greater stronger asset performance.

Build a Competitive Edge for Manufacturing Plant Operations

This white paper outlines ways that technology can help manufacturers meet these challenges, increase operational efficiency, and step ahead of competitors with more proactive planning, greater shared visibility, and more agile and more profitable responses to change.

CA SiteMinder 100 Million User Project: Cost-Effective Access Management for Large-Scale Enterprise

This paper describes CA SiteMinder performance and scalability in a 100 million user deployment, the test environment, tests conducted and their results, and important conclusions and recommendations.

Adaptive SOA: Enable Composite Applications with Real-Time Agility

By enabling Adaptive SOA, Ultimus Adaptive Discovery takes SOA to the highest level of rapid deployment and agility. It accomplishes this by enabling business processes to be developed rapidly, and to embrace change in real-time. More importantly, it empowers business professionals and analysts who own processes to discover and change processes with IT playing the supporting role to manage the infrastructure.

Ultimus and the Business Process Ecosystem: Complementing SAP and Enterprise Applications

With the largest global installed base of pure-play BPM solutions, the Ultimus BPM Suite exemplifies the role of managing OSAP processes in the business process ecosystem. Customers worldwide use it to extend, maximize and complement their investments in SAP or other enterprise applications.

Enterprise BPM Scalability

Ultimus has been build from the ground-up with scalability in mind. Ultimus’ component-based, database centric architecture position it perfectly as a solution that allows you to effortlessly scale your enterprise business processes.

Top 10 Keys to Gaining Enterprise Configuration Visibility

This paper offers the industry's only solution for automating detailed reporting that ensures Enterprise Configuration Visibility™ – reducing the time and cost associated with IT control, compliance, and security, and ensuring the highest levels of availability and performance for your organization.

Aberdeen Lean Scheduling and Execution Benchmark Report

In this report, find out the operational performance benefits that Best-in-Class manufacturers attribute to the use of Lean Scheduling and Execution principles. Read about Lean Scheduling key metrics and get ready to implement them. Discover best practices in Lean implementations and how these help reduce overall manufacturing costs.

How Google Improved Application Scalability and Agility with a Virtualized Grid Environment

This white paper describes how software-based, real-time grid environments -- i.e. application fabrics -- are successfully meeting the requirements of today's most demanding applications, delivering scalability, manageability and affordability.

Appistry EAF for Intelligence Applications

Organizations serving the intelligence & defense community rely on the performance of their applications for more than revenue - national security depends upon those applications for mission-critical operations. This industry profile details how Appistry provides the reliability and performance demanded by intelligence & defense organizations.

Implementing a Next-Generation Platform for Geospatial Intelligence at GeoEye

Learn why GeoEye chose Appistry EAF to reduce development and operational cost and complexity, and enhance the company's agility in meeting the evolving needs of its customers.

Web-Enabled Applications and the Internet: Satisfying the Growing Expectations of Business Users

Businesses across Europe are becoming increasingly reliant on web-enabled applications that are accessed over the public internet. One of the key drivers for this is to open up communications with external organizations that are fundamental to core business processes.

Worst Practices in SOA Implementation

Designed to help organizations learn from the mistakes of others, this paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration. It also provides guidance on how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices in order to realize the true value of an open, reusable integration architecture. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid SOA integration failure and achieve success with your initiatives.

10 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Midmarket ERP Solution

With any technology, the vendor's job is to try to sell you their product, and they may rely on promises, superlative language and sparkling product demos to try to sway you. And with the midmarket ERP landscape crowded with players vying for your business's dollar, the prospect of choosing the right solution can seem even more daunting. But armed with these 10 questions, you'll be able to see through the hype and narrow down a few vendors that can really deliver what you need.

Midmarket ERP Solutions Buyer's Guide

Until recently, ERP solutions were considered out of the question for all but the largest companies, due to the technology's complexity and large price tags. However, these days, midmarket companies have more choices than ever when it comes to ERP solutions, as competition between vendors has heated up. This Buyer's Guide can help you answer the big (and small) questions so you can make an informed buying decision.

Midmarket ERP Solutions Checklist

So your midmarket company has done its research and has settled on what you feel is the perfect ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution? Not so fast. Before you sign on the dotted line, consider these 12 key points to ensure you're making the best possible decision.

A Manufacturing Imperative: Enterprise SOA

Read how Enterprise SOA goes beyond the fundamentals of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is a distributed software model that uses independent Web services to support business processes as defined by SAP and its partners and customers.

Understanding and Managing Supply Chain Risk

Explore new thinking on potential risk to global supply chains and how companies are adopting the statistical methods more commonly associated with finance and insurance. Identifying and profiling risk variables, quantifying risk, and using IT solutions can create higher resilience.

Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible

As manufacturing goes global, initiatives to standardize processes and key performance measurements across the enterprise to unite the greater supply chain are emerging. The main catalyst? Driving down costs in response to customer and market pressures. However, mid-size companies in particular are driving performance improvements with a more proactive, strategic vision for improving performance than reactively responding to cost pressure.

Server Virtualization: Do's and Don'ts for Mission-Critical Manufacturing Systems

Discover best practices you can use to benefit from server virtualization today. Avoid mistakes that could affect the availability and performance of your mission-critical manufacturing IT solutions.

5 Reasons to Switch from Custom Code to Appliances for Integration Projects

Traditionally companies had just two choices for their integration needs, complex and expensive platforms like EAI or write custom code. Learn about the "hidden costs" of custom code and discover five reasons why companies are switching to Integration Appliances that use a simple “configuration, not coding” approach to integration.

The Elusive Meaning of ERP Project Success

In what practical ways – if any – is ERP implementation project success different from the absence of failure? Both casual and thorough analysis of ERP failure agree on several interesting points.

ERP System Acquisition Project Planning

ERP system acquisition projects are rarely deemed to fail. All the well-advertised failures come later, during implementation and afterward. Nevertheless, the seeds of these failures are invariably planted in the earliest stages of ERP acquisition planning.

ERP System Implementation Project Planning

ERP implementations fail – when they do – because implementation projects allow a few well-known risks to go unmanaged. These risks go unmanaged because the control of results slips from buyer to seller. It doesn’t have to work that way.

ERP System Acquisition & Implementation Viewed as a Single Project

It is a truism that in any complex activity, the critical, defining decisions should be made as early in the process as possible. In ERP implementation projects this principle is routinely undermined by the nearly universal practice of separating acquisition and implementation activities into separate projects, performed by separate teams operating under separate control.

ERP Software Selection Myths

An exploration of the myths behind the selection of enterprise software (ERP). These myths have been around since the dawn of enterprise software and are by-products from years of struggles between users and suppliers. Dispelled are several common beliefs when selecting an enterprise software product.

The Hidden Costs Behind ERP Software

The hidden costs behind enterprise software (ERP), including implementation, support and management. Many of these hidden costs become surprises along the implementation path. Therefore, before purchasing an enterprise software product, make sure you have a good handle on the hidden costs.

Understanding the Potential of Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)

The objective of this paper is to provide executives, project managers, marketers and other visionaries with an introduction to Adobe Integrated Runtime, a breakthrough tool for companies looking to build new relationships with their clients. It will also provide information about how Adobe AIR can be leveraged to create next generation web experiences.

A Systematic Approach to Buying Software

This white paper proposes that our purchase decision meets our expectations and does not end in “divorce”, so to speak. An exhaustive list of things that are important while buying software, from company background to how our data is handled. Also includes a practical “software selection tool” to be used for purchase decisions.

HyperOffice vs. Microsoft Exchange

Traditionally, Microsoft has ruled the roost when it comes to providing business software solutions. This document discusses how HyperOffice, our new age solution, matches up to Microsoft Exchange on a feature to feature comparison, including business features, costs and implementation efforts.

HyperOffice vs. Microsoft Sharepoint

This document presents a convincing argument why HyperOffice is better suited to the needs of a growing business as opposed to SharePoint. A point-to-point comparison is presented, proving how HyperOffice outdoes SharePoint in terms of feature-set, while costing substantially less and requiring less implementation efforts.

Prevention of ERP Implementation Failure

Projects to implement ERP tend to be difficult, expensive and drawn-out. They are often full of painful surprises and overrun budgets and schedules that were extravagant in the first place. They fail entirely in an alarming number of cases. Why this should be so is not immediately apparent. If we list, at a fairly high level, the tasks required to implement an ERP system in a company that’s already familiar with ERP practices, what we see is a significant but not daunting amount of work.

Ensuring Successful Manufacturing Execution in the Fabless Semiconductor Model

Find out how semiconductor companies are adopting a fabless manufacturing model by operating with a variety of partners through an outsourced supply chain. Doing so helps them save money and be more competitive. SAP solutions support this model to help overcome the inherent challenges.

Best-Of-Breed EAM With Ease Of Integration

Lawson Enterprise Asset Management is a software solution specifically designed to help improve the reliability and availability of your critical assets. It can help you to maximize your profitability and return on your asset investment during every stage of the asset lifecycle. It can also be easily integrated with your other business operations and systems.

Find Out What Your Peers Are Thinking And Doing About Asset Management!

Get your free copy of the Thought Leadership Report “Strategic Asset Management Across the Organization Delivers a Compelling Return." Based on the findings of the 2006/7 Worldwide Benchmark Study, by industry analysts IDL, it identifies the changing attitudes and needs in the asset intensive industry.

High Technology Manufacturers' Journey to Best in Class Performance

By increasing ERP adoption rates and standardizing implementations, high-tech manufacturers can improve their performance. This report discusses the impact of using a standardized manufacturing execution system (MES) that to perform real-time ERP integration and collect real-time KPI measurements.

There is No Execution Without Integration

Many manufacturers today are getting caught on the wrong side of a technology adoption wave that is quickly gaining momentum. Of the more than 200 surveyed manufacturers 54% are planning on adopting MI (Manufacturing Intelligence) within the next 24 months. Additionally, 56% of manufacturers having already implemented MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) did so within the past two years.

Data Center Automation: Accelerating Market Maturity Through Investment in IT

Today, 84% of IT organizations view automation as a top investment priority for delivering on business outcomes. Explore key priorities and trends based on IDC’s global survey of 164 IT professionals, including the role of automation across “IT silos” and virtualization, cost efficiencies and process standardization, and market maturity. Read this new IDC survey to learn more.

Implementing Kanban Alternatives In Lean Manufacturing

For many years small to midsize manufacturers and ERP software providers struggled with the notion that full system implementations included more complexity, not to mention cost, than could be incurred by organizations with limited resources. Fortunately, drastic improvements in price performance, enhancements to underlying technologies and introduction of new forms of delivery have made ERP solutions viable and affordable to manufacturing companies of all sizes.

Application Performance Management Demonstration

This demo shows you how CA Application Performance Management (CA APM) helps ensure that your mission-critical Web applications are meeting performance and business objectives. CA APM provides 24x7, end-to-end monitoring and management of all transactions – across applications, business processes, services and SOAs – to identify, prioritize and resolve problems before they affect your customers and your business.

B-to-B Lead Generation Insights from MarketingSherpa

In a free audio/video Webcast with MarketingSherpa’s Anne Holland, learn valuable, tested B-to-B marketing tips, including how to stop spending too much on SEM while making your remaining SEM budget work harder... how to make prospects pay attention to your content... the key difference between case studies and success stories... when—and why—you should consider removing the registration page... and more. Don’t miss these proven tips—watch the free 30-minute Webcast now.

Social Networking: Brave New World

According to recent surveys, employee social networking is growing rapidly. Learn the pros and cons of employee social networking, from creating business development opportunities to just goofing off. Also, learn how social networking is raising new challenges for enterprise security, and the distinct advantages of implementing MessageLabs Web Services.

LogRhythm Compliance Support for FISMA

Find out more about how LogRhythm can help organizations fulfill The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements in documentation and implementation of controls for IT systems that support operations and assets.

LogRhythm for Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)

The Gramm-Leach-Biley Act (GLBA) was enacted to ensure protection over customer’s records and information. LogRhythm can help financial institutions implement and perform procedures to indentify risks, eliminate or reduce these risks, and to monitor and maintain the implemented processes and procedures to ensure that the identified risks are effectively managed. Please read this whitepaper for more details…

LogRhythm for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Is your organization adequately meeting the rules and regulations set forth in the Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)? Learn how LogRhythm’s comprehensive log management and analysis solution can help your organization meet or exceed HIPAA regulatory requirements.

LogRhythm for PCI-DSS Compliance

This whitepaper highlights some of the key areas in which LogRhythm, the leader in Log and Security Event Management Solutions, can help companies adequately meet the PCI Data Security Standards. The whitepaper also details the compliance requirements along with ways in which LogRhythm meets and exceeds those regulations.

LogRhythm for Sarbanes Oxley (SOX)

Do you need to simplify your financial reporting process to ensure that you are meeting the Sarbanes Oxley requirements? Read this whitepaper to learn more…

NERC CIP Compliance

LogRhythm, the leader in Log and Security Event Management Solutions, has prepared a "Quick Read" whitepaper to help you understand what's required to ensure compliance with: CIP- 003-1 – Cyber Security – Security Management controls; CIP- 005-1 – Cyber Security – Electronic Security Perimeter(s); CIP- 006-1 – Cyber Security – Physical Security of Critical Cyber Assets; CIP -007-1 – Cyber Security – Systems Security Management; CIP -008-1 – Cyber Security – Incident Reporting and Response Planning

The whitepaper also contains a compliance reference chart with the specific CIP requirements matched with recommended steps to ensure compliance.

UK - Government Connect Secure Extranet (GCSx)

Get the facts you need to know about how the collection, management and analysis of log data are integral to meeting many GCSx requirements. Read this whitepaper to learn more…

Making Your Business DR Ready with Virtual Infrastructure

Business operations that are heavily dependent on information systems may be significantly impacted even by a brief application outage. Impact of a data loss is even more drastic. IDC estimates that in a disaster situation, the average loss is $3 million per incident and $81,000 per hour.

Craft Brewer Standardizes on Microsoft Technologies to Reap Integration Benefits

New Belgium Brewing, a Colorado-based craft brewery with origins in the Belgian style of ale making, has grown steadily from a home-based operation to a thriving company with distributors across the western United States. The company was using a Novell-based networking and e-mail system, which it found increasingly challenging to integrate with its business and IT applications from other vendors.

Microsoft® Communication and Collaboration: Working Together in the New World of Work

Living in a connected world, many of the economic and intellectual barriers that once separated the world’s businesses no longer exist. Free trade, growing labor markets, increased capital, and business and technology standards contribute to a worldwide information-based economy. People and businesses work together in ways never before possible. As local economies adapt to this new world of work, certain worldwide trends emerge. These trends define how your company conducts business and how you work with information and other people.

Learn more by downloading this paper.

Increase Utilization, Decrease Energy Costs With Data Center Virtualization

Increase utilization, decrease energy costs with data center virtualization In the past, IT departments have responded to demands for new services and better performance by adding more hardware, resulting in underutilized technology silos and server sprawl. Today, many organizations are turning to virtualization technologies that facilitate consolidation and increased utilization. In short, virtualization brings the ability to pool, share and dynamically reallocate data center resources – and helps fulfill the promise of higher utilization and lower energy consumption and lower costs.

Join us and learn why HP is well prepared to help you assess and address your needs. Find out what key virtualization partners -- such as VMware, Microsoft and Citrix – bring to the table and how HP can help you leverage their technology and expertise.

24x7 Activity Tracking for Automated Compliance Controls and Reports

The increasing complexity and growing scope of government and industry regulations are placing the spotlight on how IT organizations conduct their day-to-day activities to protect proprietary customer and financial information. IT must establish the appropriate control framework over systems and processes involving this data and demonstrate to external auditors and government agencies that the organization continually and consistently practices these controls across every transaction. Automating the tasks connected with compliance would extend IT staff capacity and cut costs that accompany manual processes concerning policy monitoring, incident response and adherence documentation. Such automation inherently reduces business risk and frees IT resources to conduct other functions.

Closing Internal User Visibility and Data Governance Gaps with PacketMotion

Are you blind to privileged user activity & risks? Internal threats and data abuse are increasing – costing business millions in auditing, fines and lost revenue. Avoid being the next headline. This complementary analyst whitepaper explains the exposures, options and means to accelerate internal controls, user visibility and data governance. Written by leading analyst Scott Crawford, this paper presents facts, blindspots and new technology to yield real-time visibility and control of network user transactions.

Variable Reduction in Logistic & Choosing the correct transformations

This technique is a time reducing and one which searches through various transformations to check for the best fit of a variable to the dependent variable. On comparing it with a very accepted method of a reputed firm, we have seen this new technique working wonders

Accelerate Value Creation: The Virtuous Cycle of Using Technology to Maximize Business Value

Corporate IT spending continues to grow. Since 1994, the IT spending per worker has more than doubled, from US$3,500 to US$8,000 per worker. Annual productivity growth in U.S. companies roughly doubled in the same period, after experiencing 1.4% growth for 20 years (Harvard Business Review, July–August 2008). But in today’s economy, competitive advantage is short-lived, and leading companies recognize that continued investments in the virtuous cycle of technology are required to stay ahead.

IT’s Role in the M&A Process

The year of 2007 set records for merger & acquisition (M&A) activity worldwide. According to Bloomberg, a record $4 trillion in deals were announced in 2007. The numbers by vertical are impressive. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, there were a record 207 deals in industrial manufacturing (i.e., industrial machinery, rubber & plastic products, fabricated metal products, and electronic & electrical equipment) during 2007, up from 159 deals in 2006. While research from Bloomberg and PWC shows the pace of M&A activity has slowed this year, enterprises worldwide are still digesting last year’s binge. PWC also predicts that M&A activity in industrial manufacturing in 2008 will run close to that seen in 2006. Download this paper to learn more.

• Madness? Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures

Human beings take risks. In business, one of the riskiest moves company stakeholders can take is to acquire and merge with another company or to divest part of what they have. Despite the best initial intentions between the merging companies, many mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures produce results far below expectations. For some companies, the experience can be more than maddening – it can be deadly, ending with the demise of the business.

Delivering on the Promise of eLearning

This paper presents a framework for the reemergence of eLearning as a set of teaching, training, and learning practices not bound by a specific technology platform or learning management system.

Grappling with Application Management

Managing applications is a big busi¬ness challenge today. When applications must be updated, installed or migrated, companies must ensure disruptions are minimized to keep users productive throughout the pro-cess. Dell provides ser¬vices that can help every step of the way.

Get Ready for Windows Vista

Windows Vista includes deployment tools that help you manage your migration. Dell Services extends the reach of those tools with time-saving automated deployments based on best practices.

E-Learning Best Practices

The e-Learning industry has grown tremendously since the early days of computers and the Internet. Today there are lots of products and services out in the market place from which to choose. This white paper will provide some basic information to help you as you begin your research into e-Learning and learning management systems.
The document is not meant to be the complete source of information on e-Learning nor will these guidelines be suitable for every single situation. This white paper has been created as a learning aid help you get started.
These findings represent the research, experience, and techniques gleaned from working in e-Learning since its infancy in the late 80’s to today. At the end of the paper, Bob Goldschneider, Director of Business Development at SyberWorks, Inc., will provide a summary and closing remarks.

E-Learning Benefits and ROI Comparison of E-Learning vs. Traditional Training

In most cases, the biggest quandary an organization must solve is to put together a rational, i.e., a cost justified, business case why they should spend capital to invest in a learning management system. The focus of this white paper will outline the benefits of web-based training along with a practical framework for developing ROI when looking at the cost of traditional training methods verses e-Learning.

Beaumont Hospitals, Inc. Case Study

Jean Ann Larson, Chief Learning Officer (CLO), and Tawanna Foggs, Educational Systems Coordinator, of William Beaumont Hospitals, talk about their use of the SyberWorks Learning Management System to train and certify hospital employees.

Fairchild Semiconductor, Inc. Case Study

Claudia Innes, Corporate Marketing Director for Fairchild Semiconductor, Inc. discusses their use of the SyberWorks Hosted e-Learning Solution to create a marketing-information portal to provide marketing and performance support for their sales staff, sales engineers, partners, and distributors in the power-supply segment.

Microsoft Windows Vista Cost and Benefit Estimator

This business-value discussion tool is designed to help quantify costs and benefits with Windows Vista.

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Tool

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator (MAP) tool makes it easy for you to assess your current IT infrastructure and determine the right Microsoft technologies for your needs. The data and analysis provided by this tool can help simplify planning a Windows Vista migration.

Dynamic IT and Integrated Financial Services: At the Doorway to the Financial Value Chain

Financial institutions are at an inflection point — they must invest in new IT architecture in order to survive and thrive in the next decade.

Helping Financial Institutions Manage Operational Risk

Find valuable insight on ways to mitigate your operational risk and ultimately protect your reputation and brand.

Your Playbook for Creating a Winning Data Transmission Service

Rationalize, consolidate and integrate is the new mantra of today's financial services organizations. This playbook provides process and technology moves to help you transforms your data transmission.