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Read about the paradigm shift that must occur across the healthcare ecosystem to support a sustainable approach to improving and integrating care across multiple stakeholders and providing high-quality, proactive care of patients. Learn how SAP software can help provide an event-based, integrated solution.

Examine the trends in enterprise resource planning (ERP) that are driving businesses to adopt an enterprise services-oriented architecture (SOA). And learn how enterprise SOA can help your organization deliver operational excellence and realize new levels of innovation by enabling more responsiveness and agility.

Apparel brands and retailers are connecting with customers at a quickening pace on the social web to spread brand messages, boost loyalty and drive commerce.

This paper will examine the state of consumer mobile in retail today, Driven in part by RSR's research among retailers as well as a look at the mobile use---cases that retailers have currently deployed.

Download the report to find seven tenets of 21st century merchandising, along with analysis of the business drivers, opportunities, and organizational constraints surrounding merchandise planning and execution.

Most organizations find managing risk and compliance a challenge - but the rewards for doing so well can be considerable. By putting the right processes, systems and controls in place, you can gain visibility into decisions taken all across the enterprise - and protect both corporate performance and reputation.

Today, the ERP reality is very different, and much more beneficial, for smaller firms. A variety of options have emerged to address and overcome the key concerns and obstacles of the past. Learn about the drivers that force these executives to address an ERP decision, the considerations involved in those decisions, and critical implementation factors once an ERP decision is made.

In today's competitive global marketplace, Application Management Services (AMS) have become increasingly important for international companies to comply with country-specific markets and regulations, and ensure high-quality operations of SAP solutions in a sustainable, cost-effective manner.

Discover how midsize companies can benefit from the SAP Business All-in-One solution, which has deep, industry-specific functionalities that can be adapted to meet your unique and changing business needs in an affordable, predictable way.

This paper describes the benefits, features and best practices using a XIV in a SAP environment.

ERP has become much more affordable in recent years, and while many believe ERP to be out of reach for SMBs, Aberdeen research shows a well-managed ERP implementation can be a continuing source of cost savings and operational improvements which help companies grow and thrive.

In this webinar Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com), together with representatives of SAP, will review the benefits open source offers to development organizations, the management challenges it presents, and approaches for addressing those challenges.

Aberdeen Group defines "Pervasive BI" as the existence of an information environment where access to and usage of business intelligence capabilities is available to all stakeholders in an organization when, how, and where they work. Read this research to learn more about "Pervasive BI."

This Aberdeen Sector Insight draws from several discrete data sets to understand the impact of business intelligence (BI) and information management strategies in the public sector.

Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) is pleased to announce that the SAP product SAP BusinessObjects Edge Business Intelligence (BI) is now TEC Certified for online evaluation of BI solutions in TEC's BI Evaluation Center.

Formal performance-management (PM) methodologies and solutions can give organizations the discipline to prosper during difficult economic times while providing the flexibility to pursue opportunities as they arise. Read this paper and see how you can close the gap between Strategy and Execution.

A recent survey of CIOs found that over 75% want to develop an overall information strategy in the next three years, yet over 85% are not close to implementing an enterprise-wide content management strategy. Meanwhile, data runs rampant, slows systems, and impacts performance. Hard-copy documents multiply, become damaged, or simply disappear.

Your information can be one of your greatest assets - helping you stay on top of regulatory requirements, close to customers, and ahead of the competition. Organizations that pay attention to their data will be the ones to survive and thrive. So how do you obtain a complete view of your information when it is scattered across silos? Or integrate data from structured and unstructured data sources? Or help reduce the risk of inaccurate reporting? And how do you manage your information more effectively to help keep costs from spiraling out of control?

Many US companies find themselves acting like Wait-and-See, Inc. They interpret the switch from US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to IFRS as a matter of compliance rather than an opportunity to become more globally competitive by improving key internal processes.

Consider how you can gain control of cost structures by taking systematic steps to improve operational efficiency. By using efficient, automated processes, you can reduce waste, unnecessary overtime, and other cost factors. Integrated business software systems put this efficiency overhaul within reach, quickly, and affordably.

Increased regulatory requirements, the need for transparency, and the desire to better manage and mitigate risks have combined to make Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) top of mind for both business and Information Technology (IT) executives. Business managers and IT security managers must work collaboratively and continuously to control access and authorization, guarding against fraud and mistakes, while providing the clear visibility that is prerequisite for sound corporate oversight to ensure profitability and compliance.

Pressures to reduce costs continue to outweigh all other business drivers impacting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in 2009. ERP has become more than a necessary infrastructure; it is also a strategic weapon in streamlining and accelerating business processes - while providing visibility to those processes throughout the enterprise.

Over the past decade, a powerful new approach to development - open source software - has risen to prominence, dramatically increasing the opportunity to re-use existing software.

Organizations in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry are discovering that high product volume sales come at the expense of extreme data complexity.  Meanwhile, these companies struggle to maintain open lines of communication with their retail customers and distributors in order to manage the upstream flow of product.

To meet evolving regulatory mandates, companies around the world are adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), a set of methodologies and disclosure requirements for the preparation and presentation of financial statements. Yet making the transition to IFRS is not just a rote accounting exercise.