Business Management

This 34 page guide readies you for a Salesforce Mobile rollout. Salesforce Mobile helps your mobile teams succeed by keeping them in touch with the latest data, whenever and wherever they need it, directly from mobile devices. With Salesforce Mobile, field professionals are prompted to log information directly in Salesforce or AppExchange apps immediately after important customer calls, emails, and appointments, so critical information is logged in near real time.

This paper summarizes the key ingredients for a successful on-demand implementation. Find out how you can benefit from the knowledge gained by the Salesforce.com Global Services organization, as outlined in the seven domains described in this paper.

With best-in-class processes supported by the right IT infrastructure, today's service parts organizations can operate at a new level of flexibility, efficiency, and responsiveness. This paper is the first in a five-part series that describes the best-in-class processes of Cat Logistics Services Inc. (Cat Logistics), a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. It explores how Cat Logistics has optimized its demand-planning processes to proactively address customer demands and drive profitable growth.

Mergers present opportunities for a complete transformation of the combined business organization. A blend of two smaller bottling companies, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S.A. is one of the world's largest bottlers and distributors of Coca-Cola products. It standardized on the SAP® ERP application to better coordinate with its partner and supplier, the Coca-Cola Company, which also standardized on SAP software. Coca Cola Hellenic used SAP technology for other challenges, including transformation of its customer service processes.

With SAP® BusinessObjectsT Web Intelligence® software, companies can perform sophisticated ad hoc reporting and analysis. Powerful functionality and an intuitive user interface enable your people to turn data into insights, improve decision making and productivity, and share knowledge across the enterprise.

Although IDC is expecting worldwide spending on business analytics software to be $33 billion in 2012, technology is only part of the story. The growing demand for faster response and deeper business insight is forcing companies to adopt a more pervasive approach to business intelligence (BI) that supports evidence-based decision making. Higher BI and analytics competency and pervasiveness are achieved when organizational culture, business processes, and technologies are designed and implemented with the goal of improving or automating all strategic, operational, and tactical decision making capabilities of all stakeholders. Access this paper to learn essential best practices for creating a solid BI and analytics strategy.

As the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend sweeps across the business world, it raises a huge management challenge for many companies. It changes who within an organization gets access to mobility. It also affects the way a business operates, with implications that go far beyond simply IT. BYOD presents new, fundamental questions about security, liability, and cost. Answers depend on two aspects of mobility management: device management policy and the technology used to fulfill and enforce a policy.

With best-in-class processes supported by the right IT infrastructure, today's service parts organizations can operate at a new level of flexibility, efficiency, and responsiveness. This paper is the first in a five-part series that describes the best-in-class processes of Cat Logistics Services Inc. (Cat Logistics), a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. It explores how Cat Logistics has optimized its demand-planning processes to proactively address customer demands and drive profitable growth.

There is growing evidence that more pervasive BI and analytics have a direct impact on competitiveness. Better decision making is more important when resources become restricted during a recession, so BI and analytics projects will still appeal to management. However, justifying large capital outlays for software will be challenging unless short-term benefits can be directly correlated with the investment. As more incremental projects are undertaken, it will be important to execute these projects within the long-term strategic plan of organization wide decision management. Read an active Q&A session with Dan Vesset, IDC Program Vice President of Business Analytics on building a successful enterprise BI strategy.

Become acquainted with the script logic functionality available in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.x, version for SAP NetWeaver. Review use cases for script logic, its architecture, various ways to execute it, and a few basic key words. Designed for individuals who will be end users of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation or who require a product overview. The goal is to work with the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Web interfaces.

'The Superstar CFO; After the Crisis' follows up on a piece of research SAP commissioned from CFO Research back in 2007 when the business world was confident after nearly a decade of steady growth. Today things are different with western economies bumping along the bottom and companies uncertain about what the future might bring. So with that in mind the CFO Research team set off to interview companies in all four regions of the world to get a feel on what they were thinking.

Today, businesses must work smarter, not just harder-and to do it, they must use information to compete. With growing demands on data resources, companies need to derive greater value from their existing information. But this information is often scattered throughout the organization. To survive in the current tough economic environment means building successful enterprise information management strategies. Find out how.

This Aberdeen report demonstrates how highly effective financial planning, budgeting and forecasting enables good decision making, even in periods of major change. Dynamic financial planning enabled through five key elements -- process, organisation, knowledge management, technology and performance enhancement -- can give business leaders the tools to take prompt action and emerge even stronger.

IDC discusses the delicate balance of maintaining a healthy cash flow, while making the most of the capital you put to work. Best practices are shared.

Investigate the latest thinking on how to become more agile and customer-friendly while reducing operating costs and revenue leakage. With service and payment convergence, services can be bundled at the charging layer, and prepaid, postpaid, and blended payment mechanisms can be offered for all services.

With the business intelligence functionality in SAP® Business All-in-One solutions, your company can gain visibility, insight, operational alignment, and accountability to increase revenue, margins, and liquidity; streamline processes; improve agility; and become a best-run business.

As organizations seek to grow beyond their current markets and activities, executives look beyond the existing business model to expand their business. This paper looks at most common areas of business model innovation, describes how organizations are leveraging innovation in different parts of their business, and shows how to implement a solid and adaptive foundation that is flexible enough to support rapid innovation.

Find out how to build a sustainable extended enterprise, one that extends business processes beyond the firewall by outsourcing, enabling subsidiaries and business partners to share information and resources, and collecting business intelligence while cutting costs, streamlining operations, and opening up new markets.

Learn how to use smart, sound pricing strategies to increase revenues while protecting margins. Enterprise-wide visibility into the many drivers that come into play can help with identifying opportunities, negotiating deals properly, and adjusting with agility to changing conditions.

Read about the benefits, prerequisites, and impact of successful business process management (BPM) initiatives, with a closer look at the United States.

While your competitors sit back, download this free paper to learn how to cut costs, boost profits, build loyalty, and solve a myriad of day-to-day business challenges.

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.

To be successful, operations requires integrated business management methodologies and systems that assist in making better, faster decisions and provide visibility into key performance drivers, such as employee productivity, asset utilization, and project profitability.

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.

This paper will examine how you can gain reliable, accessible information from efficient, integrated IT systems - and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions.