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Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible |
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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.
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Achieve Predictable Return on Investment with an End-to-End Tank Monitoring Solution |
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Corporate managers responsible for multiple fuel tank locations need remote technology applications to maximize their information use and increase the reach of their resources. Success when planning new remote technology projects can be measured in terms of increased profitability or ROI if the planners adequately address the build vs. buy decisions required when choosing the necessary hardware, software, deployment and integration strategy.
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Application Upgrades and Service Oriented Architecture |
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In a recent Forrester study, upgrades made the top concerns list of ERP customers together with Improving Integrations and Shifting the Process Orientation. This is not surprising, given that Applications upgrades are prone to cost overruns, delays and unexpected outages. Maintenance costs, for major point releases as well as more frequent patches, is a topic that catches the attention of most ERP and CRM customers. A study by SOA Industry Analyst Zapthink shows that maintenance and change costs of SOA-based integrations, architected properly, are dramatically lower than traditional integration approaches. Read this whitepaper to understand why and how SOA-enablement will reduce cost and risk of Application upgrades for your organization.
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ASG's BSP: Beyond Business Service Management |
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For more than a decade, true BSM has been a goal for businesses, as well as a promise from potential providers. In reality, a good BSM plan goes beyond the standards of typical IT management; it fuses the goals of IT and business. This white paper introduces the use of a Business Service Platform (BSP) as the foundation of an effective BSM solution.
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Automating Data Flows to your Business Intelligence System |
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Businesses can gain greater value from their BI investment by improving the way in which data flows to the BI system are managed. Many problems result when the ETL process is handled by a patchwork of scripting, custom coding, and various built-in schedulers that are part of existing ETL solutions, because these systems do not provide end-to-end execution, monitoring, and control of the ETL process.
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Balanced Scorecard Design Toolkit |
| By : AKS-Labs |
Published Date: Mar 20, 2007 |
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Business professionals lack essential information about real-life metrics and information on how to build a Balanced Scorecard, which supports weights and scores, which allows calculating the performance values. This whitepaper is a Balanced Scorecard design toolkit, which contains some "how-to" ideas.
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Best Business Intelligence (BI) Practices to Transform Your Data into Information |
| By : ZSL Inc. |
Published Date: Jul 20, 2009 |
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Organizations have implemented enterprise applications such as ERP and CRM for business process execution but have failed to address the key enterprise asset: data. In the current economic environment, enterprises that fail to capitalize on their data assets jeopardize their cost structures and their earnings potential. It is vital for organizations to leverage their data assets to measure their business performance, identify the weak poles and strategic improvement spots to scale their business to new heights. Business Intelligence (BI), the recent innovation in IT, has emerged to be a potential hope for the organizations to build a strong business milieu without any new asset investments and utilizing the existing key assets of the organizations.
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Beyond the Hypervisor: Optimizing Virtualization Management |
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Virtualization is now mainstream. Enterprises continue to heavily invest in virtualization projects and while short term hardware and cost saving benefits are being achieved, few enterprises achieve anywhere close to the full potential of virtualization as they struggle with new problems like assuring performance and availability, preventing VM sprawl, and maximizing resource utilization
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BPM SOA and Web 2.0: Business Transformation or Train Wreck? |
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The challenges faced by today's government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied-and to stay afloat, these organizations must not only promote change from within, but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets, policies, regulations, and business models.
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Business Intelligence for Decision Makers: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers. |
| By : SAP Inc. |
Published Date: Aug 21, 2009 |
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Although many organizations have made significant investments in data collection and integration (through data warehouses and the like), it is a rare enterprise that can analyze and redeploy its accumulated data to actually drive business performance. In the years to come, as globalization and increased reliance on the Internet further complicate, accelerate and intensify marketplace conditions, actionable business intelligence promises to deliver a formidable competitive advantage to firms that leverage its power.
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Business Intelligence for Healthcare: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers. |
| By : SAP Inc. |
Published Date: Aug 21, 2009 |
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Hospitals from across the world are facing increased pressure to improve operations from multiple directions. Legal requirements, an aging population in many developed countries, and an ever-increasing need to be service-oriented are forcing hospitals to do more with less. Those that learn to effectively harness the information generated by their IT systems will enjoy substantial productivity improvements.
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Business Intelligence for Retail: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers |
| By : SAP 2 |
Published Date: Aug 21, 2009 |
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The Retail sector was one of the first sectors to make significant investments in collecting and integrating customer data in data warehouses. In the future, firms will need to continue to be cost effective but increasingly will need to focus on using data to drive revenue by better understanding their customers needs. Enterprises that effectively harness the vast quantities of information that IT systems generate - both within the corporation and outside its walls - are poised to gain competitive advantage.
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