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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.

BPM and SOA: Better Together

Find out how the standards-based modeling, monitoring, connectivity, and process integration tools that comprise IBM's Process Integration suite are allowing companies to implement process automation components with greater speed and agility than ever before. Download this informative white paper to learn more.

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.

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.

A Guide to Understanding HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) Software

HP's Instant Capacity (iCAP) software product provides the ability to instantly increase or decrease computing capacity on cell-based HP enterprise servers. The iCAP software keeps track of the quantity and time that the cores are activated. Download this free white paper and understand how iCAP uses codewords to increase or decrease usage rights on an Instant Capacity server.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Building the Business Case for Enterprise Content Management

This white paper provides a starting point for understanding the business benefits of using an enterprise content management system and how a variety of organizations are already using such a system today and where to start.

Is the EU in a Position to Achieve Its i2010 Goals?

A recent report by the European Commission noted that “Europe is not investing in productivity, enhancing ICT as much as the USA”. The report also claimed that the situation is worse for SMBs than for enterprises.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This Financial Insights white paper is based on financial services IT spending primary research studies conducted in 2004 and 2005 and ongoing research and executive interviews of C-level and line-of-business executives in the areas of IT spending, enterprise performance management, and corporate banking and treasury management.

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.

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.

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.

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.

B2B Reality Check: Overcoming Challenges in B2B Transaction Automation

There is a common perception that supply chain automation has created an environment in which transactions move quickly and efficiently between organizations in industries such as the retail supply chain, the automotive manufacturing supply chain and high-tech manufacturing.

Removing Dependencies Between Business Process and Technical Infrastructure with SOA

Many of today’s businesses have already moved from rigid siloed application approaches to more flexible business process focused solutions. This is driving the need for transparency in the underlying technologies, and for better levels of standardization and virtualization of the infrastructure.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leadership from HP: IT Delivered through a Service-Centric Architectural Approach

If you want to learn how HP’s SOA professionals work with your company to find the best possible solution for your existing heterogeneous environment, download this paper now.

Customer Overview of the HP Renew Program

The HP Renew Program is a worldwide strategic initiative from HP designed especially to complement new product sales.

Looking for the Best Service Desk Solution? Forrester Wave for Service Desk Management Tools

This report evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 13 service desk management tool vendors. HP Service Manager 7 earned highest scores in current offering in large and small enterprise evaluations. Read the full report for details on why, according to Forrester Research, Inc., HP should be on the short list for large enterprises in search of full ITSM capabilities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.