September 01, 2007 - ConAgra Foods, Inc. is one of North America's largest packaged food companies. With the help of SAP and SmartOps, the company was able to tackle its key challenges in making its supply chain more efficient. Read this case study to learn about the challenges ConAgra faced along with the benefits achieved from implementing SAP and SmartOps solutions.
October 19, 2009 - SAP ERP applications can help you increase productivity, reduce costs, and gain strategic advantage. However, they touch every business process across your company and the risk for problems with implementation, management, and upgrades can be high. This paper identifies the most common SAP pitfalls and explains the best ways to resolve them.
June 02, 2009 - The Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research (formerly the HDMA Research & Education Foundation) recently published an important study concerning data management and data sharing in the healthcare supply chain. This whitepaper discusses the key conclusions of their study.
February 08, 2008 - The SAP® Business All-in-One fast-start program enables you to configure a solution online, obtain an estimate of costs, and implement the solution quickly and cost-effectively. It delivers rapid time to value and lets you tailor the solution to meet your changing needs, protecting your long-term investment.
December 01, 2008 - SAP® BusinessObjects™ Edge software is the business intelligence (BI) choice of midsize companies hoping to improve business processes, discover new opportunities and edge out the competition. It includes affordable solutions addressing just about any BI requirement, like operational reporting and analysis, dashboards and visualization.
September 03, 2009 - This paper will detail how to control and manage MIPS usage by employing a systematic, repeatable approach that uses powerful technology and a proven process and expertise.
July 13, 2009 - Read this case study to learn how Sea Star Line worked with Esker Professional Services to help implement Esker DeliveryWare as their solution and the benefits that resulted from Sea Stars decision to use Esker DeliveryWare, which includes better visibility, productivity, and time and cost savings.
May 04, 2009 - The key to unlocking outsourcing potential lies in targeting the right projects, choosing your suppliers wisely and then managing them with an eye on economic conditions at that global site. Here's a step-by-step plan for optimizing savings.
June 08, 2009 - Written for anyone interested in understanding how secure Internet SSO works, this white paper explores the limitations of current SSO implementations outside of a single security domain (including identity and access management systems and open source development) and introduces standalone secure Internet SSO as a solution.
September 09, 2009 - Read this case study to learn how CDW helped Wipfli CPA and Consultants optimize their IT environment to overcome power, cooling, and space challenges, while simultaneously improving IT response times.
January 01, 2007 - This paper reviews the forces that affect the professional services market today, defines and explains the main pillars of service delivery innovation, and reviews the benefits firms derive from service delivery innovation.
June 15, 2009 - The service desk is the last place you should try to cut back. For external-facing organizations, quality support keeps customer loyalty and repeat business high and ensures that partners and suppliers can do business with you cost effectively. Read this whitepaper to discover the path to proper service desk consolidation and its many benefits.
November 10, 2008 - Dorado Software recently introduced Redcell OpsCenter 6.1 platform and Redcell Advanced Monitors to help you visualize, clarify and monitor IT resources and the network fabrics that bind them. This paper explores these new capabilities and how they uniquely position Dorado Software customers for the benefits of an SLA‐oriented management approach.
February 20, 2009 - Faced with budget cuts In today's economic environment, how can IT maintain service levels and continue to provide value to business? Smart IT decision-makers are investing in master data management.
February 18, 2009 - The current economic downturn requires a strategic approach to cutting IT costs, high-performance businesses successfully reduce overall costs sharply and for the long term, shifting spend toward IT capability and business growth.
June 19, 2009 - Organizations need technology that can unlock the value of information.
Information can drive new insights to help transform and significantly improve the business, especially critical in an uncertain economy. This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to...
September 28, 2009 - The following six secrets to 24x7, disaster-tolerant Exchange will show you how to implement an Exchange environment with zero lost data and continuous application availability—with no IT intervention—in the event of a disaster.
September 25, 2009 - View this videocast and learn about the intersection of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA), with an emphasis on how architecture forms the key foundation for business execution.
October 28, 2009 - This article provides real-life cases of how the software industry is delivering breakthrough solutions as they tap into the Intel Xeon processor 5500’s full capabilities. Learn how smart software combined with smart hardware saves time, money, and energy.
May 06, 2009 - In this issue of SearchSoftwareQuality.com's Software Testing eZine, we'll discuss a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a new testing environment as well as an Agile software development (ASD) methodology.
September 01, 2009 - Oracle helps organizations achieve their goals with best of breed products that integrate with Oracle and non-Oracle solutions, such as SAP. Download this whitepaper to learn more.
October 01, 2008 - As the key findings in this report will show, developing or enhancing a spend analysis program and closing process gaps to ensure tight linkage to the sourcing process are straightforward and practical ways to attain greater savings and deliver greater value in this period of uncertainty and strict budgets.
October 08, 2008 - Read this white paper from SAP for an interview with Kathleen Wilhide, research director of IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions program.
November 05, 2009 - The SAP BusinessObjects Spend Performance Management application provides full visibility into direct and indirect spend, and helps companies proactively identify cost savings opportunities and supply risks, reduce costs, maintain supply continuity, and increase spend under management.
August 01, 2008 - Over the last few years, BPM has seen rapid growth because it succeeds where earlier approaches have failed -— uniting business strategists and technologists together with a shared set of tools to accomplish common goals. The future promises even more explosive growth as BPM products continue to mature. Read on to learn more.
September 10, 2009 - This paper will take a look at some of the problems that project data and process architects face in working with other IT roles as well as seven easy and inexpensive steps they can take to ensure a collaborative team environment.
August 01, 2008 - In studying the best practices in strategic meeting management, there's proven evidence that a "managed" meetings program can generate significant and immediate cost savings for corporations of all sizes.
October 14, 2009 - Read this paper to learn how Gemini for SAP®, from TAKE Supply Chain, allows manufacturing and distribution personnel to perform complex transactions and data entry. Read on to learn how streamlining the collection of shipping, manufacturing, and warehouse data can greatly reduce errors and increase visibility and profitability.
September 01, 2009 - In this white paper the main inefficiencies that can be found in a typical datacenter are examined and the different strategies that are commonly used to resolve them are discussed. Sun™ Ops Center is presented as a cost-effective solution to these inefficiencies.
January 23, 2009 - To avoid a 7.96% increase in logistics costs, companies should follow the roadmap of Best in Class companies, which have been able to reduce costs or keep them flat via supply chain transformation.
August 07, 2009 - Maintain operational efficiency while cutting supply chain costs with new approaches, technologies, and methodologies. Third party logistics providers, radio frequency identification rentals, and attribute-based demand planning can help you reduce supply chain costs and boost customer satisfaction.
September 19, 2008 - The customer-driven age is upon us and succeeding in this environment requires a new set of goals and a new set of tools. Learn how CRM is the catalyst to transform organizations, empower employees and capitalize on new market opportunities.
December 01, 2008 - This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices.
January 08, 2008 - To successfully sustain compliance, organizations must implement best practices to ensure IT systems not only achieve a known and trusted state but they also maintain that state. Check out this white paper to learn how Tripwire solutions enable organizations to achieve and sustain SOX compliance.
August 05, 2009 - This IDC Vendor Profile evaluates Mimecast, an emerging supplier of email archiving, security, and continuity solutions delivered in a software-as-a-service model. This document discusses the company's history, product offerings, and competitive position in the context of cloud-based storage and security infrastructure services.
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