WHITE PAPER - This paper examines many of the challenges companies have managing their inventory, and shows how an integrated Inventory Optimization solution can substantially improve their overall supply chain operation.
Posted: October 9, 2009 | Published: October 9, 2009


Topics:  Advanced Planning and Scheduling Software | Distribution | ERP | Forecast/Demand Management Software | Integrated Development Environments | Inventory Management | Inventory Management Software | Logistics Outsourcing Services | Warehouse Management

PODCAST - This Podcast explores the benefits and drawbacks of buying business intelligence (BI) solutions from enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, and shares survey results that reveal whether or not customers who have gone down the sole-sourcing path are happy with their decision.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Premiered: October 8, 2009


Topics:  Application Service Providers | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | ERP | Market Research | SAP (Product) | Vendor Selection | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - Companies face numerous challenges when managing and integrating information across enterprise business processes. Companies frequently choose an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to fulfill business requirements. The leading ERP applications with the greatest market share are the mySAP ERP and SAP R/3 industry solutions from SAP AG.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Application Performance Management | Application Server Hardware | Applications Management | ERP | HP VSE | Memory | Memory Management | SAP (Product) | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Enterprises that rely on enterprise resource planning and business intelligence applications have a solution that can manage exploding volumes of data while lowering cost and simplifying operations. HP Integrity server blades are designed to be always available, always scalable, and always virtualized to support applications such as SAP.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | ERP | IT Systems | Oracle (Product) | RACF | Rack Enclosures | Rack Servers | Server Hardware | Server Management | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - This paper illustrates that solutions exist today, both as traditional software and Software as a Service, with a proven track record of success in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Process Automation | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Cost Benefit Analysis | Electronic Marketplace | ERP | ERP Software

WHITE PAPER - Leading-edge manufacturers are discovering that they can improve production efficiencies and manage MRO expenditures by integrating their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise Asset Management Software | ERP | ERP Software | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Systems | PLM | PLM Software | Product Life Cycles

CASE STUDY - This case study examines how a global healthcare products company turned to the Esker SaaS document processing automation solution to streamline to help eliminate the challenges associated with manual data entry and paper routing.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 2, 2009


Topics:  EDI | ERP | Fax Server Hardware | Fax Services | Health Care Industry | Integrated Development Environments | Medical Records Management | Software as a Service

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to learn how one of India's leading financial services firms paved the way for continued growth and improved customer service by deploying Dell servers and a Dell SAN.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: December 24, 2007


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | ERP | Financial Services | Financial Services Industry | IT Infrastructure | SAN | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - This report is a road map for SMBs seeking to meet the corporate goals of growth strategies and customer service through Best-in-Class ERP implementation.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: November 15, 2007


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Process Management | Customer Service | Customer Service Best Practices | ERP | ERP Software | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - This paper considers the business advantages of moving to a Software as a Service (SaaS) model for improving business operations, and to better meet the challenges of growth, competition and regulatory compliance faced by small-to-midsize businesses.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: February 14, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Cloud Computing | ERP | ERP Software | SaaS ERP | SAP (Product) | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organization.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | ERP | ERP Software | IT Management | IT Services | IT Systems | SAP (Product) | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - Organizations are facing growing business challenges as a result of intensifying market trends. In response, THINKstrategies is finding a growing number of organizations of all sizes are investigating and adopting on-demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alternatives to traditional, on-premise systems to meet their changing business needs.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Cloud Computing | ERP | ERP Software | SaaS ERP | SMBs

ANALYST BRIEF - This paper discusses the relevant criteria for evaluation of SaaS solutions targeting small-to-midsize businesses, and raises the key questions that should be asked.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: February 21, 2008


Topics:  Business Management | Business Process Management | Business Service Management | Cloud Computing | ERP | ERP Software | SaaS ERP | SMBs

ANALYST REPORT - After a year of silence surrounding SAP’s newest Enterprise Resource Planning solution, SAP Business ByDesign is back. Read this Aberdeen Group paper for an analyst’s review of the product, including insights on the product’s price, functionality, and versatility.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: May 15, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | ERP | ERP Software | SaaS ERP | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses detailed best practices for deploying a 150-user, 250-GB, three-tiered SAP® Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) landscape.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: February 13, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | ERP | ERP Software | Server Appliances | Server Management | Server Provisioning | SMBs