May 04, 2009 - (Free Research) Customer knowledge is market advantage. To refine its edge and better manage
customer relationships, Haworth needed to learn what was important to its customers and deploy that knowledge to key decision makers. Read how they did it.
February 20, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper briefly defines text analytics, describes various approaches to text analytics, and then focuses on the natural language processing techniques used by SPSS Inc.'s text analytics solutions.
January 2007 - (Free Research) Learn how faceted analytical displays can lead to insight that would be difficult to unearth otherwise. Faceted analytical displays are powerful and will help you discover new information that will translate into big benefits for your company.
June 2008 - (Free Research) The SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio provides functionality that gives fuel marketers and distributors visibility into their distribution network, integrates customer information, and automates processes to improve efficiency, forecast accuracy, and adaptability.
January 2009 - (Free Research) Valero Energy Corporation selected SAP because of its ability to provide a central hub for managing all interfaces and Web services, power to serve as a single integration & development platform for nearly all of Valero's business, capability to integrate SAP and non-SAP software systems, and support for synchronous & asynchronous messaging.
September 2007 - (Free Research) Critical master data management (MDM) functionality can be easily overlooked when request for proposals (RFPs) are narrowly focused on a single business data type. Ensure success by avoiding 10 costly mistakes when writing your RFP.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Hear this Podcast to discover how you can rapidly synchronize your sales and customer service data with a variety of on-premise and on-demand systems.
March 2009 - (Free Research) View this Webcast and complimentary Podcast to discover how you can rapidly synchronize your sales and customer service data with a variety of on-premise and on-demand systems.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Enterprise search transforms the ability of users to find information. It is a powerful, cost-effective, and productivity enabling technology for users in the enterprise. Read this white paper to learn about the value of enterprise search, why it's broken, and learn about WebFOCUS Magnify, the industry's first real-time enterprise search solution.
August 2009 - (Free Research) Security managers often struggle to articulate to business managers why enterprise data protection is paramount, how breaches happen and why fundamental business processes must be changed to mitigate the threat. View this videocast to learn how to incorporate best practices into your DLP strategy.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Protecting messaging services is an important part of any business messaging strategy. Vulnerabilities abound when you allow messaging traffic for delivery over the Internet. The scope of this guide will focus on email security although many of these concepts will also apply to other types of messaging.
October 2009 - (Free Research) Business Intelligence and analytics remain top priorities for organizations seeking to increase revenues and cut costs, but these systems often require a data warehouse to feed them correct and relevant information. This E-Book provides detailed expert advice on how to evaluate, select and prepare your organization for a data warehouse appliance.
September 2009 - (Free Research) The senior technology executives at Sybase have written a new book that analyzes how risk management systems built on 20th Century architectures failed which caused the worst financial crisis in decades. This paper condenses the key analysis and strategies of the book and explains how to rebuild and fortify them to prevent future crises.
November 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper provides everything the CIO and IT team must know to evaluate a CRM system based on the critical business and technical issues that matter to IT directors and chief information and technology officers.
February 2009 - (Free Research) Data de-duplication has been described as the next evolutionary step in backup technology. Many vendors lay claim to the best data de-duplication approach, leaving customers to face the difficulty of separating hype from reality. This document provides the background information required to make an informed data de-duplication purchasing decision.
August 2009 - (Free Research) Transformation has become an overused buzzword, but its real meaning remains important. Under the microscope, operations transformation is about integrating operations silos and processes, merging disparate units in the wake of acquisitions, and reducing operational expenses.
October 2009 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn how analytics can help you leverage the right combination of people, processes, and information. With analytics, you can analyze your sales and marketing processes to gain insights more quickly and improve business performance. Read on to learn how by using analytics you can increase top-line revenue.
May 2009 - (Free Research) The macro-market trends of Globalization and eCommerce are making it more important than ever for corporate executives and end users to access critical information to make effective business decisions. This paper will examine how a new generation of SaaS-based BI solutions is responding to the escalating challenges facing companies of all sizes.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Only when data is trusted can it be used in confidence in all insurance operational and analytical process activities. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on insurance companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in insurance and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.
June 2009 - (Free Research) As social networking sites explode in popularity, the hype and interest continue to build. But sorting the fact from the hype can be a challenge. This paper discusses tangible ways that organizations can extract measurable business value from social networking by leveraging it in conjunction with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Learn how a sports apparel company was able to drastically improve customer service by adopting Microsoft Dynamics as their CRM system.
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