February 2009 - (Free Research) In today's economic environment, it is imperative that companies begin addressing ways to manage all information assets in an integrated, holistic way. Philip Howard, Research Director for Bloor Research, and Chris Baker, Senior Vice President at Oracle, discuss best practices for obtaining a fully integrated Enterprise Data Management platform.
March 2009 - (Free Research) MAX, by Exact Software, is an enterprise resource planning system built to support discrete manufacturing environments. It allows companies to manage business processes and information, making their operations run more efficiently. This paper details four case studies of companies who have employed this solution and the successes they've had.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses the importance of data integration and help you identify the key challenges of integrating data. It also provides you with an overview of data warehousing and its variations, as well as summarizes the benefits and approaches to integrating data.
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.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This paper outlines a critical business problem: insufficient management of unstructured data. It discusses the data management problem and how it manifests in the enterprise as risks, missed opportunities, and resource sinkholes such as: e-Discovery, compliance, and an inability to reuse valuable data assets.
March 2009 - (Free Research) How can business process and applications professionals lead the charge in optimizing the processes and systems to deliver the perfect order? How does a business process and applications professional know the key steps to supporting a perfect order? Forrester has developed a best practices checklist of 20 steps required to support a perfect order.
August 2007 - (Free Research) In the quest for a perfect order, enterprises must design their new road map to address process ownership, process optimization, technology support, and solution agility. Though "perfect order" may mean so many things to so many people, 63% of enterprises, in an August 2007 Forrester survey believe that a "perfect order" exists.
November 2008 - (Free Research) In the second update to the industry's only process-focused order management assessment of its kind, Forrester evaluated eight leading order management solutions in a 152-criteria evaluation. We found that Sterling Commerce and Oracle E-Business Suite led the pack among the Leaders who delivered technologies that support the perfect order.
November 2008 - (Free Research) In the current market, insurers-and all companies, are looking for ways to cut costs and to be more efficient. This report is a high-level survey of some vendors that are known to be helping clients.
March 2007 - (Free Research) This IDC White Paper examines the importance of distributed order management. We explain the changing market conditions that have given rise to it and discuss the emergence of a new type of business whose charter is to steer consistency of brand as a product or service is marketed and sold across an extended selling chain.
April 2009 - (Free Research) This paper is intended to educate users, developers, managers, and executives of companies using SAP, on the efficiencies gained from an integrated, automated document delivery system.
January 2009 - (Free Research) This document examines the current state of Order Management Systems (OMS) portfolio management capabilities, identifies major challenges and "pain points" that firms encounter, and outlines seven system attributes needed to overcome them.
September 2008 - (Free Research) Infor ERP VISUAL combines affordability and deep functionality, and is ideal for high growth, mixed-mode manufacturers who need a modular solution. Learn why more than 4,000 businesses trust Infor ERP VISUAL to run their operations.
September 2008 - (Free Research) Infor ERP SyteLine spans the business of manufacturing to align supply with demand and support the business and operational challenges of manufacturers. Download this demo to get a better understanding of how this software can benefit your company.
September 2008 - (Free Research) Infor ERP LN is an advanced, easy-to-use ERP solution that brings together a wide range of business functions to serve the needs of leading discrete and project-based manufacturers in industrial industries. Check out this demo for more details.
March 2009 - (Free Research) MAX offers significant depth and breath of functionality for manufacturing companies that require MRP Planning, Capacity Planning, Forward and Backward Traceability, and Integrated Engineering Change Control.
June 2009 - (Free Research) A large fuel logistics and delivery company with over 77 fixed based terminals, 2500 trucks, and 3500 truck drivers in 36 states was using a paper and phone based system to deliver over 2 million loads of petroleum per year. PSC was engaged to design the end-to-end solution to automate the company's complex business process.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This paper is aimed at helping senior management address its product ROI in a manner that can be directly applied to their everyday management practices. In this report, EMF presents a methodology for calculating the ROI for a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper gives four tips to help you bring lean supply chain improvements to your manufacturing operation. Additionally, it discusses six technology tools that help automate these lean supply chain practices.
March 2008 - (Free Research) This paper will define what column-based relational databases do and how they do it, and where they have advantages (and disadvantages) compared to traditional approaches. This in turn will lead to a discussion of the sort of environments for which columns are best suited.
March 2009 - (Free Research) A manufacturing firm adopting the principles of lean manufacturing can effectively leverage the company's ERP system during its transition to lean. This E-Book explains what part of the plant you should start with; the importance of simplifying the ERP system; how to balance the ERP system with lean principles; and what pitfalls to avoid.
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