CASE STUDY:   Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
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.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
Hospitals from across the world are facing increased pressure to improve operations from multiple directions. What is needed is a new generation of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications designed with the health care sector in mind, capable of integrating cross and inter-departmental processes and information.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
Business intelligence (BI) can be considered critical to the very existence of most organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore whether and how companies are using BI to improve their businesses; to identify the obstacles they encounter in its use; and predict how BI will evolve in the next ten years.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence tools and applications that allows cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 20 Oct 2008 | Published: 18 Oct 2008
This paper discusses why failure happens and how to prevent it by following the overriding best practice in successful acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures: preparedness.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 17 Sep 2008
Extending ERP is the focus of this document, which encompasses utilizing more functionality, extending the footprint beyond the core ERP functionality and making decisions between ERP vendors and pure play or "Best of Breed" solutions.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 24 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Nov 2007
Take a look at how organizations are taking strides to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities - in short, to close the gap between strategy and execution.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 31 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 May 2007
This white paper presents IDC’s framework for implementing operational excellence (opex) and helps the reader move toward an effective op ex implementation while avoiding potential pitfalls.
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