WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 31 Mar 2009 | Published: 31 Mar 2009
Many manufacturers are focusing on the wrong issues when considering ERP solutions. The ERP industry has earned such a poor reputation for delivery in the last 20 years that users have learned to live within a very narrow set of constraints.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 16 Mar 2010
When choosing a data integration solution, companies are confronted with many product choices, multiple sources of information and different vendors. This paper cuts through the confusion with the top 10 reasons companies choose open source for their data integration needs and 31 proof points from actual users of open source data integration.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Apr 2009 | Published: 10 Apr 2009
This paper describes the warning signs that an ERP system is killing a business, and suggests how companies can thrive with a new approach to business systems.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009
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.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 08 Feb 2010 | Published: 08 Feb 2010
This report offers data on a wide variety of ERP solutions. Included in the research sample are Tier I solutions (such as SAP, Oracle eBusiness Suite, and Microsoft Dynamics), Tier II, Tier III and industry-focused niche solutions.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009
In this article, the best advice on upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0 is compiled into a list of SAP upgrade do's and don'ts for your reading enjoyment and practical use. Also included are some customer lessons from those who have upgraded to ERP 6.0 and have stories to tell.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 04 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Contact Relationship Management (CRM), and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is complicated. Here are six simple steps to take to manage that complexity.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 31 Mar 2009 | Published: 31 Mar 2009
It's hard to miss: the term Software as a Service (SaaS) is everywhere, garnering headlines in the technology press, leading to hot IPO's raved about in the financial press, and generally being described as the future of software technology.
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ANALYST REPORT:   Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 May 2009
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.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 06 Mar 2009
From a manufacturing executive's perspective, focusing on an open and flexible Manufacturing Operations Management platform creates a competitive weapon. This research provides a roadmap for creating such a platform in a cost effective way that still delivers benefits, such as higher levels of profitability.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 17 Sep 2008
Enterprises looking to compete in a global marketplace must be able to comply with international financial and legal requirements-they must be able to think globally but at the same time act (and comply) locally.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 19 Dec 2008
Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer. Discover how to get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service with an application grid.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 17 Feb 2010 | Published: 17 Feb 2010
In this paper we compare the major differences between three software deployment models: hardware appliances, virtual machine (VM) appliances and multitenant software‐as‐a‐service (Saas) – against a traditional software delivery model. The goal is to help independent software vendors (ISVs) make informed decisions about these deployment models.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Dec 2008
This paper reviews the best of the newest achievements in VSAT performance and utility and shows how these solutions could become part of the mainstream of corporate network deployment and an integral portion of commercial (and competitive) service provider offerings.
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