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CRM and Social Networking: Engaging the Social Customer
White Paper Rather, organizations need to take stock of their core business processes and customer management initiatives and identify how social networking can further enhance and extend those initiatives. Used effectively, social... [22 Sep 2009]
Merchandising Initiative Helps Rocket One of the Fastest-Growing US Retailers to the Top of the S&P 500
White Paper Charlotte, NC-based Family Dollar led the S&P 500 in stock appreciation and has garnered national attention for continued positive revenue, earnings and same-store sales increases. As retailers worldwide battle the... [19 Sep 2009]
First National Bank Builds 360 Degrees of Customer Vision
White Paper In 1998, as a consequence of the merger of Rand Merchant Bank Holdings and Anglo American, First National Bank (FNB) became the retail banking division of the newly formed FirstRand Limited, which trades on the Johannesburg and Namibian... [19 Sep 2009]
London Stock Exchange picks MillenniumIT as TradElect replacement
News The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is buying a Sri Lankan-based technology services company MillenniumIT for $30m as part of its plan to migrate to a new trading system and bring tech knowledge back inside the company. [16 Sep 2009]
Size Optimization for Retailers: How to Effectively Stock Sizes of Each Item in Each Store - Into a Profitable Advantage
White Paper If their sizes are out of stock, one forfeits the sale and disappoint (and potentially lose) the customer. This type of analysis has the potential to transform a difficult issue - how to effectively... [16 Sep 2009]
Integrating Sustainability Into Supply Risk Management: Best Practices to Improve Supplier Performance and Reduce Supply Chain Risk
White Paper In a short period of time, the stock price declined by more than 20 percent, and the stock value still has not returned to previous levels. Consider that in 2007, it was discovered that lead paint had... [16 Sep 2009]
Mobile Device Management for Dummies
White Paper A retail salesperson in a store checking stock levels and processing transactions with a handheld point-of-sale device. Every day, more and more of your enterprise - along with its data and transactions - is moving to... [04 Sep 2009]
Svendsen Sport Gets Hooked on Business Intelligence With IBM Cognos
White Paper Its customers - retailers throughout Europe - need to stock the right mix of products at the right time; yet delivery lead times are measured in months. Established in 1977, Svendsen Sport has grown to become one of the... [01 Sep 2009]
HP OpenCall Media Platform: A Cost-Effective, Agile IP Media Server
White Paper These trends combine to create a dilemma for an industry whose stock in trade at one time was its stable, reliable, unchanging network: To compete, company now has to preserve its investments in legacy networks, continue... [01 Sep 2009]
Deutsche Borse AG Triples Speed of Xentric Order Routing System With In-Memory Database
White Paper Deutsche Borse is one of the largest stock exchange organizations in the world. Its product and services portfolio includes the entire process chain, from stock dealing and futures trading, clearing and... [31 Aug 2009]
Introducing XBRL for Financial Reporting & Beyond
White Paper This includes the financial scandals around Enron, WorldCom and Parmalat, the need for greater transparency in stock exchanges, risk and liquidity reporting for banks, and standard business reporting. [30 Aug 2009]
T-Time: Threshold-Based Data Mining on Time Series
White Paper Mining time series data is an important approach for the analysis in many application areas as diverse as biology, environmental research, medicine, or stock chart analysis. As nearly all data mining tasks on this kind... [29 Aug 2009]
Tru-Test Consolidates Applications, Integrates Business Units, and Increases Margins
White Paper Tru-Test decided to implement JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software from Oracle to achieve a consolidated view of products and stock. Tru-Test is a designer, manufacturer, and distributor of agricultural technology products... [28 Aug 2009]
NutriGreen Cuts Inventory Costs by 30%, Shortens Month-End Reporting Time by 16 Days
White Paper The challenge was to monitor sales and inventory to ensure stock is available to meet demand, while minimizing the volume of product write-offs and lower the number of bad debts. NutriGreen wanted to replace multiple... [28 Aug 2009]
Microsoft's Bing signs deal with Wolfram Alpha
News Wolfram Alpha doesn't return the usual list of links to pages with search keywords, instead providing answers to questions such as stock prices and complex mathematical formulas - with mixed results. Microsoft's Bing... [24 Aug 2009]