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Releasing Resources to Support Growth - The Long-Term Benefits of Finance Transformation

whitepaper This survey of senior finance executives in North America reveals that the finance function has freed time and resources to pursue high-value activities like decision support and financial planning and analysis as a result of transaction...

Tags: transaction processing

[17 May 2008]

Impressions Incorporated Decides on Radius Solutions as MIS/ERP Provider

whitepaper Impressions Incorporated implemented PECAS Vision software from Radius Solutions to support the company's long-term business objectives and provide a single integrated system to manage information across its entire operations.

Tags: erp

[17 May 2008]

Early Linux Adopter Turns to Windows for New Business Needs

whitepaper Although the company still runs its Web site on Linux, Overstock.com has increasingly turned to Microsoft software for the applications that support its mission-critical fulfillment processes, data warehouse environment, and online marketing efforts.

Tags: application servers

[16 May 2008]

Movie-Theater Giant Acts on Technology Decisions With Input From Experts

whitepaper AMC attended several Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) engagements, which provided their team with the technical insight and support to make a confident technology decision, implement the solution quickly, and conserve resources.

Tags: infrastructure management

[15 May 2008]

Benchmark Kit Validation Test for IBM System i5 With JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.11 SP1

whitepaper The primary objective of this benchmarking effort is to provide as many data points as possible to support this important decision. Customers and prospects can use this information to determine the software, hardware, and network configurations...

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Yangtze Power Improves Business Intelligence With Integrated Database and Analysis Tools

whitepaper Yangtze Power relies heavily on technology to support smooth operations. To gain a coherent view of its operations, Yangtze Power had to consolidate data from these systems, a time-consuming task that hindered timely decision-making during critical...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[15 May 2008]

Scalable Windows Servers for the Data Center

whitepaper Workloads such as business intelligence, database, decision support, and ERP applications - which are already available for Windows operating environments - are expanding to reach more users and to process more corporate data in many organizations.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Enterprise Reporting - The First Step to Superior Performance Management

whitepaper Employees and business partners count on these reports to keep them up to date and support their decision-making, even as they acknowledge that the reports often do not provide complete or sufficiently timely information.

Tags: back-office

[14 May 2008]

The 5 Must-Have Features of a CRM Solution

whitepaper Do you need support for Oracle, MS SQL, and SYBASE? You're ready to pull the trigger on a CRM solution, but you're not sure you are making the right decision? Sure, it's got all the right bells and whistles, but are these features the ones your...

Tags: crm software

[02 May 2008]

Top IT job at NHS split into two

News Gordon Hextall, will support Keogh in his role as interim director of informatics, in addition to Hextall's role as interim director of programme and system delivery until the new appointments are made.

Tags: richard granger, cfh, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology

whitepaper This Parallels white paper is a valuable decision-support resource that offers guidance for evaluating competing server virtualization solutions. It opens with a review of the three types of virtualization technologies available today: hardware...

Tags: virtualization, resource, considerations, list

[24 Apr 2008]

Naked CIO: The true cost of IT

Comment In my organisation, as everywhere else, the amount of IT projects and development is always greater than the resources available to support them. Until then, while I won't support cost-based services, I will try and define and get the business...

Tags: value, cost allocation, projects, departments

[21 Apr 2008]

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function

whitepaper According to the results of a recent APQC study, finance organizations, no matter what their size, are still spending almost two-thirds of their time on transaction processing, to the detriment of more strategic functions such as decision support...

Tags: back-office, transaction, apqc, functions

[11 Apr 2008]

Getting Current on PeopleSoft: Upgrade Vs. Reimplementation

whitepaper One of the biggest decisions that must be made in the support and evolution of a purchased software application is whether to upgrade or re-implement. This one decision has far ranging implications on the entire organization and can drive the...

Tags: upgrade, implications, implement, evolution

[11 Apr 2008]

Data Warehousing - What Is It?

whitepaper In essence, it was intended to provide an architectural model for the flow of data from operational systems to decision support environments. In larger corporations it was typical for multiple decision support projects to operate independently...

Tags: business intelligence / data warehousing, flow, decision support, delivery

[10 Apr 2008]

Data Warehousing - Understanding Its Role in a Business Management Architecture

whitepaper But because decision support applications must examine corporate data in a longitudinal fashion, building a data warehouse demands an outlook and a skill set that is dramatically different than those for building classical online transaction...

Tags: business intelligence / data warehousing, warehouse, decision making, amounts

[10 Apr 2008]

CommuniGate Pro Messaging Platform: Transforming E-Mailing and Calendaring

whitepaper Organizations need a robust yet easy to manage solution and reliable technical support from the system vendor. As e-mail continues to be the preferred method of business communication, choosing a mature and complete e-mail server becomes a mission...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, mail, communigate pro, stalker software

[10 Apr 2008]

Successfully Managing an Incremental Real-Time Project: Managing Change and Monitoring Progress

whitepaper In order to ensure that the designs fully support the system requirements, the designs are based on the analysis models. However, the decision must be made as to whether to include the design diagrams in the same model as the analysis diagram, or...

Tags: project management, models, diagrams, diagram

[10 Apr 2008]

Restructured Environment Serves as the Foundation for Globally Consolidated Management

whitepaper Through increased stability and improved response, greater usability has been realized for end users who support Fuji Photo Film with speedy strategic planning and decision making. Fuji Photo Film Co.leads the world in the creation of "the culture...

Tags: upgrades and migration, sap, stability, photo

[10 Apr 2008]

Data Warehouse Volume Growth Continues

whitepaper Database Vendors Teradata, a division of NCR, and Oracle has published two multibyte TB (terabyte) decision support benchmarks at the three TB volume point. These are the first multi-terabyte TPC-H benchmarks submitted, and they require some 22 TB...

Tags: business intelligence / data warehousing, benchmarks, tb, vendors

[10 Apr 2008]

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