forecasts
Photos: The new gadgets and tech services up Orange's sleeve
Photo Users can get access to mobile-like functions such as address book, text messaging and visual voicemail, it can also be used to browse the internet and send links or information - such as weather forecasts or venue... [26 Nov 2009]
The IT Consulting Skill Set
White Paper In every management meeting at consulting firms worldwide, as the partners review results and make forecasts, the conversation inevitably turns to the utilization rates of the staff. What do we sell when we sell consulting? [22 Oct 2009]
Kodak Graphic Communications Group Accelerates Lead-to-Cash Cycle With Integrated Customer View
White Paper Kodak Graphic Communications Group wanted to improve the effectiveness of sales and service initiatives for GCG's operations in the Europe, Africa & Middle East region and attain a consolidated view of the sales pipeline to drive more... [02 Oct 2009]
Harvest Foods Reduces Purchasing Costs by 30% With Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
White Paper The challenge was to enable custom reporting, such as sales forecasts and reduce raw ingredient purchasing costs to optimize profit. Harvest Foods wanted to integrate multiple disparate modules for financial systems... [02 Oct 2009]
Gain Greater Real-Time Spending Control and Visibility by Accounting for All Your Direct and Indirect Expenses
White Paper In addition, with forecasts suggesting that the data will further increase by 100 percent in the next two years, now's the time to develop a coherent, integrated information management strategy. Operating in this age of... [02 Oct 2009]
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Pilots IBM Solution to Drive Down Parts Inventory Costs for Metro Fleet
White Paper IBM Dynamic Inventory Optimization Solution, a comprehensive offering that helps companies determine optimal inventory levels based on cost trade-offs, forecasts, demand patterns, parts availability requirements and... [01 Oct 2009]
CRM Media - Best Practices: Software-as-a-Service
White Paper Tough economic times may encourage low-risk alternatives to large investments—in fact, if industry forecasts can be believed, by 2012 nearly 30 percent of business software will be deployed and delivered via the SaaS... [28 Sep 2009]
BlackBerrys feeling the squeeze as smartphone rivals smarten up
News These forecasts are slightly lower than analysts' third-quarter revenue of about $3.9bn. Even though RIM still saw strong sales of BlackBerrys, the news sent the company's stock price tumbling in after-market trading. [25 Sep 2009]
AmBev Bottles Up Demand Planning With SAS: Solution Offers 50 Percent Improvement in Production Turnover Rates
White Paper AmBev deployed SAS Demand Intelligence that combines data from all demand and replenishment planning processes and generates weekly forecasts for setting sales goals, production levels and distribution plans. [19 Sep 2009]
Optimize Your Warranty Reserves: Sophisticated Data Modeling and Automated Forecast Accuracy Is the Key to Right-Sizing Your Warranty Reserves and Putting That Lazy Capital Back to Work
White Paper An organization can extract data from its present operational systems, apply sophisticated modeling and forecasting techniques to this data, and generate forecasts that are significantly more accurate than what manual... [16 Sep 2009]
Alternatives to Panic: The New Business Practices That Will Emerge From the Crash of '08
White Paper The typical enterprise is run on the basis of five-year strategies, detailed annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, monthly reports - and that misses the real-time rhythm of the business. Business consultant says the... [16 Sep 2009]
Managing Risk & Uncertainty - An Executive's Guide to Integrated Bus Planning
White Paper Integrated business planning can help you keep your finger on the market pulse, reduce planning iterations, accelerate decision making, and ensure that your plans are more actionable and your forecasts are more accurate,... [15 Sep 2009]
Enhancing Business Intelligence With Forecasting: How to Produce High-Quality Forecasts, Ensure Better Decisions and Plan More Accurately
White Paper Included in SAS' predictive analytics technologies are forecasting solutions that help organizations produce high quality forecasts, ensuring better decisions and more accurate planning. Business Intelligence (BI)... [02 Sep 2009]
Enhancing Sales and Operations Planning With Forecasting Analytics and Business Intelligence
White Paper Many organizations develop demand forecasts utilizing a group's product knowledge as the primary driver. Since the unconstrained demand forecast is such an important part of an organization's S&OP process, it should be... [02 Sep 2009]
Fundamental Issues in Business Forecasting
White Paper Unfortunately, investment in the forecasting function is no guarantee of better forecasts. Forecasting is a difficult and thankless endeavor. When accuracy is not quite where everyone wants it to be, it reacts by making... [02 Sep 2009]