WHITE PAPER - Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organisation, enabling management by facts.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Metrics | Business Process Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Financial Reporting | Financial Systems | Financing | Marketing | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Sales Information Systems

WHITE PAPER - Recently, many businesses have used lean principles to move from a decentralized corporate management mode to a hybrid model - recognizing that different functions require different levels of centralized management to be efficient and effective. Read this whitepaper to learn a three-tiered approach to improving your operations.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Process Reengineering | Business Processes | Corporate Governance | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Resource Management | Lean Production | Marketing | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - With compliant manufacturing operations, you can deliver quality products to customers consistently and meet good manufacturing practices regulations at the lowest cost possible - all key to leading the competition. How can you achieve such objectives? With software and services from SAP and our partners.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Collaborative Product Development | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Software | Data Visualization | Enterprise Resource Management | Life Sciences Industry | Manufacturing Industry | Manufacturing Software | Supply Chain Integration | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - Results from Aberdeen Group report, The Lean Supply Chain, indicates that Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturers are 40% more likely to be Best in Class performers - companies that are characterized by having an integrated Lean approach and solution with technology enablers - than their peers from other industries.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise Resource Management | ERP | Lean Production | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Industry | Manufacturing Software | Supply Chain Collaboration | Supply Chain Integration

WHITE PAPER - Data quality is an elusive subject that can defy measurement and yet be critical enough to derail any single IT project, strategic initiative, or even a company as a whole. This paper from Business Objects examines an overall approach to data quality ROI including 6 key steps to help you realize tangible ROI on your data quality initiative.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Content Management | Customer Data Management | Data Auditing | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Migration | Data Profiling | Data Quality | Enterprise Resource Management | ROI

WHITE PAPER - Traditional approaches to risk management emphasize mitigation, focusing on the readily apparent risks facing a company in the areas of security, privacy, credit, regulatory, technology, fraud and more. These threats are, of course, important and must be addressed.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Disaster Planning | Enterprise Resource Management | Financial Reporting | Payroll Software | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  CRM | Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouses | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Master Data Management | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - EIM is the effort and practice of reaching across all data and application silos embedded in the organization's operating infrastructure; then binding those repositories together into one effective information management environment. This white paper will discuss metadata management, master data management, data quality, and data migration...
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Master Data Management | Metadata | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - Direct marketing is about communicating a message to a specific prospect or customer. This white paper from Business Objects, an SAP company, focuses on these concepts as they pertain to marketing, and particularly as they are supported by data quality functions inside of the broader EIM framework.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  CRM | CRM Best Practices | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Database Management | Direct Marketing | Direct Sales Channels | Enterprise Resource Management | SAP (Product) | Storage Resource Management

CASE STUDY - Driving sustainable growth requires profitability-focused planning and performance management. This special study highlights some key survey findings, which collectively show that profitability reporting is increasing in importance and the use of technology and more sophisticated costing and reporting solutions is high on the agendas of many...
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Enterprise Resource Management | ERP | ERP Software | Financial Reporting | Financial Transaction Processing | Reporting Software

WHITE PAPER - This paper is about using information management software from Business Objects, an SAP company, for SAP data migration projects, either for upgrades from one version of SAP to a newer one, or from other environments to SAP.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Integration | Data Migration | Data Profiling | Data Quality | Enterprise Resource Management | Information Management | Information Management Software

WHITE PAPER - A 2007 report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that nine out of ten corporate executives admit to making important decisions on the basis of inadequate information. This whitepaper will discuss what information visibility can do for your organization as well as the three critical strategic areas of business decision making.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Data Visualization | Data Visualization Software | Enterprise Resource Management | Information Management | Information Management Software | Information Retrieval Software | Information Standards | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Knowledge Management | Knowledge Management Software | Risk Management | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - Introducing SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services breakthrough technology software for the enterprise information management market. The software unifies our leading data-quality and integration solutions - helping your organization to move, transform, and improve virtually any type of data anywhere, at any frequency.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | CRM | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Enterprise Resource Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Resource Management Software

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Database architects and administrators need to discover, document, and re-use data assets; reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize existing databases; and design to comply with regulatory requirements and organizational standards.
Posted: May 14, 2009 | Published: May 14, 2009


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Modeling | Data Warehouse Architectures | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Management | Database Management Software | Enterprise Resource Management | Model Driven Architecture | Operational Support Systems | Regulatory Compliance

WHITE PAPER - If stimulus plans around the world are effective, we will see a boon in industrial manufacturing jobs and production. This paper stresses the importance of an Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) system.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Aerospace and Defense Industry | Business Development | Business Intelligence | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Resource Management | Infrastructure Management | Infrastructure Services | Oracle (Product)