The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, along with the help of IBM Business Partner BrightStar, increases revenues by $500,000 in less than one year after their IBM Cognos Software implementation, which paid for itself within the first quarter. 

Read this white paper and learn about developments in the B2B infrastructure market, such as key findings and trends, valuable recommendations, what the future landscape holds and more. 

Aberdeen conducted a follow-up survey in May 2011 in which over 60 organizations detailed their B2B integration and collaboration issues and challenges - specific focus was given to return on investment (ROI) related issues. This research excerpt summarizes the findings of this survey. 

Learn how you can improve operating results by enabling managers to make fact-based, data-driven decisions. 

This e-book contains discussion and debate around where procurement can and should be setting its sights for the year 2020 and beyond. The primary objective of this resource is to initiate a dialogue on the future of procurement and to create a road map for how to get there. 

Read this white paper for an overview of how the cloud enables greater collaboration, transparency and efficiency among hundreds of thousands of trading partners on a global scale. Discover how companies of all sizes can benefit from the effects that cloud computing has on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. 

Selecting a supplier for manufacturing ERP solutions is more important than ever before, due to the increasingly complex set of business processes involved.  Manufacturers now require the ability to share data in real time across all functional areas touching the manufacturing process. This paper takes a fresh look at manufacturing ERP options. 

During past economic slowdowns companies didn’t plan ahead to safeguard the ability to grow profitably. While the current economic downturn shows a need to reduce costs, many SMMs are also pursuing growth. They’re responding to market pressures and rising costs by targeting IT solutions like industry-specific ERP to set the stage for future growth. 

The key to achieving cost-effective savings in the supply chain is to exchange information accurately and quickly in real-time. 

This white paper explores the butterfly effect of poor data quality on CRM, ERP, billing, data warehouse, and other enterprise systems. 

This white paper identifies a shift in corporate thinking about the value of trusted information to the organization and outlines reasons why this shift is occurring. It explores common information integration challenges and outlines a list of key characteristics needed for an effective information integration solution. 

This Intel paper analyzes the effects of various factors on the utilization of the primary server resources: compute, memory and I/O. The analysis shows that 4-socket servers, which provide greater headroom than 2-socket servers, may be preferable in a number of situations. 

This eGuide provides buying tips and implementation advice for manufacturers looking to implement manufacturing execution systems (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to manage inventory, supply chains and more.