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

Read this white paper to learn how to integrate the plant floor into your enterprise IT infrastructure to achieve more effective quality control with tips for evaluating your MES and best practices for creating tight MES-ERP integration. 

With a potential economic crisis looming in the Eurozone, Gartner offers a checklist of questions that CIOs and CEOs should ask each other. 

This nine-page Buyer's Guide to Customer Relationsip Management (CRM) analyses the factors CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to consider as they plan their CRM strategies. 

Your service desk should be the one stop shop for internal and external customers. But, in order for IT to be the orchestrator of knowledge and the service catalog, you need to provide excellent service and quick response times. Watch this webcast and discover the most current recommendations for service delivery and management best practices. 

Smart information technology (IT) practices reduce the environmental impact of conducting business, and help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) reduce expenses. 

For years, Donnelly managed operations using an OS/2 operating system and various software packages. While Donnelly achieved much success using the OS/2 platform and manual scheduling, the company’s growth eventually began outpacing the system’s capacity. With EnterpriseIQ in place, Donnelly has seen improvements in every aspect of its business. 

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. 

As organizations begin implementing server virtualization, it is critical that they consider the fact that backup and data protection processes will need to be done differently and may become more complicated. This DCIG analyst report discusses methods of effectively protecting data in virtual environments and the different solutions available. 

SAP shops have long been using the Workflow module to automate processes controlled by the SAP FI module. Customers are looking to extend SAP Workflow to derive more value from SAP systems in place. Learn the benefits and challenges of using the SAP Business Workflow module as well as tips for planning a successful Workflow strategy. 

Virtualization specialist Chris Evans recently spoke with SearchVirtualStorage.com about vStorage API—a group of application program interfaces from VMware. This Expert Briefing will help you define and understand VMware vStorage APIs and their impact and potential in your IT shop. 

This interactive classroom, as part of an online learning destination, provides you with a one-stop-shop for all your cloud needs. Choose from a variety of resources including white papers, webcasts, and podcasts, and explore strategies for moving to the cloud.