Read this paper to discover the top four tactics employed by best-in-class companies of varied sizes and industries to elevate procurement proficiencies in today's recalcitrant economy, along with the metrics they use to measure their success. 

Businesses are seeking to increase bottom-line cost savings through sourcing and procurement functions. To generate value, forward-looking organizations are strengthening supplier relationships and  making procurement a more strategic focus in the organization. 

Enterprise resource leader, SAP founded in 1972, is facing the slow death of traditional on-premise ERP. Customers with shrinking IT budgets are opting to outsource more of their core business systems. 

Companies are successfully leveraging IBM's Smart SOA™ Approach based on IBM's experience of working with more than 6550 customers worldwide. 

As economic cycles go through the ebb and flow of recession and boom, the underlying drivers of financial transformation in business enterprises also change. This is evident in the focus and direction of senior finance executives who have successfully steered their organizations through periods of recessions and prosperity. 

By adopting commercial best practices, the federal government can achieve sustainable cost savings and reach high levels of operational efficiency. Read this paper to learn about the IBM 7-point strategy and unmatched portfolio of offerings that can help federal agencies stabilize a fiscal imbalance. 

This white paper explores the best practices for modernizing all facets of your backup and recovery architecture in a fashion that suits your budget and established processes. Read now to learn more. 

Technologies such as virtualization and deduplication are getting special attention for their long-term cost saving potential, according to several storage pros on the front lines. Read this e-guide to learn about two organizations’ IT dilemmas and how they are handling them in this tough economic climate.   

A review of Managed Print Services (MPS) programmes for SMBs and midmarket organisations. 

Read this white paper to learn the essential attributes that every modern backup and recovery solution should include, and 5 top ways to drive down costs while ensuring business continuity. 

Watch this illuminating video to learn more about data deduplication as well as how the Quantum DXi-Series disk backup and replication solutions leverage data deduplication technology to dramatically shrink your disk requirements and enable remote replication replication as a disaster recovery technique. 

Read this paper to learn how the new SAP Trade Promotion Optimization application can help you optimize your trade promotions with smart, data-driven decisions, improve your trade spend, increase sales performance, and speed return on investment. 

<p>Despite increased storage budgets, customers are still struggling to manage the proliferation of data. This expert e-guide takes a closer look at the evolving storage landscape and discusses emerging data management tools and predictions for the future.</p>