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. 

In today's instant on world, instant results can put your enterprise ahead of the competition. To embrace this new view, enterprise IT must overcome complexity and critical constraints. This resource explores how organizations can meet today’s instant on demands efficiently and cost-effectively. 

This expert resource presents key findings from a recent cloud poll completed by your peers. Find out which businesses plan on implementing the cloud, whether they are considering private or public clouds, and more. 

Between on-demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), there are more enterprise resource planning (ERP) software options available than ever and small to midsized businesses (SMBs) are finding it be an overwhelming situation. Read this expert guide to learn which ERP applications are becoming viable alternatives for SMBs, as the marketplace matures. 

This video explores how consulting services can help teams and managers rise above day-to-day business to put their application modernization needs into focus. Listen now to learn more about how industry veternas can help you build a roadmap to transform your business. 

Access this essential resource to discover five crucial steps to jump-start business and IT agility by becoming an instant-on enterprise, including planning, standardizing, virtualizing, and more. 

<p>This case study outlines exactly how Callaway Golf created and managed three distinct platform landscapes for each of their deployed SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. Read more inside to see how this strategy led them to eventually have the capabilities to virtualize SAP productions.</p> 

This paper outlines how SAP Business ByDesign supports subsidiaries as a single, integrated business management solution, delivering the best of SAP software on demand. Read this and learn about its benefits, including improved customer satisfaction and higher operational efficiency, fast time to value and reduced risk, better decisions and more. 

<p>Read this Aberdeen Insight analyst report to learn how a good enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategy can make your software selection process a breeze. Find survey results on how companies approached their selection process and how ERP impacts a company's overall performance.</p> 

In this podcast, Ray Wang, Vice President at Forrester Research, offers insight on how to build a business case for enterprise resource planning (ERP) during the economic downturn - and save money in the process. 

This white paper explores the hazards of application sprawl, and how using the strategy of rationalization - the process of identifying software which no longer provides business benefits to justify maintaining it - can reduce complexity, cut costs, and dramatically increase organizational agility. 

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.