This resource provides insight into the virtual era and its essential elements. Learn how improving IT efficiency can help you address your top resource constraints without consuming your limited budget. 

Do you know how to execute? You'd better hope so. Execution separates the winners from the losers. Read this resource, taken from the upcoming book, 'Return on Execution,' and learn why a return on execution is the ultimate business difference-maker. Discover a method for measuring your return on execution and learn why business alignment is key. 

Since faxing is at the core of most businesses, you need to ensure yours can rely on it at all times. Delayed or lost transmissions can send ripples through the supply chain. This paper will help you answer the pressing questions involved in evaluating your faxing system. Learn the impact it has on business processes, product selection and more. 

This white paper discusses how business rules management systems can be used to meet the diverse range of stakeholder requirements associated with an automated policy management system. 

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. 

In this tutorial on Site Recovery Manager disaster recovery best practices, learn what you need in place to use VMware Site Recovery Manager, how to test and execute your recovery plans, and if Site Recovery Manager would be a good fit for your company's disaster recovery strategy. 

Today’s global supply chains are marked by lack of visibility and long decision-making times that make it difficult to plan and execute with the speed and precision required by today's volatile markets. This paper explains how to establish a highly collaborative, demand-driven planning process that will help you overcome these modern challenges. 

Read this article to discover the procurement software licensing and deployment options available and learn what business factors will help you determine the best approach for your company. 

Listen to this podcast as Oracle systems product managers discuss the capabilities of the newest SPARC servers and their reliability in terms of virtualization, security, and integration into the enterprise. 

ERP implementations don't have to take months or years. This white paper discusses how Colfax Corp. implemented IFS Applications in as little as nine weeks. It presents a case study of Colfax's complex but rapid rollout, and offers fast tracking tips from Colfax Business Analyst Jay Michael. 

This paper illustrates how IFS Applications support lean principles, particularly in the many manufacturing environments that require both rate-based and order-based shop floor execution. This hybrid approach lets you go lean step by step, as you are able, not because an inflexible system forces you to do so. 

Successful execution of an SOA strategy, combined with the release of the business value contained in legacy systems, can bring five proven benefits to the enterprise. Functioning as both a software development environment and a delivery framework, SOA provides a mechanism for defining business services and operating models.