Combining SAP ERP with SAP Incentive Administration and SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks provides a complete contract management solution. With this solution, you will increase market share, capture business intelligence, reduce overpayments and duplicate claims, improve compliance, and increase productivity. 

The key to unlocking outsourcing potential lies in targeting the right projects, choosing your suppliers wisely and then managing them with an eye on economic conditions at that global site. Here's a step-by-step plan for optimizing savings. 

To provide relief and encourage continued growth, the U.S. Congress recently passed the Recovery Act-legislation that offers economic help to small businesses to help them to survive and thrive. Read the following Q+A to learn how businesses can take advantage of stimulus funds. 

Find out how you can build a plan for IT simplification and automation and get practical advice for your complex challenges around areas such as: business service management, service desk and self-service, mainframe cost optimization, virtualization and cloud computing. 

Tune into this Web Seminar to hear BPM industry analysts, Dr. Bruce Silver and Amy Lipton share how dynamic BPM powered by the IBM Smart SOA approach can help you react quickly and drive ROI. After the seminar you'll receive a complimentary IBM BPM assessment for a targeted analysis of your current situation. 

Attend this free, one-day virtual seminar to explore agile development processes and gain insight into strategies and tools for development, testing and QA of applications. Hear agile experts share best practices for project management. 

This white paper explains a structured way to manage requirements and how risk-based requirements and quality management are inseparable from the larger process of managing the planning, test and release of a software system. 

What Application Performance Management tactics and best practices can you apply to ensure a good end-user experience? What process and strategy can you institute to enable your IT organization to align with the business? What can you do to prepare for the additional complexities that virtualization, cloud and SOA can bring to your environment? 

Petmate enlisted the help of TAKE Supply Chain's X.PC to not only streamline the administration of contract manufacturing for Petmate. Read this case study to learn how X.PC transformed Petmate's manual approach to working with manufacturers through a Web-based collaborative environment that improved shared communications. 

The purpose of this white paper is to highlight best practices of identifying and managing changes that might occur on a construction project, and provide a process to effectively manage changes on construction projects. 

As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators. 

Join noted backup expert W. Curtis Preston LIVE online on September 15, 2009 for a 3-part presentation on backup planning for 2010. Get expert tips on where to add efficiency to your backup operations now -- and gain valuable information on the biggest backup trends being deployed in IT shops as we move towards year end.