One of SAP’s most popular modules, SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), runs best when you have achieved effect data management. In this white paper, find five common challenges that plant maintenance workers are faced with and ways to overcome them to maximize SAP PM effectiveness. 

This case study follows manufacturing company Steinwell Scientific, Inc. in their journey to securing a new ERP system and outlines the struggles and benefits they experienced as a result. 

The company turned to the Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager for support. This cost-effective solution deployed quickly, improved the website’s performance and uptime, and provided a superior online experience for its customers. 

The dial plan is a key element in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) environments. The dial plan is at the very core of the user experience. For companies that have multiple locations, or that are global, a comprehensive dial plan can become large and very complex. 

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. 

This paper details 6 examples of leading global companies' HR departments that are at the forefront of workforce management strategies. Read this and learn how Four Seasons enables its employees to assist guests anytime, anywhere, or how Zappos.com aligns its organization around the company's 10 core values to offer exceptional customer service. 

This case study illustrates how Sun World International, a mid-sized grower in California, shifted its competitive strategy to capitalize on analytics and gain real-time insight into the competitive market. Learn how it gained a 5% reduction in harvesting costs, a 20% reduction in fuel usage and an eight-fold increase in profit per acre. 

Being fit for business is imperative for all countries participating in a highly competitive global economy. For organisations around the world this means being able to continue to operate in the event of IT failure or major disaster, whether man-made or natural. 

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. 

<p>Gaining visibility into your applications is essential to overcoming the challenge of aligning business with IT. Watch this webcast featuring Manger of Global Applications and Architecture from The Hersey Company, Philip Buckley, to learn how Hersey improved their accessible information for manufacturing.</p> 

The global adult industry is among the largest in the world, estimated to be worth nearly $100 billion worldwide by 2006. 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital?