This third annual study examines how successful firms are managing international transportation and emerging trends in the industry. 

In a special interview with TouchPoints TV, Rochelle Schard, Director of Marketing for Infor, shared her first impressions of the NRF's BIG Show. Watch this videocast now to get an insider’s look at the conference and Infor’s latest tools and tactics for workforce management (WFM). 

Read this white paper to learn about creating a plan to tackle your mobile workforce obstacles and the details of a system that will assist with your complex tasks. 

CPG companies are discovering that high product volume sales come at the expense of extreme data complexity. Companies struggle to maintain open lines of communication with retail customers and distributors trying to manage the flow of product. Learn how CPG companies deliver BI to business managers to better manage fluctuating product demand. 

Wondering how you can use social media channels to join the conversation with your customers? Find out how software solutions can help you capture and analyze massive amounts of social media data and prepare individualized responses while integrating with your business software through a unified IT architecture. 

In late 2010, a survey of over 400 senior finance executives in the US on the value of business intelligence (BI) applications was conducted by CFO Research Services (CRS). The results are very informative and can be found in this report. 

As an alternative to big vendor messaging solutions, open source software presents an entirely different cost model and more flexibility in deployment options that suit the needs of retail perfectly. Read this paper to learn more about open source software and why it is the optimal approach to integrated messaging for large retail enterprises. 

As data center infrastructures become increasingly complex, so do the IT processes--such as incident management and server provisioning--that keep infrastructure up and running. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the importance of IT strategy when budgets are under pressure. The first part of our Buyer’s Guide to virtualisation examines the barriers preventing many organisations from adopting the technology; and Transport for London’s CIO talks about how IT helps avoid Olympic travel chaos. Download the issue now. 

This paper outlines the ten most common errors that prevent successful execution of the commissioning process. 

Read this first of four reports based on a global survey of executives on customer experience management, as well as interviews of SAP customers and industry influencers and analysts. (Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services, 2011) 

Discover how to efficiently measure projected business value, increase the ROI of your SAP investments, and improve the overall worth of your IT initiative with a consistent methodology for both business and IT users. 

The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions.