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Take Your Company to the Next Wave of Sourcing Savings by Ariba, Inc.

December 23, 2011 - (Free Research)

Watch this webcast on collaborative sourcing to learn how to build a sustainable collaborative sourcing program, bring more "spend under management" or "procurement influence", and create the role of automated contract management and supplier performance management in strategic sourcing decision making processes.

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SearchManufacturingERP.com Tip Guide: E-Sourcing tools to help turn strategic suppliers into partners by Ariba, Inc.

February 08, 2012 - (Free Research)

Read this guide to learn best practices to become strategic partners with your suppliers and understand how a sourcing strategy can make or break a company.

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Collaborative Sourcing: The Keys to Unlocking Greater Value by Ariba, Inc.

December 22, 2011 - (Free Research)

This report looks at how a collaborative sourcing approach can help sourcing teams deliver greater value to the enterprise.

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Video - Andrew Bartolini on Collaborative Sourcing by Ariba, Inc.

December 22, 2011 - (Free Research)

Ardent Partners analyst and CPO Rising author, Andrew Bartolini, shares his insights into successful buyer/seller collaboration and supply chain sourcing.

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Three Steps To Strategic Planning Excellence In Wholesale Distribution Companies by SAP America, Inc.

January 27, 2012 - (Free Research)

This paper outlines a set of core analytics customized for wholesaler-distributors.

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Business Intelligence and Analytics Fundamentals by IBM

July 08, 2010 - (Free Research)

This paper from looks Ovum Research examines the key criteria and considerations you need to be aware of when evaluating your organizations BI and analytics strategy.

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Export Operations & Compliance Benchmark Report: Going Global With Regulatory Reform by SAP America, Inc.

January 27, 2012 - (Free Research)

This benchmark study from American Shipper covers U.S. export operations and compliance of more than 300 U.S. based exporters.

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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus 11G by Oracle Corporation

October 01, 2010 - (Free Research)

Read this data sheet to learn about all of the key features and benefits of this dynamic solution.

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Is the Future of Business Commerce in Social Media? by Ariba, Inc.

December 22, 2011 - (Free Research)

In this paper, explore a compilation of articles addressing supply chain management, social media in a business environment, and how to leverage the cloud to boost sales and drive customer satisfaction.

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eGuide: Best practices for managing sustainable supply chains by IBM

November 16, 2011 - (Free Research)

Many organizations, from large corporations to small not-for-profits, are eager to jump on the supply chain sustainability bandwagon without fully understanding what such a program means to the organization and its supply chain. In this e-guide, find best practices for managing sustainable supply chains and onboarding suppliers.

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Cloud decisions: Strategies for addressing organizational challenges by CSC

February 10, 2011 - (Free Research)

In this webcast, industry analyst Mark Bowker will begin his presentation on where virtualization is headed including developments towards cloud computing.

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Best-In-Class Spend Management Hinges On Spend Analysis by Ariba, Inc.

January 09, 2012 - (Free Research)

This research report examines the crucial set of processes that encompass spend analysis by exploring the pressures, strategic actions and capabilities of 132 organizations surveyed globally in September 2011.

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HP BladeSystem and the Sesame Street Characters Help Educate Children Online by HP and Intel

May 26, 2011 - (Free Research)

This case study provides details of real-world best practices in IT consolidation to turn a data center from a burdensome cost center to a strategic asset with robust security, enhanced business continuity and reduced operating expenses.

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Fast Delivery of Complex Financial Reports - How Leading CFOs Do It by IBM

November 14, 2011 - (Free Research)

Reporting speed and accuracy are vital today. But it would be wrong to assume that you have to spend more to go faster and do a competent job. This white paper illustrates how some organizations achieved top-tier results in financial reporting and why some did not.

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Critical Success Factors for Business Intelligence by Information Builders Inc. (E-mail this company)

November 2006 - (Free Research)

Join moderator Gary Beach, publisher of CIO Magazine, and Michael Corcoran, Information Builders CCO, for an informative panel discussion on operational business intelligence (BI) and the keys to a successful deployment. They'll speak with technology experts from Pershing LLC and Holland America Lines about their BI projects.

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Enabling Continuous Compliance Across the Enterprise by IBM

June 2011 - (Free Research)

Today's innovative enterprises are transforming compliance into a continuous action that is woven into the fabric of both their IT security and business environments. Learn how this transformation can significantly improve compliance results with fewer resources, while providing valuable insights to drive strategic business decisions.

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Executive Brief Smarter Commerce is redefining value chain visibility by IBM

November 2011 - (Free Research)

Putting the customer at the center of your operations is not a new idea, but truly operationalizing this strategy can be challenging. Read this paper to find out how to improve collaboration and visibility for your customers and partners and deliver consistent and predictable outcomes by synchronizing your entire value chain.

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Dell Technology Perspective: Intelligent Data Management by Dell, Inc.

November 2011 - (Free Research)

Intelligent Data Management is Dell’s overall approach to help enable IT organizations to evolve from managing the storage of their data, to managing and delivering the data as strategic information.

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Best Practices for Implementing a Data Warehouse on Oracle Exadata Database Machine by Oracle Corporation

November 2010 - (Free Research)

By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

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Uptime and the Value of Clustering for Linux Servers by Global Knowledge

August 2010 - (Free Research)

This white paper explores the need for uptime, explains the three components that contribute to uptime, reviews some of the problems with existing enterprise server management, provides a clear definition of clustering, and finally gives an honest explanation of what it can and can’t offer your organization.

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Article: How end-to-end services can transform Oracle environments by Dell, Inc.

April 2011 - (Free Research)

The creation of the Dell Services Oracle Practice builds on the long and successful relationship between Dell and Oracle - a collaboration that can offer significant benefits to organizations running Oracle software on Dell hardware. Read this article for more.

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WebFOCUS Operational Enterprise Business Intelligence by Information Builders Inc. (E-mail this company)

WebFOCUS is a comprehensive and fully integrated enterprise business intelligence platform. It sets the standard for enterprise business intelligence by scaling to support every level of the global organization – executive, analytical, & operational – and make data available, accessible, and meaningful to every person or application that needs it.

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Computer Weekly 24 January 2012: Has Microsoft succeeded with Trustworthy Computing? by ComputerWeekly.com

January 2012 - (Free Research)

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now.

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Analyst Research IBM Synchronizes its Commerce 2.0 Strategy with ‘Smarter Commerce’ Initiative by IBM

March 2011 - (Free Research)

In this paper, IDC Insight highlights the important elements of the IBM Smarter Commerce announcement and looks at the implications of the announcement in the context of a powerful movement that is occurring in the commerce solutions marketplace, both business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C).

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How to manage emerging technology in IT by ComputerWeekly.com

February 2011 - (Free Research)

Different Emerging Information Technologies (EIT) have different impacts upon a business. Some EIT should be used as technical tools for supporting business to make business more efficient or effective; othersshould be used as strategic tools for leading, not merely supporting, a business to make a difference.

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