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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Executive Brief Smarter Commerce is redefining value chain visibility by IBM

November 17, 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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Enabling Continuous Compliance Across the Enterprise by IBM

June 30, 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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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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Fast Delivery of Complex Financial Reports - How Leading CFOs Do It by IBM

November 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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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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IT in the UK SMB (Small and Medium sized Business) Sector by ComputerWeekly.com

January 2012 - (Free Research)

This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations.

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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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IT Value Transformation Roadmap - Cloud Strategy Brief by VMware, Inc.

February 2011 - (Free Research)

IT organizations are perceived by the business in two ways - as a cost center or a center of strategic value. This paper provides a virtualization and private cloud centric road map for IT value transformation, highlighting the objectives, challenges, required competencies, success factors and success measures at each stage.

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Tip Guide: Look past tools to make modernization efforts more agile by Hewlett-Packard Company

November 2011 - (Free Research)

Read this SearchSOA.com tip guide to learn why organizations should look beyond tools for discovery and modernization efforts and look more towards an agile process. Learn why combining a modernization strategy with an agile approach will help organizations modernize more quickly and avoid common hurdles.

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Reliable Messaging Solutions for Retail -How Open Source Software Creates Opportunities in Retail by FuseSource

July 2011 - (Free Research)

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.

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The Department of Defense and Open Source Software by Oracle Corporation

January 2008 - (Free Research)

This white paper looks at the pros and cons of open-source software and helps organizations understand how to build a business case that is based on cost, schedule, performance and risks across the entire program lifecycle not just up-front program inception costs and considerations.

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Scalable BI for Every Enterprise How Open Source BI Meets Enterprise-Class Requirements. by Jaspersoft

December 2010 - (Free Research)

Not every BI provider seeks to serve the scalable enterprise, but those that do must meet certain scalability criteria that are common to nearly every enterprise. This investigation exposes key scalability requirements for BI, and examines how the world's most widely used BI solution— notably, one that's open source— meet these requirements.

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