To respond to the opportunities and challenges of globalization, manufacturers are looking to IT solutions that provide standardization and visibility into the materials that flow through production facilities. This e-book provides the buying tips and implementation advice manufacturers need to master inventory in the emerging global supply chain. 

Increasing numbers of companies are evaluating a two-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategy; running separate lower-cost regional solutions for small-tomidsize subsidiaries, despite, in many cases, already rolling out a global ERP system. 

Few business objectives have been so ill-served as the notion of equilibrium between demand and supply. This report is intended as a "call to arms" for companies currently managing their supply chains as though they were still horizontally-integrated, linear systems. 

This eGuide provides buying tips and implementation advice for manufacturers looking to implement manufacturing execution systems (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to manage inventory, supply chains and more. 

This white paper briefly highlights CRM's recent evolution, examines the risks that accompany those developments and most important identifies the capabilities contained in an effective synchronized content development platform. 

This report from The Open Group introduces QLM, explains why it is necessary and how its development and acceptance will be assured.   

Read this case study to see how a United States–based global consumer products company deployed HP Network Node Manager i (NNMi) to provide more visibility into the root cause of network faults and reduce the costs associated with hardware, software, and outside vendor support. 

SAP upgrades are a perennial challenge - especially for organizations with many instances or customizations. The struggling economy has also made it difficult to make a case for a technical SAP ERP upgrade. Read this paper to learn about six SAP upgrade tips and best practices for global environments which can help avoid costly downtime and issues. 

Because Appleby operates data centers in several geographic regions, replication for disaster recovery purposes is one of the company’s top concerns. The company’s decentralized storage infrastructure seemed to make multi-site replication prohibitively costly and complex. Check out this case study to learn about the solution Appleby found. 

Check out this download to see how the Orion Network Configuration Manager aids in managing network configuration files in multi-vendor network environments, monitoring changes to device configurations and ensuring compliance with federal and corporate policies. 

Read this white paper for a discussion of server and storage infrastructure, application integration demand growth, service-oriented architecture, and enterprise application portfolios. 

The major global telcos have led the competitive march from telecoms into cloud computing, and are now widely seen as credible players in cloud computing services including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS).