Understanding how IT can drive value and competitive advantage for your company is important for executives in all industries. This SAP Executive Insight paper explores the relationship between IT investment and performance and productivity gains. 

Small and midsize companies that can successfully align IT with their business objectives will be the ones to stay ahead of the competition by having access to the right information at the right time, allowing for better, faster decisions. 

Your company's ability to meet changing customer requirements and drive revenue growth in a continually changing environment is essential. This whitepaper examines the related issues of growth and flexibility from a number of perspectives. 

This whitepaper explains why automated reconciliation is quickly evolving into a competitive necessity. The costs associated with manual reconciliation, the benefits from automation, and the best reconciliation workflow model will all be discussed. 

This white paper explains how a business rule management system can make business process automation easier to understand, maintain and manage. 

How can management communicate business strategy effectively and assure that the entire organization has bought in to the strategy and is aligned behind it? Business performance optimization systems are an important tool for success. 

Operational excellence means consistently doing things well across the value chain as a way of gaining competitive advantage. In its broadest terms, it is a discipline that drives corporate strategy. 

This paper explores the concepts of sales growth in relation to understanding who your customers are, connecting a go-to-market strategy with technology, and using technology to sharpen internal practices. 

Efficient operations help you better control costs and enable you to offer more competitive pricing and terms to your customers. SAP Business One, a single, affordable application designed for small businesses, lets you streamline operations, access accurate information quickly, and get a 360-degree view of key business areas. 

With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be. 

IT management in small and medium companies can and must understand the information needs and language of their business colleagues within the organization. IT managers must show business managers how IT can enable them to meet and exceed their departmental goals. 

In this 1to1 Executive Dialogue, Don Peppers and Steve Muran talk about the importance of customer retention, the need to integrate disparate sources of data, and the opportunity for financial institutions to rebuild customer trust as a means to competitive advantage.