This paper is aimed at helping senior management address its product ROI in a manner that can be directly applied to their everyday management practices. In this report, EMF presents a methodology for calculating the ROI for a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk. 

This paper examines an array of solutions for SAP customers to optimize the Order-to-Cash processes in ways that contain costs and achieve optimum organizational efficiency, high customer retention and successful cash management. 

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables different programs, applications, and tools to interact via self-contained services that do not depend on the context or state of the other service. This white paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration, and how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices. 

View this webcast to hear why effective requirements engineering is vital to successful product development and about challenges, best practices and solutions for implementing effective requirements engineering. 

This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful Lean manufacturing, including the establishment of optimal customer relationships, improved channel visibility, flexible product configuration, shortened cycle times, improved capacity utilization and integrated operational infrastructures. 

This white paper explores how to troubleshoot common application errors, including crashes and functionality failures, for greater application performance and an optimized end-user experience. 

This white paper describes HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator, a template of pre-defined information based on ITGI's COBIT, which is loaded into HP Quality Center to help your organization define and execute Sarbanes-Oxley testing, evaluate the results, and develop remediation plans. 

The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the financial impact of Progress Actional on its organizations. Forrester Research, Inc.'s aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis. Readers should use this study to better communicate a business case for investing in Progress Actional. 

This podcast explores what makes Software as a Service (SaaS) a solid strategy to automate processing of vendor, customer and sales documents and discusses why this is fast becoming a popular option for cost-conscious businesses. 

With compliant manufacturing operations, you can deliver quality products to customers consistently and meet good manufacturing practices regulations at the lowest cost possible - all key to leading the competition. How can you achieve such objectives? With software and services from SAP and our partners. 

For many sports organizations, a CRM system acts much like the lifeblood of the company, feeding insightful information about both customers and players to management and coaches in order to enhance business decisions. Watch this video case study to hear about the benefits of Microsoft Dynamics CRM from real customers. 

With Oracle Applications Extension for Rational Performance you no longer have to jeopardize your business engine during an upgrade. You’ll eliminate risk, increase testing productivity, speedy delivery, and ensure the quality and scalability of your business systems.