All Research Sponsored By:IFS
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Agile Business Processes With IFS Applications
View this white paper to learn more about how IFS applications can improve user productivity and bring usability to new heights. Find out how you can improve your business practices and the struggle with technology by reading this white paper now.
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IFS Applications™ for Product Lifecycle Management
View this white paper to gain a better understanding of product lifecycle management (PLM.) I'ts more than just a generic buzzword, and it encompasses more than merely managing your program and project processes. Gain a better understanding on the road to successful PLM by reading this white paper now.
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Total Quality Assurance for Businesses with a Global Business Plan
Establishing a business that is competitive on a global spectrum can be challenging. View this white paper to learn more about how you can deploy a complete quality assurance package that provides the support your business needs. It outlines what you should be looking for in a source so you can be certain you've made the right selection.
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Selecting ERP for Enterprise Agility
Many software vendors are using the term 'SOA' in a misleading sense. Read this white paper to learn what to look for when evaluating enterprise applications to ensure that deploying them will actually help your organization achieve the agility that SOA promises.
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Podcast: Oracle vs. SQL Databases: Which is Best to Run With an ERP?
Tune into this podcast to learn more about the role of the database running beneath the software. Are some databases better than others and how does the database beneath the software change the performance? Listen now to get answers to these important questions.
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Podcast: IFS Study Says ERP Vendor Consolidation Has Affected the Majority
Recent merger and acquisition activity has drastically affected end-users and the market in regards to ERP management. Listen to this podcast featuring expert analyst Cindy Jutras to learn more.
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Podcast: Selecting EAM to take you to Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
Maintenance departments and the technology they use to achieve reliability centered maintenance (RCM), must pass through several levels of development before they reach the final goal. Tune into this podcast to learn more about achieving condition-based or RCM. It discusses the solid maintenance plan you need to implement before making any changes.
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Four reasons why you need to consolidate your various ERP packages
Leveraging multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) products is costing your organization valuable budget dollars. Discover four reasons to consolidate to a single ERP product, the typical obstacles holding organizations back and how to get around them, and much more.
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5 Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Steps to RCM
Read this white paper to understand the importance of reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) and the five levels of enterprise asset management (EAM) development that you must achieve in order to reach effective quintessential asset management (QAM) and RCM.
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Armstrong International Reduces Inventory, Increases Efficiency by Achieving Global ERP with IFS Applications
Read this white paper to learn the benefits that a multinational manufacturer achieved after they replaced four different enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications with one single system.
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Getting ROI Out of Your ERP system
In this e-guide, readers will learn more about the basics of ERP and how to reduce maintenance and support costs for these systems.
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3 Things Business Decision Makers Need To Know About SOA
In this white paper, uncover the three most important things you should know about service-oriented architecture (SOA) in order to be sure you are getting the most efficient and effective performance out of your enterprise application architecture.
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Realize The Benefits Of Design, Operation, Maintain Thinking Today
In this white paper, you'll find tips and strategies for maintaining an open and flexible IT system that will increase the efficiency of your enterprise. Learn how leveraging design, operate, maintain (DOM) can facilitate an easy transition to an open IT system.
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ERP vs. Project Based Solutions - Which Is Right For You?
In this white paper, learn why enterprise resouce planning (ERP) systems are emerging as an alternative to project-based solutions (PBSs).
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Usability As An ERP Selection Criteria
This white paper discusses enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems usability, with special attention to allowing you to consider usability as a criterion in your enterprise application selection process.
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Lean Manufacturing
This paper illustrates how IFS Applications support lean principles, particularly in the many manufacturing environments that require both rate-based and order-based shop floor execution. This hybrid approach lets you go lean step by step, as you are able, not because an inflexible system forces you to do so.
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ERP and Environmental Footprint Management for Manufacturers
In this paper, discover how IFS Applications suite can collect data from business activities, like project data, supply chain management data, and service management and project life-cycle data, and funnel it into the Eco Footprint Management module to make documentation easy.
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Mitutoyo America Uses IFS Applications For Advanced Sales and Service Management
This brief white paper exemplifies how one business was able to integrate IFS' application technology to create a unified enterprise application that handles sales, SCM, finance, service management, maintenance, and an embedded business intelligence (BI) solution.
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ERP for Green Supply Chain Management In Manufacturing
In this whitepaper, we will address the various drivers for the green supply chain trend, share important considerations for satisfying a green supply chain initiative of a customer or initiating your own green supply chain initiative, and discuss the role of enterprise software like ERP in keeping pace with this industry trend.
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ERP vs. Project Based Solutions - Which Is Right For You?
In order to keep pace with the evolving business world, many manufacturing companies are revamping their businesses and adopting innovative, project-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategies. Read on to learn what megatrends are driving this change, the potential benefits of project-based ERP, and much more.
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Usability As an ERP Selection Criteria
Many modern enterprises leveraging legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are frustrated by the complexity and difficult navigation. Check out this white paper to learn what three key aspects to look for in an ERP system that will reduce the systems complexity and increase its ease-of-use.
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Four Reasons Why You Need to Consolidate Your Various ERP Packages
Have the costs and complexity of running multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems begun to outweigh their positive influence on your operations? Read this white paper to learn four good reasons why ERP consolidation is ultimately the right move for manufacturers. Learn what barriers you'll encounter, how to overcome them, and more.
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ERP and Environmental Footprint Management for Manufacturers
This white paper examines not only the technologies, but the organizational dynamics necessary to successfully implement an environmental footprint management program that can encompass all organizational impacts on the environment.
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Databases and ERP Selection: Oracle Vs. SQL Server
In this paper, learn why the database layer is so important to the software selection of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Also compare Oracle database to SQL Server databases.
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ERP vs. Project Based Solutions - Which is Right for you?
Project-based business practices are now being embraced and applied to a far greater spectrum of business ranging from manufacturing to service industries. Read on to learn the trends driving this change, what it means for industrial companies, and how PBS, a new type of ERP, can allow executives to intelligently navigate these uncertain waters.