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Strategic Profitability Management
Very few of today's companies have a reliable way to achieve the widest profitability margins consistent with other strategic objectives, largely because no one person or organization is responsible for it. Read this white paper to find out what Ventana Research recommends as part of an effective profitability management strategy.
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Managing Costs More Effectively
This Ventana Research paper identifies the IT components that can be used to identify ways to improve cost management for success in today's recovering yet volatile market.
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Accelerating the Speed of Intelligence for Fast and Flexible Forecasting
Based on interviews with CFOs and senior finance executives at six leading international companies, this report presents the strategies they are using to infuse flexibility into their planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes in order to detect and address the constantly changing market realities of today's stubbornly volatile global economy.
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3 Questions to Ensure You’re Collaborating Effectively Across Your Supply Chain
To drive market share, sales, product adoption and greater efficiency, many businesses are strategically partnering with suppliers and other supply chain participants to collaborate and share information. In this white paper, find answers to three of the top concerns for organizations developing these collaborative supply chain networks.
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Managing the Extended Enterprise for Profitable Growth
When today's modern, extended enterprises make the move to standardize on a single business software solution, they often find that very few vendors offer products with the necessary scope and flexibility. Read this paper to discover the required elements of successful, unified business software for the extended enterprise.
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Tip Guide: Study finds manufacturing analytics falling short
Nearly two-thirds of manufacturers use time-consuming, unreliable spreadsheets for their business analytics, and many say the information is stale or unreliable, leading to time consuming, costly mistakes for companies. In this tip guide, readers will learn more about the shortcomings of manufacturing analytics.
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Tip Guide: Oracle BI update adds support for Microsoft, SAP, iPad
Oracle’s latest business intelligence (BI) software upgrade adds prebuilt integration with Oracle’s own TimesTen in-memory database, its OLAP platform and competing products from Microsoft and SAP. In this tip guide, readers will learn the latest on Oracle’s BI update and how it compares with other vendor solutions.
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Tip Guide: Five goals for implementing Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA) can give organizations deeper analytical views into their business performance. In this tip guide, readers will learn about five key areas organizations should focus on when implementing OBIA.
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Tip Guide: Tips for making the business case for CRM analytics – and what can be gained
In this e-guide, readers will learn more about customer relationship management (CRM) analytics and what can be gained from having this in place.
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SAP BusinessObjects BI and EIM 4.0
In the past, getting the right level of insight across your business has been a struggle. View this brief video introducing SAP's latest releases for business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information management (EIM), to learn how to improve your operational efficiency with access to mission-critical business information.
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E-Guide: Newly combined SAP and Sybase could mean big trouble for Oracle
In this brief yet informative e-guide, readers will gain expert insight into how SAP will gain the edge over Oracle through its focus on providing a high level of integration between Sybase and SAP that is highly optimized for users to scale their applications effectively.
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E-Guide: Gartner Magic Quadrant: Oracle and SAP prepare for data quality battle
In this brief yet insightful e-guide, you will get a side-by-side comparison of SAP and Oracle's data quality portfolios along with expert advice.
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Big Data Analytics
This research report drills into many aspects of big data analytics to give users and their business sponsors a solid background for big data analytics, including business and technology drivers, successful business use cases and common technology enablers.
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SAP Hands-On Mobile BI Experience Webcast
When you’re on the go, you need to do more than simple tasks. You need to tackle the same challenges as when you’re in the office. But how easy is it to do all of that on your iPad? Take this opportunity to find out for yourself. Watch this webcast and walk through the complete mobile experience using your iPad.
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Faster, Higher, Stronger: In-Memory Computing Disruption and What SAP HANA Means for Your Organization
Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper.
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Tip Guide: A tale of two small businesses and their ERP software
Investment in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is exploding, according to a recent report by Boston-based AMR Research. This Tip Guide discusses two SMBs and their approaches to the need for ERP software.
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Tip Guide: Benefits and drawbacks of SaaS ERP software: Which option is best?
Not all companies are truly ready for Software-as-a-(SaaS), and other factors could indicate that using a traditional on-premises server and ERP application might by the smartest move for some small and medium-sized enterprises. In this Tip Guide, readers will learn the factors to consider when choosing a SaaS ERP delivery model.
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Tip Guide: Two-tier ERP a growing trend among SAP shops, report says
A growing number of companies are going with two-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for a variety of financial and logistical reasons. In this Tip Guide, readers will get a better understanding of why two-tier ERP is a growing trend among SAP shops.
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Tip Guide: Five ways to reduce ERP maintenance and support costs
In today’s economic environment, manufacturing companies are looking for ways to reduce their long-term total cost of ownership for enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. In this Tip Guide, readers will discover five ways to minimize long-term ERP software support and maintenance costs.
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Tip Guide: How to make the case for an ERP upgrade
Delaying necessary upgrades or not taking advantage of innovations for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can impede productivity, security and regulatory compliance efforts. In this Tip Guide, ERP veterans discuss making the ERP upgrade business case using arguments that resonate with CEOs and CFOs.
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Tip Guide: Supply chain analytics offers cost, revenue advantages
Propelled by globalization and the convergence of mobile and cloud computing, industry experts believe that although supply chain analytics has been around for a decade, it is truly on the verge of taking off. In this tip guide, readers will discover the advantages of advanced manufacturing business intelligence (BI).
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Tip Guide: Supply chain data management essential for “sense and respond” analytics
In this tip guide, readers will learn best practices for supply chain data management to provide a successful, responsive analytics strategy for their organization.
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Tip Guide: Unify supplier, customer data for manufacturing business intelligence
Installing the building blocks for manufacturing business intelligence (BI) can be challenging for organizations. In this tip guide, readers will learn best practices to unify supplier and customer data for manufacturing BI.
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Tip Guide: The Good Data Mart
In this Tip Guide, readers will learn compelling reasons why organizations choose to build and support multiple dependent data marts.
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Tip Guide: Tips for supply chain analytics and manufacturing BI
Early this year, Ventana Research Inc. released a study that found supply chain analytics appears to be a poorly understood technology in dire need of some best practices. In this tip guide, readers will learn expert advice for putting supply chain analytics to use in manufacturing business intelligence (BI).