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whitepaper Automated Sales Order Processing for Order-to-Cash Performance with ERP Systems2008-02-14 Esker
  Business performance depends on how well a company manages its internal processes. Companies with effective business process management in place are able to analyze key performance indicators to monitor efficiency of day-to-day activities and employees against operational targets.

Order-to-cash is a generic term used to encompass the business cycle that starts with reception of a customer sales order and ends with collection of accounts receivable generated in the sale of the final product. There are several sub-processes within the order-to-cash cycle, including: receiving orders, entering sales orders, approving sales orders, fulfilling orders, billing for the orders and collecting payment.

Many companies have implemented enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications to standardize enterprise operations and support business process management strategies. ERP solutions empower companies to automate many business processes formerly done by hand. But to achieve full return on investment in ERP solutions, businesses need to automate the documents that drive business processes.

Tags: Document Management, ERP, Business Management, Sales - Marketing		   
whitepaper The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation2008-09-05 Diskeeper
  Fragmentation results in significant money and time drain on IT resources. The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation helps IT professionals, analysts, and engineers understand the benefit of an automatic hands free disk defragmentation strategy across the enterprise. This in-depth independent study covers disk architecture, examines how the pervasive problem of fragmentation affects computer systems and explores effective approaches in reducing these pains. It outlines the mechanics of automatic defragmentation, how to select and deploy an automatic defragmentation solution and the ROI involved.

Tags: Back-up, Database Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Resources Mgmt., Storage Management, Hard Drives		   
whitepaper Reducing Cost, Risk, and Complexity for Compliance Data in Financial Services2008-10-30 Network Appliance
  The financial services industry is facing increasing pressure internationally to comply with a range of new and varied regulations. Enterprise-wide data management and rigorous record keeping are no longer luxuries; they have become life-supporting essentials. This paper examines the business requirements for an advanced, unified architecture, rather than the more typical silo-based approach, to address today’s financial sector compliance requirements.   
whitepaper Data Center Storage Consolidation with 4Gb Fibre Channel (FC) SANs2008-10-30 Network Appliance
  Information is a dynamic force in the enterprise, and the rapid acceleration in the amount of data being collected and generated at most companies requires a strategic approach to storage infrastructure. This document describes how 4Gb FC infrastructure from NetApp and Brocade improves storage consolidation, and focuses on how deploying a next-generation 4Gb consolidated SAN can benefit organizations.   
whitepaper Power Consumption in the Data Center2008-10-30 Network Appliance
  Electricity continues to be a significant portion of the total cost of ownership for data centers. In particular, the power & cooling of IT equipment constitutes a significant portion of any data center's expenditure. Naturally, finding ways to reduce this energy consumption is of critical importance to data center managers, as energy is also a rising social and environmental concern. This report outlines NetApp's space-saving technologies as well as their potentials for reducing power.   
whitepaper Virtualized Environments using Microsoft Virtual Server and NetApp2008-10-30 Network Appliance
  Virtualization provides many benefits, including stretching the IT budget, getting more out of hardware, and increasing efficiency. Through combining the storage power of NetApp, the virtualization technology of Microsoft, and the know-how of Avanade, the custom application development space has been completely revolutionized by virtualization.   
whitepaper Avoiding the Economic Cliff By Managing the Data Center Floor2008-10-28 Global DataCenter Management (GDCM)
  Enterprise Management Associates' Liam McGlynn provides an insightful look at the maturing Intelligent Data Center Management (IDCM) market and its impact on stretching the useful life of data centers that are reaching their capacity limits for space, cooling and power. Sponsored by Global DataCenter Management (GDCM), this whitepaper demonstrates how IDCM solutions like nlyte can drive down data center operating costs and defer or avoid the expense of new data center construction.

Tags: Data Quality, Database Management, Data Center, Database Applications, Infrastructure Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Resources Mgmt., Strategic Planning		   
whitepaper An Integrated-Documentation Tool for Oracle Databases2008-10-30 JupiterMedia
  In an ideal world, all software and database systems would have clear documentation that is always up to date. In the real world, however, documentation usually is either non-existent or so out of date that it is misleading. This is especially true for legacy software systems that were developed before the industry realized that maintenance is the most costly aspect of a software system. One of the main causes of incomplete or out-of-date documentation is the lack of simple tools and processes for integrating documentation into the design process. The simplest way to overcome this issue is to get developers used to writing at least as much - and possibly more - in-line comments as they do code.

Tags: Database Applications		   
whitepaper Creating Simple Firefox "Add-Ons" With Ubiquity: Developing Add-Ons for Firefox Can Be Tedious, But It's Not Hard2008-10-29 JupiterMedia
  Making add-ons for Firefox is not hard, but development can be tedious, especially as there is no formal development IDE for making them (Venkman comes closest, but it's not very close). So, if the developer creates a component, he or she has to build the XUL supports and overlays, bind in the JavaScript and CSS (and any XBL that's necessary to support things), then update one or more configuration files (which seem to change with every version). Then the developer have to zip the content up, rename the file, load in the new add-on, reboot the browser, and cross his or her fingers that he haven't done something that causes the browser to crash.

Tags: Programming Languages, Application Development		   
whitepaper Competition, Not Economic Downturn, Driving Major Changes For High-Tech Companies2008-10-29 Deloitte LLP
  Being competitive is the challenge in today's technology industry. Companies are faced with continuous market and technology disruptions, more complex customer channels and demands that in turn are forcing fundamental changes to their traditional business and operating models. As a result, while enterprise-wide transformations are often complex and risky, they also are crucial to the long-term success and value of a technology company. To better understand the specific practices that successful companies use to translate boardroom strategies into results, Deloitte recently conducted a study, "Competitive Preparedness: Transforming Strategy into Results," to identify the practices that matter most to the successful implementation of enterprise-wide initiatives.   


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