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whitepaper Winning in Today's Environment: Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer2009-10-01 Oracle
  This white paper examines six challenges, or imperatives, that every chief sales officer faces in the current environment, and provides recommendations on how to most effectively address and convert these obstacles into opportunities and competitive advantage. Whether it's the challenge of driving growth in a difficult economy, increasing sales capacity with the same or fewer resources, or embarking on a sales transformation, enterprising chief sales officers can deploy proven methodologies and technologies to increase sales effectiveness and drive business success. While one of these imperatives will likely resonate more than any other given your organization's specific scenario, we hope you benefit from all of the advice that follows.

Tags: Customer Management, Data Tools, Internet and Web, Business Functions		   
whitepaper Leveraging Value from SAP with IBM Cognos2009-10-01 IBM
  Leveraging Value from SAP with IBM Cognos Guidebook Although organizations typically find it easy to accumulate data from their ERP system, the data often remains unusable or unavailable to those who need it. Industry research determined that this challenge is best overcome by deploying automated tools for report building, planning, and budgeting, as well as business intelligence (BI) or performance management (PM). SAP users preparing to invest in BI or PM functionality should consider an IBM Cognos application. Read this Nucleus research report to learn why this BI software, combined with SAP, has less costly deployments, a faster time to benefit, and greater productivity improvements for end users.

Tags: Data Tools, Enterprise Planning, Data Infrastructure, Data Tools		   
whitepaper Kellwood Re-Emerges Stronger, More Savvy With Microsoft BI Solution2009-10-01 Microsoft
  For nearly 50 years, Kellwood Company has designed, manufactured and marketed many of the country's most popular women's clothing brands. With millions of SKUs and an ever-expanding portfolio, employees struggled with accessing and utilizing key business data with its existing ERP system. The company turned to a Microsoft Business Intelligence solution and as a result has reinvented the way its employees work. Now with a self-serve reporting model, Kellwood is better optimizing its resources to ensure its retail products are among today - and tomorrow's - top fashion buys.   
whitepaper Database Virtualization Using Clusters: Cheaper, Easier, Faster, Better2009-09-17 Sybase
  Learn how a virtualization approach that is built into the database can create deployment flexibility for better service levels, shift workloads for less downtime, and free-up valuable DBA resources to focus on high-value activities.

Guest speakers:

Carl Olofson, Research Vice President for IDC
Peter Thawley, Senior Director & Architect for Sybase

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools, Data Tools		   
whitepaper IBM Virtualization Services2009-09-16 IBM
  Virtualization is a powerful technology and can have profound effects on the datacenter; however, it should be viewed as a component of an overall IT strategy that will be able to support the enterprise's needs. IDC recommends that enterprises look at the entire architecture and determine how to best deploy virtualization

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools, Data Infrastructure, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Centrinet case study2009-09-16 IBM
  Centrinet launched an innovative business service - Smartbunker - based on renewable energy and energy-efficient technology(efficient IBM BladeCenter servers and Cisco networking hardware), It's the UK's first managed data centre service committed to zero carbon energy. This unique proposition drastically reduces power consumption by around 60%.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Future Proof Your Business Intelligence Initiatives2009-09-14 YASH Technologies
  The one constant that businesses can rely on is change. While change is a given, successfully navigating it isn't. The current economic situation is one that is challenging the fundamentals of businesses and testing their resilience and perseverance of businesses, as they scramble to adapt. With Business Intelligence (BI), organizations can create an agile enterprise that can easily adapt to changes by making smarter, informed decisions, increase efficiency in the short term while positioning the company for growth in the long term. Analysts have also confirmed that BI has been a top priority for CIOs for the past 1 three years. However, it has been observed in the past that organizations looking to follow a big-bang approach for their BI initiatives have often failed.   
whitepaper Travel Company Sails on Business Intelligence to Increase Revenues in Weak Economy2009-09-10 Microsoft
  Sportsnet Holidays needed a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution to handle data that was spread among 220 separate databases. Sportsnet implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM, which dramatically improved customer service, business intelligence and target marketing capabilities. The firm's revenue has doubled in the last 12 months and Sportsnet credits Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a contributing factor to the company's exponential growth.

Tags: Customer Management, Data Tools		   
whitepaper MSC Industrial Direct- customer case study2009-09-08 Pitney Bowes
  "Following a company merger, MSC Industrial Direct Co. found that duplicate customer records were disrupting the business workflow and causing sales compensation issues. MSC Industrial Direct Co. implemented the Pitney Bowes Business Insight Data Quality Solution to cleanse its customer database and reconcile duplicate customer records."

Tags: Data Tools, Data Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Data Tools		   
whitepaper Decide to Survive: Four Imperatives that Make Better Decision Management Essential in Uncertain Times2009-09-01 FICO
  Entering a global recession, companies must respond to increasingly complex markets, changing threats, and fleeting opportunities. They must show compliance with a growing regulatory burden and more layers of regulation at national and international levels, while also reducing operating costs. Companies must be able to serve customers who are simultaneously more demanding and more conservative, and optimize the return they get on every asset.

Decision Management answers four imperatives for businesses seeking to thrive in today's difficult environment:
  • Give business users control to increase agility
  • Make decisions in the face of uncertainty
  • Drive out costs and ensure optimal resource allocation
  • Improve customer treatment everywhere
This white paper shares FICO's decades of experience helping enterprises compete more effectively using decision management technology.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Internet and Web, Data Tools, IT Budgeting