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whitepaper How SAP Education Is Playing a Key Role in Helping Royal Mail Group Manage Its Business More Effectively2007-09-14 SAP
  In its quest to become more efficient and competitive, the Royal Mail Group embarked on a major SAP implementation in 2001, completing the successful roll-out of SAP R/3 across 18 business units and over 10,000 users. Having standardised and merged the organisation's internal processes and moved all legacy systems on to a single consistent platform, the next phase of development is well underway - the enhancement of the decision support capabilities to help Royal Mail Group manage its business more effectively. The ongoing SDS (Strategic and Decision Support) project - which comprises major SAP SEM and SAP BW implementations - is already delivering significant benefits to the business, and SAP education has been a crucial success factor.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Enterprise Planning		   
whitepaper Europcar Reduces Development, Administration, and Maintenance Costs With Informatica Data Integration Platform0000-00-00 INFORMATICA
  Founded in Paris in 1949, Europcar is the leading car rental company in Europe. The company needed effective and rigorous decision-support facilities. Europcar needed a complete data integration solution that provided: real-time data, better analysis capabilities and greater reliability and availability. Europcar chose Informatica PowerCenter as an enterprise data integration platform for its ability to ensure data quality and to scale to support Europcar's operations in seven countries.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Financiera Finsol Increases Process Efficiency, Reducing Errors by 50%0000-00-00 Oracle
  Financiera Finsol is a financial bank founded in 2003 to grant credit to micro, micro-small, and medium-sized companies. The company wanted to implement a technology system that allows for rapid growth and supports the company's transaction volume. The challenge was to reduce errors by automating processes and exerting strict control over operations and enhance the speed of generating indicators to support decision making. The company implemented Oracle Database Standard Edition 10g and several financial modules from Oracle E-Business Suite, raising the efficiency of administrative and financial processes in all 85 branches. The company implemented an information management system developed internally to generate portfolio indicators and support decision making.

Tags: Financial Services, Business Functions		   
whitepaper In Search of Clarity: Unravelling the Complexities of Executive Decision-making2007-09-01 SAP
  Decision-making is at the core of all business activity, as executives set strategy and manage operations by weighing a vast array of factors to arrive at the desired balance of risk and reward. The enormous growth of companies size and operations in recent years--particularly across borders--is making this process increasingly complex. It is cause for alarm, then, that executives themselves perceive the quality of decision-making at their companies as mixed at best.

Read this report from The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by SAP/Business Objects, to see the results of a decision-making survey it conducted with over 150 executives from around the world.

Tags: Data Tools, Data Tools, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper BI Imperative Web Seminar - Focus on Building the BI Competency Center0000-00-00 SAS Institute
  Establishing a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) - a cross-functional team with defined tasks, roles, responsibilities and processes for supporting and promoting BI - encourages everyone across the organization to own business intelligence. The presenter of this webcast shows how to exploit the benefits of BI Competency Centers, including: increased use of business intelligence; greater business-user satisfaction; better understanding of the value of BI; faster decision making; decreased staff and software costs.

Tags: Data Tools, Data Tools		   
whitepaper Microsoft Division Increases Revenues 30 Percent, Gains Sales Forecasting0000-00-00 Microsoft
  In Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), software company Microsoft Corporation relied on local subsidiaries to feed sales data into a proprietary application that lacked the functionality to produce sales forecasts. The EMEA Information Worker group partnered with Decision Support Panel to implement a business intelligence solution based on Web Parts that integrated with Microsoft tools and technologies such as SQL Server. Now, employees can quickly create and share sales forecast graphs and tables in real time across portal sites, and revenues for the group have increased 31 percent.

Tags: Data Tools, Data Tools		   
whitepaper Continuous Availability for SAP Perfect Plant Environments: Lower the Costs and Complexities of Your Plant Infrastructure and Improve the Decision-Making Process2007-08-01 Stratus Technologies
  SAP AG has taken an innovative business approach to delivering manufacturing integration and intelligence to the shop floor through a program called the Perfect Plant. The Perfect Plant program brings together best-of-breed solution partners - creating a technology ecosystem that delivers the functionality, integration, data synchronization, and certified platforms that enable companies to optimize their performance. In this paper Stratus Technologies, an SAP Global Technology Partner with a singular focus on ensuring end-to-end availability, describes best practices for the IT infrastructure required to deploy SAP Perfect Plant solutions.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Data Tools		   
whitepaper When Real Time Is the Right Time: How Real-Time Decision Making Improves Your Customer Interactions2007-08-01 SAS Institute
  As a customer, has one ever experienced less than ideal service when calling a customer support center? Does it seem like organizations just don't recognize what a valuable customer one is? Although the customer interactions may take only a few moments, the impression made by the company on the customer lasts much longer. As such, it's a daunting challenge to make sure customers receive the best possible service and are presented with the most appropriate offers. If one also considers the fact that as much as 50 percent of the customer decision-making process occurs in real time, the timeliness and relevance of those interactions becomes even more critical.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Data, Data Everywhere!2007-07-23 Forrester Research
  The information revolution is producing mountains of digital data that are becoming more and more challenging to process and analyze. Not only are businesses generating more data every day, but our approach to data analysis (structured databases, indexes, and distributed data architectures) generates even more data. Furthermore, the volume of unstructured content is also increasing, adding to the proliferation. To help organizations get business value out of all this data, vendors -- both platform vendors and business intelligence (BI) specialists -- are offering multiple technology and architecture solutions for very large database (VLDB) BI. Understanding that BI for multiterabyte data sets may require different architectures and technologies than smaller data sets is key for successful VLDB BI implementations. Information and knowledge management professionals should implement the most appropriate VLDB BI option and plan for continued explosive data growth.

Tags: Data Tools, Data Tools, Data Infrastructure, Data Tools		   
whitepaper Coop Tyrrhenian District Leverages Organizational Synergies With Integrated IT Infrastructure0000-00-00 Oracle
  Coop is Italy's largest supermarket chain, which includes Coop Italia, its central procurement and marketing division, and various regional cooperatives. The company wanted to increase operational efficiency and drive higher profitability by creating a centralized purchasing center. The challenge was to enable individual cooperative organizations to conduct customized promotional initiatives while remaining consistent with corporate directives and procedures. Coop implemented Oracle infrastructure software to create an integrated IT environment that gives Coop Tyrrhenian District the ability to centralize and improve purchasing processes, leverage and enable the creation of more flexible promotional campaigns, and optimize strategic synergies.

Tags: Business Functions, Data Tools