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whitepaper The Fair Isaac® Blaze Advisor® Business Rules Management System17/11/08 Fair Isaac
  The Fair Isaac® Blaze Advisor® Business Rules Management System is a complete solution for enterprise business rules management through decision service design, authoring and testing and rule service deployment and maintenance. A rule service is defined as a monolithic view of all the conditions and actions that need to be considered in performing a self-contained, callable decisioning process as a service function from a larger application. This white paper illustrates how the Blaze Advisor system's functional components interact with business applications and data.  sponsored by
whitepaper A Five-Point Plan for Rewiring Your Decisions17/11/08 Fair Isaac
  With customer centricity the rallying cry for today's retailers, CIOs and CTOs are called on to create the systems that support instant, highly personalized and targeted decision across multiple channels. Key to successful customer-centric decision making is sharing consistent insights and business rules across all business functions that touch the customer. Creating this infrastructure at scale requires a business rules management system. By implementing business rules as the base platform for marketing and merchandising operations programs, technology leaders can execute a five-point plan for operationalizing customer centricity. This paper explains how leading retailers such as Coca-Cola and Dell are building a customer-centric infrastructure for sharper marketing  sponsored by
whitepaper Achieving Decision Consistency Across the SOA-Based Enterprise17/11/08 Fair Isaac
  The adoption of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides businesses with the ability to rapidly deploy new applications and easily integrate with other component applications both inside and outside the organization. This decentralized application environment provides a great deal of flexibility for business units and IT departments, but it also creates difficulty in managing the consistency of business decisions delivered through various applications. Business rules management systems (BRMS) provide a mechanism for managing decision logic and act as a conductor in order to align application decision behavior.  sponsored by
whitepaper Auto Component Company Achieves 100 Percent On-Time Delivery2009-11-17 Microsoft
  Auto Component Company was using a simple stand alone solution, Tally for managing financial information and operations along with Stock, a locally developed solution for material management, inventory control and some aspects of sales, purchase, subcontracting and outsourcing. What was required was a move away from legacy solutions to a comprehensive, organization wide solution. This single integrated solution would efficiently handle from raw material management to production and quality; as well as sales and marketing and finance. An evaluation process identifying, short listing and finally finalized on Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0. Choosing Microsoft was a consensus decision.   
whitepaper Software Builder Guides Tour Operators to Success With Hosted Solution2009-11-16 Microsoft
  Peak 15 Systems sells operational software to help tour operators reduce labor costs and increase profitability. When Peak 15 sought a development platform on which to build a Software-as-a-Service version (SaaS) of its offering, it evaluated solutions from Microsoft and Salesforce.com based on scalability, flexibility, and customer relationship management capabilities. Peak 15 chose the xRM business application framework that underlies Microsoft Dynamics CRM because of its superior technical flexibility and solutions-focused business model. The company was able to build more functionality into its SaaS solution faster by using xRM resources. Now, Peak 15 customers have an excellent hosted solution that can easily be customized to fit their unique integration and business process requirements.

Tags: Enterprise Planning		   
whitepaper Klamath County Oregon Streamlines IT Operations by Migrating to Hosted Messaging2009-11-12 Microsoft
  Klamath County, Oregon, faces information technology challenges typical in many local governments in the Western United States. They are home to an array of aging hardware and software infrastructure, face intense budget pressures, and must support an increasingly networked workforce for whom always-available computing resources are a mission necessity. The county's mission is to continuously provide services, even in the face of snowstorms, earthquakes - or even terrorist events. This makes reliability and fault-tolerance a key requirement. The county implemented Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) messaging solution to address these challenges. The early results have been promising. In addition to increasing the reliability and responsiveness of the county's IT infrastructure, the county is realizing administrative savings while delivering robust email services.'

Tags: Enterprise Planning		   
whitepaper DBA Engenharia de Sistemas Reduces Management Costs and Increases Its Customer Base2009-11-01 Oracle
  DBA Engenharia de Sistemas (DBA) wanted to improve process control and ensure scalable support and promote ongoing improvement and innovation of business processes. The challenge was to reinforce the company brand, while increasing reliability for the IT solutions it provides. DBA worked collaboratively with researchers from the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute and Graduate School of Research and Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro to implement Oracle E-Business Suite to redesign business processes that help decrease costs and improve customer acquisition.

Tags: Enterprise Planning		   
whitepaper Tecumseh Products Company Unifies Global Business Systems to Improve Decision Making and Efficiency2009-11-01 Oracle
  Tecumseh Products Company wanted to support business goals to unify operations in five key countries, which had previously operated independently and improve inventory management of its manufactured products. The challenge was to enable the company to conduct global sales and operations planning and share financial information across sites. Tecumseh Products Company worked with Oracle Partner Deloitte to replace disparate legacy systems and bring all four regions onto a single global instance and standardized on a common set of business processes for 1,400 users worldwide, while maintaining necessary localizations.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Customer Management		   
whitepaper Surgutneftegazbank ZAO Automates Business Processes and Improves Financial Decision-Making2009-11-01 Oracle
  Surgutneftegazbank ZAO wanted to enable swift analysis of bank business activities to support intelligent decision-making in the financial planning process and deploy an automated budgeting system to optimize operating costs, measure the cost-effectiveness of individual departments, and improve motivation across bank structures. The challenge was to prepare management reports to provide bank stakeholders with accurate information on the profitability of products, customers, and overall banking operations. Surgutneftegazbank ZAO worked with Oracle Partner RDTEX ZAO to implement Oracle Financial Services applications to automate business processes for financial risk management, budgeting and planning, management reporting, and statutory reporting.

Tags: Business Functions, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Charles Marcus Grows With Secure, Reliable, and Always-Available Application Access2009-11-01 Oracle
  Unlike most management consultancies, Charles Marcus allows its consultants to be heavily involved in the selection of their assignments. This promotes motivation and enhances career development. While Charles Marcus's employees are geographically distributed and working on various project assignments, the company maintains a lean back-office environment responsible for accounting, billing, contracting, and client relations, as well as the ongoing professional development of its employees. In 2002, Charles Marcus selected Oracle E-Business Suite as its new business management platform, using Oracle On Demand for application hosting. Two years later, the company again turned to Oracle On Demand for hardware provisioning, application management, and support, in addition to virtual private network hosting services.

Tags: Enterprise Planning		   
whitepaper Clothing Manufacturer Sheds OpenOffice.org for Enhanced Security, Increased Productivity2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Clothing giant SARAR Group encountered problems in security and communications with their OpenOffice.org platform. SARAR found it difficult to update OpenOffice.org, which compromised the company's information security. In addition, the OpenOffice.org platform did not support editing of macros and made internal and external correspondence difficult for SARAR employees, who faced compatibility issues with documents received from external parties. SARAR needed a reliable and secure solution for their business and signed an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft to deploy Microsoft Office across the company, extending the use of the solution in its planning, production, sales, and shipment departments.

Tags: Security Administration		   
whitepaper Law Firm Enhances Client Service, Boosts Productivity, and Reduces IT Costs2009-11-01 Microsoft
  As legal counsel for some of the largest and most prestigious corporations in the United States, along with smaller companies and nonprofit groups, Jackson Lewis takes pride in helping businesses avoid or mitigate workplace disputes. When clients began moving from earlier versions of Microsoft Office software to the 2007 Microsoft Office system, the firm decided to make the same move to avoid compatibility problems and improve employee productivity. Through a process that included remote training and postdeployment support, the firm upgraded its desktop software, deploying Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 to all 1,150 employees.   
whitepaper Ciar Drops OpenOffice.org, Chooses Microsoft Office System for Collaboration Needs2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Ciar started out as a family-run business in 1979, making mechanical and electronic parts for the furniture industry. Over time, it began to design its own massage systems and patented several applications, ultimately providing its expertise to furniture manufacturers in the region as well as the beauty, health, and fitness industries. As Ciar's size and revenue grew, Ciar discovered that the "Free" OpenOffice.org not only failed to provide for its IT needs, but also resulted in huge support costs.

Tags: Office Suites