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Strangers (or Customers) Share Their Experience with IBM Service Management | 2009-09-10 | IBM |
| IBM Service Management provides smarter solutions to design, build and manage a dynamic infrastructure that enables you to improve service, reduce cost and manage risk, while managing and delivering business and IT services more efficiently and effectively. But don't take it from us. See what others say. Watch the Service Management videos.
Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Security Administration, User Satisfaction |
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NHS Shared Service Increases Productivity by Approximately 150 Per Cent With Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services | 2009-09-01 | Dell |
| The Trust was experiencing rising IT costs and spent too long on backups, which impacted service delivery. It also needed an effective disaster recovery strategy to meet data compliance. Using a five-year IT strategy plan designed by Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services, the Trust enhanced the level of service it could deliver and reduced IT costs.
Tags: IT Budgeting |
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Cummins China Investment Improves Budget Accuracy by More Than 60% | 2009-08-01 | Oracle |
| In China, Cummins has a complex business structure that makes it difficult for head office staff to understand the budget requirements of its four units - engines, generator units, automotive parts, and automotive accessories. This affected the ability to create accurate budgets. In 2007, Cummins engaged Oracle Certified Partner Beijing Noahark Consulting to implement Oracle's Hyperion Planning as its new budget management system. The system, which combines operations, capital, and investment budgets, provides data that helps staff develop more accurate short-, medium-, and long-term budgets that promote sustainable business growth. | |||
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CNACG Improves Budget Accuracy by 50% With Integrated Budget Management System | 2009-08-01 | Oracle |
| CNACG undertakes central budgeting and accounting for more than 300 coal-related enterprises across the country. These enterprises have a complex managerial hierarchy, making it challenging for the Beijing head office to maintain operational control. Budget management in particular was a problem. For instance, budgets did not reveal the operating capacity of various units and how they used their funds. To address these issues, CNACG engaged Oracle Certified Partner Beijing Noahark Consulting to implement a new, integrated budget management system based on Oracle's Hyperion Planning. The system combines business, capital, and investment budgets, ensuring CNAGG can improve the comprehensiveness, accuracy, and timeliness of budget preparation and analysis and improve decision making. | |||
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JCH Cuts Budget Planning Process From 130 Days to 80 Days With Centralized System | 2009-08-01 | Oracle |
| Due to rapid business expansion and intensifying competition, JCH found that its legacy budget management system did not offer the sophisticated features necessary for detailed planning and in-depth analysis. It did not provide the high quality data needed for informed decision-making on strategic and operational matters. This resulted in poor budget control and spiraling costs. To address these issues, JCH engaged Oracle Certified Partner Beijing Noahark Consulting to implement a new budget management system based on Oracle's Hyperion Planning. The system integrates operating, capital, and investment budgets to improve the efficiency and accuracy of budget preparation. | |||
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Shaoguan Iron and Steel Group Cuts Budgeting Cycle by Five Days, Prevents Overruns | 2009-06-01 | Oracle |
| Shaoguan Iron and Steel Group wanted to implement a centralized budget management system to improve efficiency and shorten the budget cycle and integrate the budget management system with the enterprise resource planning system to leverage business data. The challenge was to eliminate manual information collection processes and ensure managers receive accurate and timely data for decision making and enable staff to analyze projected versus actual costs to improve the accuracy of future budget planning. Shaoguan Iron and Steel Group engaged Oracle Certified Advantage Partner HAND Enterprise Solution to implement Oracle's Hyperion Planning and cut the budgeting cycle by five days by minimizing manual work and automating workflows.
Tags: IT Budgeting |
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Cubus Embeds Unrivalled Performance and Scalability Into First-to-Market Project and Strategy Planning Tool | 2009-06-01 | Oracle |
| Cubus wanted to build on success of Cubis' customizable, Excel-based planning tool, ABC for OLAP, with a solution that consolidates project management, financial management, and strategy management and enable clients to replace disconnected standalone Excel, Word, and PowerPoint-based planning tools with a single application. The challenge was to integrate structured and unstructured data, project status information, and budgeting, revenue, savings, and Return On Investment (ROI) data and gain rapid market penetration across target sectors, break even in two years, and double sales revenues in the same time frame. Cubus built Cubus Strategic Project Performance Management (SPPM), a unique, Web enabled platform for planning and implementing long-term, business critical initiatives and mapping project lifetimes to financial reporting periods.
Tags: IT Budgeting |
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Farm Frites International B.V. Enhances Sales Forecasting Capabilities With Demand Planning System | 2009-06-01 | Oracle |
| Farm Frites International wanted to deliver a demand planning system that supports Farm Frites' operations with greater insight across sales activities and optimize the underlying supply chain to users. The challenge was to support the switch-over from a product-driven organization to a sales-driven organization and deliver a central system that provides all global staff with secure and consistent access to the same information. Farm Frites International implemented Oracle's Demantra Real-time Sales & Operations Planning to improve sales forecasting capabilities with its multidimensional data modeling, automated analytics, and synchronized, enterprisewide forecasting tools and worked with Oracle Consulting to replace all the company's separate worksheets with a new centralized, global system for search tasks, worksheets, and reports on product lines.
Tags: IT Budgeting |
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Clinical Trials Firm Uses IO and SAM for Postmerger Strategic Planning and Integration | 2009-06-01 | Microsoft |
| Worldwide Clinical Trials (Worldwide) provides clinical research and drug trial services for companies around the globe. Approached by Microsoft, Worldwide participated in an Infrastructure & Software Optimization assessment, which analyzed the firm's Infrastructure Optimization maturity as well as its Software Asset Management (SAM) maturity. As a result, Worldwide received an effective asset inventory, recommendations for cost savings, and guidance for its SAM program.
Tags: IT Budgeting |
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Improves Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting Capabilities | 2009-05-01 | Oracle |
| VTT wanted to replace existing enterprise planning and budgeting solutions with a consolidated platform that can support the organization's future business needs, which require supporting structural changes with quickly implemented calculation models and obtain a financial budgeting, forecasting, and reporting solution that provides reliable and problem-free functionality for the organization's demanding financial planning needs. The challenge was to enable quick and efficient execution of various calculations, such as allocations. VTT worked with Oracle Consulting and Oracle Partner Oracle Solution Services India to leverage the high performance of Hyperion Planning as VTT's new financial budgeting, forecasting, and reporting solution.
Tags: Data Infrastructure |
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