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How SAP Education and RWD InfoPak Are Helping the University of Sheffield Successfully Meet a Massive End User Training Challenge 2006-08-30 SAP

Higher education is becoming increasingly competitive both nationally and internationally, however, and the University faces stiff competition globally for overseas students and research funding. At the same time, more and more information is required for statutory reporting and attracting potential sponsors, and the University's array of legacy systems was proving inadequate for this new environment. A single, integrated system was required to overcome growing data quality and financial consolidation issues, and following a thorough tendering process starting in June 2005, SAP was selected. The finance, procurement, HR and payroll modules have been initially selected, and SAP will act as a 'Junction box' for a range of existing systems across the various university departments.

Tags: Finance, HR

Webcast: Best Practices for Software Asset Management 2006-09-28 01:00:20 ManageSoft

Listen to this on-demand Webcast from ManageSoft to hear presenters from BSA (Business Software Alliance), Soft-Aid, and ManageSoft explore how you can implement Software Asset Management (SAM) in your environment. Find out how a proper SAM program can help you:

Reduce the risk of legal liability by ensuring proper licensing of all software in use in your organization

Save money by reallocating unused software licenses to prevent unnecessary purchases

Leverage existing asset tracking tools as part of a total SAM solution, rather than replacing them

Maintain a full history of hardware and software assets to comply with regulatory requirements like those outlined in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

Achieve rapid ROI

For more information on software audits and how to plan for one, check out part 1 of this Webcast series, Are You Prepared for a Software Audit?

The Business Value of Master Data Management and Product Information Management 2006-12-14 10:55:17 IBM

The cost of poor information and disconnected processes in terms of operational efficiency, customer dissatisfaction or lost opportunity is enormous. Today, organizations are looking to grow profit, gain market share, contain costs and differentiate their products. This is achieved by getting the right information to the right people with the right processes at the right time and in the right context. This white paper addresses the value of a company's ability to integrate, analyze and optimize all types and sources of information throughout the product life cycle.

Oracle Performance Tools: Reduce Your IT Infrastructure Investment 2006-08-01 Confio Software

When facing high wait times, dropped sessions, and application lock-ups, the typical company response is to invest in expanded server hardware capacity and additional Oracle licenses, plus the accompanying installation and project management costs. DBAs utilizing Ignite for Oracle from Confio have demonstrated the ability to cut Oracle wait times by 30-90%, and eliminate the contention once attributed to insufficient hardware capacity. This white paper will show that using Ignite, a typical organization can achieve a 35% performance improvement, generating ROI of 965% first year, based solely on reduced server investment.

Measuring the Performance of the Information Technology Function 2006-07-25 15:35:44 APQC

Many executives look at IT as a commodity, so it's important that IT teams differentiate themselves through cost-cutting measures and improved value to the organization.

APQC has developed 87 standard measures that organizations can use to benchmark their IT performance. These measures include every major process IT departments perform including:

comparative budgets,

costs,

cycle times,

FTE distributions, and

productivity measures within each process.

Organizations can use these measures to benchmark performance and identify improvement opportunities.

July 2006 IT Priorities Report 2006-09-26 08:22:29 TechRepublic

In the July 2006 survey of IT priorities of medium to large U.S. organizations, IT decision makers report spending more on software infrastructure than other solutions, followed by hardware upgrades and wired and wireless networking projects. Over the next 12 months, software infrastructure initiatives will account for the largest portion of IT spending, with networking and hardware spending positioned as the #2 and #3 greatest allocations. While spending in the hardware category is up this month, the three-month trend reflects a significant drop in hardware spending among the nine categories tracked by our IT priorities survey during the current time frame.

CNET Network's IT Priorities Research Program surveys technology decision makers in medium and large organizations each month and asks them about their current and planned IT spending. The study is designed to provide a near-real-time snapshot of business technology project priorities over two timeframes: now and 12 months in the future. CNET has been publishing these data since November 2002.

A.T. Kearney Procurement Solutions Uses Custom-Tailored CRM to Slash Lag Time Between Deal Close and Fulfillment 2006-07-11 01:32:16 Salesforce.com

A.T. Kearney Procurement Solutions, a salesforce.com customer since 2000, has improved customer lifecycle management with salesforce.com. The procurement services leader has customized salesforce.com to track product types, partners, implementation timeframes and revenue, allowing the company to provide better, faster service to prospects and customers while giving its executives the data necessary to identify market trends, competitive pressure, and potential problems and opportunities. They started with simple sales force automation and now have a customizable CRM to address the sales organizations needs from leads to marketing campaigns at the tip of their finger tips.

The Financial Impact of Packaged Applications 2006-11-04 01:00:15 IBM

Imperative reading: this report from Forrester, "The Financial Impact of Packaged Applications," sponsored by IBM, discusses Forrester's ROI-based methodology for evaluating costs, benefits, and risks of deploying and maintaining ERP, SCM, and CRM applications.

It can also be used as a predictive tool.

LSI Logic Rolls Out SAP Business-to-Business 2006-07-06 01:56:17 SAP AG

LSI Logic is moving quickly to revamp its supply chain around a Web-based business model. The $2 billion company - a leading supplier of communications chips for broadband, data networking, wireless, and set-top box applications, chips and boards for network computing, and storage-network solutions - picked mySAP.com as the engine to help transform it into an e-operation. The company wanted all of the processes to be more efficient. As the company roll out the solution to larger-volume suppliers and subcontractors, it is going to realize significant efficiencies and improve information flow across the entire supply chain. LSI Logic implemented SAP Business-to-Business Procurement as the first step toward realizing its goal.

ABB Controls Billions in Procurement Spend With SAS Supplier Relationship Management 2006-07-06 02:13:59 SAS Institute

ABB, which supplies utilities and other industries with power and automation technologies, is a truly global corporation, with business units in some 100 countries and annual revenues close to US$15 billion. As a rule of thumb, such companies spend close to half of their revenues on subcontractors, creating very large procurement expenditures that must be handled effectively and efficiently. During the last couple of years, ABB has enhanced its procurement processes considerably, due in part to spend-analysis capabilities from SAS Supplier Relationship Management software. The spend-analysis capabilities in the SAS Supplier Relationship Management system give ABB a clear and detailed picture of the current procurement activity across ABB's international units.

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Title	Date Added	Company
How SAP Education and RWD InfoPak Are Helping the University of Sheffield Successfully Meet a Massive End User Training Challenge	2006-08-30	SAP
Higher education is becoming increasingly competitive both nationally and internationally, however, and the University faces stiff competition globally for overseas students and research funding. At the same time, more and more information is required for statutory reporting and attracting potential sponsors, and the University's array of legacy systems was proving inadequate for this new environment. A single, integrated system was required to overcome growing data quality and financial consolidation issues, and following a thorough tendering process starting in June 2005, SAP was selected. The finance, procurement, HR and payroll modules have been initially selected, and SAP will act as a 'Junction box' for a range of existing systems across the various university departments. Tags: Finance, HR
Webcast: Best Practices for Software Asset Management	2006-09-28 01:00:20	ManageSoft
Listen to this on-demand Webcast from ManageSoft to hear presenters from BSA (Business Software Alliance), Soft-Aid, and ManageSoft explore how you can implement Software Asset Management (SAM) in your environment. Find out how a proper SAM program can help you: Reduce the risk of legal liability by ensuring proper licensing of all software in use in your organization Save money by reallocating unused software licenses to prevent unnecessary purchases Leverage existing asset tracking tools as part of a total SAM solution, rather than replacing them Maintain a full history of hardware and software assets to comply with regulatory requirements like those outlined in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Achieve rapid ROI For more information on software audits and how to plan for one, check out part 1 of this Webcast series, Are You Prepared for a Software Audit?
The Business Value of Master Data Management and Product Information Management	2006-12-14 10:55:17	IBM
The cost of poor information and disconnected processes in terms of operational efficiency, customer dissatisfaction or lost opportunity is enormous. Today, organizations are looking to grow profit, gain market share, contain costs and differentiate their products. This is achieved by getting the right information to the right people with the right processes at the right time and in the right context. This white paper addresses the value of a company's ability to integrate, analyze and optimize all types and sources of information throughout the product life cycle.
Oracle Performance Tools: Reduce Your IT Infrastructure Investment	2006-08-01	Confio Software
When facing high wait times, dropped sessions, and application lock-ups, the typical company response is to invest in expanded server hardware capacity and additional Oracle licenses, plus the accompanying installation and project management costs. DBAs utilizing Ignite for Oracle from Confio have demonstrated the ability to cut Oracle wait times by 30-90%, and eliminate the contention once attributed to insufficient hardware capacity. This white paper will show that using Ignite, a typical organization can achieve a 35% performance improvement, generating ROI of 965% first year, based solely on reduced server investment.
Measuring the Performance of the Information Technology Function	2006-07-25 15:35:44	APQC
Many executives look at IT as a commodity, so it's important that IT teams differentiate themselves through cost-cutting measures and improved value to the organization. APQC has developed 87 standard measures that organizations can use to benchmark their IT performance. These measures include every major process IT departments perform including: comparative budgets, costs, cycle times, FTE distributions, and productivity measures within each process. Organizations can use these measures to benchmark performance and identify improvement opportunities.
July 2006 IT Priorities Report	2006-09-26 08:22:29	TechRepublic
In the July 2006 survey of IT priorities of medium to large U.S. organizations, IT decision makers report spending more on software infrastructure than other solutions, followed by hardware upgrades and wired and wireless networking projects. Over the next 12 months, software infrastructure initiatives will account for the largest portion of IT spending, with networking and hardware spending positioned as the #2 and #3 greatest allocations. While spending in the hardware category is up this month, the three-month trend reflects a significant drop in hardware spending among the nine categories tracked by our IT priorities survey during the current time frame. CNET Network's IT Priorities Research Program surveys technology decision makers in medium and large organizations each month and asks them about their current and planned IT spending. The study is designed to provide a near-real-time snapshot of business technology project priorities over two timeframes: now and 12 months in the future. CNET has been publishing these data since November 2002.
A.T. Kearney Procurement Solutions Uses Custom-Tailored CRM to Slash Lag Time Between Deal Close and Fulfillment	2006-07-11 01:32:16	Salesforce.com
A.T. Kearney Procurement Solutions, a salesforce.com customer since 2000, has improved customer lifecycle management with salesforce.com. The procurement services leader has customized salesforce.com to track product types, partners, implementation timeframes and revenue, allowing the company to provide better, faster service to prospects and customers while giving its executives the data necessary to identify market trends, competitive pressure, and potential problems and opportunities. They started with simple sales force automation and now have a customizable CRM to address the sales organizations needs from leads to marketing campaigns at the tip of their finger tips.
The Financial Impact of Packaged Applications	2006-11-04 01:00:15	IBM
Imperative reading: this report from Forrester, "The Financial Impact of Packaged Applications," sponsored by IBM, discusses Forrester's ROI-based methodology for evaluating costs, benefits, and risks of deploying and maintaining ERP, SCM, and CRM applications. It can also be used as a predictive tool.
LSI Logic Rolls Out SAP Business-to-Business	2006-07-06 01:56:17	SAP AG
LSI Logic is moving quickly to revamp its supply chain around a Web-based business model. The $2 billion company - a leading supplier of communications chips for broadband, data networking, wireless, and set-top box applications, chips and boards for network computing, and storage-network solutions - picked mySAP.com as the engine to help transform it into an e-operation. The company wanted all of the processes to be more efficient. As the company roll out the solution to larger-volume suppliers and subcontractors, it is going to realize significant efficiencies and improve information flow across the entire supply chain. LSI Logic implemented SAP Business-to-Business Procurement as the first step toward realizing its goal.
ABB Controls Billions in Procurement Spend With SAS Supplier Relationship Management	2006-07-06 02:13:59	SAS Institute
ABB, which supplies utilities and other industries with power and automation technologies, is a truly global corporation, with business units in some 100 countries and annual revenues close to US$15 billion. As a rule of thumb, such companies spend close to half of their revenues on subcontractors, creating very large procurement expenditures that must be handled effectively and efficiently. During the last couple of years, ABB has enhanced its procurement processes considerably, due in part to spend-analysis capabilities from SAS Supplier Relationship Management software. The spend-analysis capabilities in the SAS Supplier Relationship Management system give ABB a clear and detailed picture of the current procurement activity across ABB's international units.