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whitepaper Midwest Healthcare Provider Achieves Efficiency Boost and Cost Reduction2009-05-01 Softscape
  Medica is a regional healthcare provider headquartered in Minneapolis and active in the Upper Midwest. To better manage its rapidly growing and diverse employee base, Medica required an advanced performance management process that would link employee goals to the organization and corporate mission. The team also wanted to integrate the existing HRIS with the new workforce performance management system. Medica selected Softscape's complete people management platform, Softscape Apex, to automate its performance management and goal setting processes.

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whitepaper Data Management Software Helps Australian Debt-Solutions Firm Streamline IT, Cut Costs2009-05-01 Microsoft
  FSA Group serves Australians who need help controlling their debt. In mid-2007, the company redesigned its outdated IT environment to offer enterprise-class capabilities, standardizing on Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, and other core Microsoft software. These improvements led to rapid growth in the data the company had to manage. To address this challenge, FSA Group worked with CommVault - a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner - to deploy CommVault Simpana software for data management, archiving, replication, and resource management. Using technology from FAST - a Microsoft subsidiary - Simpana also offers rapid content-based indexing and searching.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Global High-Tech Manufacturer Aligns Workforce Processes Using Softscape2009-04-07 Softscape
  GKN plc (LON: GKN) is a leading global supplier to the world's automotive and aerospace manufacturers. As a global company, GKN faced a spread-out workforce and disconnected processes. Its workforce performance, goals management, and learning and development processes were separate and inefficient. GKN needed to streamline and connect all of its strategic human resource processes by deploying an integrated people management solution. Softscape's complete people management solution, Softscape Apex, was selected to enable GKN to align all people activity and planned business objectives, streamline its global rewards process, and identify and retain top performers. GKN chose Softscape's Workforce Performance and Enterprise Compensation suites as the first step to implement its people management strategy.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Diversified Global Company Standardizes on Softscape2009-04-07 Softscape
  ALFA is the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech aluminum engine heads and blocks; One of the world's largest producers of PTA, a petrochemical product; The Mexican leader in the production of processed meats and cheese; One of the most important telecommunications services companies in Mexico. ALFA was looking to establish global consistency and best practices in managing its employees. This was challenging due to the proliferation of different HR systems at each of its four major business units. ALFA needed to centralize its HR information and data to make better business decisions about personnel and to promote cross-business unit transfers, therefore minimizing employee attrition. ALFA selected Softscape's complete people management platform, Softscape Apex, to be its standard human capital platform across its diverse business units.

Tags: IT Budgeting, Workflow Management		   
whitepaper Macy's Automates PeopleSoft HRMS Business & IT Processes2009-03-14 Tethys Solutions
  One of the most well-known retail names today, Macy's USA operates over 850 nationwide and has more than 30,000 employees. Macy's wanted a reliable solution to automate many of their PeopleSoft HRMS business & IT processes. The challenge was managing the human resources requirement for an organisation as large as Macy's required enterprise class reliability and development and deployment to quickly adapt to their growing business. Automation Anywhere offered a unique approach by allowing Macy's to automate using the PeopleSoft HRMS web Front-end.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Anadarko Petroleum Optimizes Exploration and Production With Precise Project Management2009-03-01 Oracle
  Anadarko's deepwater projects take place in as much as 9,000 feet of water, and its fleet of rigs drills wells as deep as 33,000 feet below sea level. Working at these depths, Anadarko's crews endeavor to meet project deadlines and deliver completed projects while safely managing the largely unpredictable impact of storms and underwater currents. Since the cost of operating a rig can approach $1 million per day, the pressure to make sure every asset produces value each day is intense. With the increasing demands of the industry and millions of dollars at stake, Anadarko turned to Oracle's Primavera software to help it bring drilling and other projects in on time and on budget.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Aerospace Manufacturer Reduces Inventory Costs by 30 to 40 Percent with Lean Solution2009-02-27 Microsoft
  Kreisler Industrial supplies the aerospace industry with specialized tubing, primarily for jet engines. The company works with exotic alloys and expensive special materials, requiring complete traceability of all parts and supplies. Using a lean manufacturing process to reduce the cost of raw materials, the company faced challenges because accounting and supply-chain management systems were outdated. To better support lean manufacturing efforts, Kreisler selected Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2009 and the Lean Manufacturing module for Microsoft Dynamics AX. Now, Kreisler expects to reduce its inventory of raw materials by 30 to 40 percent while maintaining the traceability and flexibility that it needs to automate its lean manufacturing processes.

Microsoft Dynamics provides powerful software that helps organizations drive down costs, improve operations, retain and build customer relationships and continue to innovate in challenging economic times.

Tags: IT Budgeting, Enterprise Planning, Customer Management, Business Functions		   
whitepaper SAS Marketing Optimization Boosts Expected Campaign ROI by Over 50 Percent2009-01-01 SAS Institute
  Scotiabank has set out to be the best and most successful Canadian based international financial services group. Since welcoming its first customers in 1832, Scotiabank has enjoyed continued success by building on its traditional core strengths, including risk management, cost control, diversification and customer satisfaction. The challenge was to evaluate multiple marketing campaigns simultaneously and predict, for any given mix of campaigns, which products should be marketed to each individual customer. Scotiabank deployed SAS Marketing Optimization that helped Scotiabank make better use of its campaign response models and realize the most efficient use of channel resources and marketing dollars.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper IT Service Provider TietoEnator Uses SAS to Measure Profitability and Performance2009-01-01 SAS Institute
  TietoEnator is a leading supplier of high value-added IT services in the Nordic countries. The group specializes in consulting, developing and hosting its customers' business operations in the digital economy. The challenge was to measure the costs and profit potential of IT services. TietoEnator deployed SAS IT Resource Management that supports better use of resources, happier customers and profitability.

Tags: Business Functions, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Hallmark Case Study: Effective Performance Management with PlanView2006-07-20 PlanView
  As IT budgets continue to shrink, the pressure is on to build performance metrics that justify ever-increasing expectations. According to Cheryl Randle, Process & Capability Manager, Hallmark Cards, "With a company as large as Hallmark, our IT department serves a vast internal client base. It had become essential that we see a day-to-day view of our IT projects. Also, we needed to understand which projects to stop when the necessary ROI could not be achieved." From a list of 10 providers, a cross-functional IT team chose the proven experience and functionality of Planview's solution.

Tags: Business Functions, IT Budgeting, Workflow Management, IT Budgeting, Project Management, Project Management