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whitepaper 34-Store Chain Grows 10 Percent Annually With the Help of a New Retail and Financial Solution2008-01-11 Microsoft
  Phyllis Heppenstall and daughter Kris founded Peekay, Inc. in 1980 as a direct-marketing company. They saw a market for adult products tastefully presented and sold. In six months, revenues had reached U.S.$500,000. Fiscal year 2007 ended with 31 stores and 20,000 daily transactions. As new marketing channels developed, a legacy Apropos point-of-sale and inventory management system proved difficult to modify. When Peekay's initial three-store network of Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, installed by New West Technologies, demonstrated its worth in speed, ease, and flexibility, the comprehensive retail application was expanded chain-wide. Next, management chose Microsoft Dynamics GP to create an enterprisewide solution. Peekay and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Tectura rethought and streamlined processes, clearing barriers so expansion can encompass several new stores a year.

Tags: Point of Sale Devices, Windows XP		   
whitepaper Hundred-Store Cosmetics Chain Smoothly Applies New Retail System in USA and Canada2008-01-08 Microsoft
  When LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics tallied the pain from two disparate POS systems and five databases covering a hundred stores in the United States and Canada, the mandate for system-wide conversion was clear. Corporate staff spent hours manually polling, normalizing, collating, and verifying store data. Month-end closings took weeks. Store managers had to know their system's quirks and update stock changes by hand. Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System offered a solution that could expand with the chain, yet flex as business demands evolved. Tri-City Retail Systems' experience installing and integrating this Microsoft solution into chain stores helped ensure fast, systematic rollout.

Tags: Windows XP		   
whitepaper Innovative Retail Concept Integrates Three Microsoft Systems to Run Like a V-8 Engine2008-01-07 Microsoft
  Three business partners combined skills to create and implement a new retail concept: An exciting venue where customers select a model car chassis, accessorize it with parts, build it, get pictures taken for a "Drivers' license," competitively race their models, see their names in lights, and even combine several complex transactions on one credit card. Owners studied and rejected 20 software approaches, picking Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) as the most flexible and customizable retail engine around which to assemble the many parts of their system. Three Certified Microsoft Partners - Merchants Solutions, Retail Information Technology Enterprises, and West Monroe Partners - combined specialties to co-develop a solution that helped Raceline open on time and below system budget.

Tags: Windows XP		   
whitepaper Cork Cuts Pre Go-Live Training Time by 75% and Reduces Learning Costs Throughout Solution Lifecycle2008-01-01 Oracle
  Cork City Council provides local government services to 123,000 people in Ireland's second largest city. Cork City wanted to train 350 users in Web-enabled functionality of Oracle's JD Edwards Enterprise One following upgrade from JD Edwards World and ensure that staff is competent in all basic functionality before going live to minimize disruption to business activities. The challenge was to test users on their knowledge and enable them to refresh, update, and improve their skills as needed at their own pace and provide the highest quality training at the lowest cost. Cork City Council implemented Oracle User Productivity Kit, a complete online solution for kick-starting user training while providing time and cost savings following an upgrade or new implementation.

Tags: IT HR - Staffing - Training		   
whitepaper Arab African International Bank Tracks Trends With Data Warehouse2008-01-01 Oracle
  Arab African International Bank (AAIB) wanted to measure profitability and performance of organizational units, products and individual accounts as well as expand product range to break through into retail market. The challenge was to enhance reporting and decision-making capabilities across branch network and satisfy regulatory requirements, managing risk and forecasting more effectively. The company implemented Oracle Financial Services Applications, including Financial Data Manager, Transfer Pricing, Performance Analyzer and Risk Manager functions into one cohesive environment. The company also created Oracle-based data warehouse to better understand customer banking trends.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Finance		   
whitepaper Specialty Jewelry Chain Boosts Profits by Linking POS, Stock, Purchasing, Accounting2008-01-01 Microsoft
  Managing the details and intricacies of a multistate jewelry chain with Web sales had outpaced Christian Bernard Jewelers' aging and disjointed IT system. Executives couldn't rely on its sales numbers, stock levels, profit margins, or sales commissions before double-checking data. Support, once costly, was unavailable. After many evaluations, management chose Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) and Microsoft Dynamics GP. MPI-Jeweler added niche-specific functionality. Today, the CEO has reliable information at near-realtime speeds. The CFO closes books in days, not weeks, and no longer works late doing verification. Sales staff don't call weekly to query paychecks. Perhaps, most important, purchasing is now based on exact knowledge of which products sell best at each store, so display cases are appropriately stocked and "Negative inventory" cannot occur.

Tags: Point of Sale Devices, Procurement - Purchasing		   
whitepaper Open Architecture for the Enterprise, Part 1: Architectural Principles of Open Architecture - Be Cheap, Flexible, and Interoperable in 7 Easy Steps2007-12-12 IBM
  Enterprise Open Architecture (OA) is a pattern of nonfunctional requirements that can help one create and maintain more open and flexible complex systems, and systems of systems. Organizations with large, complex systems are looking to OA to help manage complexity, increase flexibility, and reduce their costs. Satisfying the OA nonfunctional requirements (open standards, modularity, interoperability, extensibility, reusability, composability, and maintainability) in system design and implementation is essential to OA at the enterprise level. In this paper, learn about the enterprise business drivers behind OA, and the OA nonfunctional requirements. Associated architectural principles that address the requirements are also covered.   
whitepaper The Greening of Training: How Sustainability is Reshaping Organizational Learning2007-12-01 SkillSoft
  Is your company "going green?" Would you like it to? This paper looks at corporate sustainability efforts and the pivotal role that the learning department can play in them. Also included are practical ideas for making training more environmentally-friendly.

Tags: IT HR - Staffing - Training, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Resources Mgmt., Training		   
whitepaper Sell Your Clients on Integrated Accounting Software2007-12-01 Microsoft Tips
  Financial management and accounting are critical to the success of one's clients' business. Yet for many small business owners, limited finances and limited number of employees mean that owners must manage most of the day-to-day tasks of running their businesses. The complexity of budgeting, inventory, payroll, taxes, expenditures, and billing can be enough to overwhelm any business owner. As a result, small business owners have little time to devote the attention required to truly analyze their financial information to make smart business decisions.

Tags: Finance		   
whitepaper Measuring the Return on IT Security Investments2007-12-01 Intel
  Intel IT developed a model for measuring return on security investment (ROSI) in our manufacturing environments that produces a much higher level of accuracy than other methods currently available.

Tags: Policy Document Management, IT Reliability, Planning and Services, Financial Management