Decision Making Considerations

Best Practices in Extending ERP: A Buyer’s Guide to ERP versus Best-of-breed Decisions
SAP

The trade-off between best-of-breed functionality and ease of integration is no longer so simple. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software…

Aligning Technology to Business Strategy: New Tools, Old Rules
Elite Management Consulting Corporation

Technology innovation continues at an incredible rate. Computing power, end user devices, networking and communication options, and software…

Integrated Business Planning: Taking Strategic Planning to the Competitive Edge
River Logic, Inc.

Some managers have concluded that strategic planning is nothing more than an exercise in futility, to be taken out and dusted off at annual…

Fast Close in 2006: Achieving Quick Wins and Big Wins
Business Objects

The “fast close” describes the ability to complete accounting cycles and close books quickly. Companies that don’t close fast often miss…

Getting Current on PeopleSoft: Upgrade vs. Reimplementation
Elite Management Consulting Corporation

One of the biggest decisions that must be made in the support and evolution of a purchased software application is whether to upgrade or…

Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Software Evaluation and Selection Guide
Cognos, an IBM Company

Enterprise planning—budgeting, forecasting, and reporting—is a crucial component of financial management that contributes to…

Don’t Get Left behind: A Reality Check on Social Networking and Customer Relationships
CNP Integrations

Web 2.0 and social networking tools and trends are having a huge impact on business today. But to realize the benefits of social networking, you…

PDF or XPS: Choose the Right Document Format for Your Applications
Amyuni Technologies

XPS, Microsoft’s new document format, is bound to be a serious competitor to PDF. It has the advantage of having learned a lot from PDF,…