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Abstract:
By providing business process management functionality, Exact hopes to bring competitive enhancements to enterprise resource
planning systems used by small and medium businesses. (...)
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By providing business process management functionality, Exact hopes to bring competitive
enhancements to enterprise resource planning systems used...
Published:
2006-01-12
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SCT has announced more e-commerce offerings for the process industries, including an expanded vision for their iProcess.sct
solution called 'Collaboration in Process' which is based on recognition that process manufacturers and distributors will
increasingly go to market as members of competing commerce (...)
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SCT has announced more e-commerce offerings for the process industries, including an expanded vision for their iProcess.sct
solution called 'Coll...
Published:
2001-04-30
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Organizations considering the offshore outsourcing of processes should seriously consider adopting a proven methodology before
implementation. This will minimize risk and maximize the return associated with offshore outsourcing and will help create
a successful venture. (...)
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Organizations considering the offshore outsourcing of processes should seriously consider adopting a proven methodology before
implementation. Thi...
Published:
2005-05-28
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The new independent company will certainly benefit from having control of its own financial destiny, being able to make decisions
based upon its own needs and objectives rather than being a small part of the much larger entities needs and objectives. (...)
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The new independent company will certainly benefit from having control of its own financial destiny, being able to make decisions
based upon its o...
Published:
2002-06-26
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Current pure play business intelligence (BI) leaders offer the advantage of superior analytics and planning capabilities;
however, enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors are improving their analytic capabilities and accessibility. (...)
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Current pure play business intelligence (BI) leaders offer the advantage of superior analytics and planning capabilities;
however, enterprise reso...
Published:
2005-07-14
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Business process management (BPM) has to integrate existing enterprise applications, Web services, and people in such a way
that it can also quickly change, destruct, or construct processes. This is far beyond the realm of traditional enterprise
application integration (EAI). (...)
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Business process management (BPM) has to integrate existing enterprise applications, Web services, and people in such a way
that it can also quick...
Published:
2005-12-08
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By focusing on improving and optimizing the processes instead of only the departments, any user company should be better
aligned and prepared to take on the challenges ahead. (...)
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By focusing on improving and optimizing the processes instead of only the departments, any user company should be better aligned
and prepared to t...
Published:
2006-01-11
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Today, the issue of regulatory compliance touches every enterprise, and process manufacturers are no exception. To answer
the challenge of this new reality, vendors now offer enterprise resource planning systems with far more features and functionality
than ever before. But how can an organization choose (...)
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Today, the issue of regulatory compliance touches every enterprise, and process manufacturers are no exception. To answer
the challenge of this ne...
Published:
2009-08-14
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Business intelligence (BI) represents the tools and systems that play a key role in the strategic planning process by allowing
a company to manipulate corporate data for decision-making. But what exactly are the primary components of BI? (...)
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Business intelligence (BI) represents the tools and systems that play a key role in the strategic planning
process by allowing a company to manipu... ...
Published:
2009-03-23
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Business process management (BPM), having evolved over the past fifteen years, has finally reached a level of maturity where
vendors are now abolishing functional silos to allow the enterprise-wide flow of business processes. It replaces the old,
manual system of coordinating activities in a company and (...)
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business planning process:
Business process management (BPM), having evolved over the past fifteen years, has finally reached a level of maturity where
vendors are now aboli...
Published:
2005-07-09
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RFPs and selection tools typically focus on features and functions. The business process protagonists consider this focus
old fashioned. However, users want and need an inventory or check lists of the functions to understand if the business process
will work. One always has to start from somewhere, and t (...)
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RFPs and selection tools typically focus on features and functions. The business process protagonists consider this focus
old fashioned. However, ...
Published:
2003-10-28
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To provide useful financial insight on projects, financial managers need to think about business strategy more like a series
of options than a single projected cash flow. While the concepts of options are certainly familiar to most executives, the
trick to valuing strategic choices lies in the complex an (...)
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To provide useful financial insight on projects, financial managers need to think about business strategy more like a series
of options than a sin...
Published:
1999-10-01
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Tools under the business intelligence (BI) umbrella combine to convert data into information, and information into decisions
for action. Dashboards and scorecards are two such tools. Though often confused, they have functional difference, especially
in modern BI suites. (...)
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... The term business intelligence (BI) thus represents all the tools and systems that play
a key role in the strategic planning process of the corporation, by ...
Published:
2005-06-28
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Find out why FOSS and BPM are hot topics and why they are related in this in depth report from TEC Analyst Kurt Chen. Free
and open source software (FOSS) has become a hot topic in the business process management (BPM) market. This article discusses
the relevance between BPM and FOSS, and makes suggesti (...)
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business planning process:
Find out why FOSS and BPM are hot topics and why they are related in this in depth report from TEC Analyst Kurt Chen. Free
and open source softwa...
Published:
2010-06-01
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Abstract:
There is certainly room to ask the fundamental question of whether the traditional practice of RFI/RFP-based selection processes
has been adequate for the task of selecting complex systems. The record indicates there is much room for improvement. In essence,
for complex selections like in the case of ent (...)
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There is certainly room to ask the fundamental question of whether the traditional practice of RFI/RFP-based selection processes
has been adequate...
Published:
2003-10-27
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Abstract:
As manufacturing becomes a global process, advances in demand management software have given rise to attribute-based demand
management software. In the process manufacturing environment, this software can help manufacturers deal with complex manufacturing
processes and increase overall customer satisfact (...)
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As manufacturing becomes a global process, advances in demand management software have given rise to attribute-based demand
management software. I...
Published:
2008-12-24
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Abstract:
About two-thirds of SoftBrands' revenue comes from its manufacturing division, which includes evolution, a platform neutral,
extended enterprise resource planning product, and DemandStream for lean automation. (...)
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About two-thirds of SoftBrands' revenue comes from its manufacturing division, which includes evolution, a platform neutral,
extended enterprise r...
Published:
2006-03-01
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Abstract:
Although CPM (aka EPM) starts with strong financial management, it will eventually extend beyond financial planning to almost
all areas of corporate activity. Therefore, organizations choosing BI suites should consider both their financial management
tools and future integration with key business-area so (...)
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Although CPM (aka EPM) starts with strong financial management, it will eventually extend beyond financial planning to almost
all areas of corpora...
Published:
2003-11-22
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Abstract:
Most manufacturers are now operating in a multi-enterprise, multi-echelon context, and their supply chain processes and supporting
IT tools need to accommodate responsive collaboration. Yet most enterprise resource planning systems currently used do not
adequately serve the needs of these businesses. (...)
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Most manufacturers are now operating in a multi-enterprise, multi-echelon context, and their supply chain processes and supporting
IT tools need t...
Published:
2008-03-14
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Abstract:
Inventory Optimization software recognizes that different industries have different inventory profiles and requirements.
Research has indicated that solutions are priced in a large range from tens of thousands of Dollars to millions of Dollars.
In this niche market sector, price is definitely not an ind (...)
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Inventory Optimization software recognizes that different industries have different inventory profiles and requirements. Research
has indicated th...
Published:
2003-04-07