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A company’s best opportunity to gain major margin improvement is in its front end—the sales, customer service, and processes
needed to transform inquiries into orders. And one of the best strategies is to apply lean thinking to the front end. Read
about an integrated solution that addresses the uniqu (...)
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A company’s best opportunity to gain major margin improvement is in its front end—the sales,
customer service, and processes needed to transform i... ...
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2010-03-11
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Lawson Software announced general availability for six more components of its E-commerce suite of applications. Lawson is
a mid-market ERP vendor that has reinvented itself as an E-commerce enabler. (...)
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Lawson Software announced general availability for six more components of its E-commerce suite of applications. Lawson is
a mid-market ERP vendor ...
Published:
2000-03-10
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Corda's CenterView™ enterprise performance dashboards allow users and software partners to use Corda's dashboards to create
the presentation layer of analytics, and to help organizations present and achieve their business goals across the organization. (...)
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Corda's CenterView™ enterprise performance dashboards allow users and software partners to use Corda's dashboards
to create the presentation layer...
Published:
2007-03-16
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It is feasible to create native, intuitive and graphical business applications using just available software in i/OS and
Open source Java. Using iSeries as an integrated business server is more than just a dream. (...)
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It is feasible to create native, intuitive and graphical business applications using just available software in i/OS and Open
source Java. Using i...
Published:
2005-05-18
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PeopleSoft has risen from its relatively humble origins in the Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) arena, its sole focus
as it begun life in 1987. Over the course of a decade or so, it added Supply Chain Management and Financials to its list
of application offerings. In the last few years, in the (...)
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PeopleSoft has risen from its relatively humble origins in the Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) arena, its sole focus
as it begun life in ...
Published:
2001-11-26
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Quote-to-order (Q2O) systems can address the increasing demand for personalized and customized products. Complex product
specification, quoting, and ordering processes—as well as the software applications catering to those processes—can benefit
from the use of the Web, collaboration tools, and lean t (...)
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Quote-to-order (Q2O) systems can address the increasing demand for personalized and customized products. Complex product specification,
quoting, a...
Published:
2008-08-18
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SAP AG has seemingly crossed a strategy chasm, from a strict, stodgy, Not-Invented-Here (NIH) approach to software development
and delivery, to a seemingly quite open approach of broad development alliances, company acquisitions, Internet portals development,
and a deep, new relationship with IBM for bot (...)
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front end:
SAP AG has seemingly crossed a strategy chasm, from a strict, stodgy, Not-Invented- Here (NIH) approach to software development
and delivery, to a ...
Published:
2001-09-22
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As security breaches become increasingly more frequent, minimizing user access to back-end systems and web applications without
impacting legitimate usage is more important than ever before. (...)
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... A properly implemented single sign-on solution will write the front-end
authentication through to a central SSO management console on the back-end, and is able ...
Published:
2001-12-22
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BigMachines differentiates itself in the quote-to-order (Q2O) sphere due to its solutions’ lean end-to-end, inquiry-to-order
focus. Although there are other vendors offering Q2O as a service, BigMachines product is arguably more flexible, as high
tech manufacturers may be noting. (...)
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front end:
BigMachines differentiates itself in the quote-to-order (Q2O) sphere due to its solutions’ lean end-to-end, inquiry-to-order
focus. Although there...
Published:
2008-08-22
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Abstract:
On November 15, QueryObject Systems announced that it has partnered with Cognos Corporation to create and market a high-capacity
analytical data mart accessible for analysis over the Internet. QueryObject will provide the back-end with its analytical
data structure, while Cognos provides the front-end b (...)
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On November 15, QueryObject Systems announced that it has partnered with Cognos Corporation to create and market a high-capacity
analytical data m...
Published:
2000-11-28
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Understanding the nature and specifics of your product development life cycles, and especially new product design and initiation,
can help you realize tangible cost savings and will offset the total cost of ownership of a product lifecycle management system. (...)
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... software is well worth the investment because the life cycle costs of new product design and initiation
(NPDI) are inherently weighted at the front end. ...
Published:
2005-09-28
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Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager 2005 has allowed Microsoft to enter the business intelligence (BI) market by using its
client base to expand its offering. Microsoft offers a complete solution with its SQL Server platform, OLAP, reporting analysis,
and scorecarding capabilities. (...)
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Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager 2005 has allowed Microsoft to enter the business intelligence (BI) market by using its
client base to expand ...
Published:
2006-06-30
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Web Services is a no-brainer as a standard mechanism for providing access to enterprise applications and data; this will
allow businesses to create words out of alphabet soup (ERP, SFA, CRM, EAI, EJB, COM, BFD). Nothing about Web Services, however,
addresses the front-end complexity of dealing with multi (...)
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front end:
... Interaction Server: The Front End. The Interaction Container provides
critical services in support of the user-facing aspects of multi-channel interactions: ...
Published:
2002-05-22
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... sourcing, and connections to sourcing events) with a single workflow engine and with a front-end
look-and-feel of what the user will likely want and need. ...
Published:
2010-10-05
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Abstract:
IFS needs to bolster its brand awareness, and let the world know that they are, in fact, a real contender in the Collaborative
Commerce space. Once companies get IFS in-house and get to touch and feel it - to really understand its user interface and
ease of use advantages over many of its rivals - it oft (...)
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IFS needs to bolster its brand awareness, and let the world know that they are, in fact, a real contender in the Collaborative
Commerce space. Onc...
Published:
2001-10-24
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So, whether the need for integration arises from the proliferation of business applications within your own enterprise, the
results of mergers and acquisitions, or from the demands of e-business, integration emerges as a significant challenge in
responding to the demands of business today. What then con (...)
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So, whether the need for integration arises from the proliferation of business applications within your own enterprise, the
results of mergers and...
Published:
2004-04-16
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Abstract:
The biggest Exchange 2000 issue is not technology, but detailed and structured planning. (...)
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... per client seat. Outlook, Microsoft's front-end messaging client,
is bundled with Microsoft Office. Through bundling client software ...
Published:
1999-10-01
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IT managers must understand the legal issues – at least well enough to know when there is an issue. E-commerce is so new
that lawyers (and the law) are having a tough time keeping up with it, but that doesn’t get the manager off the hook if something
that should have been thought about slips through (...)
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IT managers must understand the legal issues – at least well enough to know when there is an issue. E-commerce is so new that
lawyers (and the la...
Published:
2000-12-20
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Like many of its peers, Symix Systems, one of the leading mid-market enterprise applications vendors, has been making a big
push into the e-commerce market. A new Symix subsidiary called Frontstep, which was formed in January 2000, has been actively
rounding out its e-business product and strategic consu (...)
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Like many of its peers, Symix Systems, one of the leading mid-market enterprise applications vendors, has been making a big
push into the e-commer...
Published:
2000-10-25
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Small and medium businesses wanting the benefits of business intelligence (BI) without having to implement a large enterprise
system may find a viable option in Excel-based BI and analytics tools that leverage add-in applications from vendors.
(...)
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Small and medium businesses wanting the benefits of business intelligence (BI) without having to implement a large enterprise
system may find a vi...
Published:
2005-06-22