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The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) hosts quarterly World Conferences to help organizations involved in data warehousing,
business intelligence, and performance management. These conferences supply a wealth of information aimed at improving organizational
decision-making, optimizing performance, and ac (...)
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... themes, namely business analytics, leadership and management, data analysis and design
... can help drive industry trends by leveraging the needs of organizations ...
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2006-10-25
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Adobe’s support site receives approximately 1.3 million client inquiries per month and has been in need of an automated response
system to decrease escalating support costs. (...)
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Analysis of Adobe’s Integration of IslandData’s Automated E-mail. ... To alleviate the burden
of manual responses to end users needs and concerns, Adobe has ...
Published:
2000-04-05
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For many reasons, SAS's alliance with Amdocs and partnership with Aprimo might be some of a few vendor partnerships where
customers and the vendors benefit. (...)
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For many reasons, SAS's alliance with Amdocs and partnership with Aprimo might be some of a few vendor partnerships where
customers and the vendor...
Published:
2005-08-12
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General enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers, even those which are viable companies with a solid product, typically
do not meet the tricky requirements that are vital to the plastics industry and related so-called mill or material converter
businesses. (...)
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General enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers, even those which are viable companies with a solid product, typically
do not meet the tricky...
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2006-09-05
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Read this comparative analysis on APS, SCM, and ERP to make your business processes more cost-effective. Constant changes
are happening in the software market, either in software delivery methods, features and functions, or software integrations
with other applications. Organizations are looking for solut (...)
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Read this comparative analysis on APS, SCM, and ERP to make your business processes more cost-effective. Constant changes
are happening in the soft...
Published:
2010-02-12
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Business process analysis (BPA) vendors are trying to enter the business process management (BPM) market by marketing themselves
as BPM solutions. This article discusses the differences between BPA and BPM vendors, and examines the benefits of each. (...)
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Business process analysis (BPA) vendors are trying to enter the business process management (BPM) market by marketing themselves
as BPM solutions....
Published:
2006-10-09
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On January 17, Lawson Software announced new comparative sales analyzer capabilities within its advanced suite of retail
analytic applications. Comparative (comp) sales functionality, available in Lawson release 7.3.2 scheduled for the Fall of
2000, enables retailers to easily maintain, analyze and repor (...)
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On January 17, Lawson Software announced new comparative sales analyzer capabilities within its advanced suite of retail analytic
applications. Co...
Published:
2000-02-07
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The business remains challenging to even the most established vendors, since an intensifying product architecture rejuvenation
and functional enhancements cycle, the pressure from the ERP intruders, and continued market consolidation exert fiscal pressure
across the sector. (...)
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The business remains challenging to even the most established vendors, since an intensifying product architecture rejuvenation
and functional enha...
Published:
2005-08-31
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thinkAnalytics signs a partnering agreement with one of the largest information technology services companies in North America.
Why does CGI expect thinkAnalytics’ software to make a difference to its customers? (...)
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thinkAnalytics signs a partnering agreement with one of the largest information technology services companies in North America.
Why does CGI expe...
Published:
2000-09-22
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Anywhere from 40 to 80 percent of CMMS implementations fail to meet expectations. However, by evaluating the company's business
process flow, having proper organizational structure and buy-in, you can realize the true benefits of CMMS and avoid becoming
another failure statistic. (...)
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... On the other hand, the successes were often characterized by a detailed needs analysis
based on well-documented business process flows (BPF) developed by ...
Published:
2005-03-03
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A customer relationship management (CRM) system is inherently valuable for supporting customer acquisition and retention
by gathering data from each contact with customers and prospects. Collecting data, however, cannot be isolated from a strategy
for actually using that data. Here is an overview of how (...)
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A customer relationship management (CRM) system is inherently valuable for supporting customer acquisition and retention by
gathering data from ea...
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2003-07-03
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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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Part 2 of a series on Business Process Reengineering: Long Live Business Process Reengineering. In this Part, we discuss
some practical steps for actually performing business process analysis and fostering change in your company. (...)
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Part 2 of a series on Business Process Reengineering: Long Live Business Process Reengineering. In this Part, we discuss some
practical steps for ...
Published:
2001-08-23
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Proposal writing has become a common requirement throughout the entire business world. And for many sales people, they are
a necessary evil. If you're thinking about automating your proposal process, there are ten critical success keys to a successful
implementation. (...)
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Proposal writing has become a common requirement throughout the entire business world. And for many sales people, they are
a necessary evil. If yo...
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2006-09-25
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Cincom’s latest CRM product release offers a compelling value proposition for many ‘to order’ manufacturing enterprises.
While it is a product that may raise the bar in its target markets, the competitive offering is not exactly a pushover. (...)
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Cincom’s latest CRM product release offers a compelling value proposition for many ‘to order’ manufacturing enterprises. While
it is a product tha...
Published:
2002-11-26
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Very few companies really run standard software applications as "standard" products, since every business changes constantly.
In fact, these companies have found that the agility they wish to attain is in direct conflict with the rigidity of their
enterprise systems. (...)
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Very few companies really run standard software applications as "standard" products, since every business changes
constantly. In fact, these compa...
Published:
2007-03-26
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Solid financial reporting applications are as different from run-of-the-mill reporting tools as financial accountancy is
from bookkeeping. Organizations routinely use common reporting tools for management accounting. But financial reporting applications
can elaborate financial statements for external use (...)
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Solid financial reporting applications are as different from run-of-the-mill reporting tools as financial accountancy is from
bookkeeping. Organiz...
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2011-06-14
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This BI article looks at why and how in-memory technology transforms analytic applications. The primary bottleneck to high-performance
multidimensional analysis has been slow hard drive speed—the time it takes for data to be transferred from disk storage to
random access memory (RAM). With crashing RAM (...)
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... in relational databases. A ROLAP database is designed to serve the needs of multidimensional
analysis. In-memory ROLAP implementations ...
Published:
2010-09-01
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SCO introduces Tarantella ASP edition and ASP Connect as tools for the Application Service Provider market. (...)
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SCO introduces Tarantella ASP edition and ASP Connect as tools for the Application Service Provider market.
Published:
2000-03-20
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The system supports a completely user-defined set of critical success factors for each business, business unit, or even individual
employee. (...)
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... Part Five will provide a competitive analysis and make user recommendations. ...
Know who needs a collection call based on either days outstanding for a specific ...
Published:
2005-01-06