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Professional services firms are not like other businesses. They have unique ways of working, unique challenges, and unique
opportunities. While progressive project-based businesses have already embraced professional services automation (PSA)—achieving
results and return on investment along the way—th (...)
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Professional Services Automation: A New Approach to Business and Knowledge Management for
Professional Services Firms. Source: Deltek ...
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2010-03-11
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Many companies strive to effectively measure and analyze their service operations. But while management struggles to measure
too many (or too few) metrics, they often overlook the basic measurement question: what to track, and how? By using the concept
metric perspectives to define what data provides the (...)
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Two Mistakes Most Professional Services Organizations Make—How Metrics and Automation Tools
Drive Profits. Source: QuickArrow. Document ...
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2010-03-11
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Making Multi-rater Feedback Work in Professional Services Firms. Search for Software and Other Documents for Your Acquisition
Related to Multi-rater Feedback Work in Professional Services Firms. For many firms, continually moving people to new projects
under different leaders is the only possible way to o (...)
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Making Multi-rater Feedback Work in Professional Services Firms. Search for Software and Other Documents for Your Acquisition
Related to Multi-rate...
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2010-03-11
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Tackling the transformation to lean production is high-priority in the aerospace industry. After all, lean manufacturing
eliminates waste from essential manufacturing processes and helps you measure up to your competitors. But how can you attain
true lean transformation—and what specific steps does you (...)
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Best Practices in Aerospace Lean Manufacturing: The Migration to a Lean Enterprise. Source: Cincom Systems. Document Type:
White Paper ...
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2010-03-11
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The source code for mission-critical software products is almost never provided to users by the supplier. All the end-user
has is a copy of the compiled source code—in other words, the object code that can only be read and executed by the computers
concerned. That’s why professional escrow is becomin (...)
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... s why professional escrow is becoming an essential component of operational risk management.
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2010-03-11
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There’s no universal solution for Web services security. Sometimes, access lists programmed into the Web services themselves
are sufficient. Other times, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) may be more than adequate. However, when granular message processing
and auditing is essential, dedicated extensible marku (...)
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Securing XML Web Services: SSL, XML Firewalling, and Beyond. ... Sometimes, access lists
programmed into the Web services themselves are sufficient. ...
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2010-03-11
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Improving the content of technical publications is possible with a product development system (PDS). A PDS solution can automate
and optimize the technical publishing process and can end publication bottlenecks caused by launch delays due to poor process.
A PDS solution allows for concurrent development (...)
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Technical Publications: Improving the Quality of Technical Publications Increases Employee
Productivity and Customer Satisfaction. ...
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2010-03-11
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There was a time when companies went with one platform, and stuck with it, hiring IT staff with that technology in mind.
That time has passed. Today, heterogeneity is the name of the game, with orga¬nizations having combinations of legacy software
and distributed systems, across multiple platforms and a (...)
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Reducing the Risks of Managing Web Services Environments. ... Download <strong>Reducing
the Risks of Managing Web Services Environments</strong>. Comments: ...
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2010-03-11
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There is a considerable need to understand how technical performance and the problems within the technical infrastructure
impact the capabilities of the business itself. The majority of companies can only measure specific asset and application
performance, whereas many issues within the infrastructure li (...)
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... Source: Quocirca Ltd. Document Type: White Paper Description: There is a considerable need to understand
how technical performance and the problems within the ...
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2010-03-11
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Technology changes have allowed an alternative to the client-server model to emerge, specifically the application service
provider (ASP), in which the vendor hosts the software on its server and charges a monthly or annual fee per user. The growing
acceptance of ASPs has accelerated the growth of profess (...)
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... fee per user. The growing acceptance of ASPs has accelerated the growth of professional
services automation. This paper compares ...
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2010-03-11
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Taking Control of Your Business Growing Profitably in the Professional Services Market. Search for Case Studies and Other
Software to Use In Your Decision According to the Professional Services Market. How can a professional services firm grow
profitably while providing clients with the services and proje (...)
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Taking Control of Your Business Growing Profitably in the Professional Services Market. Search for Case Studies and Other
Software to Use In Your D...
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2010-03-11
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Typically, there are two approaches to managing public access and workplace workstations: the lock-down approach, and the
reactionary approach. However, despite the variety of public access or corporate computer environments that exist, non-restrictive
technology is applicable to all of them. With this t (...)
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... desire, but downtime and technical support costs are eliminated. Download <strong>Non-restrictive
Technology in Computer-based Businesses and Services</strong>. ...
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2010-03-11
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Every core business process and strategic initiative requires a human capital management (HMC) business strategy for execution;
improvements made in HCM systems and processes can notably impact an organization’s bottom line. Mentoring programs and other
models for integrating work and learning are exci (...)
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... Mentoring programs and other models for integrating work and learning are exciting avenues for stimulating
professional growth, career development, staff morale ...
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2010-03-11
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To better understand record management (RM) challenges related to regulatory compliance in the financial services and health
care industries, it is important to know why the laws and acts were written and codified. This knowledge will help organizations
understand why the RM team is creating and maintain (...)
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... Type: White Paper Description: To better understand record management (RM) challenges related to regulatory
compliance in the financial services and health ...
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2010-03-11
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Current enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation methodologies give too much attention to the ”hard core”
technical side of the project, and too little to the organizational change needed to complete the project successfully. Because
of the complex nature of these projects, different (...)
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... Description: Current enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation methodologies give too
much attention to the ”hard core” technical side of ...
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2010-03-11
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Business process management (BPM) provides adaptability and agility to service-oriented architecture (SOA). The central nervous
system in the architecture, it orchestrates the services provided by different applications that excel at what they do. And
the more powerful the BPM solution used to manage the (...)
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... The central nervous system in the architecture, it orchestrates the services provided
by different applications that excel at what they do. ...
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2010-03-11
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Rapid market fluctuations; changing customer and channel requirements; pressures from shareholders, executives, and partners;
and continued competition are forcing high-tech companies to re-examine not only what products and services they sell, but
also their processes and tools for developing, deploying (...)
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... shareholders, executives, and partners; and continued competition are forcing high-tech companies to
re-examine not only what products and services they sell ...
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2010-03-11
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The capacity for service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide a framework for next-generation enterprise telecommunications
services has become a reality through the maturing of Web services technology. Such communications services can now take their
rightful place alongside collaborating business proc (...)
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IP PBX for Service Oriented Architectures: Communications Web Services. Source: Sphere Communications. Document
Type: White Paper ...
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2010-03-11
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Bernstein AG, established in 1947 and headquartered in Porta Westfalica (Germany), builds and sells components and systems
for industrial automation peripherals. In 2002, it began the task of selecting and implementing a flexible, web-based business
process management (BPM) system. One of the most import (...)
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... One of the most important technical requirements was the universal integration of the
BPM suite into its existing IT infrastructure. ...
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2010-03-11
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The Internet industry is intensifying day by day as it becomes the basis of communication for businesses. With the introduction
of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), communication costs have been greatly reduced, and the Internet industry is thus introducing
variant services to consumers that were unth (...)
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... voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), communication costs have been greatly reduced, and the Internet
industry is thus introducing variant services to consumers ...
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2010-03-11