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Abstract:
Successful enterprise resource planning (ERP) deployment demands a focused examination of the professional services provided
by your organization, and the most efficient infrastructure required to support them. You must provide your most important
asset—your people—with effective tools that can be ac (...)
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Professional Service Strategies that Win: IT’s New Role in the Cloud. Source: Technology
Evaluation Centers. Document Type: TEC ...
Published:
2011-02-14
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Abstract:
Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Service Productization. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and
Time-Bound. Productization of services is accomplished by associating tangible features with intangible service offerings.
Tangible features may take the form of personnel, collateral (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Service Productization. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. Productizati...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
The case company is rolling out new professional service concepts, addressing the customer need for services fitting the
information technology infrastructure library (ITIL) framework. A centrally located team needed ITIL service knowledge and
certification before training service development, consulting (...)
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... The case company is rolling out new professional service concepts,
addressing ... knowledge and certification before training service development,
consulting, and ...
Published:
2011-01-28
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By acquiring a leading PSA vendor and deciding to go public, in addition to the new functional and technological enhancements
to its flagship lawson.insight suite due in August, Lawson Software continues to boldly challenge bigger competitors, primarily
PeopleSoft and Oracle. (...)
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By acquiring a leading PSA vendor and deciding to go public, in addition to the new functional and technological enhancements
to its flagship laws...
Published:
2001-07-31
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Lawson is sticking to its focus on selected vertical markets, but going forward the tenets of that focus will likely be more
finely tuned. Namely, the vendor has lately accelerated development, in part through a number of appetizing acquisitions,
of its traditional vertical functionality to ensure contin (...)
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Lawson is sticking to its focus on selected vertical markets, but going forward the tenets of that focus will likely be more
finely tuned. Namely,...
Published:
2003-11-07
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Abstract:
What started out as a set of applications to better manage customers' projects, astutely allocate staff and monitor their
utilization rates has become an important foundation for coordinating a full range of business activities amongst increasingly
virtual teams both within and outside the four-walls. (...)
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professional service development:
What started out as a set of applications to better manage customers' projects, astutely allocate staff and monitor their
utilization rates has be...
Published:
2003-12-27
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Abstract:
Deltek has focused on addressing the unique business needs of project-oriented organizations. Its product line has expanded
from applications for managing the core back-office processes to the front-office and e-business of professional services
and other project-based companies, of which many provide pr (...)
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professional service development:
Deltek has focused on addressing the unique business needs of project-oriented organizations. Its product line has expanded
from applications for ...
Published:
2004-01-10
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Abstract:
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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professional service development:
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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Abstract:
On February 29, PeopleSoft Inc. took the wraps off its Professional Services Automation (PSA) product, software that aims
to help services firms better manage financial and human-resources systems. On March 6, Lawson Software reaffirmed its position
as a “premier total solution provider for the profess (...)
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professional service development:
On February 29, PeopleSoft Inc. took the wraps off its Professional Services Automation (PSA) product, software that aims
to help services firms b...
Published:
2000-04-12
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Abstract:
In the short term, Microsoft Dynamics SL will likely follow the professional services automation (PSA) trend of extending
functionality to the Web. In the long term, its eventual absorption into the Microsoft Dynamics product line may affect Microsoft's
strategy in the project portfolio management market (...)
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professional service development:
In the short term, Microsoft Dynamics SL will likely follow the professional services automation (PSA) trend of extending
functionality to the Web...
Published:
2006-02-10
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Abstract:
Deltek's founders have managed the company with great success by expanding client focus into the commercial sector during
the late 1980s. In 1991, Deltek began to configure its software for larger customers. Since 2001, a key growth strategy for
Deltek has been providing additional front-office software (...)
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professional service development:
Deltek's founders have managed the company with great success by expanding client focus into the commercial sector during
the late 1980s. In 1991,...
Published:
2004-01-09
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Abstract:
An Alarming Look At The Mismatch Between Talent Strategies, Processes, and Corporate Objectives. Download IT Guide on Talent
Strategies, Processes and Corporate Objectives. A survey of professional services firms shows a serious disconnect between
the desired operational state of the firms and their curre (...)
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professional service development:
An Alarming Look At The Mismatch Between Talent Strategies, Processes, and Corporate Objectives. Download IT Guide on Talent
Strategies, Processes ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Traditional enterprise systems have proven difficult to change and extend. The inherent problem of old core code and business
logic duplication is part of the reason traditional enterprise resource planning systems have not readily taken to e-commerce. (...)
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professional service development:
Traditional enterprise systems have proven difficult to change and extend. The inherent problem of old core code and business
logic duplication is...
Published:
2006-09-19
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Abstract:
There are two types of project portfolio management (PPM) solutions for professional services organizations (PSO). For smaller
PSOs, best-of-breed vendors provide hosted solutions with out-of-the-box integrations, while integrated PPM solutions provide
the complete back-office systems preferred by many l (...)
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professional service development:
There are two types of project portfolio management (PPM) solutions for professional services organizations (PSO). For smaller
PSOs, best-of-breed...
Published:
2006-01-02
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... a San Francisco start-up that provides a hosted development environment for ...
in 2009, PS Enterprise has garnered over 10,000 professional service employees as ...
Published:
2011-01-04
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Abstract:
The CRM market is shifting. Instead of looking for an all-purpose and horizontal oriented CRM application, customers are
seeking a more specialized and industry specific tool. From the larger organization to the smallest customers, CRM buyers
are expecting their applications to follow their business mode (...)
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professional service development:
The CRM market is shifting. Instead of looking for an all-purpose and horizontal oriented CRM application, customers are seeking
a more specialize...
Published:
2003-05-28
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Abstract:
Within its marketing and proposal automation product, Deltek espouses an emerging CRM derivative known as client relationship
management, which should help firms track client relationships in a more sophisticated manner than through methods such as
referral or word-of-mouth, which were appropriate during (...)
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professional service development:
Within its marketing and proposal automation product, Deltek espouses an emerging CRM derivative known as client relationship
management, which sh...
Published:
2004-01-12
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professional service development:
... PS: We will leverage common technology, development resources, etc ...
its launch in 2009, PS Enterprise has garnered over 10,000 professional service employees
as ...
Published:
2010-07-12
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Abstract:
E-procurement is not just for goods and material. The market now offers IT services e-procurement solutions that open access
to service sources and seek to optimize the service chain. What are these solutions and how do they work? (...)
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professional service development:
E-procurement is not just for goods and material. The market now offers IT services e-procurement solutions that open access
to service sources a...
Published:
2001-03-23
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Abstract:
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is enabling service organizations to streamline service delivery, optimize operations,
and improve customer satisfaction. In this podcast, TEC analyst Neil Stolovitsky sits down with Oracle's Ted Kempf for his
take on the unique implementation requirements of ERP system (...)
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professional service development:
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is enabling service organizations to streamline service delivery, optimize operations,
and improve customer sat...
Published:
2007-06-12