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Extended Enterprise Vision.Find Free IT Reports, Case Studies, and Other Resources Linked to the Extended Enterprise. Small
and medium enterprises (SMEs) are facing new challenges and opportunities. By linking people, processes, and workflows from
inside and outside your company, business management softw (...)
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Extended Enterprise Vision.Find Free IT Reports, Case Studies, and Other Resources Linked to the Extended Enterprise. Small
and medium enterprises ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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SAP has a new marketing campaign. What does this mean for competitors, prospective buyers, and business-to-business marketing
professionals? This case study explains why it's important to dig deeper when a company of interest to you changes its marketing
campaign. (...)
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SAP has a new marketing campaign. What does this mean for competitors, prospective buyers, and business-to-business marketing
professionals? This ...
Published:
2006-01-05
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Mid-sized companies have the agility of small businesses, and are resource-rich enough to handle CRM implementation. However,
without comprehensive planning, attainable objectives, metrics, and check points mid-sized companies will not realize success
and full potential from their CRM system. (...)
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Mid-sized companies have the agility of small businesses, and are resource-rich enough to handle CRM implementation. However,
without comprehensiv...
Published:
2005-02-14
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a New Warehouse Management System (WMS). Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant and Time-Bound. Despite the consensus that warehouse management systems (WMS) offer many benefits, getting approval
for a new system is challenging. You need to get key dec (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a New Warehouse Management System (WMS). Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant and Time-Boun...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Customer Success. Find Free IT Reports, Case Studies, and Other Resources Associated with the Customer Success. Old-world
quality is great for a chocolate manufacturer, but old-style business systems are not. Hauser Chocolatier learned this the
hard way, struggling for years with DOS-based accounting soft (...)
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sage extended and positioning strategies:
Customer Success. Find Free IT Reports, Case Studies, and Other Resources Associated with the Customer Success. Old-world
quality is great for a ch...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Customer Success. Find Free IT Reports, Case Studies, and Other Resources Associated with the Customer Success. Old-world
quality is great for a chocolate manufacturer, but old-style business systems are not. Hauser Chocolatier learned this the
hard way, struggling for years with DOS-based accounting soft (...)
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sage extended and positioning strategies:
Customer Success. Find Free IT Reports, Case Studies, and Other Resources Associated with the Customer Success. Old-world
quality is great for a ch...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Having stemmed the tide of losses and returned to profitability in 2001, will in 2002 market witness Baan's return to former
ERP stardom given the company's recent product enhancements, new partnerships and customer base retention/expansion initiatives? (...)
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Having stemmed the tide of losses and returned to profitability in 2001, will in 2002 market witness Baan's return to
former ERP stardom given the...
Published:
2002-02-18
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Baan and IBM have formed an alliance, IONA is certified for the OpenWorld Network Alliance, and Baan has a program for a
smooth migration path for existing customers. (...)
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Baan and IBM have formed an alliance, IONA is certified for the OpenWorld Network Alliance, and Baan has a program for a smooth
migration path for...
Published:
2002-02-19
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Salesforce.com is now an almost unstoppable force in the world of on-demand customer relationship management. However, it
may be the architect of its own downfall—and Microsoft is poised to take advantage. But will you profit from the Salesforce.com-versus-Microsoft
war? (...)
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Salesforce.com is now an almost unstoppable force in the world of on-demand customer relationship management. However, it
may be the architect of ...
Published:
2008-10-13
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With Best having already captured a lion's share of the market estimated to consist of several millions of small enterprises
or ~$14 billion in revenue opportunity, and continuing to capture new customers, the likes of MBS will likely have their work
cut out for them despite their recently unveiled sound (...)
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With Best having already captured a lion's share of the market estimated to consist of several millions of small enterprises
or ~$14 billion in re...
Published:
2003-07-26
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Microsoft announced plans to increase resources and provide new tools and offerings for MBS independent software vendors
(ISV) and value-added resellers (VAR). These efforts are designed to accelerate the MBS Group's partner-driven vertical strategy,
providing stronger opportunities for partners to align (...)
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Microsoft announced plans to increase resources and provide new tools and offerings for MBS independent software vendors (ISV)
and value-added res...
Published:
2005-08-24
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A recent survey of chief executive officers has found that growth is again the number one priority, overtaking cost-cutting
as their previous top concern. Can enterprise application providers to take advantage of this new focus? (...)
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A recent survey of chief executive officers has found that growth is again the number one priority, overtaking cost-cutting
as their previous top ...
Published:
2005-04-21
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Abstract:
Although SAP’s recently announced tamed results for Q1 2002, which fit within the current market milieu, may add to some
challenges moving forward, particularly seen from sharply reduced license revenue, and while some may question SAP’s justification
of assimilating its two former subsidiaries, SAP (...)
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Although SAP’s recently announced tamed results for Q1 2002, which fit within the current market milieu, may add to some challenges
moving forward...
Published:
2002-06-06
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Chief information officer reporting relationships continue to be distanced from the strategy function. The marketing function
is experiencing this same distancing from strategy. However, the two functions should be on the leading edge of strategy,
rather than the receiving end. (...)
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Chief information officer reporting relationships continue to be distanced from the strategy function. The marketing function
is experiencing this...
Published:
2007-07-04
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SMEs have recently begun to seek integration platforms that address the end-to-end business process management (BPM) rather
than the traditional pesky point-to-point interconnectivity solutions. IBM's strategy of selling WebSphere Express through
local VARs and of letting smaller enterprises deploy only (...)
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SMEs have recently begun to seek integration platforms that address the end-to-end business process management (BPM) rather
than the traditional p...
Published:
2003-08-05
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Sage Group's decision to finally group its plethora of enterprise-level applications in North America under the Best Software
brand in 2002 emanated from the company's ability to deliver highly integrated components, and to weave a unified story around
this concoction of products, many of them with best- (...)
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Sage Group's decision to finally group its plethora of enterprise-level applications in North America under the Best Software
brand in 2002 emanat...
Published:
2003-07-28
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In PeopleSoft’s case, the fact remains that it is still the best-attuned offering (in terms of pricing, vertical extensions,
customizability, professional service approach, etc.) to the needs of large, service-oriented enterprises, or for ‘greenfield’
sites. However, to put things in the right pers (...)
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sage extended and positioning strategies:
In PeopleSoft’s case, the fact remains that it is still the best-attuned offering (in terms of pricing, vertical extensions,
customizability, prof...
Published:
2002-06-24
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Whether this is a temporary stint, a true long-term alliance, or just a prelude to nuptials down the track, Microsoft should
turn out as a beneficiary in every way. (...)
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Whether this is a temporary stint, a true long-term alliance, or just a prelude to nuptials down the track, Microsoft should
turn out as a benefic...
Published:
2003-08-30
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By determinedly executing a number of both prudent and bold initiatives, including some that encroach into the new frontiers
of enterprise applications (such as business process management and business activity monitoring), Exact Software may have
gotten the wherewithal to almost be reckoned with uniform (...)
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sage extended and positioning strategies:
By determinedly executing a number of both prudent and bold initiatives, including some that encroach into the new frontiers
of enterprise applica...
Published:
2004-02-26
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Abstract:
Customer relationship management is a sophisticated set of customer-facing tools; however, its technology has outpaced the
management strategy used to implement it. Moreover, murky definitions and objectives have caused varying degrees of success
and failure to emerge from the same initiative. Clearly de (...)
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Customer relationship management is a sophisticated set of customer-facing tools; however, its technology has outpaced the
management strategy use...
Published:
2004-10-21