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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Project Driven Organization. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. Too often, project-driven organizations are faced with a difficult choice: they can choose best-of-breed business
applications and integrate them at great cost, or ch (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Project Driven Organization. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. Too oft...
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2010-03-11
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Project-based solutions (PBS) is a new type of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for complex, engineer-to-order companies
and companies facing rapid change. And these days, most companies do face change, and their legacy ERP systems strain to keep
up. Is PBS a better choice for you than tradition (...)
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Project-based solutions (PBS) is a new type of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system
for complex, engineer-to-order companies and companies fa... ...
Published:
2011-03-04
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Project-based Companies Need Specialized ERP Solutions. Read RFP Templates and Other Software to Define Your Self-assessment
Related to some Specialized ERP Solutions. Implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system—even for small to medium
businesses (SMBs)—is a smart move. But depending on (...)
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Project-based Companies Need Specialized ERP Solutions. Read RFP Templates and Other Software
to Define Your Self-assessment Related to some Specia...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Although technology is pivotal in maintaining a competitive edge, many smaller professional services organizations (PSOs)
have limited time and resources to dedicate to their IT infrastructure. For this reason, the application service provider
model can be a very attractive offering. (...)
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Although technology is pivotal in maintaining a competitive edge, many smaller professional services organizations (PSOs)
have limited time and re...
Published:
2006-09-13
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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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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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Many business intelligence (BI) projects fall short of expectations. Unless organizations implement a methodology and benchmark
the success other organizations have experienced, BI implementations may fail to provide the desired results. This article
identifies five steps organizations should take when i (...)
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Many business intelligence (BI) projects fall short of expectations. Unless organizations implement a methodology and benchmark
the success other ...
Published:
2009-09-11
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Caught between big-vendor ERP offerings requiring heavy customization, and off-the-shelf project management solutions that
are easily outgrown, project-oriented organizations have special accounting needs. Find out more about those needs, along
with recommendations for what solutions you should be taking (...)
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Caught between big-vendor ERP offerings requiring heavy customization, and off-the-shelf project management
solutions that are easily outgrown, pr...
Published:
2008-09-24
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Project portfolio management (PPM), once a solution only larger organizations could afford, enables companies to analyze,
recommend, authorize, activate, expedite, and monitor projects. In recent years, however, small to medium businesses have
been able to benefit from PPM too, through software-as-a-serv (...)
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Project portfolio management (PPM), once a solution only larger organizations could afford, enables companies to analyze,
recommend, authorize, ac...
Published:
2008-10-29
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the right solution provided a certain set of requirements. In this part of the article we review 3 vendors
who offer products to the PLM market - IDe, Thetis, and PDM (...)
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the righ...
Published:
2003-05-26
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Resource allocation and phase-based processes are key features to consider when selecting a project portfolio management
solution for new product development (NPD) projects. More importantly, NPD projects demand a best practices framework, like
Stage-Gate®, for their success. (...)
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Resource allocation and phase-based processes are key features to consider when selecting a project portfolio management solution
for new product ...
Published:
2006-01-06
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Past experience shows us that the vast majority of enterprise technology evaluations run over time and budget, and once selected,
the majority of the implementations fail to meet functional, return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO)
expectations. Many companies have consequently been s (...)
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Past experience shows us that the vast majority of enterprise technology evaluations run over time and budget, and once selected,
the majority of ...
Published:
2003-05-23
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Past experience shows us that the vast majority of enterprise technology evaluations run over time and budget, and once selected,
the majority of the implementations fail to meet functional, return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO)
expectations. Enterprise technology selections for (...)
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Past experience shows us that the vast majority of enterprise technology evaluations run over time and budget, and once selected,
the majority of ...
Published:
2003-05-22
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Although most vendors provide organizations with the project portfolio management tools to meet their objectives, few provide
strategies to implement an IT governance framework successfully. Pacific Edge offers a three-stage approach to implementing
IT governance, based on an organization's maturity. (...)
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Although most vendors provide organizations with the project portfolio management tools to meet their objectives, few provide
strategies to implem...
Published:
2006-06-20
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During its stabilization phase IFS product development has brought about pragmatic developments, including its latest release,
IFS Applications 7. The vendor has also been surging forward by harnessing new partnerships, including turning high-profile
customers into developers and subsequent resellers (...)
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During its stabilization phase IFS product development has brought about pragmatic developments, including its latest release,
IFS Applications 7....
Published:
2006-08-10
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the right solution provided a certain set of requirements. The Catch 22 for both buyers and vendors is to
pinpoint the right opportunity in this ongoing 'dating game' (...)
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the righ...
Published:
2003-05-24
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For over a decade, SAP has offered industry-specific applications, starting with oil and gas and utilities solutions. Media,
insurance, chemicals, banking, and public sector offerings have followed, highlighting SAP's lesser-known side as a market-oriented
provider of industry-tailored solutions. (...)
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For over a decade, SAP has offered industry-specific applications, starting with oil and gas and utilities solutions. Media,
insurance, chemicals,...
Published:
2006-05-25
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The current market trend industry-wide is towards vendors that can provide comprehensive solutions for medium-sized companies.
Relevant seems to have a fair shot at delivering that to project-based discrete manufacturers such as aerospace contractors,
contract manufacturers of electronic components, wind (...)
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The current market trend industry-wide is towards vendors that can provide comprehensive solutions for medium-sized companies.
Relevant seems to h...
Published:
2001-11-01
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IT initiatives driven within silos, where each department maintain its own project management office, inhibits the overall
cohesiveness and effectiveness of corporate strategy. This document outlines best practices to centralize and deliver a scalable
and robust project management framework strategy. (...)
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Project Management Office: Framework Strategy. ... Often each of these silos maintain their
own PMO, frequently referred to as satellite project management offices. ...
Published:
2005-09-21
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While most of its applications co-opetitors have been licking their wounds and dreading another financial quarterly report,
cash amassed Microsoft has recently shown a flair for aptly devising and executing a strategy for its Microsoft Business Solutions
(MBS) division portfolio, to its partners and cust (...)
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While most of its applications co-opetitors have been licking their wounds and dreading another financial quarterly report,
cash amassed Microsoft...
Published:
2002-11-01
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As business performance management (BPM) has expanded into virtually all areas of business, project managers have been broadening
their soft management skills. Learn what project managers can borrow from BPM to streamline service delivery, optimize operations,
and improve customer satisfaction. (...)
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... just a few ways that the project management world can apply what is being done within
performance management today to get immediate value from these solutions. ...
Published:
2007-09-05