Every small and medium-size business needs to map out a comprehensive talent strategy. Read this white paper to learn how you can help your company avoid roadblocks. Understand how you can navigate major changes such as growth, expansion, efficiency, and innovation.
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Technologies can streamline existing processes (which are often paper-based in small to medium-size businesses), making the process faster, reviews more effective, goals much clearer, and results easier to track. Leverage more efficient and effective performance and goal management processes in your small to medium-size business by following these five steps.
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Start by managing all of your core human resources (HR) data in the cloud, then open up a full 360-degree view of your employees with integration from talent management and third party-solutions. Follow these five recommendations to streamline processes and increase efficiencies for small to medium-size businesses.
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Gaining efficiencies is a top priority for human resources (HR) professionals. But how can HR make compensation management more efficient when flexibility seems nonexistent? Follow these five recommendations to increase efficiencies and effectiveness of compensation management for your small to medium-size businesses.
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Learn about a single platform, deployed in the cloud, that gives small to medium-size businesses greater visibility into their workforce by providing a single employee global system of record. With data supported by employee and manager self-service, human resources (HR) can pull real-time reports with accurate workforce data to make informed talent decisions. Download this business brief.
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For many companies, total cost of ownership (TCO) of business intelligence (BI) solutions is out of control. And the problem is growing, fueled by ever-increasing demands from the user community, massive new sources for data, new capabilities, shadow it landscapes, and the cost of keeping people abreast of all the changes. This paper focuses on developing a framework for monitoring and managing the TCO of BI.
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The consumerization of information technology (IT) has unleashed a proliferation of diverse mobile devices into the enterprise. And with increasing availability of affordable tablets, worker demand is only going to grow for corporate support of new mobile platforms, personally owned devices, and applications for work and/or personal activity. This paper explores key aspects of the enterprise mobile revolution and provides guidelines for how to productively manage this new environment.
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Becoming a real-time business requires managing daily business transactions of your core business processes in real time, and capturing data from new sources like social media or mobile apps. And you need to be able to analyze all this data. Ultimately, it requires people to be able to access real-time information on any device for immediate action. Read this white paper to learn about an in-memory platform and how it can you help create new business value.
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A database platform built with real-time requirements in mind can help your company improve overall data management capabilities and achieve efficiencies in application cost, responsiveness, and reliability while setting the stage for future growth. This paper presents a compelling case for choosing an optimized relational database management system (RDBMS) for your transactional applications, and discusses how to quickly migrate to a new database with minimal disruption and cost.
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Anyone with the imagination to innovate can apply mobile technology to any industry and find ways to take advantage of data being uploaded or downloaded faster or more conveniently than it is currently. But looking at how other companies in leading industries are capitalizing on mobile technology can be both educational and inspirational toward crafting ideas for a mobile strategy. Download this report to learn more.
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Mobile technologies promise to transform healthcare organizations by bringing information to the point of care. But how can you bypass the hype and create a mobile healthcare environment that empowers clinicians to improve workflow, patient interaction, and care delivery efficiency? This paper explores challenges, best practices, and relevant technologies needed to deploy mobile technologies in the healthcare environment.
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Nearly all companies realize the way to gain a competitive advantage is to obtain better data, interpret them quickly, and distribute them in easier-to-use formats. But there are many obstacles to the effective use of data, resulting in unused corporate data in many companies. How are companies using information to beat their rivals and create a more level playing field? Find out how business practices are evolving to this end.
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Watch this video to learn the top 10 ways GRC 10.0 can enable your organization to proactively balance risk and compliance.
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Watch this video to take a critical look at how technology trends such as enterprise mobility, real-time analytics, and the increase in data volumes affect finance. Understand the corresponding innovations in functionality for finance; performance management; and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC).
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Moving an organization’s critical data from a legacy system promises numerous benefits, but only if the migration is handled correctly. In practice, it takes an understanding of the entire ERP data lifecycle combined with industry-specific experience, knowledge, and skills to drive the process through the required steps accurately, efficiently, and in the right order. Read this white paper to learn more.
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For most organizations, mission-critical business processes require an underlying IT infrastructure that provides flexibility and agility while delivering high-quality system performance and reliability. At the same time, most enterprises must reduce costs associated with ongoing operations. For most organizations, addressing these issues internally poses a significant challenge, especially in light of limited resources in today's economic environment. Use this interactive tool developed by IDC to learn how your organization can realize the true business value of your IT landscape.
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A new generation of sales warrior needs a new generation of tools. Watch, listen, read, and learn from the experts of social selling.
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Use this online information governance interactive tool from SAP to find out which processes and systems create and update information, and why information governance matters. Plus, you'll learn who should be involved, what other companies have done, and how you can ensure success.
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A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive business intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market. This white paper addresses several questions that BI customers are facing.
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The path to a complete view of the customer lies not in eliminating data sources but in integrating them and providing access that is easy to navigate and always available. This report explores how top-performing companies are capturing, integrating, managing, measuring, and acting on valuable customer data throughout the entire customer lifecycle, to maximize customer loyalty and achieve best-in-class bottom-line results.
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Regardless of the size of the organization, embedding governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management into all business process is imperative. But most organizations are reactive rather than proactive when it comes to undertaking a risk management initiative. Leading companies identify building a risk-aware culture as a key strategy. Read on to find out more about ways to enable effective access risk management.
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A core responsibility among company leaders is to understand the potential return on any investment. So how do executives justify budgeting and spending on governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management when the return on investment (ROI) is not clear? This paper presents survey results showing that executives are viewing effective GRC management as opportunities for corporate growth.
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For most companies, chief procurement officers (CPOs) need to maximize savings, focus on sustainability, manage supplier performance, and minimize supplier risk to ensure supply chain continuity. To do all this, CPOs are turning to procurement analytics—to identify areas of low performance, optimize procurement functions, and reduce costs. Know a four-step process to help you deploy and configure a procurement analytics program.
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Striving for employees to be able to collect, update, and access data anytime anywhere, organizations are leveraging smartphones and tablets to extend HR data and processes, creating new thresholds of efficiency, decision-making, and competitive advantage. Read this research report for new insights and examples on how mobility is impacting enterprise applications, data and processes, with a particular focus on HR applications.
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By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken Web site. Rather, mobile is the manifestation of a much broader shift to new systems of engagement. Download this paper and know how such systems of engagement will help firms empower their customers, partners, and employees with context-aware apps and smart products.
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In many organizations, it is workers bringing their own devices into the workplace who are forcing the hand of IT policy makers. But as new devices are coming to market faster than corporate IT can formulate policies about them, application management is quickly becoming a fundamental mobility management challenge. Those companies with the best mobility implementations will win in a world of real-time business engagement. See how!
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In 2004, LEGO suffered a loss of roughly $191 million after venturing into new areas. The toymaker needed to refocus on its construction toys and related customer experience and loyalty management to return to growth. See how LEGO now engages with consumers, discovers which experiences and product features enthusiasts want to see, and incorporates real-world demand into its new offerings—thereby nurturing consumer loyalty.
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Many business executives have realized that an operating environment that values cash, profit margins, and risk mitigation plays to the skills and capabilities of a procurement operation. This report draws on the experience, performance, and perspective of nearly 250 chief procurement officers and other procurement executives to provide a comprehensive industry-wide view into the current state of the procurement world. Read more.
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Loyal and satisfied employees are the foundation of successful business performance. Yet, new research shows employee loyalty slipping worldwide. The importance of building and rebuilding employee loyalty is paramount for organizations that want to retain their top talent and avoid the high costs associated with high turnover. Read this white paper and know 10 strategies for fostering employee engagement and motivation.
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Core HR is the essential (if not the most glamorous) component of an organization's human capital management strategy. And what successful companies understand is that core HR lays the foundation for not just compliance, but employee engagement and business success. Based on data from nearly 300 organizations, this Aberdeen Research Brief examines how core HR service delivery is linked to true HR/business partnership.
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At most companies, the customer service department’s primary goal has been to manage complaints as cheaply as possible, not to build enduring relationships with customers. This e-book looks at how the call center can help drive a proactive, rather than reactive, approach to business. Experts from the call center world share strategies and shifts that must take place within companies if they are to be vital and nimble in the 21st century.
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Mobile device usage is changing how consumers engage with retailers—bringing together the physical and the virtual in ways that other cross-channel efforts have not. But even though it’s relatively inexpensive for retailers to experiment with mobile, many have been slow to develop a mobile strategy. This survey report examines the consumer mobile landscape, and lays out the challenges and opportunities for retailers.
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A global survey of IT leaders shows that most organizations find it challenging to convert high volumes of fresh transactional data into knowledge that business users can efficiently access, understand, and act on. SAP and HP are tackling this challenge head-on. Download this article to learn more.
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Download this white paper to find out how in-memory computing can change the way you manage business intelligence, and the value your business can derive from the technology. For business and IT executives, this paper furnishes information and business examples about what changes they can look forward to and how those changes can catalyze their strategic initiatives.
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Download this datasheet to get a rundown of SAP HANA's functionality and the benefits it can provide for your business.
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What is SAP HANA? And how does it work? Download this primer on SAP HANA to get clear answers to these and other questions.
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To be successful in the data-driven economy, companies must leverage intelligence instantly and take immediate action. At the same time, they must ensure their decisions are based on proper data and analysis. So how are today's executives responding? To explore these issues, Oxford Economics surveyed 525 executives in March 2011. Download this report for full analysis of the results.
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For business leaders facing the radical, disruptive change represented by in-memory analytics, the response may range from enthusiasm and advocacy to apprehension and fear. Regardless of your particular posture, the smart company needs to understand how in-memory works and what it represents, and craft a purposeful roadmap for their in-memory future. Download this primer on in-memory analytics to learn what it all means for you.
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An Aberdeen study from 2010 revealed that respondents were still in the early stages of mobile business intelligence (BI) adoption. But now, many companies are gearing up to deploy mobile BI throughout the organization to empower their front-line workers. This Aberdeen report highlights the challenges ahead, and brings focus to issues that organizations need to consider to successfully deploy mobile analytics to their front line.
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This article from Harvard Business Review describes the design and implementation of a system for strategic planning, operational execution, and feedback and learning. It also presents a range of tools that managers can apply at the different stages, and options for integrating them in a system that links the management of strategy and operations.
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Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. Download this white paper for full results.
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This Aberdeen Research brief homes in on the critical time element of a best-in-class business intelligence (BI) strategy. The research shows that top performer are leveraging real-time of near real-time analytics to proactively manage their business and drive substantial performance improvements. Download this report for full details.
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While terabytes used to be synonymous with big data warehouses, now it’s petabytes, and the rate of growth in data volumes continues to escalate as organizations seek to store and analyze greater levels of transaction details, as well as Web- and machine-generated data, to gain a better understanding of customer behavior and drivers. This report examines the rise of "big data" and the use of analytics to mine that data.
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In today's global marketplace, transaction data is running 24x7x365, and midsize companies that want to leverage that information must be able to analyze it in a very short time. Next-generation business intelligence (BI) tools deliver this critical functionality. This white paper discusses the benefits of in-memory analytics technology for speeding BI and explores SAP solutions based on its High Performance Analytics Appliance (HANA).
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Real-time business intelligence (BI) delivers information about business as it occurs. While traditional BI presents historical data for analysis, real-time BI compares current business events with historical patterns to automatically detect problems or opportunities. This paper explains how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can establish a competitive advantage by tapping into the power of real-time BI.
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Many companies don’t have adequate metrics or information technology systems to see how well growth strategies and activities perform in real time. This white paper addresses the lack of supply chain synchronization: the ability for a manufacturer to cost effectively respond to changes in demand and then signal everyone in the supply chain. Synchronization closes the gaps in a supply chain that lead to costly wastes.
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A strategic planning process is critical for distribution companies. Not unlike personal financial planning, distribution executives have to select the best investments needed now to create profitable growth in the future. If you fail to make the right commitments at the right time, you will miss opportunities and increase your risk. This paper outlines a set of core analytics customized for wholesaler distributors.
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Finance departments are uniquely qualified to lead the effort to optimize profitability because of their neutrality, numbers orientation, and analytical abilities. However, as finance departments move to implement profitability management they need to recognize the challenges they may face. This white paper discusses how to manage profitability more effectively.
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All midsize and larger companies think they have systems in place to manage costs, so they give this issue little ongoing thought. They may be blind to the limitations of the systems they’re using and the improvements to cost management they can achieve. This paper identifies the information technology (IT) components used in cost management to enable finance executives to identify areas of improvement.
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Forecasting is changing from a top-down process to a bottom-up one. High-level targets may be useful starting points, but they must be combined with input from line management and department heads before being rolled up into enterprise-wide financial goals. Some companies find it effective to “embed” members of the finance function within other business units. Read this white paper to find out more.
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Methods such as ad-hoc reporting and decision-making by gut feeling may be effective in the early phases of a business, but once past that crucial startup phase, neglecting to invest in appropriate business systems can significantly hinder continued growth and profitability. A well-executed enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution can enable change and provide on-going savings that can help you sustain and grow your business.
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Performance management allows companies to align business activity with corporate objectives. This research examines the different levels of business performance achieved by mid-market companies compared with larger firms, as well as the differences in strategy, capabilities, and technologies used. Key recommendations are drawn for mid-market businesses to increase the value they derive from performance management.
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These are challenging times for discrete manufacturing, especially for small to midsize companies. To stay competitive and meet rising expectations, manufacturers must seize every opportunity to grow—but wisely and profitably. This white paper presents clear strategies that can help these manufacturers achieve competitive advantage while giving clients the innovative, competitively priced products they demand.
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Most high-tech firms need to do a better job of capturing and sharing corporate and supply-chain data. Lean manufacturing practitioners often use a process metric called “right first time on time” (RFTOT). It not only applies to delivery of components and products moving through a value stream, but to delivery of information as well—product development, forecasting, sales and operations planning, etc. Find out more.
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This white paper gives insight into the challenges faced by small to medium enterprises (SMEs), and how proven, predictable enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions can help organizations build a solid information technology (IT) foundation for the future. This paper discusses a low-risk, easy-to-implement solution tailored to the prospect’s industry through preconfiguration of the solution according to best practices.
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As manufactures adopt lean principles, the process inevitably involves developing metrics for measuring their progress. But measurements are linked throughout the organization, not just on the manufacturing floor but in accounts payable and other back office processes. This white paper emphasizes the need to focus on strategy deployment.
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To realize a competitive advantage, small-business leaders must address five common obstacles: inefficient operations, inability to support rapid growth or new markets, disjointed business processes, lack of visibility into daily operations, and limited resources. Read this white paper to learn how to overcoming these challenges and gain valuable insights into your business.
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Embedding governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management into all business process has become imperative. Companies need to adopt a holistic view when it comes to reducing and managing risks, and ensure better access risk management. This paper discusses the need for companies to take a proactive approach towards access risk management.
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Managing end-user access to critical enterprise resources as part of an organization's IT governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) initiative helps companies to control access risk, provide real-time visibility for multiple stakeholders, and streamline regulatory compliance. This research shows that the leading performers in controlling access risk also realize tangible financial benefits.
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This second annual benchmark study covers U.S. export operations and compliance. The survey covered export regulatory reform, operations management practices, organizational structure, compliance policies, and export management technology. This year’s study looks at the impact of going global with export control reform.
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The longstanding silos within organizations may be ready for busting, and the right IT strategy can facilitate the collaboration needed to break them down, even extending to suppliers, customers, and partners, integrating all processes from idea to delivery. This paper features an interview with SAP’s heads of solution marketing for product lifecycle management and for supply chain management about the idea-to-delivery concept.
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Today’s “new normal” business environment demands a new view of what customers value and an improved approach to delivering that value. The idea to delivery (I2D) framework posits that multiple companies now compete as a business network rather than as individual enterprises, each relying on the others to achieve collective success. This paper includes an action plan with the evolutionary steps companies can take to move toward this approach.
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To boost efficiency, run leaner, and drive down the cost of supply, many organizations are exploring inventory optimization—a technique for improving operational inventory targets to address the realities of today’s highly complex, ever-evolving global supply chains. This paper examines how the stochastic multistage, multi-inventory model supports inventory optimization.
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As competition increases and more organizations turn to outsourcing, networked business environments are becoming the norm. Many businesses are strategically partnering with suppliers and other supply chain participants to collaborate and share information. This white paper addresses three common questions from organizations that are collaborative supply chain networks and offers ways to help achieve supply chain success.
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Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is the key integrated process that the supply chain organization can leverage to achieve visibility and transformation across the entire organization and throughout the value chain. This white paper explores the current business challenges face by companies, the priority allocated to S&OP, the maturity levels associated with S&OP, and the role of technology enablers.
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Over 190 companies were surveyed regarding their challenges within demand-supply networks and the top priorities for managing these networks. This paper is based on an analysis of that survey and highlights the need for companies to focus on intelligent response management strategies that bridge planning and execution.
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Establishing the right metrics framework as part of an overall performance management strategy means companies can break down enterprise-level goals—such as order fulfillment and forecast accuracy—into department-level metrics such as on-time delivery and plant utilization. Read about a model that makes it easier to identify, communicate, and replicate the most effective practices.
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The increased complexity of global supply chains has led to longer lead time, more pipeline inventory, and the need to control downstream and upstream logistics. Growing supply chain complexity is a top business pressure, contributing to increased supply chain management costs. This report focuses on gaining visibility into critical elements across the end-to-end logistics network for improving cost and service.
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More than 200 supply chain managers were surveyed on their international transportation management (ITM) practices, processes, and the technologies that support them. This report is the third annual study on this subject—a benchmarking initiative seeking to parse out companies that are succeeding at any particular function and examine why they are successful.
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The increased deployment of mobile solutions in the workplace can make navigating the corporate landscape challenging and risky. While organizations are rightly deploying mobile device management (MDM) solutions as means to secure their mobile devices, there is more to be done. This executive insight examines the need for organizations to deploy a holistic enterprise mobility management solution that goes well beyond MDM.
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In the unwired enterprise, mobile devices connect the boardroom to the shop floor to the consumer across the supply chain. They empower people and companies that employ them. This friendly guide looks at how your enterprise can manage and leverage this technology to ensure your organization is productive and secure. Understand the key aspects of enterprise mobility and know how you can boost your bottom line through mobility.
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An increasing number of organizations are permitting employees to bring their own mobile devices into the workplace to be used for work purposes. While this practice may first appear to reduce enterprise mobility costs while increasing employee productivity, it also poses new risks and may actually increase costs if not properly managed. Know how to cost-effectively manage this Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) phenomenon.
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Today, more and more companies are launching mobile applications, creating a mobile professional workforce across job roles and categories. This white paper provides a framework for CIOs on how to create a mobile application strategy for their business. It gives a step-by-step guide to the different stages involved, from choosing a focus, to building and deploying, to the ongoing support of enterprise mobile applications. Read more.
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Based on the findings of a worldwide survey of more than 1,000 executives, one of the key strategies for becoming a truly global player is creating a global operating model supported by a foundation of integrated financial, human capital management (HCM), and other business applications. Find out why integrated financial and HCM applications are crucial if large and midsize companies are to emerge as truly global players.
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This research brief examines the use of workforce analytics tools as well as the way best-in-class organizations align workforce strategies with business objectives. It looks at existing technologies and makes recommendations to enable organizations to address workforce optimization, talent plans, and human resources (HR) service delivery. Read it and discover how your company can achieve best-in-class performance.
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To compete effectively in the digital marketplace, telecom companies must answer a new call. New multisided business models require changes in the way they collaborate with partners, price offerings, and service customers. Discover the best practices and technologies that can help your telecom company take advantage of this industry transformation while supporting profitability, innovation, and differentiation.
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In 2007, CFO Research Services published The Superstar CFO, a study documenting the attributes of highly successful chief financial officers (CFOs). Since then, the world has been shaken by financial, political, and natural upheavals that have altered the economic landscape. This report explores how these changes may be affecting companies’ efforts to transform corporate finance into a value-added partner to the business.
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The rise of automated recruitment technology has helped organizations make the process of finding, hiring, and deploying new employees better. Based on over 400 responses to Aberdeen’s August 2010 Talent Acquisition Strategies study, this research brief shows the impact of automation on both quality of hire and the quality of the hiring process. Download it and learn how automation can help improve your hiring process.
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Analytics has moved from the specialty of a dedicated few to a necessity for groups of business professionals to do their job. This white paper considers the use of analytics and business intelligence (BI) for improving decision making in public sector organizations. It also examines the benefits of prebuilt analytic applications for achieving this objective across many functions.
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Bank chief financial officers (CFOs) are being forced to reexamine their roles and responsibilities. Simply closing the books no longer works. Finance departments are being asked to perform strategic budgeting and planning, monitor risk and compliance, and improve overall performance. To meet these demands while competing in a turbulent marketplace, bank CFOs need sound planning and forecasting support. Find out more.
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Analytics has moved from the specialty of a dedicated few to a necessity for groups of business professionals to do their job. This white paper considers the use of analytics and business intelligence (BI) for improving decision making in the banking industry. It also examines the benefits of prebuilt analytic applications for achieving this objective across functions in a banking organization.
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