In this white paper, the role of business leaders in driving talent management functions is explored, with a particular focus on the tools and approaches that will make them successful.
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This white paper looks at building critical-talent pipelines and considers the processes of assessing internal and external talent pools; determining the gaps between available and needed talent; identifying the best strategies for developing and acquiring the talent to fill those gaps; and executing, monitoring, and refining pipeline strategies.
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The Principal Financial Group describes its experience with Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management. CIO of Corporate Services Brian Ness and Assistant Vice President of HR.
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The concept of human resources (HR) transformation is not new, but many HR organizations are still striving to achieve the transition from a purely transactional function to one that also delivers strategic value. This white paper examines some of the fundamental problems that fragmented information technology (IT) systems are causing for HR functions that have adopted—or are planning to adopt.
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This white paper explores six key technical questions that every enterprise should ask when selecting a cloud-based HCM application. For each one, we examine why Oracle Fusion HCM is the best solution for any enterprise looking to harness cloud computing to modernize and extend its HR systems.
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This white paper is designed to give you greater insight into the pros and cons of putting your HR applications in the cloud. You’ll learn about which applications and cloud delivery models make the most sense not just for your human resources (HR), but for your company’s industry and business model. You’ll also gain a better understanding of the myths circulating about software as a service (SaaS) and other cloud solutions, and why an enterprise-grade solution may make the most sense.
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This white paper provides insight into Oracle’s next-generation Human Capital Management application. Built from the ground up to help you do things your way, know your people better, and work as a team, Fusion HCM connects all parts of your workforce and rethinks the business of human resources (HR) to provide value to every person in your organization—from HR professionals to employees and managers.
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Oracle Fusion Talent Management was developed with the user in mind. Over 1,700 customers participated in a variety of design, testing, and feedback sessions to help create this innovative human capital management (HCM) solution. This white paper will provide you with an overview on how organizations can choose to embrace some portions of Fusion applications, while retaining your current HCM investment.
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Is your organization using mobile apps for human resources (HR) yet? Do you know if you should be, or even could? If you want to run mobile HR apps, do you know the best business process candidates to run mobile? Mobile apps for HCM are still coming into their own right, and this article will give help you define a strategy for rolling out apps and understand which HR functions are best suited for them.
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The world of analytics has shifted emphasis over the past two decades—from looking at the past to looking at the future. Read this article to understand how human resources (HR) predictive analytics works and how you can take advantage of this cutting edge technology, and profit from it.
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This white paper examines the human resources (HR) service delivery challenges facing organizations today, outlines a common approach to delivering world-class HR service, and details the technology necessary to transform workforce service delivery.
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Organizations may be supported by workforce analytics to drive return on human capital investment today and into the future and to see the value the workforce delivers to organizational performance. This paper will introduces a human resources (HR) analytics offering and show how the increased power of having metrics and analytic insight can align core HR business processes with organizational goals and strategies.
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This Unified Human Capital Management and Talent Technology Survey Report addresses how businesses are using human capital management (HCM) to meet their growth goals. The survey results are representative of large and smaller enterprises and reflect the input of 126 respondents.
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Moving to the latest release of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is often perceived as a daunting task. But a new survey of enterprise system managers finds that most ERP upgrade efforts tend to be short in duration, fall within reasonable budgets, and rarely disrupt the business at large. Download this report for detailed survey results tracking enterprise application suite upgrade activity at respondents' businesses.
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As customers demand ever greater levels of product customization, manufacturers must be able to respond quickly and efficiently. Production lines designed for a single product must be adapted for multiple products, and traditional methods of supply chain management must be transformed to cope with ever-shorter product lifecycles. This paper explores today’s challenges in manufacturing and distribution.
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Many one enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers adopt an approach of "less functionality equals less complexity" when going downmarket to address the needs of midsize companies. However, this approach often leads to scenarios where the "right stuff" is missing. Customers must augment functionality via customizations or by buying additional products, both of which raise TCO. This briefing describes the attributes and qualities of one ERP solution that make low TCO a reality.
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Simon Ellis, practice director of supply chain strategies at IDC Manufacturing Insights, responds to questions regarding the business processes of wholesale distributors and customer relationship management (CRM) tools, and discusses how new technology trends—cloud, mobility, social business, and big data—are affecting wholesale distributors.
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Midsize companies are increasingly recognizing the benefits of cloud computing--it's cost-effective and flexible. This paper identifies four key business requirements for successful implementation of customer relationship management (CRM) cloud applications and examines how one CRM cloud solution in particular meets these requirements and enables midsize companies to realize their growth aspirations.
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This paper describes the benefits of integrating Oracle's software and hardware technologies to achieve optimal results in the form of increased performance, low cost of operation, low energy consumption, and small footprint.
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Taconic, founded in 1952, specializes in developing and delivering genetically engineered animal models and related lab services to the global biomedical research community. In 2007, Taconic executives determined that they needed to address the limitations of their existing IT environment. As a result, they began evaluating Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft enterprise resource planning systems. Download this report to learn the results.
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In today's business climate, enterprise performance management (EPM) systems have risen from the status of "nice-to-have" to "must have" for midsize companies, particularly those that experienced substantial growth prior to the current economic downturn. This paper discusses some of the ways the new unpredictability of external market forces has escalated the value of precise internal forecasts and quick decision-making for these companies.
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Midsize companies in most global markets are currently in a major cycle of enterprise resource planning (ERP) replacement driven by economic conditions and operating requirements. Despite the buzz about the cloud, companies are cautious in adopting cloud ERP. This briefing focuses on the current ERP cloud computing landscape from the perspective of midsize customers who have deployed cloud-based ERP when replacing legacy solutions.
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In some ways, midsize companies in the early stages of life need top-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP)--integrated and collaborative solutions with broad and deep capabilities--more than their larger competitors. This briefing provides insight into why and how emerging companies are deploying top-tier ERP. Included are examples from customers that chose to implement top-tier ERP while they were in early phases of growth.
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After the recent global recession, companies are shifting their focus to growing top-line revenues and market share through strategic initiatives. Upgrading to the latest E-Business Suite release may be part of that strategic plan. This whitepaper is intended to highlight the benefits that may be realized through an upgrade to or implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Release 12.1.
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Midsized businesses often face a dilemma: make do with systems more appropriate for smaller businesses, or invest in expensive big-enterprise solutions. Both options lead to risks: either the collapse of vital systems under the pressures of business expansion, or else a massive drain on time and money. Are Oracle’s Business Accelerators a viable third option? Research firm AMI believes so. Download this report to find out why.
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Oracle Business Accelerators are pre-built configurators and guidelines designed to reduce the time, cost, and risk of implementing Oracle applications. When Nucleus analyzed the experiences of customers using Accelerators, analysts found all customers reduced the time to deploy Oracle E-Business Suite, many by more than 50 percent of the time an implementation without Accelerators would have taken. Download the analysis now.
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There are many reasons beyond purchase price that influence an enterprise application investment decision. In an exploration of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers that also considered Microsoft Dynamics, Nucleus found that functionality, reporting capabilities, staff skill availability, and partner and vendor support capabilities were key factors driving a decision to invest in EnterpriseOne. Download the complete results of this analysis now.
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As SAP and Oracle step up their efforts to attract midmarket customers, more and more of those customers are including top-tier vendors in their enterprise application evaluation process. Nucleus Research's analysts conducted in-depth interviews with a number of companies that recently went through the ERP decision process and selected EnterpriseOne instead of SAP. This research note focuses on the decision process and factors of those companies. Download the results of this analysis now.
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During difficult times it may be tempting to postpone upgrades, treating them as discretionary or optional projects, when in fact they could very well provide a path to doing more with less. Return on investment (ROI) becomes even more important in a down economy. Find out why upgrading may be the most effective and direct way for your organization to increase productivity, improve customer service, and reduce costs.
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Whether it’s for an in-house delivery model or an on-demand model, a business case needs to justify the total value of a solution. This ensures that the selected delivery model will help reduce operational costs and drive continuous value from IT investments. Learn how to properly prepare a business case that includes a total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to assess both cost impacts and line-of-business impacts.
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Increasingly, midsize companies are looking to customer relationship management (CRM) to energize their sales organizations and make the entire sales ecosystem more efficient. But while many solutions for midsize companies can be rapidly deployed to quickly energize a sales organization, what happens after that first jolt? Discover five tips for making sure your CRM choice continues to deliver return on investment (ROI).
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La identificación rápida de cuellos de botella (RBI) es una nueva metodología de prueba que permite que los profesionales del área de control de calidad (QA) descubran muy rápidamente las limitaciones de rendimiento de una aplicación web y determinen el impacto que esas limitaciones tendrán en la experiencia del usuario final. En este documento encontrará una introducción al tema.
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When times get tough, some decision makers reduce costs, and cut corners. In some situations, that doesn’t work. An economic downturn may actually be the perfect time to invest in a significant IT expansion—especially in areas where a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and improve competitiveness. Just make sure you choose the right ERP vendor and consultant. Learn more.
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Users implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for the first time are often intimidated by the time and cost, and want to accelerate the go-live date. Acceleration, when done with the right implementation strategy and tools, can be of tremendous benefit, including reduced costs and increased return on investment (ROI). But for some, the question is: to accelerate or not to accelerate? Learn more.
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For midsize firms seeking more value in a shorter period of time, a rapid enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation may be the way to go. If you’re unsure this is the right choice, you need to consider some important factors. The best candidates tend to be ERP solution first-timers. Learn more about how to work closely with ERP partner vendors for a rapid—and successful—ERP implementation.
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The idea that tier-one systems are difficult to maintain and upgrade is based on outdated notions about their complexity and flexibility. Although tier-one systems are more complex internally than tier-two or tier-three systems, tier-one systems are often easier to maintain: for one thing, one enterprise system is easier to maintain than several. Learn more about this and other reasons for upgrading to a tier-one system.
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Businesses of all sizes need real insight into operations and customers—to do their planning, forecasting, modeling, and adjusting based on data that’s current, accurate, and accessible. This is at the core of today’s expanding business intelligence (BI) and enterprise performance management (EPM) markets. Find out more about how BI software or an EMP solution can help you improve your financial analysis and reporting.
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The small to midsize market for enterprise applications is already growing. Small to midsize businesses (SMBs) are looking for practical solutions that offer full capabilities at a quick return on investment (ROI). Vendors responding to SMB requirements now offer solutions with rapid implementation, Microsoft Office integration, and mobile support. Find out more about what enterprise application vendors are offering—and what you should be looking for.
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To compete in today’s economy, you need enterprise-size IT infrastructure and reach—but at a midsize cost. To do this, you need to find an IT community that understands your business processes and objectives. The Oracle Accelerate program offers a way to find a software vendor and local partner organizations that can provide you with the IT infrastructure, the features and functions, and the expertise. Learn more.
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Many successful midsized companies reach a point when transitioning to a tier-one enterprise application system is necessary. Transitioning to a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a challenge—but it may not be as complex as you think. Learn common myths about tier-one ERP systems, as well as how ERP solutions can help you manage regulatory compliance and track performance with key performance indicators.
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Oracle’s Accelerate is a program in which Certified and Certified Advantage partners build industry-specific solutions combining Oracle enterprise applications and rapid-implementation tools with the partners’ own expertise or software. The program aims to reduce the time, complexity, and cost of deploying Oracle solutions, to make them suitable for mid-market companies and governmental organizations. Learn more.
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Taleo, provider of software as a service (SaaS), was reaching $120 million (USD) and had more than 600 employees. Yet, in finance, the company was not quite so dynamic. The new director of finance recognized the need to move to a financial reporting system that featured technology advances. Find out about the online analytic processing (OLAP) server Taleo chose as part of its businessModify performance management strategy.
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Best practices for reporting have often been overlooked. Most of the time we focus on eye candy—such as dashboards—and overlook report generation and report production, which are crucial concepts at the heart of business intelligence (BI). Learn more about the current reporting situation, and learn about ways to use reporting tools to improve the reporting processes in your company and make them more efficient.
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Most companies recognize that business intelligence (BI) is critical to business process improvement and decision making, because these BI tools turn data into actionable information. However, many companies fail to put BI tools into the hands of users who would most benefit from them. Find out how IT executives can leverage today’s less complex BI tools to empower your company from top to bottom.
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Many business intelligence (BI) tools are designed for professional analysts and not business users. As a result, executives find they still don’t have the information they need to make decisions quickly and effectively. In order to maximize your potential in BI, you must embed it into the daily routine of your entire company. Find out about a BI solution that can help you, with functionality like interactive reporting.
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A new set of business practices is creeping into the way companies sell to customers. Some call this new trend “Sales 2.0,” because many of the tools and methods fueling it are rooted in the Web 2.0 movement. Many companies are trying to harness the forces of Web 2.0 to apply them to their sales and marketing efforts. Discover how using collaborative technologies can help you sell your products and services more easily.
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Selling roles have changed. For many companies, selling is more about relationship-building and less about transactional order activities. In spite of the promised benefits of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, the cost of sales for many companies is rising while sales effectiveness is decreasing. Learn why—and how you can leverage “social CRM” to help overcome the challenges facing your sales force today.
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Compliance is often treated as a necessary evil that creates costs, disruption, and complexity. But these pains often result from dealing with compliance in a clumsy way due to a lack of resources and the absence of a compliance strategy. There’s a better way: using standards-based data management solutions that integrate with existing infrastructure and leverage automation to embed compliance at all levels. Find out how.
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If you’re considering investing in business intelligence (BI) software, you need to know about the features and functionalities BI solutions offer, and how to use them to improve your business performance. The Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE Plus) is a suite of BI products with a range of capabilities. Find out if OBIEE Plus offers your company the BI tools you need.
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Limited resources dictate that most midsize companies must support business continuity at the lowest cost and without putting additional pressure on scarce IT resources. But business continuity is more of a critical success factor than ever before. Customers won’t tolerate a lack of service availability. Midsize companies must find a way to ensure maximum business continuity, and reduce downtime—and costs. Learn more.
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The key to enterprise performance management is to identity a company’s value drivers, focus on them, and align the company to drive results. But there are many management methodologies—such as the balanced scorecard, performance prism, and five forces. What is the right framework for your business? Find out about six management processes and the tools that can help you asses which metrics framework will work for you.
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A strong identity management platform plays dual roles: gatekeeper and guardian of business intelligence (BI) and data. Midsize businesses can’t operate effectively without the ability to control access to their networks and business systems. And, many midsize companies must report on this information for compliance purposes. Learn about the factors driving midsize companies toward stronger identity management systems.
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While companies have long seen their stores of data as valuable corporate assets, how they manage those stores varies enormously. Today, however, new government regulations require that companies retain and control information for long periods of time. Find out what IT managers are doing to meet these new regulatory requirements, and learn about solutions for storing vast quantities of data for the lowest possible cost.
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Addressing information protection and control (IPC) is a complex challenge. Enterprises must secure their databases to protect sensitive information and comply with policy regulations. Learn more about threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on data protection, and how database security best practices can prevent sensitive customer data or company information from being distributed.
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A highly available IT infrastructure is a critical success factor for businesses in today’s fast moving and “always on” economy. But the traditional approach to building high availability infrastructure is expensive to implement and rarely meets user’s service level expectations. Learn how technologies available in the Oracle Database 11g can help you avoid costly downtime and recover quickly from unavoidable failures.
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Oracle Database 11g is a database platform for data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) that includes integrated analytics, and embedded integration and data-quality. Get an overview of Oracle Database 11g’s capabilities for data warehousing, and learn how Oracle-based BI and data warehouse systems can integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes, and analyze any data.
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Companies are recognizing the value of an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) that provides a single 360-degree view of the business. But to ensure that your EDW performs and scales well, you need to get three things right: the hardware configuration, the data model, and the data loading process. Learn how designing these three things correctly can help you scale your EDW without constantly tuning or tweaking the system.
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If there's one constant in any business today, it's pressure. And dealing with pressure can lead managers toward the temptation of taking complete control. However, this often stifles the one element that enables companies to break away from the pack: employee-driven innovation. Learn why empowering your customer-facing employees is the new path to achieving extraordinary, sustainable results—and find out how to do it.
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Companies can reduce operating costs and improve the ways they do business by using customer relationship management (CRM) systems that support real-time decision making. But you must ensure you deploy applications that can leverage industry best practices while retaining the competitive differentiation from a well-honed business process and strategy. Learn about the benefits of using CRM with industry best practices.
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As the banking industry goes global, the need to be available 24/7, increased demands for customer service, and reduced budgets have introduced new pressures to small to medium banking firms. And with the ongoing challenges of regulatory compliance, firms need financial services software that can reduce the risk of noncompliance while addressing the scale of their operations. Find out how an integrated solution can help.
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To maintain a leadership position in the high-tech complex equipment industry, electronic equipment manufacturers need reliable solutions to improve order accuracy, optimize fulfillment, and increase revenue for value-added services. Does your solution quickly commercialize new technology, integrate software with systems, and differentiate those systems with value-added services? Find out about what you might be missing.
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Food and beverage manufacturers must aim to keep up with customer demands for a wide range of products, while managing the complex global supply chain and taking advantage of growth in new markets. For fast-growing or midsize companies, the challenges are even greater. Find out about a solution that can help optimize sales and marketing, and enable consumer-driven supply chains by speeding collaboration with suppliers.
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It is essential for durable goods companies to effectively manage multi-tiered distribution network and supply chains, to ensure the right products are available in the right stores at the right time—and the right price. What can you do to differentiate your products from your competitors’, control customer value, and accelerate order-to-delivery time while your supply chains become globally more complex? Find out now.
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Product quality and regulatory requirements, including goods traceability, are a key concern to consumable goods companies. Ensuring you remain profitable and competitive, increase market share, and reduce exposure to regulatory risks in quality and safety can be a huge challenge. Find out how implementing complete, industry-focused enterprise resource planning (ERP) software systems can be critical to your success.
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The effort needed to manage a non-durable consumer goods company is more strenuous than ever. Business issues such as expanding product portfolios, complex distribution channels, and compliance requirements can impede your ability to compete in the global supply chain. Does your current business application enhance your sales and marketing, and enable demand-driven supply chains? Learn what you need to compete—and win.
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To stay ahead of the competition, medical device manufacturers must find ways to speed product development, create manufacturing efficiencies, and increase the effectiveness of sales and marketing investments—while addressing product safety and regulatory compliance. Read about a solution that incorporates best practices while maintaining the flexibility to support the evolving needs of your growing medical device company.
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Consumer electronics companies of any size must deliver superior customer service, optimize performance, and design agile supply networks. When using business software to deal with these challenges, growing electronics companies face the same issues as larger companies, but also have concerns about cost and implementation speed. Learn how a new class of scalable solutions can meet the needs of electronics manufacturers.
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Efficient procurement and sourcing. Storing and moving inventories. Attracting and retaining customers. Such challenges have an impact on wholesale distributors’ revenues, competitiveness, and profits. To make timely and informed decisions that can impact your business, you need answers to questions like “How can I offer value-added services to improve customer loyalty?” Get the answers to this and other key questions.
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Customer relationship management (CRM) has become increasingly popular, and provides enormous benefits to businesses that adopt it. So why does it encounter so much “what’s-in-it-for-me” resistance from frontline salespeople? Often, the reason is because they view CRM as strictly a management tool. With Oracle CRM On Demand, however, you can minimize data entry—allowing your salespeople to spend more time selling.
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The most common challenge companies face when it comes to achieving scalability isn’t the cost, but the difficulty of predicting that cost once applications grow beyond a certain threshold. Don’t scale up—scale out, with coherent clustered caching. Learn about caching methods that can help improve and predict scalability, as well as maintain accurate and up-to-date data, even in the face of peak user load.
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It’s no secret that there is a bevy of deployment options available with most customer relationship management (CRM) solutions today—ranging from customized to out-of-the-box. But with choice comes complexity. In order for CRM buyers to choose wisely, they must find a deployment approach that best matches their needs while delivering superior performance, application integration, and functionality. Find out how.
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You have convinced upper management that flow manufacturing will enable your company to leapfrog the competition. You have appointed a flow process leader, and selected a line for your flow pilot. Now it’s time to physically perform your first line implementation. The big question is, what exactly do you need to do to make the transition from discrete to flow?
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Lean execution strategies within enterprises and across supply chains can dramatically reduce cycle times, improve quality, reduce waste, and improve bottom lines. In other words, lean is more than an advantage: it is a competitive necessity. Oracle’s Flow Manufacturing module capabilities in lean execution can enable the transition from a discrete, push-based manufacturing environment to a flow, pull-based one.
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The lifeblood by which executives in professional services organizations (PSO) manage their businesses has traditionally centered on the concept of realization, measured through metrics. Predictive Service Execution enables firms to deliver consistent and timely services while maximizing cash flow, engagement profitability, and customer satisfaction.
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Project portfolio management (PPM) has become a critical component in the IT business lexicon. It provides structure and consistency to the process associated with the planning, prioritization, management, and control of project portfolios. By using PPM, IT departments can align their IT and business strategies and improve performance in project-based work, and enhanced corporate governance.
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It’s all of these, plus more. Read this new white paper, Any Color Including Black: A New Guide to Demand-Driven Manufacturing, to find out how successful manufacturers—enterprises of all sizes, in industries as varied as consumer goods, industrial, life sciences, high-tech, and process manufacturing—-are using principles of demand-driven manufacturing to successfully compete again low-cost competitors.
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In the mid-1990s Heinz was managing their product specifications, formulas, and quality information in the same manner as most companies. Their product information was stored in a variety of disparate systems, spreadsheets, text documents, and paper forms. Learn how it was able to continually leverage product information across the entire life cycle.
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