SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - New rules have spawned an army of consultants, vendors and solutions to address the "compliance" problem. Read this paper to learn how to turn the compliance challenge into a business advantage.
Posted: September 26, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Compliance (Finance) | Consultants | HIPAA | Insurance Industry | Outsourcing | Product Management | Regulations | Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | Spreadsheets

WHITE PAPER - Read this whitepaper to learn the four steps to uncovering hidden value in a midsize manufacturing company. This simple but disciplined sequence of priorities starts with protecting your existing business.
Posted: September 18, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Customer Satisfaction | Data Management | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Industry | Manufacturing Software | Manufacturing Systems | Operating Systems | Operational Support Systems | Product Life Cycles | Product Management | SMBs

PRODUCT LITERATURE - SAP's unique Product and Service Leadership framework is a strategy for companies to bring innovative products to market faster and to drive value for their customers. Learn more about it in this whitepaper.
Posted: September 18, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Collaboration | CRM | Data Integration | ERP | Globalization | PLM | Product Management | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This Report is intended to map the journey companies are making to build demand driven Value Chains. It includes a four-stage maturity model, and identifies the projects and appropriate technology components needed to transition through each stage.
Posted: September 18, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Process Management | Demand Chains | Metrics | Product Life Cycles | Product Management | Supply Chain Management | Value Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - This report focuses on the market events that impact demand. It explains the six market event categories that cannot be controlled but can be effectively managed if the right processes and technologies are in place.
Posted: September 18, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Consumer Market | Demand Chains | Inventory Management | Market Research | Network Management | Order Management Systems | PLM | Product Management | Supply Chain Management

WEBCAST - The Systems advisor tool can help you, too. By answering a few quick questions, we'll identify products that can help meet your business needs. Let's get started.
Posted: September 11, 2008 | Premiered: September 11, 2008


Topics:  Business Management | Hardware | Product Management | Scalability Testing | Server Management | Small Businesses | SMBs | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This technical report discusses how integrating NetApp® solutions for virtual infrastructures can solve the unique challenges inherent with the server virtualization solutions from Citrix®.
Posted: September 9, 2008 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Fault Tolerance | IT Infrastructure | Operating Systems | Product Management | RAID | Security | Server Virtualization | Software

WHITE PAPER - Maintaining strong business performance and customer loyalty require continual vigilance and assessment and performance tools. Read this paper to learn five steps to improve business performance and increase customer loyalty.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: September 4, 2008


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Customer Loyalty | Enterprise | ERP | Product Life Cycles | Product Management | Quality Control

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides insight into the six key areas essential for becoming a value-driven organization. Discover how to gain the visibility and control essential to meet and exceed customer needs.
Posted: August 20, 2008 | Published: August 20, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Competition | Cost Benefit Analysis | Customer Satisfaction | Market Trends | Portfolio Management (Finance) | Product Management | Project Management | Regulations | Revenue Projections

WHITE PAPER - TDWI explores traditional approaches to data quality, which focus on well structured data, and shows why these do not work with less structured product data. Read about Product Data's unique requirements and how to address them.
Posted: July 23, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Management Software | Data Quality | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Manufacturing | Master Data Management | Product Management | Supply Chain Management | Unstructured Data

WHITE PAPER - In this paper we will focus on the last of the three key foundational elements - the set of data governance services that execute on the data management platform to explore, analyse, improve and monitor data.
Posted: July 15, 2008 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Quality | Master Data Management | Product Management

SOFTWARE LISTING - Telelogic Focal Point™ is the configurable decision support platform designed to help you maximize the business value of your development efforts by evaluating requirements and products according to market demand, resources and cost.
Posted: July 11, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Decision Support Systems | Product Management | SOA | Software Configuration Management | Spreadsheets

WHITE PAPER - In this paper learn how Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) as a part of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) conceptual framework are a natural collector and organizer with virtual product information.
Posted: June 9, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  ERP | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Execution Systems | PLM | PLM Software | Product Design | Product Life Cycles | Product Management | Supply Chains

WHITE PAPER - The BI Survey 7, the leading independent survey of real-world BI implementations, provides unique, statistically significant insight into actual BI implementations and customer experiences with various BI products.
Posted: June 9, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Customer Loyalty | Data Management | OLAP | Product Management | Reporting Software

WHITE PAPER - With existing IPv4 space becoming scarce, organizations are actively planning their network transition from IPv4 to Ipv6 technology. This paper provides an overview of IPv6 addressing, DHCPv6, DNS support of IPv6 and IPv6 address management...
Posted: June 9, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2007


Topics:  Domain Name System Management | Domain Name Systems | Internet Access | IP Address Management Software | Network Service Providers | Product Management