SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores the reporting challenges faced by organizations and examines the many benefits of automated U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) reporting systems.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | CIOs | Dashboards | Data Management | Financial Management | Financial Metrics | Financial Reporting | Reporting Software | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - CFOs at large hospitals must process enormous amounts of information to make quick strategic decisions. This paper will explore the decision-making challenges faced by CFOs and examine the many benefits of solutions that accelerate insight.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | CFOs | Dashboards | Data Integration | Financial Management | Financial Metrics | Financial Reporting | Operational Metrics (Systems) | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes an enterprise deployment architecture for Oracle™ Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition using Sun servers running the Solaris™ Operating System and Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Enterprise Applications Software | High Availability | NAS | Oracle (Product) | Server Hardware | Storage Hardware | Systems Implementation

WHITE PAPER - Organizations that plan an information strategy, make realtime business analytics available to all levels of the organization, and architect an extensible information platform can generate more revenue, lower costs, reduce risk, and predict future outcomes with greater confidence. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Information Management | Reporting Software | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - Social technologies, commonly called Web 2.0, were originally used to describe consumer technologies that enable groups to organize and share information and media. But enterprises quickly caught on to the value of these easy-to-use tools for capturing and sharing ad hoc information that may otherwise not be documented.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Published: April 16, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Messaging Software | Oracle (Product) | Social Computing | Social Networking | Web 2.0 | Web Conferencing Software

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines how to conduct successful C-level sales calls and the psychological strategies and linguistic tactics that help you convince company leaders to buy. Read on to learn the five steps for conducting the successful C-level sales call.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Published: November 9, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Customer Data Management | Customer Data Management Software | Sales | Sales and Marketing Software | Sales Contact Management Software | Sales Force Automation

WHITE PAPER - Enterprises that embrace SAP NetWeaver early will gain a tremendous competitive advantage. And by using the proven experience of Atos Origin, nothing is left to chance. Atos Origin will provide transparency regarding the costs and benefits and help turn your vision into results using our proven global SAP expertise and integration experience.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | ERP | J2EE | NetWeaver | SAP (Product) | TCO

WHITE PAPER - SAP® BusinessObjects™ Edge software is the business intelligence (BI) choice of midsize companies hoping to improve business processes, discover new opportunities and edge out the competition. It includes affordable solutions addressing just about any BI requirement, like operational reporting and analysis, dashboards and visualization.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Process Management | Dashboards | Data Integration | Data Quality | Reporting Software | SAP (Product) | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - The SAP® Business One application offers a single, affordable way to manage your entire business – from sales and customer relationships to financials and operations. Designed specifically for small businesses, it helps you streamline processes, act on timely information, and accelerate profitable growth.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Published: October 26, 2009


Topics:  Accounting Software | Business Intelligence Software | Customer Data Management | ERP Software | Inventory Management Software | Purchase Order Management | Reporting Software | Sales Force Automation | Small Businesses | Web Applications Management

WHITE PAPER - With the business intelligence functionality in SAP® Business All-in-One solutions, your company can gain visibility, insight, operational alignment, and accountability to increase revenue, margins, and liquidity; streamline processes; improve agility; and become a best-run business.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Published: October 26, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Dashboards | ERP | ERP Software | ROI | SAP (Product) | SMBs | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Published: December 28, 2007


Topics:  Business Activity Monitoring | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Inventory Management | Manufacturing Systems | Operational Metrics (Systems) | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - In this 1to1 Executive Dialogue, Don Peppers and Steve Muran talk about the importance of customer retention, the need to integrate disparate sources of data, and the opportunity for financial institutions to rebuild customer trust as a means to competitive advantage.
Posted: October 22, 2009 | Published: October 22, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Customer Interaction Services | Customer Loyalty | Customer Retention | Customer Satisfaction | Customer Service | Customer Service Best Practices | Financial Industry Organizations

WHITE PAPER - SAP ERP applications can help you increase productivity, reduce costs, and gain strategic advantage. However, they touch every business process across your company and the risk for problems with implementation, management, and upgrades can be high. This paper identifies the most common SAP pitfalls and explains the best ways to resolve them.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Published: October 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Business Management | Enterprise Asset Management Software | Enterprise Resource Management | ERP | ERP Software

WHITE PAPER - Business Productivity Online Standard Suite delivers hosted communication and collaboration tools that feature simplified IT Management, high availability and comprehensive security. This whitepaper will help you understand what is needed to prepare to migrate your current systems to a hosted model.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Published: October 16, 2009


Topics:  Business Communications | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Management | Business Process Management | Collaboration | Collaborative Applications Software

WHITE PAPER - One in a series of white papers about management excellence, this white paper describes the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence.
Posted: October 13, 2009 | Published: November 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | CRM | Enterprise Applications Software | Oracle (Product) | Risk Management | Supply Chain Management