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Business Intelligence for the Health Care Industry: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
sponsored by SAP America Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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Hospitals from across the world are facing increased pressure to improve operations from multiple directions. What is needed is a new generation of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications designed with the health care sector in mind, capable of integrating cross and inter-departmental processes and information.
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Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.
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Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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Firms in Process Industries have made significant investments in information technology to increase the efficiency of their operations and supply chains. By integrating real-time decision making with mission-critical business processes, smart businesses can set a path for industry leadership.
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Data Management for Business Intelligence
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| Book: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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This report investigates the strategies, capabilities, and supporting technologies that Best-in-Class companies are employing to alleviate the pressure to accelerate the delivery of actionable information within their enterprises.
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Business Intelligence: Putting Information to Work
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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Business intelligence (BI) can be considered critical to the very existence of most organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore whether and how companies are using BI to improve their businesses; to identify the obstacles they encounter in its use; and predict how BI will evolve in the next ten years.
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Operational Excellence: Enabling Sustained Growth Spotlight on the Americas
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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Operational excellence means consistently doing things well across the value chain as a way of gaining competitive advantage. In its broadest terms, it is a discipline that drives corporate strategy.
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Enabling Profitable Growth through Procurement: Transforming the Sourcing and Procurement Organization
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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Sourcing and procurement organizations have great potential to reduce costs, contribute to the bottom line, and deliver against enterprise strategic goals.
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Business Intelligence: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence tools and applications that allows cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed.
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Best Practices in Complex Equipment Manufacturing, Sales, and Service
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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This paper gives a brief overview of the SAP® solutions used by manufacturers of complex products and equipment to differentiate themselves from the competition through superior-value products and services against low-cost global providers.
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Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management and Continuous Improvement
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.
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Gaining ERP Value: Structured Implementation at Industrial Good Maker Hunter Manufacturing
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| Case Study: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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Hunter Manufacturing is a good example of what a midsize company can accomplish with a disciplined approach to gaining ERP value, in concert with a vendor that has the functionality, technology and services to support the effort.
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Madness? Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 20 Oct 2008
| | Published: | 18 Oct 2008 | |
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This paper discusses why failure happens and how to prevent it by following the overriding best practice in successful acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures: preparedness.
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The Role of ERP in Globalization
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| Book: | Posted: 26 Sep 2008
| | Published: | 18 Sep 2008 | |
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This whitepaper examines the role of ERP in Globalization in detail, outlining steps to improve current strategies to meet the changing face of the global business of today ...and tomorrow.
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Best Practices in Extending Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): A Buyer's Guide to ERP versus Best of Breed Decisions
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 19 Sep 2008
| | Published: | 17 Sep 2008 | |
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Extending ERP is the focus of this document, which encompasses utilizing more functionality, extending the footprint beyond the core ERP functionality and making decisions between ERP vendors and pure play or "Best of Breed" solutions.
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Enterprise Information Management: Strategy, Best Practices & Technologies on Your Path to Success
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 19 Sep 2008
| | Published: | 05 Sep 2008 | |
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The goal of this paper is to paint the EIM landscape, noting its components but focusing on the importance of an overarching EIM strategy that focuses on corporate objectives while at the same time offering cross-functional support.
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