| TOP WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES THIS WEEK | | | Case Study: Manufacturing ERP Evaluation & Implementation
by Case Study Spotlight
A leading South Korean auto parts manufacturer turns to new ERP system to reduce costs, create an integrated system featuring standard processes and links to automobile manufacturers, and institute profitability checks on each product via profit analysis. The company had been considering adopting a new ERP system for quite some time. ERP held out the promise of cost reduction by significantly cutting inventory, and encouraging transparency and process innovation.
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More Efficient Virtualization Management: Templates
by SWsoft
Historically, IT administrators have provisioned new servers with every new application, resulting in a large number of servers with utilization rates of 10 to 15 percent or less, commonly known as server sprawl. Server sprawl is responsible for a range of costs, including infrastructure, hardware, software, and management costs. So why hasn't hardware virtualization solved your server sprawl issues yet?
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Getting Business Requirements Right: Fixing the Highest-leverage Stages in the System Development Life Cycle
by Digital Mosaic
Defects in released software are eighty times more expensive to fix than defects found in the specification stage. But the earliest stages of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) are often the least consistently executed. However, there is a methodology that drastically reduces the downstream problems that plague many IT projects, and substantially enhances the predictability of cost and timelines.
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An Executive Approach to Strategic HR
by TriNet
Executives watch time slip away while they plod through payroll, benefits management, and other human resources (HR) tasks. This time is spent writing paychecks, negotiating with benefits providers, and updating employee records. But instead of squandering resources on "administrivia," executives can transform HR into a competitive advantage by outsourcing or streamlining non-strategic HR—thus providing increased focus on strategic HR.
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Achieving the "Last Mile" of Business Productivity
by Microsoft
Many businesses owe their very survival to improvements that would have been impossible without radical changes to business process systems. However, many of the promises implicit in these systems—dramatic increases in business success, with minimal negative impact—have proven to be overly optimistic for many, and flat-out fantasy for some.
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Applying Lessons Learned in CRM Projects
by Aplicor Inc.
The road to implementing customer relationship management (CRM) systems is fraught with risk and littered with failure. Paradoxically, reams have been written by industry practitioners explaining why CRM projects fail, yet the same patterns and mistakes are repeated—over and over again. While there is no magic bullet, following some simple guidelines can help assure CRM success for your organization.
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Expandable Case Study: Photon Dynamics, Inc.
by Expandable Software (Case study)
Photon Dynamics, a manufacturer of test, repair, and inspection equipment for flat-panel display manufacturing, was finding it difficult to track orders, materials, and finished goods. It considered abandoning its mid-tier enterprise resource planning system, in favor of a tier-one application. But to justify the cost, the company decided to first make sure that the system was, in fact, the problem.
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