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RIM's Balsillie: 'Not Religious' About Form Factors; B2B the Company's Core
The Research in Motion vs. Apple smartphone face-off makes for a good story, but the companies present an interesting business strategy question: Is it better to start in the enterprise and then go consumer or vice versa? In an interview with me at SAP Sapphire (all resources)...
SAP Aims to Make Upgrades Easier; Rolls Out Enhancement Packages; Touts Analytics
Henning Kagermann, co-CEO of SAP, wants to do away with the upgrade-go-round with its upcoming Business Suite 7.0 with "enhancement packages," small optional updates designed to add functionality to enterprise resource planning applications. Enhancement packages are small SOA-enabled packs that can add new functionality to SAP's Business...
SAP CEO: Ballmer Should Have Bought Yahoo
If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer were to call SAP CEO Henning Kagermann for advice on what he should do with his $40 billion to $50 billion the advice would be: Spend it on Yahoo. That call isn't totally out of the question given that Ballmer and Kagermann...
Four Steps to a Best-Run Business
Learn how to operate your business more effectively by driving faster, smarter decisions, applying better control over costs, minimizing risk and liability, and anticipating change. SAP Business ByDesign helps you automate business processes, streamline administrative tasks, and proactively deliver role-based information to employees.
Driving Business Excellence and Innovation: Adaptable Business Solutions to Make Your Company More Agile
Discover how SAP Business ByDesign, an on-demand solution designed specifically for midsize companies that want to grow profitably, enables a perpetual cycle of adaptability and innovation that enables your business to change as market, customer, and supplier needs change.
MIT Podcast: How Enterprise Software Drives Higher Productivity Efficiency
If you are a small business or midsize company currently thinking about investing in IT, you might be wondering if it is even worth it. Download this MIT Podcast, featuring an interview with Dr. Sinan Aral of MIT and NYU, to hear about the results of his...
Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT
Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the...
At last! Some Good Marketing!
As I've pointed out HERE and HERE, most Marketing groups are useless when it comes to generating leads, which is the only reason for Marketing groups to exist. As an example of how completely clueless some Marketing groups can be, I've also reproduced excerpts from gobbledegook-stuffed press releases...
Improving Operational Efficiency for Profitable Growth: The Importance of Choosing the Right IT Infrastructure
This paper from SAP Solutions for Small Businesses and Midsize Companies explores the different ways to improve operational efficiencies for profitable growth and the importance of choosing the right IT infrastructure. This paper also presents the solutions available for small businesses and midsize companies from SAP to address their needs.
Trust and Competitive Advantage: An Integrated Approach to Governance, Risk Management and Compliance
Burned by Enronesque accounting scandals, investors and governments are imposing rigorous reporting requirements to keep companies on the straight and narrow. These reactions are a symptom of a fundamental force in the economy: a crisis of trust among stakeholders of corporations. Stakeholders are not only a company's...
Still Struggling to Reduce Call Center Costs Without Losing Customers? The Right Technologies Lead the Way Out of the Call Center Dilemma
While setting their customer service strategy, some organizations have focused solely on cost reduction through outsourcing and basic automation. In the process, though, many have discovered that efforts to unduly curb operational expenses are alienating customers -- and eventually eroding profits. When confronting the growing pains of their customer service...
Fostering a Culture of Adaptability: Using Information Technology to Increase Your Company's Agility
To achieve profitable growth, successful companies maintain a laser-sharp focus on executing a few key initiatives efficiently. Moving quickly and effectively on these initiatives requires you to make changes across your entire business so you can swiftly adapt operations to accommodate the changes. This document describes how...
SAP Procurement for Public Sector: Maximize Government Purchasing Power and Improve Contract Compliance
It's hard to ensure effective procurement with traditional solutions that lack support for a complex procurement life cycle. But the SAP Procurement for Public Sector package is tailored to meet these demands. It helps you improve operational efficiency and service levels as well as satisfy policies and regulations. As a...
New Era for HR Shared Services
Centralizing benefits, payroll and other human resources functions not only saves money and improves customer service, it also frees HR professionals to provide more strategic support. Find out more in this report from BusinessWeek Research Services and SAP.
Achieving Profitable and Controlled Growth as a Midsize Business: A Research Study by the Oliver Wyman Group
Find out how midsize businesses can achieve profitable and controlled growth in this research study by the Oliver Wyman Group. Read about the key objectives and aspirations of midsize companies, the challenges and obstacles they face, and what role technology plays to enable potential success.
Best practices for ERP implementations and on-going operations
A brief how-to guide for midsize manufacturers looking to compete effectively against global behemoths. This paper highlights three success stories from three industrial manufacturers: Keys to implementation success as experienced by Hunter Manufacturing as well as insight from SAP and itelligence managers. Best practices as revealed...
Talent Management: The New Business Imperative
Savvy executives know that a talent shortage is coming, if it hasn't arrived already. Talent management, backed by strategic workforce planning, can help companies face this crisis. Read more in this report from BusinessWeek Research Services and SAP.
Improving Intercompany Reconciliation for a Faster Close
In 2007, businesses moved beyond the initial need to comply with legislation like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and instead focused on driving sustainability and control into their corporate processes. Of the various initiatives supporting this shift, the fast close--a concept used to describe a corporation's ability to complete its accounting...
Service Delivery Innovation: Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability
A variety of forces shape the professional services industry - from fierce competition and globalization to the modularization of business processes and technology. Clients want professional services firms to deliver cost-effective services in smaller, fixed-price contracts, but at the same time want to retain highly seasoned professionals equipped to address...
The Lean Advantage for Complex Equipment Manufacturers
Increasingly, complex equipment manufacturers are implementing lean initiatives to create competitive advantage. What specifically are these initiatives? Can they really achieve on-time delivery, improve operational excellence, shorten order-cycle times, and reduce costs, to name a few? On the road to initiating these lean processes, what obstacles and challenges are complex...
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