The question for today's supply chain professional isn't whether your ERP offers warehouse management functionality. The question is whether you'll actually be able to achieve efficient order fulfillment operations when using it.

Collaboration in the enterprise requires a triumvirate of people, process and technology to be successful. With the plethora of collaboration applications available today, both IT professionals and collaboration business users alike need to take a holistic approach to be successful with collaboration. This paper lets you know about some of the common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

In white papers, there is no shortage of advice about what best practices can lead to success. But equally important is a thorough understanding of what worst practices are to be avoided during an implementation.

Understanding how to take responsibility for proper implementation and truly taking ownership of an enterprise application as a crucial business asset will go a long way to getting the full value out of your information technology investment.

The strategic sourcing group has faced myriad challenges over the last two decades, including a fluctuating economy and increased expectations to bolster the enterprise bottom-line. However, the last few years have brought about a new, complex challenge: continue to drive procurement performance while finding fresh cost savings within other areas of corporate spending.

In Q4, 2009, ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES (EMA) analysts worked with ASG to research how executives in IT and within the lines of business use dashboards to gain holistic insights into IT services as they impact business outcomes.

This white paper covers how to effectively managing the upcoming transition for US registered companies to file their financial statements in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) format.

Download this white paper now and learn high level definitions, opportunity identification, and future potentials for: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Anytime, Anywhere Availability, Mobile Devices, Web 2.0, and Report Cards or Balanced Scorecards as a Business Intelligence (BI) capability.

This white paper explains the 12 criteria that allow you to identify and select the solution that will meet these expectations.

This paper outlines how the five lean principles are all supported and enhanced by comprehensive information control and the management tools that an end-to-end enterprise software suite delivers.

At the time of a software audit, a SAM program helps you avoid increased license fees and penalties and keeps your employees engaged in your key initiatives rather than burdened by an auditor's requests for documentation.

Managing Complexity in the Extended Enterprise. Regardless of company size, businesses must balance the increasing cost and effort involved in managing the network with other business functions that also require time, resources, personnel, and management attention.

Your information can be one of your greatest assets - helping you stay on top of regulatory requirements, close to customers, and ahead of the competition. Organizations that pay attention to their data will be the ones to survive and thrive. So how do you obtain a complete view of your information when it is scattered across silos? Or integrate data from structured and unstructured data sources? Or help reduce the risk of inaccurate reporting? And how do you manage your information more effectively to help keep costs from spiraling out of control?

Consider how you can gain control of cost structures by taking systematic steps to improve operational efficiency. By using efficient, automated processes, you can reduce waste, unnecessary overtime, and other cost factors. Integrated business software systems put this efficiency overhaul within reach, quickly, and affordably.

If the go-go 1990s, with its fast money and flush credit seeking rapid and steep returns, created the demand for "renaissance" Chief Financial Officers ("CFO"), who could manage (and market) both the strategic and financial operations of the enterprise, the more sobering decade that followed led directly to the creation and subsequent rise of the Chief Procurement Officer ("CPO"), who could reduce costs, build internal relationships, and develop strategic suppliers efficiently and effectively.

Pressures to reduce costs continue to outweigh all other business drivers impacting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in 2009. ERP has become more than a necessary infrastructure; it is also a strategic weapon in streamlining and accelerating business processes - while providing visibility to those processes throughout the enterprise.

In today's highly-competitive markets, more and more procurement and sourcing professionals are looking to streamline processes and drive superior performance. In the quest for higher savings, more spend under management and increased compliance, sourcing executives must turn to their own repository of spend data to effectively identify opportunities for savings and gain a deeper understanding of their corporate spend.

Learn why insurers need a 360-degree view of each customer covering his or her entire experience with the company in order to provide products and service that stand out from the crowd. See how IT that supports integrated, end-to-end business processes can also increase insurer responsiveness and customer loyalty.

The technology world around us is changing rapidly. Keeping up has become tougher for managers and supervisors. Today's economy has focused limited information technology resources on immediate results, not research or long term strategy.

Learn how solutions for large hospitals that provide intelligently aggregate and summarize clinical, operational, and financial data can offer CFOs faster, hospital-wide insight. When CFOs can immediately access information across existing systems, better decision making and financial outcomes result.

IT infrastructures have become exceedingly complex, resulting in a highly interconnected network of old and new technologies. In a world where IT budgets are shrinking and mergers are common, how do you get the most value from your IT resources?

In this Podcast with Eli Almog, Corporate Architect in BMC's CTO Office, discusses how IT managers can know when it's time to look at BSM, consider CMDB, learn how virtualization fits into your organization, and how automation can help your company retain its competitive edge.

The growing adoption of collaborative and social networking applications such as Lotus productivity software is reflected in IDC's Canadian forecast, detailed in this white paper.

In this study, "From Sentiment to Insight: How Social Networking Can Support Engaged, Customer Centric Retailing," learn how retailers can mine the data available in Social Networks to gain a look into the hot buttons and trigger points of millions of potential shoppers.

Data quality is an elusive subject that can defy measurement and yet be critical enough to derail any single IT project, strategic initiative, or even a company as a whole.