HP’s $8 billion write-down. A disappointing IPO from Facebook, Groupon’s famous flameout. These watershed moments have crystallized what we’ve known for a while: Fluff can no longer trump sound operations in terms of a company’s valuation. Organizations must be built on an empirically firm foundation to flourish. And everyone – from investors on Wall Street to customers on Main Street to the SEC– is looking at companies with more scrupulous eyes.

Whether you have been with your company for 30 years or just completed your first week, chances are pretty high that you are endlessly busy and things never seem to slow down. With so much to wrap your head around and the mindset of not skipping a beat, you likely never had a moment to pause, reevaluate the way things were being done and think to yourself, “What is the real method to this madness here and is there a better, more productive and cost-effective way we could be doing it?

Marketing Automation is technology that allows you to nurture leads through automated campaigns. Because marketing automation uses email as one of its methods for engaging customers, we are often asked, “What is the difference between Marketing Automation and Email Marketing?” For small businesses, marketing automation is a tool to take your marketing to the next level while saving your organization’s resources in the long run. Marketing automation builds upon your email marketing strategies to produce superior results. In this paper, we’d like to show you what marketing automation can do for you and help you decide if your organization is ready to graduate to a marketing automation solution.

Join us as we take a look at the impact of mobile initiatives on Integration.

What are some of the pitfalls you can avoid when augmenting an existing infrastructure to maximize performance, results, and success? Read on.

Todd Pacific Shipyards was running a homegrown SQL/Visual Basic® system that focused primarily on purchasing, inventory, and project reporting, with a small accounts payable add-on.

Setting the price of goods for sale can be considered either an art or a science. And accurately tracking the cost of the thousands of component parts that go into a piece of complex machinery can be some combination of both.

The seven tips included in this whitepaper are from some of the top EAM minds in IFS North America and IFS AB, and are designed to help ensure that you get the most out of EAM software so that you can get the most out of your assets.

Realize the benefits of consolidating your ERP products down to one.

Learn how an ETO manufacturer can go about selecting ERP software that truly meets their needs.

The Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics and Marketing Analytics shows marketing professionals how to talk the talk of C-level executives in terms of forecasting and reporting, and walk the walk to the revenue table by leveraging metrics that matter.

By automating your paper-based performance management processes, you can increase insight into the workforce and, ultimately, transform your business-turning strategy into successful, measurable results. Learn more by downloading your white paper now, compliments of SuccessFactors.

Read this white paper to learn about 10 principles to follow in order to build an effective human capital plan for your organization.

Read how taking five straightforward steps to BPA planning can root out inefficiencies to improve key processes and give your business a clear competitive advantage.

Read about best practices that can help your organization build success into each process it automates, from a process automation expert.

If you want to cut to the chase on the ways to monitor your IT, cloud, and applications, and the pluses and minuses of each approach, then keep reading... If you want to know the key trade-offs of the types of software out there, then keep reading... If you want to find out what kind of monitoring solutions have been proven to work and why, then keep reading...

This paper will discuss the new IT landscape as it relates to the new integration, and argue that the need for a comprehensive integration strategy has never been more urgent. This strategy must not only take new data types into account, but also address the more fundamental issue of agility – because whatever the integration needs of an enterprise may be at the moment, they are certain to change rapidly.

According to Forrester, most organizations today are only using 12% of their available data and only 37% of organizations are planning some type of big data technology project. At a time when companies are seeing volume of information increase quickly, it’s time to take a step back and look at the impact of big data. Join Mike Gualtieri, Principal Analyst at Forrester, for this webcast exploring the importance of integration in your big data initiatives. Discover how your ability to operate, make decisions, reduce risks and serve customers is inextricably linked to how well you’re able to handle your big data. Continue on to gain insight into: •3 key big data management activities you need to consider •Technologies you need to create for your big data ecosystem •A multi-dimensional view of the customer is the holy grail of individualization •Overcoming key integration challenges And more!

This paper addresses the challenges of planning, budgeting and forecasting in a spreadsheet environment and highlights the advantages of using a software solution designed specifically for dynamic planning. The business challenges and drivers are discussed, including organizational and technological best practices to follow. A Planning Software Selection Matrix is included to assist decision makers in selecting the most appropriate planning software for their specific business processes and needs.

This paper will help you understand the value of an FCOE and show you how one might work in your organization.

In this paper, we’ll look at how investing in the right contact center solution can help transform your enterprise and enhance your business outlook.

Adopting a proactive approach to customer service has the potential to attract customers rather than losing them, to drive growth and innovation instead of hindering both.

This whitepaper discusses a deeper logic to multi-channel communication - addressing the needs of today’s media-savvy customer with your company’s need for an integrated strategy of core beliefs and a foundation to grow on.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with over 1,000 branches and 50,000 employees was using spreadsheets to staff its branch network. When they looked to desktop process analytics from Verint they achieved major improvements in productivity and customer experience. Watch this case study to learn more about how desktop process analytics can use big data to help your organization.

Another quarter-end. You know what that means—masses of data to analyze, complex reports to generate, and a looming deadline. This white paper offers valuable tips and tricks to accelerate your company’s reporting and analysis.