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Distinctions and Benefits of Strategic Sourcing
P.J. Jakovljevic 11/17/2008 12:00:00 AM
Strategic sourcing involves ongoing relationships, which creates the opportunity for mutually beneficial collaboration between the buyer and the suppliers. This can result in improved profitability throughout the entire supply chain and add value to the final product or service.
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Electronic Medical Records: An Introduction
Jeff Spitzer 11/5/2008 12:00:00 AM
Electronic medical records (EMR) serves a niche market. This software caters specifically to health care professionals working in clinics, private practices, and hospitals. EMR software came about to increase overall patient care and communication between health care staff and departments.
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Throw Away Your Financial Statements: Managing by Metrics
Charles Chewning Jr. 10/31/2008 12:00:00 AM
Analyzing static, detailed financial statements has been the modus operandi for hundreds of years. Because many business management systems can isolate and create graphics of key performance indicators (KPI), businesses should now concentrate on KPIs, which influence profitability.
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How Project Portfolio Management Can Deal a Winning Hand to the SMB Project Manager
Alexander Hankewicz 10/29/2008 12:00:00 AM
Project portfolio management (PPM), once a solution only larger organizations could afford, enables companies to analyze, recommend, authorize, activate, expedite, and monitor projects. In recent years, however, small to medium businesses have been able to benefit from PPM too, through software-as-a-service models of this tool.
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A "Gentler" Giant's Success in Reaching Out to the "Little Guys"
P.J. Jakovljevic 10/29/2008 12:00:00 AM
Until recently, the few leaders in the lower end of the technology and platform market have hardly had any viable competition. However, Oracle is determined to give these players—especially archrival Microsoft—a run for their money, starting with offerings attractive to small to medium businesses and partners alike.
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About LMS But Were Afraid to Ask—Well Maybe Not Everything!
Sherry Fox 10/24/2008 12:00:00 AM
Today, if a company wants to retain its employees, it must take great strides to make their jobs more rewarding. To give their employees the learning experience they’re looking for, many organizations are now implementing learning management systems (LMSes).
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Why Manufacturers Should Cash In on the Promise of Business Intelligence
Lyndsay Wise 10/20/2008 12:00:00 AM
Through this interview with RCG Information Technology’s Robert Abate, manufacturers can gain an understanding of what it takes to add value to their current business intelligence (BI) use, or what they can gain from BI and how to get started.
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Global Product Development Seen as a Boon for Product Lifecycle Management Vendors
Michael Bittner 10/17/2008 12:00:00 AM
An enterprise that wants to shift to a global product development strategy must invest in modern product lifecycle management (PLM) technology. Therefore, the PLM software market could be on the edge of a significant growth cycle.
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War Looms in the On-demand CRM Market (and Beyond)—But Will You Profit from It?
David Clark,P.J. Jakovljevic 10/13/2008 12:00:00 AM
Salesforce.com is now an almost unstoppable force in the world of on-demand customer relationship management. However, it may be the architect of its own downfall—and Microsoft is poised to take advantage. But will you profit from the Salesforce.com-versus-Microsoft war?
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A Semi–open Source Vendor Discusses Market Trends
P.J. Jakovljevic 10/10/2008 12:00:00 AM
A response to trends in the open source software market comes this time from relative newcomer provider xTuple. This vendor’s footprint isn’t entirely in the open source door, however, with OpenMFG, its commercially licensed solution with an open source infrastructure.
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