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Back Office and Operations - 2000
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Essential ERP - Its Functional Scope
P.J. Jakovljevic 12/27/2000 12:00:00 AM
ERP applications are designed to optimize an organization's underlying business processes - accounting/financial, manufacturing, distribution, and human resources/payroll.
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Implementation Acceleration Using Integration
M. Reed 12/15/2000 12:00:00 AM
webMethods, Inc. has released a set of Packaged Integrations — pre-built software solutions that can be used to rapidly automate common cross-application business processes. The company claims Packaged Integrations make it possible to accelerate implementation by up to 80 percent and reduce implementation costs by up to 70%.
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E-Procurement Is Not Electronic Purchasing - Part II
J. Dowling 11/14/2000 12:00:00 AM
Three minutes of labor from purchase requisition to invoice payment; fully executed due diligence; commitment authorization and no delays. That is the promise of e-procurement and the potential is there for the taking - but not without risk. Extensive preparation is necessary and full integration with related business processes is essential to realize the full value from an e-procurement investment.
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Making Sure Your Service Provider Doesn't Fall Down on the Job
R. Krause 7/21/2000 12:00:00 AM
A recent Forrester report on Commerce Sites developed by service providers shows costs are rising while service is remaining flat, and sometimes results can be pretty glaring from a 'minor' slip-up to one that can have major client impact.
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To BEA or Not to BEA: Is That the Question?
M. Reed 7/6/2000 12:00:00 AM
BEA Systems Inc., announced that twelve Business-To-Business and Enterprise Application Integration vendors have teamed with them to provide e-business solutions, as members of their BEA Professional Service Provider Program. These new providers span the United States and the EMEA (Europe-Middle East-Africa) markets, and will leverage their vertical market and e-business expertise to implement the BEA eLink™ suite.
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EAI Vendor Active Software Activates Transactions
M. Reed 6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Active Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise application integration software products, today announced the ActiveWorks™ Application Transaction Coordinator (ATC) to ensure the transactional integrity of end-to end business processes across systems, both within and outside the corporate firewall.
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E&Y+ASP=BSP: It’s Not Algebra, But It Adds Up To Something Big
A. Turner 5/30/2000 12:00:00 AM
In April, Ernst & Young LLP and Corio, entered into a strategic alliance where Ernst & Young will implement and market hosted solutions from Corio, and will offer business process outsourcing services. The companies will offer total enterprise management solutions for a wide range of core business functions such as e-commerce, procurement, manufacturing, customer support, finance, accounting, and human resources.
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EAI Vendor Extricity Teams with Moai to Automate E-Commerce Systems
M. Reed 5/11/2000 12:00:00 AM
Enterprise Application Integration vendor Extricity announced a business-to-business alliance with Moai Technologies, Inc., to provide a full-range of automated e-commerce systems. Moai’s Dynamic Commerce Markup Language (DCML) is an XML-standard compliant language for dynamic commerce markets, and combined with Extricity’s B2B platform, the vendors hope to better integrate e-commerce business processes.
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Defogging the “Mission/Vision Thing”
J. Diezemann 5/5/2000 12:00:00 AM
A company’s success depends upon its ability to make smart decisions and respond quickly in a highly volatile environment. When a company has a relevant and clearly stated Purpose, Mission, Vision, and Values, which are understood by all employees, both management and employees are in a superior position to put strategies and actions into place that propel the organization forward.
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Essential ERP – Current Market Trends – Part II
P.J. Jakovljevic 5/3/2000 12:00:00 AM
ERP applications are designed to optimize an organization’s underlying business processes — primarily accounting/financial, manufacturing, distribution, and human resources/payroll. This note identifies current trends in the ERP market that we believe are the direct consequence of vendors’ attempts to 1) resolve current ERP functional and/or technological deficiencies, and/or 2) expand software sales both within their existing and potential customer bases.
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