Off-loading Some Green Compliance Burdens: Can Enterprise Applications Meet the Challenge?
P.J. Jakovljevic
The European Union's WEEE Directive requires electronics manufacturers of member states to manage and pay for electrical and electronics waste recycling. Yet some prospective business service providers are waiting for the legislation and market to mature before offering their solutions.
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"Evergreen"-Environmental Regulations for High-tech and Electronics, Chemical, and Oil and Gas Industries
P.J. Jakovljevic
High-tech and electronics, chemical, and oil and gas industries each have their fair share of regulatory requirements to meet, and an increasing number include environmental directives. Enterprise applications designed to meet their distinct needs should help pave the way to compliance.
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Preparing for Product Development in Process Manufacturing
P.J. Jakovljevic
Combining process industry-oriented product lifecycle management capabilities with process manufacturing-oriented enterprise resource planning ones can help alleviate many of the challenges particular to the process manufacturers, especially in the areas of product development and regulatory compliance.
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How to Green Your Data Center: An Energy Efficiency E-kit
IBM
Does your data center need a makeover? If your IT costs are ever increasing, the answer might just be yes. In this data center energy efficiency e-kit, you can find valuable information about data centers: managing power consumption and expense, performance trends, and consolidation. As well, read a case study about how Bryant University in Rhode Island (US) virtualized its data center servers to save money and space.
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Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Software Evaluation and Selection Guide
Cognos, an IBM Company
Enterprise planning—budgeting, forecasting, and reporting—is a crucial component of financial management that contributes to companies' success. However, planning is often seen as a time-consuming burden. Find out how an enterprise planning system can help you deliver more timely and reliable plans and enhance strategic decision making, to more quickly identify, analyze, and forecast the impact of changes as they occur.
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A Closer Look at Product Lifecycle Management in Retail, Footwear, and Apparel
PTC
Today, product quality is integral to a company's brand identity. If quality is lacking, loyalty-which is difficult and costly to recapture-starts to suffer. Fast fashion and global sourcing are forcing brands and retailers to manage quality proactively and early on in their product development processes. A robust PLM solution, deployed with a focus on process, can give you with a winning advantage.
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