5/17/2012
Newly available software platforms known as governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) technologies can help your business stay on top of the myriad procedures, tasks, and behaviors that bear upon compliance. This paper discusses the drivers behind the growing awareness of GRC information technology, introduces the elements of an effective automated GRC system, and suggests a low-risk, high-impact approach to launching GRC automation.
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5/16/2012
Thinking about buying talent management software? Not so fast, says TEC analyst Sherry Fox. If you don’t have a solid talent management strategy in place first, you might be creating more problems than you’re solving. Learn how to tell if your company is ready for talent management—and how to choose the right solution—in today’s featured article.
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5/15/2012
CRM solutions can help small and midsize companies manage the myriad ways they interact with customers—from marketing to new and potential customers to improving their customer support. These solutions integrate new social and collaboration tools, making it easier to connect with customers, and are available via the cloud, making CRM more affordable for smaller companies. Know all the reasons you need a CRM solution.
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5/14/2012
Since launching its first Web-based workflow application in 1996, business process management (BPM) software vendor W4 has evolved to provide a full-feature BPM suite to (mostly) midmarket companies in (mostly) Europe and North America. Find out what W4 is up to today, and what it's got in store for the future, in today's vendor spotlight report from TEC analyst Jorge García.
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5/12/2012
Midsize companies in most global markets are currently in a major cycle of enterprise resource planning (ERP) replacement driven by economic conditions and operating requirements. Despite the buzz about the cloud, companies are cautious in adopting cloud ERP. This briefing focuses on the current ERP cloud computing landscape from the perspective of midsize customers who have deployed cloud-based ERP when replacing legacy solutions.
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5/11/2012
Ever feel like the vendors are in control of your software selection project? You’re not wrong. You might evaluate new solutions once every five years—or less—but vendors sell their solutions to companies every day. Today TEC analyst Aleksey Osintsev explains what gives vendors their edge, and reveals four things you can do to level the playing field.
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5/10/2012
An Internet protocol (IP) phone system transforms your phone system into a next-generation communications hub, complete with technologies that let your organization improve customer service and cut costs. An IP-based phone system piggybacks on your IP-network, connecting to the public-switched telephone network (PSTN) via your Internet connection. Use this checklist to sell management on a new IP-based phone system.
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5/9/2012
With the right business metrics, you can accurately measure—and improve—business performance. But according to TEC analyst Jorge García, it's easy to use the wrong metrics by mistake. And that can be fatal to your business. In his latest article, Jorge tells you how to avoid common pitfalls, and build successful business metrics.
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5/8/2012
Newly available software platforms known as governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) technologies can help your business stay on top of the myriad procedures, tasks, and behaviors that bear upon compliance. This paper discusses the drivers behind the growing awareness of GRC information technology, introduces the elements of an effective automated GRC system, and suggests a low-risk, high-impact approach to launching GRC automation.
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5/7/2012
With just 27 employees, Virginia-based open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor xTuple is holding its own against the likes of Netsuite, Microsoft, and even SAP! In today's in-depth interview, xTuple CEO Ned Lilly tells TEC principal analyst P.J. Jakovljevic what's behind the company's success, and what the xTuple team has in store for the future.
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