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Last minute discounting has become so prevalent that many companies have come to depend on it as their default sales strategy.
Employing a go-to-market strategy of being the lowest cost provider is one thing, but dramatic, tactical discounting on every
deal will erode your company's margins and leave you (...)
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Last minute discounting has become so prevalent that many companies have come to depend on it as their default sales strategy.
Employing a go-to-m...
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2004-06-14
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This PLM research note provides insight on the importance of business objectives when adopting PLM. This article presents
research findings on business objectives to adopt PLM based on software selection projects and surveys conducted by TEC. Drawing
and product documentation management, product collabora (...)
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... CAD) drawings and all other product documentations if we trace back to PLM ...
much more than product documentation management, this remains the top priority for ...
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2010-02-04
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... Leveraging a better S&OP process is back on top executives’ agendas,
as it will impact their ability to make the “best decisions” for the business. ...
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2009-12-23
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... location-aware. Salesforce Chatter harnesses these Cloud 2 capabilities to help users stay on top
of their critical issues. What ...
Published:
2010-06-17
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Do you want to have a competitive edge? Read this white paper about Product Data Management (PDM). Canadian manufacturers
are getting squeezed. Challenged by a rising Canadian dollar, forced to hold the line on prices in the US market, pressured
by customer demand for lower prices, better quality, and qui (...)
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Do you want to have a competitive edge? Read this white paper about Product Data Management (PDM). Canadian manufacturers
are getting squeezed. Cha...
Published:
2010-03-11
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You are about to embark on an important project. Whether the project is software or hardware related, it is a good idea to
hold a project kickoff meeting. Don't miss this excellent opportunity to get across important communications and establish
the tone for the project. This article discusses the 10 obj (...)
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You are about to embark on an important project. Whether the project is software or hardware related, it is a good idea to
hold a project kickoff ...
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2003-12-31
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You are about to embark on an important project. Whether the project is software or hardware related, it is a good idea to
hold a project kickoff meeting. Don’t miss this excellent opportunity to get across important communications and establish
the tone for the project. This article discusses the 10 o (...)
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You are about to embark on an important project. Whether the project is software or hardware related, it is a good idea to
hold a project kickoff ...
Published:
2004-01-01
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SCT Corporation, an IT solutions provider for a number of disparate industries, announced that the quarter which ended June
30, 2000, was a record quarter for license fee revenue within SCT's process industry solutions business. SCT, which claims
experiencing continued success with enterprise-wide, globa (...)
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SCT Corporation, an IT solutions provider for a number of disparate industries, announced that the quarter which ended June
30, 2000, was a record...
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2000-08-25
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On August 23, MAPICS, Inc., one of the leading mid-market ERP vendors, announced that it is taking steps to reduce costs
through a restructuring plan. Earlier, on July 27, MAPICS reported results for the third quarter of its fiscal 2000. (...)
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On August 23, MAPICS, Inc., one of the leading mid-market ERP vendors, announced that it is taking steps to reduce costs through
a restructuring p...
Published:
2000-09-11
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As supply chains become increasingly integrated and synchronized, we are witnessing the evolution of the business/production
models (in some industries) that merge virtual integration with elements of the older vertically integrated enterprise. This
has profound consequences, in particular for suppliers (...)
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As supply chains become increasingly integrated and synchronized, we are witnessing the evolution of the business/production
models (in some indus...
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2003-12-09
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... On top of its platform Salesforce.com has built application suites such as the Sales
Cloud 2 for sales force automation (SFA) and Service Cloud 2 for customer ...
Published:
2010-06-01
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More and more companies today face a significant challenge in integrating multiple business applications. This is the natural
result of fewer companies running a single, all encompassing business application, either in a lone facility or across multiple
sites of a multinational, multi-organizational ente (...)
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More and more companies today face a significant challenge in integrating multiple business applications. This is the natural
result of fewer comp...
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2004-04-14
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ERP software may fail to meet critical business requirements. When companies find that their ERP doesn't meet all of their
business requirements, they should investigate niche software vendors who are focused on fixing fatal flaws. This paper discusses
one of the potential fatal flaw areas in the CPG ind (...)
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ERP software may fail to meet critical business requirements. When companies find that their ERP doesn't meet all of their
business requirements, ...
Published:
2004-04-24
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At a first glance, one can even notice that the complementary nature of some SSA GT products and Infinium products may indeed
provide a ‘kick for a buck’ proposition. Further, it appears that SSA GT understands and listens closely (via Global Guide
Groups) to the needs of conservative ERP customers t (...)
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At a first glance, one can even notice that the complementary nature of some SSA GT products and Infinium products may indeed
provide a ‘kick for ...
Published:
2002-12-13
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What are the prospects of SSA GT, now that the revived ERP vendor has recently acquired interBiz with its plethora of application
products from its long archrival as a Computer Associates' division? Will the "two to one is odds" adage prove to be true
in this merger of two veterans? (...)
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... The combined company still projects revenues in fiscal 2003 to be around $230 million, which could bring
it back to the top 10 of the ERP rating list. ...
Published:
2002-04-25
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Using our EAM Evaluation Center, we compared Mincom Ellipse, CHAMPS, and IFS head-on. For the overall rankings, we looked
at the vendors in two basic configurations: with back-office (HR and financials) functionality, for a total of eight main
modules, and without, for a total of six main modules. To eli (...)
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Using our EAM Evaluation Center, we compared Mincom Ellipse, CHAMPS, and IFS head-on. For the overall rankings, we looked
at the vendors in two ba...
Published:
2007-04-27
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... if all top managers secretly dreamt of ridding themselves of those annoying accounting
people and finally doing whatever they want, without looking back at the ...
Published:
2011-05-31
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Like the previous few SSA GT's acquisitions, this merger too seems aimed at enlarging combined Baan and SSA GT's customer
base, market share, and, more importantly, its predictably recurring support revenue and consequently larger R&D pool. (...)
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Like the previous few SSA GT's acquisitions, this merger too seems aimed at enlarging combined Baan and SSA GT's customer
base, market share, and,...
Published:
2003-07-14
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There are two ways to build enterprise application solutions: link together disparate, best-of-breed solutions, in which
vendors embrace open architectures and inter-application messaging protocols, or find a one-stop-shop with all the software,
functionality, and interoperability one could ever ask for. (...)
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There are two ways to build enterprise application solutions: link together disparate, best-of-breed solutions, in which vendors
embrace open arch...
Published:
2001-11-22
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This is a transcript of an audio conference on Supply Chain Management presented by TechnologyEvaluation.Com. The presentation
used the TEC patented selection engine WebTESS, to conduct a live real time evaluation and selection. It then reviewed the
critical differentiating supply chain management crite (...)
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This is a transcript of an audio conference on Supply Chain Management presented by TechnologyEvaluation.Com. The presentation
used the TEC patent...
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2000-06-23