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Having started as a business-to-business integration provider for a few major retailers in the United Kingdom, Eqos has evolved into a full-fledged, worldwide provider of global sourcing and supplier management solutions. (...)
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Having started as a business-to-business integration provider for a few major retailers in the United Kingdom, Eqos has evolved into a full-fledge...
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2007-10-12
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Software-as-a-service solutions are emerging to address almost every business application need considered "mission critical" including financials and accounting, asset management, and human capital management applications to supply chain management and channel management solutions. (...)
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Software-as-a-service solutions are emerging to address almost every business application need considered "mission critical" including financials ...
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2007-01-15
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Adonix marks its strategy with two catchwords: "growth" and "independence". It has carefully assessed and added acquisitions to broaden Adonix X3 suite's functional scope, licenses and services; and continues nurture internal development with its own resources. (...)
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Adonix marks its strategy with two catchwords: "growth" and "independence". It has carefully assessed and added acquisitions to broaden Adonix X3 ...
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2005-09-20
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The Microsoft .NET versus J2EE platform argument often takes on the vehemence of a religious debate. Choosing one may amount to "betting the farm", whereas choosing neither or both typically forces unwieldy workarounds or excruciating duplicate development efforts. (...)
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The Microsoft .NET versus J2EE platform argument often takes on the vehemence of a religious debate. Choosing one may amount to "betting the farm"...
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2004-12-08
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Outsourcing is a very diverse market, and there are many different outsourcing options and outsourcing service providers to choose from. This part discusses recommendations for companies looking to outsource, and recommendations for outsourcing providers. (...)
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Outsourcing 101 - A Primer Part Three: Approaches and Recommendations. AB Maynard - January 19, 2004. Comments: 0. Read Comments Summary. ...
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2004-01-19
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Several notable milestones achieved in 2002 set the stage for Deltek’s achievements in 2003. (...)
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Several notable milestones achieved in 2002 set the stage for Deltek’s achievements in 2003.
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2004-01-08
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Several notable milestones achieved in 2002 set the stage for Deltek’s achievements in 2003. (...)
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Several notable milestones achieved in 2002 set the stage for Deltek’s achievements in 2003.
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2004-01-08
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During the process of product selection a great deal of attention is given to the functional capabilities of the software being evaluated. While this aspect is obviously important, ignoring the technical mechanisms by which the software actually operates can be fatal to a project. In this document we e (...)
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Great Product: Too Bad The Architecture Doesn’t Fit. M. Reed - November 29, 2003. Comments: 0. Read Comments M. Reed - November 29, 2003 Introduction. ...
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2003-11-29
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Enterprise performance management (EPM) is an emerging portfolio of applications and methodologies with business intelligence (BI) architectures and technologies at its core. (...)
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Enterprise performance management (EPM) is an emerging portfolio of applications and methodologies with business intelligence (BI) architectures a...
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2003-11-21
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Users choosing point planning or BI products should consider the integration infrastructure and effort needed to combine these products versus the cost and functionality issues of choosing an integrated CPM product suite (if still possible to find). Mission-critical issues like scalability, reliability, (...)
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Users choosing point planning or BI products should consider the integration infrastructure and effort needed to combine these products versus the...
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2003-08-19
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In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general, existing customers of involved merging vendors should be alert, but they should still look at these events as positive. (...)
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In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general, existing customers of invo...
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2003-08-18
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition of Crystal, Hyperion’s acquisition of Brio, and Actuate’s acquisition of Nimble, may bear resemblance to the raging consolidation in the ERP market, the underlying rea (...)
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition of Crystal, Hy...
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2003-08-17
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The BI market is ripe for consolidation, but not necessarily for the reason of capturing the scarce remaining market share like in the ERP case, but more likely for the reasons of garnering the most complete CPM portfolio. (...)
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The BI market is ripe for consolidation, but not necessarily for the reason of capturing the scarce remaining market share like in the ERP case, b...
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2003-08-09
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If your data does not reflect reality, the system can never be effective. In today’s world of collaboration, showing a trading partner dirty data is giving them the wrong message and tearing down the trust called for in a collaborating partnership. (...)
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If your data does not reflect reality, the system can never be effective. In today’s world of collaboration, showing a trading partner dirty data ...
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2003-07-04
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Linking data to process is the realm of business process management (BPM). BPM's focus on process dramatically reduces the amount of data that needs to be moved, and thereby reduces both the initial cost and ongoing maintenance cost of application integration. (...)
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Linking data to process is the realm of business process management (BPM). BPM's focus on process dramatically reduces the amount of data that ne...
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2003-05-30
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One of the biggest challenges facing IT departments today is still unlocking data and processes from a plethora of heterogeneous applications running on different technologies and platforms, from mainframe to Web application servers. Since most SCE solutions involve a complex flow of transactions across (...)
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One of the biggest challenges facing IT departments today is still unlocking data and processes from a plethora of heterogeneous applications runn...
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2003-05-21
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In this article we describe author's experience with the distributed development of multi-lingual three-tier Java/ CORBA/database Internet applications. We believe that the described tips and tricks of trade may be of great use to readers who are involved with Java applications development. (...)
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In this article we describe author's experience with the distributed development of multi-lingual three-tier Java/ CORBA/database Internet applica...
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2003-02-01
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A tightly focused vendor, IRM Corporation, has fine tuned its products, services, its sales process and even its commercial terms to match the realities of its sole market – food manufacturers who sell to the foodservice and vending markets. (...)
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A tightly focused vendor, IRM Corporation, has fine tuned its products, services, its sales process and even its commercial terms to match the rea...
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2003-01-06
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Most enterprises fight fires with axes, fire hoses, trucks, and hordes of firemen, but the CDQM approach is a smoke detector. It’s far less expensive to put a fire out when it’s just smoldering, rather than to extinguish a blazing house fire and then remodel the entire house. (...)
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Continuous Data Quality Management: The Cornerstone of Zero-Latency Business Analytics Part 2: One Solution. CEO, Greg Leman, Inc ...
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2002-10-18
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No matter how well an enterprise implements a CRM, ERP, SCM, Business Intelligence, or Data Warehouse project, poor data quality can destroy its utility and cost real dollars. (...)
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No matter how well an enterprise implements a CRM, ERP, SCM, Business Intelligence, or Data Warehouse project, poor data quality can destroy its u...
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2002-10-17