Enterprise Resource Planning White Papers

Extreme Leadership, Inc. provides training, certification, consulting and coaching services based on Steve Farber’s approaches and methodologies.

Get 3 big ideas from Steven M.R. Covey on how to demonstrate and profoundly impact the level of trust in your relationships, your team and your organisation.

Another quarter-end. You know what that means—masses of data to analyze, complex reports to generate, and a looming deadline. This white paper offers valuable tips and tricks to accelerate your company’s reporting and analysis.

Discover how leading organizations leverage performance management software to obtain commitment from senior management, forge effective partnerships with auditors, and monitor progress throughout the year.

Spreadsheets are error-prone and unable to support the critical nature of important financial processes. Read this free guide to learn how leading companies have broken the spreadsheet habit, adopting packaged applications specifically-designed for budgeting and forecasting.

Built for non-IT professionals, this white paper explains the differences between Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM), two fast-growing forms of software utilized by leading finance departments today.

Seeking to leverage the power of emerging technologies, finance and IT leaders at LUSH Cosmetics used advanced Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software from Prophix to successfully predict customer purchasing patterns during a recent holiday season.

Having experienced challenges with spreadsheets and other reporting tools, Porter Airlines Inc. obtained advanced software that would allow them to model complex business problems, including the viability of their air routes, and analyze the health of their growing operations.

Construction companies are meeting the challenge of ever-intensifying competition by refining their business operations with standardized operating practices and “visible” information that is shared among multiple departments. “Before, only owners who wanted to grow a very large company would worry about transitioning from the informal business they started to formalized, standardized business processes,” says Jim Flynn, CEO of Maxwell Systems, a leading provider of construction management software solutions, expert services, and best practices. “But in the current environment, you also have to make that transition just to stay competitive and improve your profitability.”

In this white paper we explore how smaller contractors can now have access to robust and compliant solutions via the cloud, thus removing the IT and cost barriers that previously kept these solutions out of reach.

Globalization; social and mobile commerce; and site replacements, upgrades and new launches are driving e-commerce product evaluation and selection. Use this Magic Quadrant as a guide during the vendor evaluation and selection process.

This paper will discuss the new IT landscape as it relates to the new integration, and argue that the need for a comprehensive integration strategy has never been more urgent. This strategy must not only take new data types into account, but also address the more fundamental issue of agility – because whatever the integration needs of an enterprise may be at the moment, they are certain to change rapidly.

Not long ago, if you asked an IT executive about transformation, there was a good chance you’d get a technology-centric response. You’d hear about consolidation and virtualization, power and cooling, security and availability. Today, the responses are different. This edition of Unleashing IT is all about transformation. Not technology change, but business change through the use of technology.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with over 1,000 branches and 50,000 employees was using spreadsheets to staff its branch network. When they looked to desktop process analytics from Verint they achieved major improvements in productivity and customer experience. Watch this case study to learn more about how desktop process analytics can use big data to help your organization.

Predictable Financial and Operational Performance with Sustainable Compliance

Join us as we take a look at the impact of mobile initiatives on Integration.

The vision for Celent’s Model Bank research was to try to answer an apparently simple question: “What would it look like for a bank to do everything right with today’s technology?” Of course, the question is not nearly as simple as it appears. The terms “everything” and “right” will mean very different things to different banks depending on their size, the complexity of their operations and product sets, and their technological starting points. While there is no such thing as a “Model Bank”—every bank does some things well, and others not as well when it comes to technology—it is possible to conceive of a “Model Bank” through real world examples of effective usage of technology.

This whitepaper discovers how by implementing cloud computing across 6 fundamental workloads can transfer the way whole groups employees do their jobs, enabling them to speed new development and uncover new sources of revenue.

In this report, Taneja Group explores how Riverbed Technology has identified a critical challenge that limits IT performance in highly distributed customer environments: costly, complex, and hardware-heavy branch offices.

Todd Pacific Shipyards was running a homegrown SQL/Visual Basic® system that focused primarily on purchasing, inventory, and project reporting, with a small accounts payable add-on.

Setting the price of goods for sale can be considered either an art or a science. And accurately tracking the cost of the thousands of component parts that go into a piece of complex machinery can be some combination of both.

Steady business growth and the demanding nature of the defense industry led exotic electro-optics, Inc. (eeo) to implement IFS Applications.

The seven tips included in this whitepaper are from some of the top EAM minds in IFS North America and IFS AB, and are designed to help ensure that you get the most out of EAM software so that you can get the most out of your assets.

Realize the benefits of consolidating your ERP products down to one.

Learn how an ETO manufacturer can go about selecting ERP software that truly meets their needs.