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- The Business Analysis Team at Fenmarc Expands Its Role and Streamlines Processes With IBM Cognos
- Fenmarc is a dedicated large-scale supplier of fresh vegetables to Asda, one of the UK's leading supermarket chains. It needed to consolidate and coordinate budgeting and forecasting throughout Fenmarc's geographically and organisationally distributed business. It deployed a scalable, flexible IBM Cognos enterprise planning solution that helps Fenmarc's continuous business improvement...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Business Analysis, IBM Corp., Fenmarc, Channel Management, Sales Force Management, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Marketing, Sales
- Case studies 2009-02-25
- Saurabh Harmony Business Analysis
- As future unfolds for an organization, it should be the organization's Endeavour to blend new thoughts and ideas into their Organization culture. The organization culture of harmony embodies the spirit of free flowing organization thought process. A freely thinking organization means a well structured IT infrastructure. Since IT enables a...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Analysis, Harmony, Organization, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-01-01
- ITIL, Business Analysis and the Enterprise Requirements Hierarchy
- This whitepaper characterizes the relationship between the Business Analyst and an IT Service Management based IT organization. It also suggests a generalized model of requirements and how best practices, such as the IT Infrastructure Library ITIL, contributes to meeting enterprise-level requirements. These requirements are based on key concepts from IT...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Analysis, ITIL, It Services, Service Level Management, Process Improvement, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Quality, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Business Analysis Essentials
- View Available Dates and Locations In this introductory course, you'll delve into the role and responsibilities of the business analyst-the communication link between all business areas and a critical player in project success. Learn techniques for ensuring project success every step of the way-from identifying and...
- Tags: Technique, Dallas, Schaumburg, Business Analysis, Requirement, Global Knowledge, Productivity
- Training 2008-01-01
- The Executive Guide to Business Analyst and Project Management Terminology
- Project management has been increasing in visibility both inside and outside the executive office. Now, with the emergence of business analysis as an independent field, understanding and using the correct terminology is more critical than ever. This glossary is a guide to the most commonly used business...
- Tags: Business Analysis, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2007-11-06
- Doux Group Accelerates Global Expansion Through Enhanced Business Analysis
- An expert in poultry since its founding in 1955, Doux Group and its subsidiaries offer poultry products in more than 130 countries. In the midst of corporate diversification- and fighting the ill effects of a global bird flu scare-Doux needed to analyze the profitability of its entire enterprise on a...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Business Analysis, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Separating Analysis From Design: (Decide What's Needed Before Deciding How to Implement It)
- Business analysis is about thinking what the solution should do, while design is about how to make it happen using the technology available. Bearing this in mind will make it easier to avoid blending these two phases. What and How. This will help to build more robust systems. What the...
- Tags: Business Analysis, Analysis, IRM Training
- White papers 2005-04-18
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- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- 18 truths: The long fail of complexity
- Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...
- Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Business Functions 1.53 (Windows)
- This Excel add-in has 500+ high-performance functions and is a comprehensive toolkit for business planning and analysis. It is designed to make financial models such as business plans and budgets faster to build, less error-prone, and easier to understand and maintain. It does this through integrated families of functions, in...
- Tags: High-performance, Microsoft Windows, Business Functions, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Office Suites, Software, Management
- Software downloads 2009-11-06
- Figuring the value of software
- Shallow, trivial analysisThis is a shallow, trivial analysis. You claim that ERP is 143 times the cost per user than SuccessFactors. You offer no proof of this claim, using the list price of a perpetual license for ERP compared to your calculation for the average revenue per customer's employee for...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise software, Operational planning, software, ERP, SuccessFactors Inc., software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Is BI ready to meet the real world?
- What is hiding in the analysis?One area that BI seems to miss is understanding what is going on inside business processes, especially those run by BPM tools. I think that there is often a feeling of comfort that comes from BI, since seeing is believing and you can ignore the...
- Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business process automation, Operational planning, Enterprise software, business intelligence
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Figuring the value of software
- Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Tor 0.2.1.20 (Mac)
- Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Network, Relay, Tor, Internet, Networking, Security
- Software downloads 2009-11-01
- SOMESSO: social computing meets financial services
- Next Monday and Tuesday I will be attending SOMESSO in Zurich. This is an event that covers the intersection between the financial services industry and social computing. According to the blurbs: Day 1 is reserved for corporate workshops for Finance and Banking professionals Finance Masterclass on the...
- Tags: Financial Service, Social Computing, Fidor, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Microsoft's lawyers will be busy in the next few months
- Bleed 'em Dry.Got to love the blood sucking lawyers. I just hope MS's legal team bleeds them dry.Very sound legal analysis of the merits of each case. ntntJust the cost of being in business.What a wonderful world...I know there are a few honest lawyersout there somewhere (anybody seen one...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Long-term Mozy for Mac review
- Sad to read thisI have not found a "cloud" solution to backup either.I tried Backblaze, but the 1 month for the initial backup was not for me. Then, when I UNinstalled it, I was shocked to find a bit of it running on my iMac over 3 months later.The problem...
- Tags: Backups, Desktops, backup, Mozy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, online backup
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Virtual TimeClock Client '09 Release 3 (Mac)
- The Virtual TimeClock Pro Client is the full featured netowork client for connectivity to the Virtual TimeClock Server. Virtual TimeClock time and attendance software is full featured and powerful, yet easy to manage and use. Designed for the busy owner or manager without a lot of technical expertise, our time...
- Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Employee, Time Clock, Redcort Software & Development, Virtual TimeClock Pro Client, Virtual TimeClock Pro, Advanced Reporting, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- Virtual TimeClock Server '09 Release 3 (Mac)
- Virtual TimeClock time and attendance software is full featured and powerful, yet easy to manage and use. Designed for the busy owner or manager without a lot of technical expertise, our time clock software can be up and running in a few minutes. Take advantage of powerful auto discovery networking...
- Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Employee, Time Clock, Redcort Software & Development, Virtual TimeClock Pro, Advanced Reporting, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- Stunningly poor quality predictions about the future Internet from Google's CEO
- Sounds nitpickyI don't think Mr. Schmidt had time to include all types of disclaimers or footnotes to his predictions, it wasn't a research paper as far as I know. I can apply the same type of nitpicking to your writing.For example, citing "teenagers" is simply a easy way to describe...
- Tags: INTERNET, poor quality prediction, quality prediction, future internet, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
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