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		<title><![CDATA[Consultancy Streamlines ERP Implementations, Boosts Customer Satisfaction]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1200401]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Gold Certified Partner NeoProcess supports business customers with business process optimization and implementations of Microsoft Dynamics AX. The company experienced a rapid influx of new customers and needed to streamline implementations while enabling new hires and other employees to be effective. NeoProcess discovered and adopted the Microsoft Dynamics Sure...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/microsoft+dynamics.html"><![CDATA[Microsoft Dynamics]]></category>
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		<category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">MSFT</category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reinventing Business Processes Through Strategic Implementation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1111703]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The aim of this paper is to educate users about strategic implementation, and the impact it can have on success in the online environment. Its RISE methodology exemplifies the strategic implementation process, and the impact it can have on success in the online environment. It can mean the difference between...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Your implementation is killing us]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1075]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When I think about the enterprise apps landscape, it seems almost impossible to get away from MISO's addiction to multi-million dollar implementations. Those days are gone and yet financial analysts seem obsessed with the notion that somehow, some day they will return.    Oracle continues to wow the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:43:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/implementation.html"><![CDATA[Implementation]]></category>
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		<category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">SAP</category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ease of Implementation: An Overview of the Apex Solution]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1097169]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This white paper focuses on the implementation of the Edge 5000, a Point-Of-Work POW Industrial Vending System. Alternatively, POW Systems are called "Point-Of-Use" POU Systems. It will use the terms interchangeably in this white paper. The Edge 5000, from Apex Industrial Technologies, provides an easy-to-use, affordable solution for the control...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/implementation.html"><![CDATA[Implementation]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/apex+industrial+technologies.html"><![CDATA[Apex Industrial Technologies]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Taking the Heat Off Transactions: Dynamic Selection of Pessimistic Concurrency Control]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1139963]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper investigates feedback-directed dynamic selection between different implementations of atomic blocks. The paper initially executes atomic blocks using STM with optimistic concurrency control. At runtime, one identifies "Hot" variables that cause large numbers of transactions to abort. For these variables one selectively switches to using pessimistic concurrency control, in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Select Comfort: home-grown IT failure]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=1217]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Mattress retailer, Select Comfort, has abandoned its SAP implementation mid-stream, raising serious questions about the company's present and historical IT strategy. Select Comfort has not blamed SAP or any other third-party vendor for its problems. by Michael Krigsman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:04:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can Intrusion Detection Implementation Be Adapted to End-User Capabilities?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1022299]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In an environment where technical solutions for securing networked systems are commonplace, there still exist problems in implementation of such solutions for home and small business users. One component of this protection is the use of intrusion detection systems. Intrusion detection monitors network traffic for suspicious activity, performs access blocking...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Did Levi's use failed IT as a 'convenient scapegoat'?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=935]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Several observers have suggested Levi Strauss used IT failure as an excuse to deflect attention away from deeper and more significant financial challenges. by Michael Krigsman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:16:32 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Distributed Reactive Synchronous Programming Language]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=900241]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[RS is a reactive synchronous programming language suited to the implementation of the control part of reactive systems. The RS source programs are compiled to finite automata, which are very fast at execution time. This paper describes: the distribution of the RS language, the design of an MDX kernel that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/implementation.html"><![CDATA[Implementation]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is Rapid ERP Implementation Right for Me?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=343409]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Rapid Enterprise Resource Planning ERP implementations are very much in vogue today, especially for midsize enterprises with limited resources and budgets.  Rapid ERP implementations are generally completed in weeks, not months or years, as in the past.    Rapid ERP implementations decrease the risk associated with disruption...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/implementation.html"><![CDATA[Implementation]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Transactional Boosting: A Methodology for Highly-Concurrent Transactional Objects]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=914183]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper describes a methodology for transforming a large class of highly-concurrent linearizable objects into highly-concurrent transactional objects. As long as the linearizable implementation satisfies certain regularity properties (informally, that every method has an inverse), the paper defines a simple wrapper for the linearizable implementation that guarantees that concurrent transactions...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/implementation.html"><![CDATA[Implementation]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/association+for+computing+machinery.html"><![CDATA[Association For Computing Machinery]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Implementation Costs: Oblivious to the Obvious]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=284]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Big4Guy describes costs when implementing SAP or Oracle. The cost elements he describes more or less hold true when implementing any enterprise software, not just big ERP systems. Here is his list of implementation cost components which I have paraphrased:  1. License cost   2. Legacy data migration...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:30:06 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chewing on software and service pricing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=104]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the perennial discussion points among my colleagues is business software pricing and its relationship to services. This topic is problematic at all sorts of levels. We're seeing on-demand/saas putting pressure on both incumbent on-premise vendor pricing and within the on-demand world. Deep discounting is rife among enterprise vendors...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:58:07 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/implementation.html"><![CDATA[implementation]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Oracle 11i Applications Implementation for a Card Clothing Manufacturer]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=933575]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The client needed an integrated business information system for Manufacturing, Distribution, Finance, and Enterprise Asset Management and also needed to enforce best practices-driven processes and achieve process standardization. BSIL was chosen as the implementation partner on account of its demonstrated dominance in the areas of business process engineering, its expertise...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/business+process.html"><![CDATA[Business Process]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Implementation Failures and ROI]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=160]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[All too often, enterprise software buyers pay insufficient attention to examining the likely achievable ROI of technology they are about to purchase. Wisconsin Technology Network interviewed Leslie Hearn, vice president and CIO of TDS Telecom, on the subject of establishing a strong business case when purchasing software. From the article:Hearn...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:18:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Four Questions for Selecting Mission-Critical Software]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=148]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Evolving Excellence blog has a strongly-worded article against implementing SAP at a particular company with $5M in annual revenue. The argument basically says that a simpler, less expensive, system would work just as well for a business of that relatively small size. While the truth of this perspective is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:15:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rapid Implementation: Creating Competitive Advantage for Complex Equipment Manufacturers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=309145]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[You don't hear nearly as many horror stories about long, protracted, and expensive ERP implementations the way you did just a few years ago. Has something changed?  ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Avoiding SOA Failure]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=118]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[CXOtoday reports on an IDC study offering advice for successful SOA projects. Some choice quotes from the article:Majority of the early SOA adopters also cited the re-engineering of existing business processes as their top SOA implementation challenge. The ideal approach necessitates a â€œre lookâ€ at existing business processes, because without...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 21:29:16 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/soa.html"><![CDATA[SOA]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Failed Aspirations at Project Aspire]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=113]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Tampa Bay Business Journal, Floridas Project Aspire has been stopped in mid-track. From the article:A top Florida official has suspended work on Project Aspire, a proposed financial management system for state government. Alex Sink, the states chief financial officer, said in a release that the project was...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 19:57:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More on Simplification at SAP (Sapphire Vienna)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=107]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A comment to this recent interview with Pascal Brosset got me thinking about implementation complexity. The commenter states: Hopefully the simplification will reduce implementation projects to a more human scale, making success more likely and less expensive. When Pascal refers to prescriptive solutions, I believe he is referring to exactly...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 13:16:40 -0700</pubDate>
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