Dopharma Holding BV wanted to migrate the company's Netherlands offices to an updated enterprise resource planning solution to streamline sales processes and integrate a new sales office in Romania into the company's existing IT environment. The challenge was to provide a solution that makes it easier for users to calculate...
Scandinavian Tobacco Group wanted to ensure that all information in the AS/400 DB2 database environment required by sales and marketing is available for quick and flexible use and reduce the delay between the business requesting information and the actual report delivery, eliminating production management delays. The challenge was to improve...
Quanam wanted to consolidate business information from offices in different countries to improve control and follow-up of the company's business activities and create an up-to-date database of clients, prospects, accounts, and contacts to enable follow-up and forecasting of sales opportunities online and in real time. The challenge was to improve...
Acer offers upbeat sales forecastAcer offers upbeat sales forecastOh the same company that was whining and crying last year because of poor sales supposedly due to Vista is now having upbeat sales? I called BS last year and this is proof they were lying. I don't trust Acer anymore.They've...
Forecasting demand - instead of simply forecasting sales - can help retail executives compete in today's environment. It's true that sales forecasts drive many critical decisions. Retailers could not run their businesses without sales forecasts. However, if you rely only on sales forecasts, you may fail to exploit the full...
Polycom relied on a proprietary system for gathering forecast data, but the system was unable to provide what the growing company needed: instantaneous, real-time information that was integrated with various lines of business and the channel. With the help of salesforce.com Professional Services, Polycom deployed Salesforce globally, gaining companywide visibility...
To create a successful sales strategy, one needs reliable sales forecasts on which to base his sales projections. Fortunately, producing sales forecasts doesn't have to be difficult. First, one needs to gather meaningful data with the help of his team members. Then he needs to decide the type of forecast...
In Europe, the Middle East, and Africa EMEA, software company Microsoft Corporation relied on local subsidiaries to feed sales data into a proprietary application that lacked the functionality to produce sales forecasts. The EMEA Information Worker group partnered with Decision Support Panel to implement a business intelligence solution based on...
The Stock Investment Guide SIG is a stock analysis tool for new and experienced investors. The software provides investors easy-to-use tools to analyze a company's earnings history to help forecast what earnings could be in five years. SIG can then tell the investor if the current PE ratio is in-line...
HP CEO Mark Hurd is big on cloud computing, but acknowledges its limits. For instance, HP "wouldn't put anything material in nature outside the firewall." The message: The cloud has its place, but there's a vast difference between private and public computing. [caption id="attachment_26254" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Credit:...
The Stock Investment Guide SIG is a stock analysis tool for new and experienced investors. The software provides investors easy-to-use tools to analyze a company's earnings history to help forecast what earnings could be in five years. SIG can then tell the investor if the current PE ratio is in-line...
Sorry to have dropped off the radar for awhile. I was on the road. Â First in Chicago having facilitated a customer event with Sword Ciboodle customers at the Union League Club - one that included a presentation by Brian Carey of Sears on what Sears is doing to improve the...
NEC Unified Solutions wanted to unify sales, forecast, and pipeline data to gain a single view across various sales channels, including direct sales and resellers across North America and standardize sales processes and consolidate various legacy and third-party Customer Relationship Management CRM applications from multiple acquisitions. The challenge was to...
HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-ray to the gutterWell researchedThe problem with Blu Ray is the royalty aspect of this format.Thousands of dollars just to use their logo on the Jacket Cover and so on.Maybe this chinese will work.So is my HD-DVD player dead or not?In the US that is,...
Since the unconstrained demand forecast is such an important part of an organization's S&OP process, it should be based to a large extent on statistical techniques as opposed to judgmental techniques. Many organizations develop demand forecasts utilizing a group's product knowledge as the primary driver. When used as part of...
Qvinci Basic is an application created to help you analyze your critical QuickBooks company data with a couple clicks. Qvinci uses forward looking tools, key performance indicators, and a dashboard to provide the fastest holistic visibility for your company. You can see your Profit and Loss for the current month,...
Attention MSmart shoppers. Wintel's results are in the toilet and Apple's surpassed estimates. Despite Microsoft's sassy Laptop Hunter ads, Apple sold more Macs than anyone expected. Want to know why? Win on price, lose on price Behind the engaging little customer stories in the...
The technology earnings season kicks off in earnest Tuesday when Intel reports its second quarter results, but the outlook for the sector may sound like a broken record: Visibility is low and IT budgets fluctuate with everything from CEO mood swings to the stock market. A handful...
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