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- The Business Value of Upgrading to PeopleSoft Enterprise 9: Supplier Relationship Management Solutions
- This whitepaper provides an overview of the release 9 enhancements in the PeopleSoft Supplier Relationship Management applications. Oracle has been working with numerous customers and user groups to identify and prioritize critical new features in these solutions that will help organizations address current challenges and goals. New capabilities are primarily...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Supplier Relationship Management, Oracle Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Business Operations, Marketing
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Supplier Relationship Management and Procurement: Driving Value Through Best Practices
- This white paper presents the results of a 2006 benchmarking study conducted by Americas' SAP Users' Group ASUG and SAP. The study identified four methods that the most effective sourcing and procurement organizations are using to drive down costs and improve operational efficiency. Those methods include: Strategically...
- Tags: Supplier Relationship Management, SAP AG, Procurement, Best Practice, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Cable & Wireless: The mySAP Supplier Relationship Management Application Helps Global Telecom Drive Purchasing Efficiency, Compliance, Savings
- Cable & Wireless is a global telecommunications provider that is leveraging the functionalities of the mySAP Supplier Relationship Management mySAP SRM application to: Drive e-procurement Enforce compliance Reduce costs The company looked at a number of e-procurement products before choosing mySAP SRM...
- Tags: mySAP, Supplier Relationship Management, Compliance, E-procurement, Telecommunications, mySAP SRM, Cable And Wireless Plc., Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- Case studies 2005-03-01
- Electronic Invoicing With mySAP ERP
- Invoice delivery, payment, and settlement processes are costly to most businesses, consuming employee productivity and tying up large mounts of working capital. In addition, most companies do not maximize the benefits of their customer or supplier relationship management efforts and fail to link finance directly to sales, support, marketing, or...
- Tags: mySAP ERP, mySAP, Supplier Relationship Management, SAP AG, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Channel Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software, Marketing, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-10-01
- mySAP Supplier Relationship Management Helps New Zealand's Phone Company Track Spares and Returns, Implement Online Purchasing
- In 2000, Telecom New Zealand began a major supply-management review and found the company could be saving time and money in its management of spare-parts tracking and low-value goods purchasing. In 2002, Telecom brought in the mySAP Supplier Relationship Management mySAP SRM solution, and integrated it with its existing SAP...
- Tags: mySAP, Supplier Relationship Management, Phone, SAP AG, mySAP SRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Software, Business Operations, Marketing
- Case studies
- Leading Telecom Company Uses mySAP Supplier Relationship Management (mySAP SRM) to Create an E-Procurement System That Spans the Globe
- Ericsson is the world's leading supplier of mobile systems. Seeing an opportunity to cut costs, increase productivity, and streamline its business-support system landscape, the company began investigating how it could implement a common global purchasing process in order to work with its suppliers in a more productive and uniform way....
- Tags: mySAP, Supplier Relationship Management, E-procurement, SAP AG, Telecommunications, mySAP SRM, Purchasing & Procurement, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Marketing
- Case studies
- Spearheading the Drive Toward Strategic Sourcing With mySAP Supplier Relationship Management
- Always hungry for new functionality and better performance, Alfa was keeping a close watch on the market for Supplier Relationship Management SRM software. Alfa, a US$5.6 billion Mexican conglomerate, replaced its legacy platform with mySAP Supplier Relationship Management mySAP SRM to streamline e-procurement processes and reduce costs. Alfa has a...
- Tags: mySAP, Supplier Relationship Management, SAP AG, Strategic Sourcing, mySAP SRM, Alfa, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Marketing
- Case studies
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- SAP and Siemens: kiss and make up?
- The other week news broke that Siemens planned to can its estimated €40 million plus annual maintenance agreement with SAP. What a difference a few weeks makes. According to a press release issued by SAP: SAP...today announced that Siemens AG, a global leader in electronics and electrical engineering, has...
- Tags: Siemens AG, SAP AG, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- IBM opens up systems framework for energy companies
- IBM has designs on utility companies and other players in the smart grid and renewable energy world that are trying to see the big picture. The company is introducing a framework called the IBM Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework SAFE, which acts as an integration...
- Tags: Utility Company, Industry, Energy Company, IBM Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Broadband Over Power Line, GIS, Strategy, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Software, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Citrix and Fujitsu cuddle closer together
- Citrix and Fujitsu recently announced that they were taking their long-standing relationship to another level. Fujitisu has signed an OEM agreement with Citrix and will incorporate Citrix technology at a deeper level than ever before. The key questions are where these two companies think that they're going to get more...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Customer, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitisu, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Data Centers, Recruitment & Selection, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Surviving and thriving: or why MISO has it (mostly) wrong
- Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle collectively make up what Irregulars call MISO. Harsher critics might think they are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Whichever your chosen position I am coming to the view that the way they are going to market is wrong for the conditions in which we...
- Tags: CIO, Oracle Corp., Social Computing, SAP AG, IBM Corp., MISO, Vendor Response, David Dobrin, Vertica, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Oracle to Buy Sun - View from the Virtual World
- If Oracle's acquisition of Sun actually becomes a market reality, it will most certainly change the dynamics of the market for servers, operating systems, development tools, database management systems, applications and, of course, virtualization technology. Let's take a dark view of the possibilities in each area. ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Virtual World, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Productivity, Virtualization, Storage, Databases, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- GE's SaaS launch validates Aravo, a salesforce.com for supply chain
- Think for a minute about the third-party vendors who service your company - the folks who run the cafeteria, deliver office paper, clean the restrooms or provide security services, just to name a few. Now, think about a company the size of General Electric, an international conglomerate with more than...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Supply Chain, Software-as-a-service, General Electric Co., Aravo SIM, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Insurance, Financial Planning, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Financial Times: Insight Business Growth
- Just over a year on from the onset of the credit crunch, and the slowdown in the global economy, the threat of inflation and high oil prices continue to cast a long shadow over corporate profitability and the ability of executives to manage their businesses. World financial markets remain jittery...
- Tags: Economic Downturn, Financial Times, Business Software, SAP AG, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Purchasing & Procurement, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Software, Business Operations, Finance
- White papers 2008-09-11
- 6 reasons government IT projects fail
- Failed government IT projects occur with alarming frequency. In some respects, these failures share much in common with botched private sector initiatives. For example, failures in both environments are primarily a function of poor management rather than bad technology. Still, there are important differences between government...
- Tags: Team, Information Technology, Procurement, Accountability, Government, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Meeting the Challenges of Supplier Relationship in a Multisourced Environment
- The growing trend towards Multisourcing as the IT sourcing strategy of choice brings with it a unique set of challenges for clients and Service Providers alike. If they hope to derive maximum benefit from their Multisourced relationships, both parties need to make a firm commitment to adapting and improving their...
- Tags: Supplier Relationship, Dimension Data, Supplier, Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Business Services, Strategy, Business Operations, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Brief: 5
- This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals Section 2.2.1 "Mergers and acquisitions" You usually have no real choices...
- Tags: Consultant, Merger, Information Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- SOA as 'My Cloud'
- In previous posts, I speculated whether SOA often functions as 'internal Software as a Service.' Here's an interesting role for SOA: Create your own 'compute cloud' John deVadoss, director of architecture strategy at Microsoft, has an even better phrase for the phenomenon: 'My Cloud.'...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business, Supplier, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Channel Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Marketing, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- IBM's 'Blue Cloud' signals the tipping point for enterprise IT into services model
- I recall a front page story I wrote for InfoWorld back in 1997. At the time there were still plenty of naysayers about whether websites were a plaything or a business tool. There was talk of clicks and mortar, and how the mortar would always determine business outcomes. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Red Hat Inc., Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Service, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Citrix Gears Up for More Business Growth: New Infrastructure Simplifies Acquisitions, Reduces TCO
- Citrix has long standardized on Enterprise Resource Planning ERP, Supplier Relationship Management SRM, and business intelligence applications from SAP. Citrix Systems wanted to scale ahead of business growth-without growing cost and complexity and simplify and speed integration of acquisitions. Citrix Systems standardized on a single enterprise application Infrastructure and a...
- Tags: Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., Citrix Systems Inc., TCO, Pricing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Law, Data Centers, Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Purchasing & Procurement, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Software, Data Management, Management, Business Operations, Storage, Hardware, Managerial Accounting
- Case studies 2007-11-01
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