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Automated Data Collection: From Cost Justification to Vendor Selection

After making the enormous corporate commitment and investment required to implement the ERP system, it is sometimes difficult to justify the purchase of more resources to make the ERP system work better. However, for many companies a relatively modest investment in Automated Data Collection ADC technology can provide significant benefits...

Tags: HighJump Software Inc., ERP, Vendor Selection, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

White papers 2008-05-01

Client Firewalls Pack

The Client Firewalls Pack includes four Excel workbooks: the Gap Analysis Report, the Vendor Selection Checklist, the Vendor Reference Questionnaire, and the Financial Scenario Planner. These tools are designed to help you identify any gaps in your current security needs and determine a vendor that will best meet your requirements....

Tags: Gap Analysis, Vendor Selection, Client Firewalls Pack, Microsoft Excel, Firewalls, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Networking

Download resources 2005-06-07

Vendor selection not always by the book

Vendor selection not always by the bookNot surprising.A formal deliberative process would be, well, fair, and business isn't interested in fair. These procedures are quite common, it allow them to select the vendor they want, and exclude others.Some companies use this type of process to drive the price down...

Tags: vendor selection

Discussion threads 2005-03-12

Vendor Selection Checklist: E-commerce

Trying to decide which e-commerce solution works best foryou? Try TechRepublic's Vendor Selection Checklist:E-commerce--put down which features matter most to you, and our tool can help you identify the vendor that most closely meets your needs. Using this checklist in conjunction with our Gap Analysis Tool: E-commerce will help you...

Tags: Vendor Selection, E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet

Download resources 2005-02-07

Vendor Selection Checklist: Display Devices

Our Vendor Selection Checklist: Display Devices tool will help you assess the products and services available from various vendors so that your decisions are based on the facts and issues most applicable to your needs. This download is for TechRepublic Pro members only.

Tags: Vendor Selection

Download resources 2004-12-07

Vendor selection checklist: Supply chain management

Use this tool to assist you in your search for the best Supply Chain Management solution. Weighting selection criteria to best fit your organization will quickly identify the vendor most likely to meet your expectations. This download is available for free as part of a TechRepublic...

Tags: Supply Chain, Vendor Selection, SCM, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software

Download resources 2004-10-22

Vendor Selection Checklist: Flat Panel LCD Monitors

To effectively evaluate LCD monitor vendors and make the best purchase decisions, you need data that allows you to build a sound comparative analysis. Our Vendor Selection Checklist: Flat Panel LCD Monitors tool's detailed worksheets (Criteria Ranking, Vendor, and Comparison) will help you assess the flat panel LCD monitors available...

Tags: Flat Panel, Monitor, LCD Monitor, Vendor Selection, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components

Download resources 2004-05-11

Notebook computers vendor selection checklist

Find the best solution to keep your network safe. Learn how our Vendor Selection Checklist: Notebook computers can help you choose the right laptop vendor for your organization with this free sample version. This download is available for free as part of a TechRepublic Pro membership....

Tags: Notebook Computer, Vendor Selection, Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Download resources 2004-04-23

Bite Achieves Record Levels of Customer Satisfaction Using Siebel Communications

Bite is the second-largest mobile telecommunications provider in Lithuania. In order to achieve the company's goal of having a highly satisfied customer base, the company has launched a comprehensive customer experience improvement program to develop its people and sales channels. The program is also optimizing customer touch points. At the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., Customer Experience, Customer Satisfaction, Vendor Selection, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales

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Friday Challenge: What can your OS do that mine can't?

My OS can break 5% global desktop market share!Sorry Mac and Linux! :PBetter/Larger Hardware/Software SelectionMy operating system Windows has a better and larger library of available applications, and a larger ecosystem of supported hardware.Why do you insist in behaving as an idiot?Hope what they're paying you is enough to compensate...

Tags: Operating systems, MSF, OS Installed, operating system, Ubuntu, Linux, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Android 2.0 (Eclair) FAQ

Android 2.0 GPSWill the GPS be functional if I don't buy the expensive Verizon data plan or pay by the Mb.You would need access to the internetto download the maps as needed there would not be enough room on the phone to store the whole country locally. So unless you...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Android 2.0, phone, ECLAIR

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Phishing experiment sneaks through all anti-spam filters

A recently conducted ethical phishing New study details the dynamics of successful phishing experiment impersonating LinkedIn by mailing invitations coming from Bill Gates, has achieved a 100% success rate in bypassing the anti-spam filters it was tested against. The experiment emphasizes on how small-scale spear phishing campaigns...

Tags: Anti-spam, LinkedIn, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Microsoft's Courier tablet: A Franklin Covey planner on steroids?

I'd buy one instantlyThe Courier embodies everything I've wanted in a portable device for well over five years now - essentially an electronic pad/binder that works very similar to the physical counterpart. Notebooks are too cludgy (being clam-shells) and tablet PCs far too heavy (and still basically clam-shells), not...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Microsoft Corp., Franklin Covey

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Brent Leary Expounds: The SMBs Rejoice

Brent Leary, who is not only my bud, but one of the leading, no, the leading, small business consultant and analyst when it comes to small business (duh!), CRM, social CRM and social media,  is someone that I want to highlight on these pages.  Not that you need to come...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Leader, Small Business, Small And Medium Business, CRM, Brent Leary, Maximizer Needs, Price Point, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Der Frankenputer: A Last Hurrah at System Building

It all started with two extra Opteron CPUs and RAM and a bunch of hard drives which I had lying around, that mushroomed into a Build-Your-Own monster PC project. Like a modern day Victor von Frankenstein, who digs up bodies in graveyards in order to bring his...

Tags: PC, AMD Opteron, Amazon.com Inc., Power Supply, CPU, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-12

ERP sales are falling: here's one reason

I'm on a small project that is typical of many: "I have a modest sized business but our complexities are no different to the Big Boys. Help." So off we trot so see if there's a solution that comes vaguely close to an 80% fit. As a 'day job sometimes'...

Tags: Solution, Oracle Corp., ERP, Microsoft Corp., ERP Sale, Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Outsourcing, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-04

File format blues

Routinely suppliers of technology and services send me a presentation deck. This deck is to meant to be the central focus of a conversation about their products or services. One would expect that these suppliers, or their public relations firms, would do their best to make sure that these presentations...

Tags: Format, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Supplier, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, OpenOffice, Channel Management, Management, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-29

What to look for in a SaaS vendor

What to look for in a SaaS vendorSaaS Vendor Selection WhitepaperSome really great pointers. Especially now, when SaaS becomes a reality nobody can really ignore, big company or small, companies need guidance like this more than ever. We had done a similar whitepaper on SaaS vendor selection, along with a...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

Survey: IT leaders looking to squeeze vendors; Is best of breed back?

As technology budgets are squeezed IT decision makers are increasingly looking toward vendor savings to hit their targets, according to a survey by Wedbush Morgan. The securities firm surveyed 100 IT managers at companies with 500 employees or more. Among the takeaways: Thirty-five percent...

Tags: Budget, Information Technology, Leader, Survey, Wedbush Morgan, Web 2.0, Marketing Research, Balance Sheets, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Saas? We're too busy making ERP work

It's sometimes good to be reminded that while the industry hype is around saas/cloud/on-demand that there is still another world out there where customers are wrestling with more traditional approaches to computing. The other evening I had a conversation with Erick Kimberling, CEO of Panorama Consulting. Panorama...

Tags: ERP, Panorama Consulting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-02