Enterprise Resource Planning

To be successful, operations requires integrated business management methodologies and systems that assist in making better, faster decisions and provide visibility into key performance drivers, such as employee productivity, asset utilization, and project profitability.

As a major wholesale retailer and distributor, Elektroskandia is highly dependent on its Central Warehouse Management System. But this critical application was running on an aging mainframe and, with the discontinuation of its operating environment, the system's support and maintenance costs had grown to unacceptable levels.

In today's competitive global marketplace, Application Management Services (AMS) have become increasingly important for international companies to comply with country-specific markets and regulations, and ensure high-quality operations of SAP solutions in a sustainable, cost-effective manner.

Change is inevitable, especially when it comes to management of IT environments. The key to efficient provisioning and patch management is the creation of superior change management processes, which aims at automating all stages of the patching process.

Many organizations have been exploring how to realize the economic benefits of cloud computing within their own datacenter.

The strategic sourcing group has faced myriad challenges over the last two decades, including a fluctuating economy and increased expectations to bolster the enterprise bottom-line. However, the last few years have brought about a new, complex challenge: continue to drive procurement performance while finding fresh cost savings within other areas of corporate spending.

The Latest in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. By adopting a set of integrated processes and practices designed to attract, manage, develop and retain key people, companies will be able to more effectively manage their talent.

If the go-go 1990s, with its fast money and flush credit seeking rapid and steep returns, created the demand for "renaissance" Chief Financial Officers ("CFO"), who could manage (and market) both the strategic and financial operations of the enterprise, the more sobering decade that followed led directly to the creation and subsequent rise of the Chief Procurement Officer ("CPO"), who could reduce costs, build internal relationships, and develop strategic suppliers efficiently and effectively.

In today's highly-competitive markets, more and more procurement and sourcing professionals are looking to streamline processes and drive superior performance. In the quest for higher savings, more spend under management and increased compliance, sourcing executives must turn to their own repository of spend data to effectively identify opportunities for savings and gain a deeper understanding of their corporate spend.

Many SharePoint implementations are mission critical, yet access to these sites is often thwarted by poor network performance. In this analyst report from ESG, you'll discover how, much like Microsoft Exchange and other collaboration applications, companies deploying SharePoint can benefit from WAN optimization solutions, ensuring that they make the most of its productivity and information sharing capabilities

Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a significant step forward toward empowering enterprises across the chasm to the next generation business applications that is powered by a platform delivering rapid composition, comprehensive lifecycle management, customizability, and easy upgrades.

The global recession is taking no prisoners. Neither industry, nor region, nor company-size has provided shelter from its impact. Within the enterprise, few business functions have been unaffected. Yet, as this business downturn continues, the Chief Procurement Officer's ("CPO") agenda and the CEO's agenda have started to converge.

Managing your applications top-down from a business perspective allows you to identify business exceptions rapidly, pinpoint root cause issues using drilldowns in the underlying technologies, infrastructure, and remediate the issues automatically before they become emergencies.

Many companies believe that learning is one of the primary experiences their staff should be having as an employee. An effective enterprise learning system must be structured and implemented with much forethought so that it not only supports organizational learning, but also the vision and objectives of that company.

Before your company launches its next package selection, implementation or upgrade, make sure you don’t cripple the project from the start by failing to identify your requirements – the number one reason that projects spin out of control. This white paper summarizes some of the key lessons we have learned through our industry-leading requirements definition practice.

The later in the system development life-cycle that major errors are discovered the more expensive it is to fix them. But the earliest stages of the systems development lifecycle (SDLC) are most often the least consistently executed. This paper describes a methodology that brings the early stages of the SDLC up to a high level of maturity: consistent, proven, and optimized for success. 

ERP has evolved! The 2010 line-up features advancements across the board. What's the latest from Oracle, SAP, Sage and Epicor? Which solution delivers the best options for your business? Turn to Focus for the facts. Download our brand new ERP Comparison Guide to evaluate the top 17 ERP solutions -- in-depth, in a flash.

Choosing an ERP solution is all about understanding which vendor configuration delivers the most benefit for your business. We have the playbook. From basics like financial and HR management to advanced features like Business Intelligence components, the ERP Buyer's Guide from Focus Research is a must-read for today's enterprise companies.

The 2010 Top 20 ERP Vendor Report reveals: The Top 20 ERP software providers you should consider; Highlights of each vendor's strengths in accounting, manufacturing, supply chain management, and more; Vendor background and contact information to get you started; How the right ERP software can simplify processes and reduce production costs.

Profiles of the Leading Manufacturing Software Vendors.

Profiles of the Leading Retail Management Software Vendors.

Profiles of the Leading Supply Chain Management Software Vendors.

Profiles of the Leading Warehouse Management Software Vendors.

This white paper provides an overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center's features and architecture and demonstrates how it can be put to use in the datacenter.

Collaboration in the enterprise requires a triumvirate of people, process and technology to be successful. With the plethora of collaboration applications available today, both IT professionals and collaboration business users alike need to take a holistic approach to be successful with collaboration. This paper lets you know about some of the common pitfalls and how to avoid them.