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ERP in Manufacturing: Expanding Beyond Traditional Boundaries - Aberdeen Group

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

Pressures to reduce costs continue to outweigh all other business drivers impacting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in 2009. ERP has become more than a necessary infrastructure; it is also a strategic weapon in streamlining and accelerating business processes – while providing visibility to those processes throughout the enterprise. This year Aberdeen looks beyond their annual assessment of ERP usage by module and explore the preferences and decisions between point solutions and an end-to-end integrated suite and assess the overall business value ERP brings to manufacturing.

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Key Strategies for IT Success in Today's Distribution Environment

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

The technology world around us is changing rapidly. Keeping up has become tougher for managers and supervisors. Today's economy has focused limited information technology resources on immediate results, not research or long term strategy. In this environment, an understanding of how to apply new technology for up-and-coming management is very worthwhile. This white paper provides high level definitions, opportunity identification, and future potentials for: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Anytime, Anywhere Availability, Mobile Devices, Web 2.0, and Report Cards or Balanced Scorecards as a Business Intelligence (BI) capability. It is a foundation for becoming more valuable to an organization by being able to generate a Return on Investment when applying the latest capabilities to the real world.

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A Guide to Selecting the Right ERP Partner

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

Although a challenging economy has caused many organizations to reduce overall IT spending, several continue to invest in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Such systems enable organizations to reduce costs, improve customer response time, become easier for customers to do business with and manage growth expectations.

As organizations determine their ERP strategy, they need to choose the right ERP vendor partner. This guide explores the "pros and cons" of the four types of ERP partners:

Partner ecosystems
Frameworks
Best-of-breed packages
End-to-end integrated solutions

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InfoStor

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:20:00 -0800

InfoStor is the leading source for storage professionals, covering the latest thinking on how storage technology is changing and the companies that are taking it to the next level. Its editorial is 100% storage, featuring topics including NAS and File Virtualization, FCoE, Virtual Servers and Storage, Storage Optimization, SSD Drives, Data Deduplication, Green Storage, iSCSI-based IP SANs, Cloud Storage, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Email Archiving and e-Discovery.

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In the Clouds with CaaS

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:20:01 -0800

Patrick Verhoeven, Sr. Manager, Product Management IT Solutions at Verizon and Jonathan Humphrey, Director, IT, Codemasters Software Co. Ltd., define Computing as a Service (CaaS), its benefits and why it makes good business sense.

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Antivirus Scanning Performance for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:50:01 -0800

IT system administrators need to balance the security requirements of the enterprise with usability of PCs. As the threat landscape evolved, PC security solutions have become resource hungry to the point that the PC becomes unusable during periods of security scanning. Test show that Sunbelt Software's VIPRE Enterprise endpoint security solution offers better scanning performance with minimal system resource usage compared to McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and Symantec Endpoint Protection products.

A Tolly Group Report, Commissioned by: Sunbelt Software

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Saving Six Figures Annually With the HP BladeSystem and Managed Services

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:20:01 -0800

Needing a blade infrastructure that's ready to grow, easy to manage, and up 99.9% of the time, HP helps ATI Enterprises consolidate their IT infrastructure and simplify operations with the HP BladeSystem and management tools from HP and Microsoft.

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Virtualization and the Midsize Organization: How Much Does It Help?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:20:01 -0800

Are you looking for specific information about virtualization and how it can impact your business?

Perhaps few of your peers in this midmarket class of enterprises have reached a high level of experience in virtualizing, and you need a dollars-and-cents rationale before considering beginning the virtualization process. Given hard experience adopting new technologies, you also need assurance that you can engage in virtualization without severely interrupting business.

To get some detailed and informative insights, read this IDC paper, which addresses these concerns and presents how virtualization improves business.

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The Business Value of Consolidation on Energy- Efficient Servers: Customer Findings

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:20:01 -0800

Business managers are looking for more flexible business models, more competitive operations, and faster time to market. All of this means that IT organizations must find operational savings while staying within their budget. They must find new infrastructure solutions that are more efficient and more cost-effective than their current solutions. They must do all of this and, at the same time, accomplish the following: improve service levels, provide faster response times, cover more users, and ensure better-integrated applications that are always available.

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WServerNews

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:20:01 -0800

Every week, Sunbelt's founder, Stu Sjouwerman writes WServerNews geared toward keeping system administrators up-to-date on new Server and Security related issues, third party tools, updates, upgrades, Windows compatibility matters and related issues. With over 100,000 subscribers, WServerNews is the largest Windows Server focused newsletter worldwide.

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