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<title><![CDATA[Calgary Co-op Expands Human Resource Solutions to Further Drive Efficiency and Transparency]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=993159]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Calgary Co-op wanted to leverage existing human resources and financial solution investments and to deliver on strategic vision and increased productivity of employees to drive continued profitable revenue growth. The challenge was to simplify and rationalize the IT landscape and articulate and quantify a business case to support additional IT investment. Calgary Co-op engaged Oracle Insight to review Calgary Co-op's HR, Finance, and Procurement strategies and objectives and to assess processes, issues, and challenges and identified and prioritized capabilities required to address the organization's challenges.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 07:32:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Epicor Software Case Study: Parsons Brinckerhoff]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=993007]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Founded in 1885, Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB, www.pbworld.com) is an international planning, engineering, program and construction management organization. As one of the oldest continuously operating engineering firms in the world, PB strives to maintain the culture and qualities established by its founder 120 years ago. Among PB's primary goals is to serve well its clients and the communities in which it completes its engineering projects. Achieving this goal requires a tight technology infrastructure and careful cost management. Previously, PB did not have set IT hardware standards which caused issues from a support standpoint and impacted the company's ability to maximize its IT spend. PB evaluated solutions from Oracle, Ariba and Commerce One, ultimately selecting Epicor Procurement for its price for performance.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 06:19:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Epicor Software Case Study: TEAM Industries]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=992915]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[TEAM Industries helps make the outdoor enjoyment possible by designing and manufacturing innovative power-train components for well-known companies in the recreational and off-road industries, including Polaris, Honda, Kawasaki and Yamaha. TEAM Industries began in 1967 with one building and 25 employees. Today, TEAM is a fully integrated group of five companies located across northern Minnesota, totaling 500,000 square feet of manufacturing space. Other industries served by TEAM solutions include agricultural, automotive and lawn care, with blue-chip customers such as John Deere, Ford, Dana, Ingersoll-Rand and Textron. In 1993, when Waagmeester joined the company, TEAM was using a stand-alone, batch-oriented system that could no longer support their vision to be a single, unified organization. They wanted an integrated, real-time, PCnetwork system. TEAM found what they were looking for in Vantage from Epicor.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 05:38:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ABSOLUTE SCALABILITY: SoftLayer improves IT staff efficiency by 15% while introducing more flexible services for customers with Dell storage]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=983973]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[These days, just about all organizations need to invest in information technology in one form or another, whether it's managed in-house or via an outsourcing arrangement. Either way, deciding on the amount of IT resources to purchase is usually a guessing game. Companies often overbuy to accommodate peak demand, wasting money in the process—or worse, fail to plan for growth and find themselves unable to capitalize on new business opportunities.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 12:11:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The City and County of Swansea Improves Visibility and Drives Efficiency With Automated Procurement]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=971401]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[City and County of Swansea wanted to improve efficiency by consolidating procurement across all council departments, replacing localized IT systems and eliminating manual, paper-based processes and raise visibility and improve control of purchasing activity throughout the council. The challenge was to ensure compliance with purchasing policy and eliminate suspected maverick purchasing and improve spend analysis with the help of commodity coding. City and County of Swansea overhauled purchasing processes across the entire council, with over 750 employees accessing Oracle iProcurement and 70 purchasing professionals using Oracle Purchasing and maximized use of Oracle iProcurement by giving all council departments access to buy lines, such as office stationary and supplies, cleaning and catering supplies, and more, from 15,000 suppliers.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:52:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cover Story: How to develop a killer business case]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=966809]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[As an IT leader, you are often expected to contribute your ideas and recommendations to the decision-making process in your organization. The ideas are not scarce but sometimes it's difficult to present a clear and compelling business case, structured in the way it can be understood by others. However,this is a critical skill that can dramatically advance the career of any IT leader. This cover story offers advice from the pros on how to develop a killer business case.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:19:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dalekovod d.d. Achieves Procurement Savings of More Than 20%]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=954939]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Dalekovod d.d. wanted to find standardized software solution with construction industry functionality to aid regional and global expansion and reduce risk of losing application support for antiquated legacy applications which rely on increasingly hard-to-find expertise. The challenge was to replace existing software, which did not allow for precise control and oversight of supply chain management processes and harmonize financial modules to local business culture standards and practices. Dalekovod d.d. worked with Oracle Consulting to introduce global best practices and enable better control of project management, using logistics modules such as Oracle Order Management, Inventory Management, and Purchasing as well as achieved procurement savings of more than 20% by gaining comprehensive control over SCM processes.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:38:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[10 reasons to invest in new smartphones]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=947919]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Despite the tendency to curb spending during rough economic times, some tech purchases can actually pay off. See why smartphones may fall into this category.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:15:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AppLabs Case Study: Royal Mail Group]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=945611]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Royal Mail Group Ltd is the parent company of Royal Mail, Parcelforce Worldwide and Post Office Ltd. As more and more consumers use the internet for purchasing, research and customer service, organizations need to ensure that their websites can cope with high numbers of internet visitors. One of the main challenges faced by the Royal Mail is to ensure that the website is able to cope with the sheer volume of users, especially during peaks in customer usage, such as in the run up to Christmas, Mother's Day and Valentine's Day. Royal Mail engaged AppLabs to provide an on-going managed service for performance testing. This service included a high level management team, which provided consultancy and created the testing strategy, as well as overseeing its implementation.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:58:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Breaking New Ground: Increasing the ROI of Mobility by Moving Complex Data]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=939359]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Business and IT managers alike have known for years that information is the fuel that powers business success. The ability to collect, integrate, secure, analyze and move business-critical information to end-users wherever they may be is essential.  This white paper describes the business process automation and content distribution capabilities provided by Sybase technology that are key to ensuring enterprises increase their ROI by getting complex data to where it's needed. 
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:25:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SOX Compliance - Purchasing Departments Face Intense Scrutiny]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=936019]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SOX, is an on-going migraine headache for corporate America because compliance is expensive, confusing and increasingly stringent. Companies are justifiably nervous about the uncertainty surrounding internal controls since no governing bodies have precisely determined what compliance with Section 404 actually means. Purchasing functions, especially, come under close scrutiny during a SOX audit because this is the place where fraud can easily occur. More than ever, finance leaders - like CFOs, Comptrollers and Internal Auditors - need to know the source of the data they use, and they need to understand how the systems work in order to gather reliable, accurate business data.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:10:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Web-Based, SaaS Purchasing Model Lives Up to Its Promises]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=936017]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[ePMX is or ePurchase Management eXtra is an On Demand/SaaS procurement solution for purchasing and material management. The entire ePMX suite has been built from the ground up for SaaS delivery. Bellwether Software has been a leader in e-procurement software since 1985. The company has put in years of experience and customer feedback in developing ePMX that is offered on a SaaS model. With prices as low as $25 per month per module for a single user, it makes e-procurement software affordable for any size company. And, it offers the opportunity for companies to get a higher ROI. ePMX software offers fast and easy deployment, and it is maintenance free.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:09:38 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ePMX: The Next Generation Software for Purchase Management]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=936015]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Since 1985 Bellwether Software has developed software that provides enterprise purchasing and e-procurement solutions for all types of businesses. The latest generation of the software, ePMX, is e-procurement software offered using an ASP model sometimes called On-demand software or Software as a Service (SaaS). This software is also offered via the traditional software model at the data center or a hosted data center of the choice. ePMX software helps companies reduce expenses and increase profits by improving the efficiency of the purchasing function.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:09:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Purchasing Automation Evaluation Checklist]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=936007]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[When beginning to evaluate software options for purchasing automation, it's important to differentiate between things that one must have and things that are nice to have. Once established, the list of things one must have can be used to shorten the number of potential options, while the list of things that are nice to have can be used for negotiation. A checklist has been created in this paper to help readers identify and separate their wants and needs. Just review and mark each of them as: "Must Have", "Would be Good", or "Don't Need" Need". Then use that information while evaluating the vendors.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:06:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Purchasing Automation Helps Protect Brand Image]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=936003]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Shifts in perception are largely caused by differences from property to property - or even within just one property itself - resulting in brand image changes or brand corruption. Simple things matter - like the soap used in a property's room in Florida should be the same as the soap used in a property's room in California. Customers expect consistency. They form a certain perception of the business through their consistent experience with it, but if inconsistency is experienced, it usually results in a lowering of brand image. Properties that are experiencing shifts in image need to review their business processes, especially their purchasing cycles because the purchasing process is an area where image or brand corruption can easily take place.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:05:52 -0800</pubDate>
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