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Providing CFOs Unprecedented Views of Hospital-Wide Data Converged Financial, Clinical, and Operational Information
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
 | White Paper: | Posted: 19 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 19 Nov 2009 | |
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CFOs at large hospitals must process enormous amounts of information to make quick strategic decisions. This paper will explore the decision-making challenges faced by CFOs and examine the many benefits of solutions that accelerate insight.
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10 Key Actions to Reduce IT Infrastructure and Operations Cost Structure
sponsored by Nimsoft, Inc.
| Analyst Report: | Posted: 04 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 04 Nov 2009 | |
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Infrastructure and operations (I&O) comprise 60% or more of total IT spending worldwide. I&O leaders are under intensifying pressure to reduce costs. This Gartner research note outlines the key actions that should be taken to change the I&O cost structure in the short term (through 2010) and in the longer term (during the next three years).
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Riding the Growth Wave: Leveraging Economies of Scale
sponsored by SAP AG
| White Paper: | Posted: 30 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2008 | |
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This paper examines how an integrated information technology solution can help
you take advantage of economies of scale to boost manufacturing utilization,
enhance service levels, and improve the efficiency of your sales and administrative activities.
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Achieving Sustained Growth through Operational Excellence
sponsored by SAP AG
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 02 Jun 2009 | |
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Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organization, enabling management by facts.
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SAP® Business All-in-One Fast-Start Program: Creating Affordable, Flexible Solutions for Faster Value
sponsored by SAP AG
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 Feb 2008 | |
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The SAP® Business All-in-One fast-start program enables you to configure a solution online, obtain an estimate of costs, and implement the solution quickly and cost-effectively. It delivers rapid time to value and lets you tailor the solution to meet your changing needs, protecting your long-term investment.
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Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance
sponsored by SAP AG
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 28 Dec 2007 | |
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This report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.
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Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies—Improving Your Company’s Efficiency and Effectiveness, No Matter Its Size
sponsored by SAP AG
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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While your company has continued to improve its operating efficiencies, you feel your company should be spending more time analyzing what's going on and predicting and planning for the future. This white paper from SAP offers guidance on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company with business intelligence.
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Migrating to the Cloud: An Alternative for SAP Customers
sponsored by NetSuite
| White Paper: | Posted: 14 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 14 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper examines a hybrid model of ERP deployment that not only lowers the overall cost and resources required to migrate to a new version of SAP, but also reduces the ongoing annual costs of keeping the systems working, thereby freeing up the IT budget for more strategic investments
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Building on SOA for greater business value
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 06 Oct 2009 | |
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To thrive in today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, top businesses of all sizes and in all industries are looking for better ways to achieve operational excellence that enables them to run their companies more efficiently and cost-effectively and drive innovation that matters to recognize market needs and
respond to them quickly and decisively.
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Data Center Lifecycle Management with Sun™ Ops Center
sponsored by Sun Ops Center
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 29 Sep 2009 | |
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Sun Ops Center cuts through the complexity of today’s datacenters with single-pane-of-glass management. It is a single, comprehensive, end-to-end system management tool that integrates physical and virtual management across the hardware/software stack and the entire system lifecycle.
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Initial Investment Payback Analysis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution vs. Dell PowerEdge 2850 solution
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
| Test Results: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2009 | |
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In this report, we estimate both the number of older solutions each Dell PowerEdge R710 solution can replace and the payback period for replacing those older solutions. One key finding discovered is that each Dell PowerEdge R710 solution can replace up to nine Dell PowerEdge 2850 solutions, and could yield a payback in around 9 months.
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Oracle AppCast: Aligning Finance and Operations with Business Strategy
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
 | Podcast: | Posted: 16 Sep 2009
| | Premiered: | 14 Sep 2009 | |
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Complexity, uncertainty, global competition and shrinking cycle times are all challenges organizations face today. As a result, finance needs to take on the role of a business partner and work with operations to accommodate the business plan. In order to do this, the proper tools need to be in place.
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Information Enables: Run Your Business Better – and Prove It
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 15 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 14 Sep 2009 | |
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Read this white paper to learn about Oracle’s comprehensive GRC platform and how leading enterprises are turning to Oracle’s new platform to meet the demands of increasingly challenging regulatory mandates while continuing to innovate and grow their business.
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Oracle Hyperion Planning
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| Data Sheet: | Posted: 14 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Dec 2008 | |
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This data sheet will outline Oracle Hyperion Planning, a centralized Microsoft Excel- and Web-based planning solution that integrates financial and operational planning processes.
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Seven Ways ITIL Can Help You in an Economic Downturn
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 15 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) best practices promote a well-functioning, collaborative IT environment that can enable the business and your IT organization to cope with the effects of economic stress. ITIL can help you to deliver higher-performing technology services that help your business to be both more competitive today and...
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