Companies have historically taken a functional approach to customer relationship management (CRM), to address immediate business pains. Challenged to manage its sales pipeline and forecasts, for example, an organization’s sales department might implement a sales force automation (SFA) application. The same company’s support department, however, might select a call center application from a different vendor to better manage incoming calls and [...]
Imagine standing at the end of a runway and watching airplanes take off. Envision a pilot out for a weekend flight cruising over your head in a single engine propeller-driven aircraft. The pilot flies low over your head as the plane climbs slowly to control airspeed for a weekend “neighborhood” cruise. Then a Cessna Citation [...]
What exactly is Green IT? Virtualization is one main focus of Green IT because it can significantly reduce a data center’s energy consumption and carbon footprint by consolidating server workloads from multiple servers that have relatively low levels of utilization on to servers with much higher levels of utilization. But SAP thinks that Green IT [...]
With a plan to significantly increase Barton Marlow’s competitive position and profitability in the construction industry, the company is scrapping its outmoded business software legacy system and implementing SAP Business All-in-One solutions from SAP AG. With the SAP(R) Business All-in-One for Engineering, Construction & Operations (SAP Business All-in-One for EC&O) solution from SAP channel partner, [...]
SAP unveiled SAP® Business Suite 7 software, a next-generation software suite that helps businesses to optimize their performance and reduce IT cost, in the Asia Pacific region. In the current environment, every organization is challenged to focus on short-term business value while preserving a coherent IT architecture and landscape. Recognizing this need, the new SAP [...]
No matter your company size. BI will improve your company’s efficiency and effectiveness Executive Summary Make Informed Decisions Across Your Company Your company’s focus has been on acquiring customers, streamlining operations, outpacing the competition, and increasing revenues and profitability. And while your company has continued to improve its operating efficiencies, you feel your company should [...]
For a company of any size, cash is the lifeblood of the business and the key to survival and growth. This is particularly true of small businesses in an uncertain economic environment. The everyday questions you have about your business become even more important. Are your customers paying on time? Which customers should be rewarded [...]
1) Don’t run your business out of the checkbook Particularly in an economic downturn where as was discussed above – cash might seem adequate for a season as the firm’s slow down in sales liquidates receivables and inventory that will not be replaced in the short term. Get your business model restructured to the new [...]
More than ever companies are looking at ways to optimize their operations to increase productivity while reducing costs. The silver lining for enterprise software vendors is that companies will turn to IT to automate processes, accelerate operations, gain greater visibility and connect with their business networks at a lower cost. IT departments in these companies [...]
TORONTO – December 11, 2008 – — SAP Canada Inc., a subsidiary of (NYSE:SAP), today announced that Home Trust Company of Toronto, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Home Capital Group Inc., will implement SAP® solutions to transform its core banking processes and increase agility to deliver enhanced products and services on an integrated platform to support [...]
