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BI and Performance Management : Smarter Faster Decisions
Better decisions, faster. That is the most important reason cited by CIOs for investing in BI today*
Yet the biggest problem IT still faces is how to make BI more pervasive and to increase adoption among business users. This shows that investments in BI are not reaching key business users and helping them better measure and manage their performance.
The past year has seen significant changes in the BI market, with BI pure-play vendors acquiring technology and analytic application vendors while the mega-vendors have been increasing their footprint across the whole BI and performance management spectrum. So while CIOs are struggling to deploy BI to a wider business audience, the never-ending round of acquisitions threatens to disrupt their carefully planned BI strategy.
Meanwhile, the convergence of structured and unstructured data, the introduction of search technology, the delivery of BI "as a service", data-warehouse appliances, open-source technology and new 64-bit architectures are all impacting today's BI environments.
* Gartner CIO survey
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HCL Takes Over IS functions for Europe's Leading Electrical Online Retailer
The client was looking for a single offshore outsourcing partner. In February 2006, they entered into a multi-year, multi-service, multi-million-dollar IT outsourcing deal with HCL to provide application and infrastructure support and development services to its IS function. The entire IS department has been outsourced to HCL. The HCL team architected a smooth transition to handle a range of citical IT components.
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Collaboration in the Workplace
Stuart Fulton of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) tells ITO America about the four key investments that are making a difference. The first key is Advanced Videoconferencing. Adoption of video among their people doubled in their last fiscal year because of availability, ease of use, portability, convenience, and enhanced sound and picture quality. Their goal was to refresh their older infrastructure.
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Optimizing your Virtual Environment with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
For virtual infrastructure administrators, understanding how physical resources are being consumed can seem like an impossible challenge. VMware vCenter Operations changes what's possible, enabling you to identify and isolate sources of contention and gain deep visibility into how physical resources are being consumed. See how vCenter Operations makes it fast and easy to identify over- and under-provisioned virtual machines, and how you can use these insights to free-up unused resources for systems starving for compute resources or new systems yet to be provisioned.
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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 QuickStart Series Part 1: SRM Preparation and Setup
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is the market-leading disaster recovery product that complements VMware vSphere to ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. In this first webcast in a two-part series, we will discuss SRM architecture, setting up and configuring sites, and creating protection groups for array-based replication as well as vSphere Replication.
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Simplified Management in the Real World with VMware vCenter Operations
Since its release in March, VMware vCenter Operations has been gaining significant market traction in managing dynamic virtual and cloud infrastructure. This webcast highlights VMware customer Brian Mack from MAXIMUS, a leading provider of health and human services programs to government organizations, and his experience in deploying vCenter Operations.
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Impact of Food Safety Legislation on Information Systems
When a contamination or serious illness breaks out, it is extremely difficult to identify the exact item or product that caused the problem. Issues could arise from a myriad of possibilities. Problems could be caused by suppliers, by the supplier's supplier during the inbound process, or they could occur due to breakdown within the boundaries of an organization's enterprise or could happen downstream in the consumer supply chain well after the product has been shipped off with all due diligence. It becomes almost impossible to identify the root cause of the problem unless comprehensive information systems and processes are in place.
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Winning e-Commerce Strategies - The Critical Factors that Can Make or Break a Successful e-Commerce Implementation
Online sales have seen exponential growth in the last few years. As this channel finally achieves a significant percent of sales of many retailers, most of them are re-evaluating their overall Cross Channel strategy and deciding how best to align the marketing; sales processes and support systems across the traditional store front and the online channel. Getting the e-commerce end of your business off the ground isn't a walk in the park, but it's also not as difficult as you may think as long as you strategize. This white paper attempts to lay out an appropriate roadmap for the implementation and customization process.
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PLM Implementation Pitfalls
Organizations are focusing on implementing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) applications to better manage the corporate assets- all the intellectual property and processes. Though PLM brings many advavantages to organizations that havbe implemented it, implementations can run into obstacles, overshoot the schedules and budget. This document presents the typical pitfalls in a PLM implementation and reasons for such pitfalls. The later sections of this document presents HCL's implementation approach that avoid such pitfalls.
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Leveraging Full Services Co-Sourcing Model to Reduce IT Cost by 50%
Retailers are experiencing challenges and in midst of these challenges the retailers often have a scattered IT environment between various third party vendors & their in-house IT departments. Indian Outsourcer HCL Technologies has helped one of the largest global specialty retailers through it's full services co-sourcing model in a multi service multi-year multi-million dollar engagement.
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PLM - Pros and Cons White Paper
Today, organizations want accelerated time to market at the same time products are getting more complex in terms of structure, design & regulatory compliances and product development occurring in different divisions that are geographically spread. Added to this is the complexity that arises with mergers or acquisitions. All the above results in increased product data and information to be managed and shared in a real-time manner. This white paper attempts to detail out how the PLM addresses the above mentioned specific pain points while factoring out the drawbacks in PLM system which need careful consideration from our PLM implementation and customization experience.
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The Overwhelming Challenges of IT Infrastructure Management
CIOs and IT leaders are the intended audience of this white paper. Business and IT share a symbiotic relationship where one cannot exist without the other. This white paper is a comprehensive attempt to highlight the challenges faced by CIOs and articulate the key business problems faced when building IT as a business enabler, particularly during uncertain economic times. It also seeks to accentuate the expertise that the HCL-BMC partnership has built in the IT infrastructure management service space through MTaaSTM Shared, its business-centric platform that leverages on the potential of SaaS-based service offerings and cloud computing.
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SAP Upgrade Assessment: Mitigating Risk of Upgrade Projects
SAP has developed a solid, long-term approach to maintenance. However, a give release has to be upgraded at some point of time to avoid technical obsolescence. Upgrades help business to maintain its competitive edge in the market-space with well-tuned, up-to-date business applications and supporting infrastructure. This white paper examines the challenges and risks associated with SAP Upgrades and analyze how an SAP Upgrade Assessment could be used as a risk mitigation tool. At the end it summarizes why a comprehensive upgrade assessment should be conducted on the existing SAP landscape.
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Food Safety - Background Implications and Next Steps
Over the past few years several events have occurred on the international scene which highlight the importance of food safety in health and development. According to the World Health Organization(WHO), every year there are 76 million cases of Food Borne diseases, resulting in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5000 deaths in the United States alone. The Food Safety and Modernization Act (H.R. 2751) which became a law on 4th Jan 2011 is hence an important step in the right direction. The Government does not want contaminated food to reach the consumers and neither do the Food Companies. This paper talks about the implications on the suppliers, retailers and importers of food in terms of their business processes, information and data management. The changed role of the FDA in light of the this law is highlighted in the paper. The steps to be taken by companies in the food industry so as to be compliant with this law as well as use traceability strategically to get an advantage over the competition are described.
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Solution Proposition - SAP Analytics+
This solution schema primarily addresses the most critical aspect of business especially in Retail - Time. It reduces the overall time from analysis to action to a large extent. Though some have maintained that such solution is yet to come to the market but a close possibility is that a fusion of solutions provided by SAP like mySAP ERP, PI, EP, BI/ BO, workflow on NW platform combined with industry benchmark from research agencies (for similar KPIs) and HCL's domain expertise in retail can bring this solution to reality. After SAP's acquisition of BO this appears more realistic that ever.
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Enabling Business Information Companies to Discover New Revenue Sources
Content ubiquity and commoditization caused by the internet has meant different things for the consumer and the provider. For the consumer, information sourcing has become easier and more economical. However, for business information companies, that provide information services to multiple sectors likie healthcare and education - the squeeze has happened at multiple levels. To stay relevant in this world business information providers need to do two things.
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SAP Recycling Administration (REA) for Consumer Product Manufacturers.
Recycling management is growing ever more demanding. Legal requirements, coupled with an increasing awareness of the environment, have confronted modern enterprises with a completely new challenge. In Europe, packaging waste, disposed batteries and the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) directives requires manufacturers for the correct disposal and recycling of their waste products. To comply with these directives on waste, Consumer Product Manufacturers must submit information on the products they bring into market to a central agency, which consolidates the data for local authorities. Most of the CPG companies that operate globally today must account for country specific differences in the respective directives, making compliance even more challenging.
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The Truth About Mobile Business Intelligence: Five Common Myths Debunked
In spite of the abounding myths, mobile business intelligence doesn't have to be expensive, hard to implement, or difficult to use. In fact, companies that choose the right solution, with the right capabilities, will realize low TCO and rapid ROI, while empowering their mobile users with the ability to access and interact with timely, complete corporate information from any smartphone or tablet.
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Developing an Information Strategy
Five vital actions are essential steps in a well-executed information strategy: strategize, align, govern, execute, and optimize. When working in harmony, these actions improve processes, increase productivity, and enhance decision-making. This white paper explores how to use them to develop an effective and broad-reaching information strategy.
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Data Quality Management: The Key to Successful Predictive Analytics
This white paper discusses the importance of data quality management as it relates to predictive analytics and explores various methodologies for assessing and improving data quality. It highlights best practices in preparing data for predictive analysis purposes and how poor data quality can negatively impact predictive modeling efforts.
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Leveraging Advanced BI to Increase SaaS Success
This white paper explores the types of reporting and analysis functionalities that SaaS users need, and the BI capabilities SaaS vendors must incorporate into their solutions to meet those demands. It presents some real-world successes and highlights the WebFOCUS BI platform as the ideal choice for SaaS vendors to extend their offerings with advanced BI features.
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Business Analytics for the CIO
CIOs realize they need to satisfy the ever growing demand for information that leverages the past, monitors the present and predicts with accuracy, enabling effective decisions and course correction. SAS provides a unified, agile and more effective information infrastructure to support evidence-based decision making across the enterprise.
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How the Intelligent Enterprise Delivers Performance Management
All organizations, public, private, large and small need to effectively manage business performance. Leading organizations are investing in managing information and developing predictive insights to drive sustainable business results. These companies have become masters in Performance Management.
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