Consumer Package Goods Companies

WHITE PAPER: Timely access to information is something retailers need to satisfy consumer needs and wants. HP’s Converged Infrastructure can improve customer service and give retailers a competitive advantage. Learn how, through the use of HP’s Converged Infrastructure, retail businesses can streamline/standardize equipment, and advance their technology.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: CPG companies are discovering that high product volume sales come at the expense of extreme data complexity. Companies struggle to maintain open lines of communication with retail customers and distributors trying to manage the flow of product. Learn how CPG companies deliver BI to business managers to better manage fluctuating product demand.

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 | Published: 05 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how you can rise above the competition as a cloud provider, especially by using the five key steps outlined in this resource.

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 | Published: 06 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Siemens product lifecycle management (PLM) software for the consumer packaged goods and food and beverage industries enables companies to optimize package design and accelerate innovation while reducing costs.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

CASE STUDY: Learn how Procter & Gamble successfully teamed with HP to consolidate accounting and finance operations spread across the enterprise into a single, global organization, yielding cost savings, improved service levels, better accuracy, and more.

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for an explanation of how current IT methodology for implementing application integrations and business process automation is failing the business over the long run. Learn about the four established patterns of innovation that help organizations avoid these negative consequences.

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 | Published: 03 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: There is a new customer with which every online business must contend. Armed and empowered, they are leveraging a multitude of channels and a myriad of devices to stay “connected” to their favorite sites. What makes the connected customer tick? Find out in this paper by Lauren Freedman of the e-tailing group.

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

EZINE: This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing.

Posted: 21 May 2012 | Published: 21 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Mobile applications and devices have galvanized the retail industry. Read this white paper to learn about the business challenges, opportunities, organizational inhibitors, and technology enablers for retail industry mobility. Find recommendations for keeping the consumer at the center of your mobile strategy.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how the new SAP Trade Promotion Optimization application can help you optimize your trade promotions with smart, data-driven decisions, improve your trade spend, increase sales performance, and speed return on investment.

Posted: 15 May 2012 | Published: 15 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how one company in the retail industry significantly reduced running costs while maintaining its high system availability with high performance server technology.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This study offers an evaluation of today's four leading mobile operating systems, comparing them based upon twelve categories of security and management criteria to offer you a better understanding of what is needed for your mobile enterprise strategy.

Posted: 22 May 2012 | Published: 22 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Newell Rubbermaid Inc. improved its use of the available-to-promise (ATP) functionality of the SAP enterprise resource planning (ER) application to better allocate inventory and determine what goods were available to customers, and create even greater supply chain efficiencies.

Posted: 17 May 2012 | Published: 17 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: The pressure to allow employees to use more of the technologies they have at home in the workplace has reached critical levels.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Retail consumers can now research purchases online and access customer support via social networking sites, and disgruntled consumers can now shop around on the Web and on mobile devices. Read this white paper to learn more about the drastically changing world of retail.

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 | Published: 26 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll learn about some of the most common pitfalls associated with backups and how to avoid them. You'll learn about the repercussions of poor/failed backups, and learn how to establish a backup strategy that can ensure minimal downtime during a disaster. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

EZINE: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now.

Posted: 07 May 2012 | Published: 07 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: As we increasingly see technologies redefined with the suffix “as a service” are we entering a time of “everything as a service”? How will the future of the cloud change the way we work, bring new benefits to market and improve customer service? How can the cloud re-invent organisations?

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 | Published: 26 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will expand on what Oracle defines as Complete CRM – how businesses can better engage customers and users, manage customer transactions, and analyze results to adapt and take advantage of changing business and economic circumstances to realize greater value from CRM.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper provides an overview of how performance management can help midsize companies meet challenges using IBM Cognos Express, an integrated, one-stop business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies. IBM Cognos Express is a cost-effective choice for performance management.

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 | Published: 22 Feb 2012

ANALYST BRIEF: Managed print services offer far-reaching environmental benefits, helping a business reduce its carbon footprint, in addition to significant cost savings, according to this report from Quocirca.

Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

IT BRIEFING: European consumers' growing use digital channels as part of their shopping experience is driving retailers’ focus on delivering efficient online, cross-border operations in Europe, this research report from Accenture reveals.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: Industry leaders share their experiences turning IT business service ideas into effective moneymakers that also strengthen customer relationships.

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 | Published: 09 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide features insight from quality assurance expert Lisa Crispin on the risks and benefits of outsourcing performance testing. Crispin also offers tips on different performance testing measures and discusses performance testing specialists within agile software development.

Posted: 25 May 2012 | Published: 25 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explores new WLAN architectures and deployment models that have emerged which offer more options to help retailers get what they need while sticking to their budgets.

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Many companies' IT operations could function at a higher level but they lack proper management. Read this paper now to learn how you can use business intelligence (BI) and applied analytics to improve your IT operations processes.

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 23 Nov 2011