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Feb 10, 2012

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ALSO CALLED: ERM, Resource Management DEFINITION: ERM also stands for enterprise relationship management.1) ERM (enterprise resource management) describes software that lets an enterprise manage user access to its network resources efficiently. ERM software generally lets a user sign on to different enterprise systems and applications using the same password. ERM software makes it easy for the enterprise to control and keep track of which systems … Definition continues below.
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Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Software Evaluation and Selection Guide sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn a systematic approach to select software for your planning, budgeting and forecasting needs. Read how to combine today's best practices with leading-edge technology. Posted: 08 Feb 2012 \| Published: 08 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Financial Reporting \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software \| Spreadsheets

Three Keys to Better Data-driven Decisions: What You Should Know… Right Now sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: It's time for small to midsized businesses (SMBs) still using outdated business processes and systems to bring their decision-making up to speed with a centralized view of enterprise information. Read this white paper to learn how the right tools can give SMBs the accurate, timely data they need to make informed, strategic business decisions. Posted: 06 Feb 2012 \| Published: 06 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Reporting Software \| SAP (Product)

International Transportation Management Benchmark Study:Winners See Strategic Value of Visibility sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This third annual study examines how successful firms are managing international transportation and emerging trends in the industry. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Enterprise Resource Management \| Manufacturing Execution Systems \| Manufacturing Industry \| Manufacturing Industry Organizations \| Manufacturing Industry Professional Organizations \| Manufacturing Software \| Manufacturing Systems \| Supply Chain Execution \| Supply Chain Management \| Supply Chains

MPI Group: The Informed Manufacturer — Tips, Tricks and Tactics for Discrete Manufacturers sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Download this comic book package to take a light-hearted look at today’s manufacturing challenges – and to gain serious solutions for achieving success. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Compliance Best Practices \| Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| Lean Production \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Industry \| Manufacturing Systems

Realize The Benefits Of Design, Operation, Maintain Thinking Today sponsored by IFS WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll find tips and strategies for maintaining an open and flexible IT system that will increase the efficiency of your enterprise. Learn how leveraging design, operate, maintain (DOM) can facilitate an easy transition to an open IT system. Posted: 11 Jan 2012 \| Published: 11 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Asset Management Services \| Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| ERP Software \| IT Asset Management \| IT Asset Management Software \| IT Systems \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Industry

ERP vs. Project Based Solutions - Which Is Right For You? sponsored by IFS WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn why enterprise resouce planning (ERP) systems are emerging as an alternative to project-based solutions (PBSs). Posted: 11 Jan 2012 \| Published: 11 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Industry \| Manufacturing Industry Organizations \| Project Management \| Software Selection

Usability As An ERP Selection Criteria sponsored by IFS WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems usability, with special attention to allowing you to consider usability as a criterion in your enterprise application selection process. Posted: 11 Jan 2012 \| Published: 11 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Usability Testing

Lean Manufacturing sponsored by IFS WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates how IFS Applications support lean principles, particularly in the many manufacturing environments that require both rate-based and order-based shop floor execution. This hybrid approach lets you go lean step by step, as you are able, not because an inflexible system forces you to do so. Posted: 11 Jan 2012 \| Published: 11 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| Lean Production \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Industry \| Manufacturing Industry Organizations \| Manufacturing Industry Professional Organizations \| Manufacturing Systems

How to Choose a Manufacturing System sponsored by Sage Software WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn how Sage Software has successfully structured their manufacturing system to deliver useful information to enterprises needing to upgrade from legacy and manual systems. Posted: 06 Jan 2012 \| Published: 06 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| ERP \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Execution Systems \| Manufacturing Software \| Manufacturing Systems

Multiplication Strategy Fosters Easy SMB Growth sponsored by Sage Software WHITE PAPER: Small and medium size businesses often thrive by being high-value specialists. The dilemma is how to stay specialized in a particular niche yet grow aggressively. In this white paper, learn about multiplication as a growth strategy. Discover the risks and effective methods of mitigating them to ensure a successful implementation. Posted: 05 Jan 2012 \| Published: 05 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| Small Businesses \| SMBs

Managing the Extended Enterprise for Profitable Growth sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: When today's modern, extended enterprises make the move to standardize on a single business software solution, they often find that very few vendors offer products with the necessary scope and flexibility. Read this paper to discover the required elements of successful, unified business software for the extended enterprise. Posted: 02 Jan 2012 \| Published: 02 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Performance Management \| Business Process Management \| Enterprise Information Management (EIM) \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| ERP \| SAP (Product)

Achieve Greater ROI With These WFM Best Practices sponsored by Infor WFM Workbrain WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn how Infor10 WFM (Workbrain) is delivering a wide range of business benefits to companies worldwide. Posted: 16 Dec 2011 \| Published: 16 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Systems Management \| Workforce Management Software \| Workforce Planning

Business Analytics and Optimization Jumpstart: Embedding analytics to transform insights into action sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: The combination of a complex world, the vast proliferation of data and the pressing need to stay ahead of the competition has sharpened focus on using analytics within organizations. Analytics-driven organizations are outperforming their competitors by connecting people with trusted information, enabling them to make real-time decisions. Posted: 18 Nov 2011 \| Published: 18 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Process Management \| Enterprise Resource Management

Scorecarding with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: Monitor, Manage and Perform sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Scorecards help you define, monitor and manage your company's critical metrics. By translating tactics and strategies into specific, measurable objectives, scorecards help you link corporate strategy to operations and ensure that your company's goals are consistently defined, understood and communicated. Posted: 14 Nov 2011 \| Published: 14 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Balanced Scorecards \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Enterprise Resource Management

How Three Companies are Anticipating Demand with Adaptive Rolling Forecasts sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, we’ll look at how three enterprises practice rolling forecasting, deploying the process at various levels and in various departments to guide them through market volatility. Posted: 14 Nov 2011 \| Published: 14 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Collaboration \| Data Analytics \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software \| Predictive Analytics \| Risk Management

Can Your Small Business Afford ERP? sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Neglecting to invest in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution can significantly hinder continued growth and profitability for small businesses. Read this white paper to find out if your small business can afford ERP, and if you can afford to operate without it. Posted: 31 Oct 2011 \| Published: 31 Oct 2011 TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Enterprise Information Management (EIM) \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| ERP \| ERP Software \| SMBs

CW+ Open Group: World-class enterprise architecture sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com WHITE PAPER: This White Paper is intended to help organizations who are attempting to set up an enterprise architecture practice. It shows how organizations can use a modular, iterative, and incremental approach in order to develop an architectural capability that is otherwise a large and complex undertaking. Posted: 20 Oct 2011 \| Published: 20 Oct 2011 TOPICS: Enterprise \| Enterprise Applications Software \| Enterprise Resource Management

Piloting a Private Cloud for Test and Development: How virtualization lays the groundwork for a more efficient and agile business sponsored by Dell and VMware WHITE PAPER: This interactive white paper will examine why test and development is an ideal first step for businesses looking to transition more functions to the cloud without sacrificing control over IT resources. Posted: 19 Apr 2011 \| Published: 19 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Application Hosting \| Applications Management \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Security \| Enterprise Resource Management \| SMBs

Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers Systems and Resource Management sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are designed specifically as general-purpose application, database, data warehousing, and consolidation servers. They are especially suited to address the needs of enterprise datacenters, with a goal of increasing performance and flexibility while consolidating systems to reduce datacenter costs and complexity. Posted: 15 Mar 2011 \| Published: 15 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Microprocessors \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| UNIX Server Hardware

Oracle Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Architecture sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server provides a combination of freely available and no-cost virtualization technologies, excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) ratings, very high performance hardware, and significant data center efficiency gains. Continue reading to learn more. Posted: 14 Mar 2011 \| Published: 14 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

5 Steps to Transforming the Data Center sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel WHITE PAPER: To prepare the data center for the future, you must first align people, processes and technology and develop a strategy for transformation. This paper offers 5 key steps for transforming the data center to meet evolving business needs. Posted: 17 Feb 2011 \| Published: 17 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Hardware Implementation \| Server Virtualization

Virtualization: Smart Approaches to Maximize Gains sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is a presence in nearly all enterprise data centers. But that doesn’t mean all companies are using virtualization to its best effect. The results of this recent research reveal the common characteristics of virtualization success, what barriers companies face, and how to get the most from your virtualization efforts. Posted: 11 Feb 2011 \| Published: 11 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization

ERP In A Recovering Economy: Now is the perfect time to invest! sponsored by IQMS WHITE PAPER: During past economic slowdowns companies didn’t plan ahead to safeguard the ability to grow profitably. While the current economic downturn shows a need to reduce costs, many SMMs are also pursuing growth. They’re responding to market pressures and rising costs by targeting IT solutions like industry-specific ERP to set the stage for future growth. Posted: 06 Jan 2011 \| Published: 06 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Cost Benefit Analysis \| Economic Environment \| Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| ROI \| Small Businesses \| SMBs \| Software Implementation \| Strategic Planning \| Vendor Selection

Think Your Organization is Too Small for ERP? Think Again sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: ERP has become much more affordable in recent years, and while many believe ERP to be out of reach for SMBs, Aberdeen research shows a well-managed ERP implementation can be a continuing source of cost savings and operational improvements which help companies grow and thrive. Read this white paper to learn more. Posted: 06 Jan 2011 \| Published: 06 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Business Integration \| Business Management \| Business Systems \| Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| ERP Software

Saugatuck Technology: ERP for Small and Mid-sized Companies: Time for a Decision sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often reach the point where their executives are considering, or should make, a significant change and/or investment in business management IT. What used to be ruled out as an option for these types of organizations, but now needs to be strongly considered, is ERP. Read this research report to learn more. Posted: 06 Jan 2011 \| Published: 06 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Business Integration \| Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| ERP Software \| SAP (Product)

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ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DEFINITION (continued): … ERM also stands for enterprise relationship management.1) ERM (enterprise resource management) describes software that lets an enterprise manage user access to its network resources efficiently. ERM software generally lets a user sign on to different enterprise systems and applications using the same password. ERM software makes it easy for the enterprise to control and keep track of which systems and resources each user has access to, and provides consistent standards for creating and changing passwords. One system administrator can usually manage user access to all platforms - UNIX, mainframe, Windows NT, and so forth - and to the applications on these platforms that require controlled access. 2) ERM (enterprise resource management) also describes software that manages all of a company's assets and resources, including such basic applications as general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, as well as manufacturing, inventory, and human resources.
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