Software Selection White Papers

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Choosing the Perfect Customer Support App
sponsored by Desk.com (A Salesforce Company)
WHITE PAPER: This guide counts down four easy steps to help you cut through the market for customer support applications and identify the tool that meets your business needs.
Posted: 05 Mar 2014 | Published: 05 Mar 2014

Desk.com (A Salesforce Company)

Buyer’s Guide to Financial Management Software
sponsored by NetSuite
WHITE PAPER: This resource counts down 10 essential capabilities of an effective financial management system. Read on to learn how you can make the software selection process a breeze.
Posted: 12 Feb 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

NetSuite

Can the Suite Compete? - What Every Recruiter Needs to Know
sponsored by Jobvite
WHITE PAPER: In this resource, HR and business leaders will find a comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of purpose-specific software and bundled software suites, providing you with key information to help you more strategically meet your organization's talent recruitment goals.
Posted: 19 Apr 2013 | Published: 19 Apr 2013

Jobvite

Optimize Your IT Systems with Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle now provides Oracle Optimized Solutions: a complete applications to disk solution engineered, tested, and certified to work together as a single system. Read this white paper to learn more about Oracle Optimized Solutions and how they can be used to improve Oracle E-Business Suite operations.
Posted: 17 May 2012 | Published: 17 May 2012

Oracle Corporation

In Pursuit of Operational Excellence: Accelerating Business Change Through Next-Generation ERP
sponsored by Infor
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how when deployed as a virtual application over the cloud and streamlined by mobile and social technologies, next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems create an integrated decision-making environment that will enable manufacturers to operate in real time over an intelligent value chain.
Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

Infor

Confronting the Immediacy of Now
sponsored by Infor
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how next-gen enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is faster than ever and can give your business a competitive edge when it comes to responding to customer requests, process speeds, and decision making.
Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 06 Mar 2012

Infor

Eight “Must-Have” ERP Features for Food Processors
sponsored by Plex Systems
WHITE PAPER: Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are essential to companies in all industries and the food and beverage industry is no exception. This white paper highlights eight features food and beverage processors must have in their ERP platform. Read more to discover if your company's system meets the requirements or falls below par.
Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

Plex Systems

Clinical Approach to Technical Upgrade
sponsored by Hexaware Technologies
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, discover the reasons why you should be considering an SAP upgrade to improve enterprise resource planning (ERP) and how to get started. Learn about new features of the latest SAP release as well as the technical advances and new technologies available to you.
Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

Hexaware Technologies

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting: Software Evaluation and Selection Guide
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses the challenges of planning, budgeting and forecasting in a spreadsheet environment and highlights the advantages of using a software solution designed specifically for planning, budgeting and forecasting.
Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 11 May 2009

IBM

To SaaS or Not to SaaS: Making Your Digital Measurement Count
sponsored by Unica Corporation - An IBM Company
WHITE PAPER: Read To SaaS or Not to SaaS: Make Your Digital Measurement Count by Eric Peterson to choose wisely.
Posted: 23 Sep 2010 | Published: 23 Sep 2010

Unica Corporation - An IBM Company

Telstra Reaps Transformation Rewards
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
WHITE PAPER: The business benefits of the IP transformation are numerous. First of all, as you reduce the number of actual networks, you save on software licensing costs, air conditioning and power. Less people are also required because rather than operating many silo networks in standalone mode you now have a common network.
Posted: 19 Aug 2010 | Published: 16 Aug 2010

Alcatel-Lucent

Meeting the challenges of virtualisation security
sponsored by Trend Micro
WHITE PAPER: Your organisation needs to consider which security mechanisms can best protect both physical and virtual servers, particularly as a virtualised architecture fundamentally affects how mission-critical applications are designed, deployed and managed. Download this white paper to find out more about real solutions to these challenges.
Posted: 04 Aug 2010 | Published: 01 Aug 2009

Trend Micro

Benefits and methods of implementing BPM on System z
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper is intended to inform the reader of what business process management (BPM) is about, the benefits that can be obtained from its implementation, how to place BPM into operation and why IBM WebSphere® Process Server should be deployed on the IBM System z™ mainframe.
Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

IBM

Requirements Engineering for the Aerospace and Defense Industry
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: A requirements engineering approach can help product and systems development organizations work in harmony. Read this white paper for an exploration of requirements engineering and its important role in product development.
Posted: 12 Apr 2010 | Published: 22 Jun 2009

IBM

Enterprise Performance Management: Key to Rapid Response for Today’s Successful Midsize Companies
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss some of the ways in which the new unpredictability of external market forces has escalated the value of precise internal forecasts and quick decision-making for these companies. Read this paper to learn about Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management technology offerings.
Posted: 15 Jan 2010 | Published: 15 Jan 2010

Oracle Corporation

Planning & Architecture for SharePoint 2010
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
WHITE PAPER: The content in the planning and architecture guides IT Pros in the development of conceptual, logical, and physical designs for configuring Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 features, servers, and topologies.
Posted: 10 Dec 2009 | Published: 10 Dec 2009

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd

Technical diagrams of SharePoint 2010 Architecture
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
WHITE PAPER: This article contains a number of technical diagrams describing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 features, upgrade considerations, and benefits. Many of these resources are visual representations of recommended solutions. They include poster-sized documents available in formats including Microsoft Office Visio 2007 files, PDF files, and XPS files.
Posted: 09 Dec 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd

What's New in Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
WHITE PAPER: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 offers all of the enterprise search features and functionality that are in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and provides many new enterprise search capabilities. This article summarizes the new enterprise search features and functionality in SharePoint Server 2010.
Posted: 07 Dec 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd

Evaluation Guide for SharePoint Server 2010
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
WHITE PAPER: This evaluation guide is designed to help IT pros gain sufficient knowledge and understanding to evaluate Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This guide describes some of the most compelling improvements and new additions to the SharePoint Server 2010 platform for IT pros.
Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 2009

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd

Empowering the Business to Sense and Respond: Delivering Business Event Processing with IBM WebSphere Business Events
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses one of the critical IBM technologies for supporting agility and alignment, Business Event Processing (BEP).
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 25 Jul 2008

IBM

Enterprise Resource Planning Software: Taking the Plunge
sponsored by VAI, Vormittag Associates, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to discover the many benefits of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.
Posted: 20 Mar 2009 | Published: 20 Mar 2009

VAI, Vormittag Associates, Inc.

Software and Services Financing
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Financing information technology hardware is an accepted way of doing business. Clients are discovering the benefits of financing software and services and are making financing of software and services one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT financing industry. This paper explains the importance of aligning financing with IT transformation.
Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009

IBM

How Successful Manufacturing ERP Selections Are Made: The Top Things to Look for, Look at, and Look beyond When Evaluating an ERP Purchase
sponsored by IQMS
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the major considerations manufacturers looking to add, upgrade of replace Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software should be aware of. By being cognizant of these aspects you'll ensure that you'll be able to select a solution that best fits your needs, both now and in the future.
Posted: 24 Dec 2008 | Published: 24 Dec 2008

IQMS

Enterprise Performance Management
sponsored by Epicor Software Corporation
WHITE PAPER: The most powerful ERP systems have long been designed to facilitate enterprise performance management (EPM). Learn how to select and use the right tools to execute and effective EPM strategy.
Posted: 12 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2004

Epicor Software Corporation

Usability as an ERP Selection Criteria
sponsored by IFS
WHITE PAPER: ERP software is often criticized for being complex and difficult to use. Read this paper to learn how to evaluate ERP software for usability.
Posted: 04 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

IFS