Durable Goods Industry

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: 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: This resource presents how IT solution providers can grow through a targeted approach to marketing and sales by focusing on specific industries or types of businesses.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers hospitality strategies for combining social media and real-time customer relationship management (CRM) to wow patrons and increase customer loyalty. Learn how social CRM can increase your ROI and build your business reputation.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This exclusive research reveals what IT professionals really think about technology, their employers, and their careers

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Whether it is an inappropriate ‘tweet’, an internetsecurity scandal or a story of the fastest growingcompany in the world, technology, be it for theright or wrong reasons, has become regular frontpagenews.This survey aims to give a snapshot of thetechnology industry from the inside.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: A costly, complicated migration to a best-of-breed e-Procurement platform is not the only way to achieve a consumer-friendly user interface (UI) and ensure user adoption. Read this paper to discover a cost-effective alternative that allows SAP ERP users to leverage their existing infrastructure to achieve e-Procurement adoption.

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 09 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: As the threat landscape continues to evolve, the approaches to thwart them must also. But with emerging trends like social networking and the influx of mobile devices, ensuring adequate security is becoming more complex. In this expert resource, explore the security risks organizations face in today’s changing environment.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

CASE STUDY: By simplifying its networking infrastructure through such techniques as virtualization to create centralized pools of PCs and workstations, Lifetime Brands was able to improve the performance of its networking infrastructure and reduce data center costs.

Posted: 26 May 2011 | Published: 26 May 2011

ANALYST REPORT: Who could have imagined that a tablet would capture the imagination of employees and IT alike? But the iPad did, and it’s kicked off an arms race for smart mobile devices. This report introduces a simple framework to guide content and collaboration professionals through employee-fueled tablet scenarios and IT-led tablet projects.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

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

EGUIDE: SaaS start-ups and established vendors are rushing to keep pace with the demand for hosted applications that target the specific needs of industries, as well as the end-to-end application chain. In this e-guide, readers will learn some of the necessary details around SaaS-based enterprise resource planning (ERP).

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 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 paper examines how Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 remote desktop services (RDS) is a good, entry-level platform for simple deployments, low-complexity environments, and server based computing.

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 | Published: 27 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: A new approach to Business Process Management (BPM) is the use of BPM and SOA together in a layering strategy. This white paper explores the BPM layered concept and offers a case study of how ABN AMRO, one of the world's largest financial institutions, has benefited from its deployment.

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about creating a plan to tackle your mobile workforce obstacles and the details of a system that will assist with your complex tasks.

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 26 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this first of four reports based on a global survey of executives on customer experience management, as well as interviews of SAP customers and industry influencers and analysts. (Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services, 2011)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011

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

WEBCAST: This webcast will show you how to quantify BPM ROI and build the business case. It will also look at ways to leverage your existing systems to produce BPM benefits.

Posted: 20 Nov 2005 | Premiered: 20 Nov 2005

WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu has been an insular company, with a market centred in Japan. Does it have what it takes to reinvent itself as a well-represented global player, with cloud computing at its heart?

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines a new, removable disk-based backup solution for SMBs. Combining disk's ease of use, shorter backup windows and high backup and recovery success rates with tape's durability, infinite capacity and portability, this new technology can give SMBs the confidence and tools they need to successfully complete backups/recovery.

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 | Published: 18 Nov 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: As an alternative to big vendor messaging solutions, open source software presents an entirely different cost model and more flexibility in deployment options that suit the needs of retail perfectly. Read this paper to learn more about open source software and why it is the optimal approach to integrated messaging for large retail enterprises.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This perspective paper covers the forces that are driving the m-commerce market, the benefits available, and the kinds of business models and partnerships that are seeking to achieve that credible scale over time.

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 | Published: 20 Sep 2011