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DEFINITION: A vendor (pronounced VEHN-duhr, from French vendre, meaning to sell) is any person or company that sells goods or services to somone else in the economic production chain. Parts manufacturers are vendors of parts to other manufacturers that assemble the parts into something sold to wholesalers or retailers. Retailers are vendors of products to consumers. (When you have a street fair, the people who  … 
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Tips for Managing ERP Software Vendors during the Software Selection Process
sponsored by Panorama Consulting Group
ANALYST BRIEF: It is often said that desperate times call for desperate measures. In recent months, this is certainly the case for some ERP vendors. The good news, however, is that there are ways to manage ERP software vendors to ensure a fair, consistent, and unbiased selection process for your organization. Read on to learn what they are.
Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009


The IT Management Software Megavendors
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER: The current recession and credit crunch deeply affected IT spending in the last quarter of 2008 and into 2009. This SWOT Analyst report for Q3 2009 regroups the market contenders by categories for an easier evaluation to enable vendor strategy professionals to substantiate decisions about their partnership and go-to-market strategies.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009


Presentation Transcript: Buying Your BI Solution from Your ERP Vendor: Strategic Business Enabler or IT Convenience?
sponsored by IBM
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores the benefits and drawbacks of buying business intelligence (BI) solutions from enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, and shares survey results that reveal whether or not customers who have gone down the sole-sourcing path are happy with their decision.
Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009


Buying your BI solution from your ERP vendor: Strategic Business Enabler or IT Convenience? - Podcast
sponsored by IBM
PODCAST: This Podcast explores the benefits and drawbacks of buying business intelligence (BI) solutions from enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, and shares survey results that reveal whether or not customers who have gone down the sole-sourcing path are happy with their decision.
Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 08 Oct 2009


Buying your BI solution from your ERP vendor: Strategic Business Enabler or IT Convenience?
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: This webcast explores the benefits and drawbacks of buying business intelligence (BI) solutions from enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, and shares survey results that reveal whether or not customers who have gone down the sole-sourcing path are happy with their decision.
Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 17 Sep 2009


Nine Questions Encryption Vendors Really Don’t Want to Answer: A Buyer’s Guide to Enterprise Data Encryption
sponsored by PGP Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Are you looking for an enterprise data encryption solution? Read this guide to learn what questions to ask vendors and why.
Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009


IBM CloudBurst™: Making Rain in an Economic Dry Spell
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: A complement to your existing IT infrastructure, IBM CloudBurst™ includes hardware, software and services, and provides secure, reliable, private cloud computing. Fit-for-purpose and self-contained, IBM CloudBurst dramatically reduces capital and operational costs, accelerating investment payback. Read on to learn more . . .
Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009


Novell and Intel Move Virtualization Forward with Open Source (Video)
sponsored by Intel Corporation
VIDEO: Discover how Novell and Intel collaborate in open standards and open source projects such as the Linux* kernel and the Xen* hypervisor moving virtualization forward along with the user of non-proprietary architecture so that customers can avoid vendor lock-in, while lowering solutions costs.
Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 03 Sep 2009


The Forrester Wave: Web Content Management For External Sites, Q2 2009
sponsored by SDL Tridion
ANALYST REPORT: Check out this report, which examines the findings of a Forrester evaluation of ten leading web content management vendors, to learn about the strongest performers in WCM.
Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 20 Jul 2009


Infonetics: WAN Optimization Appliance Market Highlights 1Q09
sponsored by Blue Coat
ANALYST BRIEF: Vendor market share positions shuffled once again in 1Q09: With Cisco down 30%, Riverbed down 10%, and Blue Coat holding steady, Blue Coat is back on top with 30% revenue market share. This market has essentially become a 3-horse race, with the top 3 vendors capturing roughly 3/4 of the overall market.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009


Server Study
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
ASSESSMENT TOOL: Take this quick survey on server to show us the important advantages between solutions.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 | Published: 23 Jun 2009


Leveraging Virtualization to Consolidate, Optimize and Protect Your IT Infrastructure
sponsored by Datalink.
WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses some of the critical issues of virtualization and some of the ways it can be effectively implemented to help organizations utilize resources more efficiently, reduce costs, manage data across the entire enterprise.
Posted: 22 Apr 2009 | Published: 22 Apr 2009


How to Profit in a Downturn: 4 Customer-centric Strategies for Growth in a Challenging Market
sponsored by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn how your organization can use customer-centric strategies and CRM tools to maximize the value and loyalty of your customer base. Gain insight into new areas of opportunity and do more with less in a time of economic uncertainty.
Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009


Highly Available Virtualization With Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
PRODUCT LITERATURE: Combining Microsoft Hyper-V technology with SCVMM 2008 on Dell platforms can help organizations create highly available virtualized systems while offering simplified management, dynamic performance, and reduced costs.
Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008


Vista SP1: What You Need to Know before You Deploy
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: The release of Windows Vista SP1 enables customers to take advantage of improvements that Microsoft and its partners have developed. It's a continuation of Microsoft and its partners' drive to provide the best experience possible.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008


The New Microsoft IT Pro Certifications and Exams
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: The MCITP assures that anyone possessing Microsoft certification has a breadth of knowledge on various products and is concerned with the network architecture and design.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008


Integrating HP Data Protector Software with HP Data Deduplication Solutions
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss HP Data Protector Software which fully supports HP data deduplication technologies allowing you to recover files more quickly while reducing your data management and storage costs.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008


Business Service Management: What It Is and Why You Should Care
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this business training white paper is to explain what BSM is and what it isn't and it will also describe BSM benefits.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008


eBook: Capacity Planning Eases Path to Virtualization
sponsored by SearchCIO.com
WHITE PAPER: Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008


Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This guide discusses how to quickly configure the Sun Fire X4540 server as a backup server for Amanda Enterprise Edition software.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 02 Dec 2008


Data Center Projects: Growth Model
sponsored by APC
WHITE PAPER: Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008


Best Practices in Extending Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): A Buyer's Guide to ERP versus Best of Breed Decisions
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Extending ERP is the focus of this document, which encompasses utilizing more functionality, extending the footprint beyond the core ERP functionality and making decisions between ERP vendors and pure play or "Best of Breed" solutions.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008


Road Map for Delivering BI Publisher Documents from Oracle EBS: A Guide to the Automated Delivery of Oracle E-Business Suite Documents via Email and Fax
sponsored by STR Software
WHITE PAPER: This document is designed to be a guide to the Oracle E-Business Suite. It is intended to educate users, developers, managers, and executives of companies using Oracle E-Business Suite to automate and maintain the distribution of business documents
Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 10 Sep 2008


Managing Assets with Numara® Track-It! (including Bar Code)
sponsored by Numara Software
WEBCAST: Listen to this Webcast to learn how to manage your company's assets. Also discussed is a solution that can help your organization address its IT asset management process issues through audit, auto-discovery and process tracking.
Posted: 01 Apr 2008 | Premiered: 01 Apr 2008

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VENDORS DEFINITION (continued): … A vendor (pronounced VEHN-duhr, from French vendre, meaning to sell) is any person or company that sells goods or services to somone else in the economic production chain. Parts manufacturers are vendors of parts to other manufacturers that assemble the parts into something sold to wholesalers or retailers. Retailers are vendors of products to consumers. (When you have a street fair, the people who set up booths and tables are often referred to as vendors.) In information technology as well as in other industries, the term is commonly applied to suppliers of goods and services to other companies. A machine that takes your money and gives you a product is known as a vending machine.
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