Site Selection

Conway Data’s goal is to help the expansion planner do a better job. Site Selection covers the world like no one else in the industry. Only Site Selection gives a global, expansion-minded audience World Reports, compiled by Conway Data’s network of top-notch, veteran international correspondents. Request Free!

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70-680 Windows 7 Configuring Exam Prep Special Edition

Candidates for this exam operate in computing environments that use Microsoft Windows 7 as a desktop operating system in an enterprise environment. Candidates should have at least one year of experience in the IT field, as well as experience implementing and administering any Windows client operating system in a networked environment. CramMaster 70-680 covers the following Microsoft recommended objectives: Installing, Upgrading, and Migrating to Windows 7 Deploying Windows 7 Configuring Hardware and Applications Configuring Network Connectivity Configuring Access to Resources Configuring Mobile Computing Monitoring and Maintaining Systems that Run Windows 7 Configuring Backup and Recovery Options Request Free!

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Top 10 Lessons Learned for Corporate 3G Mobile Broadband Deployments

Unlike Wi-Fi access, which requires the user to remain within 50 to 100 meters of the Wi-Fi access point, 3G mobile broadband is available anywhere users have a mobile phone signal—from taxis, trains or remote stretches of road. If you’re in charge of remote access at your company and thinking about deploying mobile broadband to the workforce, read on. iPass will reveal the lessons and best practices learned by companies just like yours. Request Free!

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How Mobile Printing Enhances Efficiency in Route Accounting & DSD

Automating route activity provides benefits both in the field and in the office by reducing the labor and time needed to enter data and process paperwork, cutting inventory errors, and by helping drivers record orders and deliveries more quickly. Mobile printing is an essential element for delivering and enhancing these benefits in route accounting and direct store delivery (DSD) operations. Supporting route activity with mobile printing lets drivers generate accurate, updated orders, invoices, delivery receipts, settlement reports and other documentation to review with customers to ensure accuracy and prevent time-consuming disputes. Mobile printing provides a series of quality improvements and timesaving benefits that are often overlooked in route automation, but can have a significant impact on the bottom line. This white paper will: Describe uses for mobile printing in route accounting applications Provide return on investment calculation tools to measure the financial impact mobile printing can have Demonstrate how mobile printing processes can improve billing, distribution, and customer service operations Detail how on-demand thermal printing can reduce forms expenses Provide an overview of mobile printer and wireless communications options for route accounting systems. Request Free!

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Intelligent Service Automation for the Oracle E-Business Suite

Learn how automating processes across Oracle and non-Oracle applications improve process integrity, audit trails, and employee productivity. Request Free!

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Improving Your ROI for PeopleSoft Enterprise

Learn how an effective automation strategy can significantly improve your ROI for PeopleSoft Enterprise by: Simplifying a complex IT infrastructure Eliminating manual integrations and scripting between applications Effectively managing business processes across applications Mitigating risk by controlling mission critical business processes Request Free!

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Social Media Marketing Case Study Retail Site

Intrapromote’s Social Media Marketing campaign has delivered impressive results based on their off-site contest promotion and off-site marketing material distributed through Intrapromote’s social networks and blogs. Results: 85,000 more visitors from June 2008 to June 2009 Monthly online sales more than doubled (122% increase) Search engine traffic increased 115% As a Sales/Marketing Professional, learn more about the Social Media Marketing strategies leveraged that produced measurable increases in online sales and search engine traffic specific to new markets for this online clothing retailer. Request Free!

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Warehouse Management Today: Balancing Financial Pressures and Growing Demand

This SAP white paper describes how an adaptive supply chain network allows all the stakeholders in the supply chain – both internal and external to the enterprise – to share knowledge, make collaborative decisions and immediately respond to changing conditions. Trading partners can avoid costly supply chain problems. Moreover, firms can enhance their financial position and improve their supply chain economics. Request Free!

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The Impact of Lean on Consumer Product Manufacturers

The real challenge to Lean, however, requires this first change, a shift in the culture. Consumer products manufacturers are early on in their Lean journey compared to companies across industry, with 56% less than a year to 3 years into it. By leveraging external expertise and taking small steps in their Lean programs, these manufacturers are setting their sights on reducing cost, driving down inventory, and sustaining a culture of Lean throughout the enterprise. But success is being found by those Best in Class consumer products manufacturers that go the next step by tying their Lean objectives into business opportunities, and by measuring the impact of the Lean program. These companies are placing more emphasis on monitoring the metrics that are tied with success, including inventory and on-time delivery, to truly maximize the competitive advantage to be responsive to the customer. Prepared by Aberdeen Group Request Free!

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Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function

Their goal is to enforce stricter control processes to ensure legal and regulatory compliance, offer strategic insights into the internal and external business environment, and connect the business strategy with daily operations through performance tracking. To assess the trends in the finance function and identify best practices, APQC, an internationally recognized nonprofit organization that provides best practice research, metrics, measures, has evaluated the performance of more than 130 finance organizations. This SAP Insight shares the results of SAP research as well as APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. Request Free!

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