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CASE STUDY - Find out how CA used the same SAP BusinessObjects tool across multiple products to reduce their customers' costs and reduce the time it takes them to create their own customized reports.
Posted: October 13, 2009 | Published: October 13, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | CRM | CRM Analytics | Customer Data Integration | Reporting Software | SAP (Product)

CASE STUDY - Find out how Acxiom, specializing in providing customer and information management solutions for companies around the world, uses SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to transform consumer data into actionable BI.
Posted: October 13, 2009 | Published: October 13, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | CRM | Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Data Warehouses | Databases | Reporting Software | SAP (Product)

CASE STUDY - Find out how Investlink used SAP BusinessObjects tools to enable third-party administrators who work with investment advisors and plan sponsors to build and change statements on an ad hoc basis.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: October 12, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | CRM | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouses | Reporting Software | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - Find out how retail organizations are improving the bottom line, by focusing on key tactics designed to facilitate low cost, efficient, customer-centric operations, all of which require integrated enterprise information and analysis capabilities found in business intelligence (BI) environments.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: March 31, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | CRM | Customer Data Management | Customer Interaction Services | Data Governance | Data Warehouses | Retail Trade Industry | SAP (Product) | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Contact Management | CRM | Pricing | Sales | Sales Channels | Sales Force Automation | Sales Information Systems | Sales Order Management | Sales Representatives

WHITE PAPER - There are many elements that impact a company's brand. Concentrating on a select few lets you control financial investment while maximizing the returned benefit. This SAP Executive Insight focuses on efforts that target a key set of brand-related opportunities and describes how companies can strengthen brand value even in a recession.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: June 5, 2009


Topics:  Branding | Business Process Management | CRM | Customer Loyalty | Customer Satisfaction | Economic Environment | Knowledge Management | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Management | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - The paper provides valuable evidence about the benefits of achieving aligned operational excellence. In it you'll discover why companies that build and align their operational capabilities for strategic advantage earn a distinct execution premium in their business performance.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | CEOs | CRM | ERP | IT Infrastructure | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Regulatory Compliance | ROI | Six Sigma | Strategic Planning | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - Downturns give companies a chance to buck conventional wisdom and increase their IT investments. Targeted investments in many areas can generate efficiencies and revenue growth that surpass the savings from straight cost reductions.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: November 1, 2008


Topics:  Banking Industry | CIOs | CRM | Dashboards | Economic Environment | IT Management | IT Spending | Productivity | Sales Representatives | Telecommunications Industry

WHITE PAPER - The extraordinary circumstances of the current economic crisis have changed the operating rules for companies of every size, in every industry. Companies now face a unique opportunity to reexamine traditional business practices and make much-needed changes - changes that will help them survive the downturn and flourish with the inevitable up...
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Business Process Reengineering | CRM | CRM Analytics Software | CRM Best Practices | CRM Software | Customer Data Integration | Customer Satisfaction | Customer Service Best Practices | Pricing | Product Management | Productivity

WHITE PAPER - Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  CRM | Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouses | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Master Data Management | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - Direct marketing is about communicating a message to a specific prospect or customer. This white paper from Business Objects, an SAP company, focuses on these concepts as they pertain to marketing, and particularly as they are supported by data quality functions inside of the broader EIM framework.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  CRM | CRM Best Practices | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Database Management | Direct Marketing | Direct Sales Channels | Enterprise Resource Management | SAP (Product) | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - Introducing SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services breakthrough technology software for the enterprise information management market. The software unifies our leading data-quality and integration solutions - helping your organization to move, transform, and improve virtually any type of data anywhere, at any frequency.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | CRM | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Enterprise Resource Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Resource Management Software

WHITE PAPER - Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.
Posted: April 27, 2009 | Published: April 27, 2009


Topics:  CRM | CRM Best Practices | CRM Software | Customer Profiles | Sales | Sales Representatives | SAP (Product) | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains why a warehouse management system (WMS) is one of the key technologies required to create a successful adaptive supply chain network. This system enables the extended warehouse to sense and respond to a variety of business requirements and meet complex and changing customer needs.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  CRM | Distribution Centers | ERP | Manufacturing | Shop Floor Control | Supply Chain Integration | Supply Chain Management | Warehouse Management | Warehouses

WHITE PAPER - Operational excellence means consistently doing things well across the value chain as a way of gaining competitive advantage. In its broadest terms, it is a discipline that drives corporate strategy.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Processes | CRM | Customer Satisfaction | ERP | Metrics