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Get the latest research on how the new lease accounting standard affects your company. Find out what 179 senior executives think about the new lease accounting standard and how it will impact their companies. Read this comprehensive analyst report to learn more.

While a business case is all about the numbers, knowing how and when to push the proposal through the approval process requires an understanding of the psychology behind how proposals are selected and funded. Learn the tools and strategies to develop a business case and gain approval.

Progressive retailers have shifted to integrated store lifecycle (SLM) systems enabled by Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) to provide a seamless integration of all phases of the entire real estate lifecycle process from market planning; through site selection, store design and construction; to day-to-day operations such as lease administration and facility management.

According to IDC - "Smart Building Energy Analytics solutions are the pivotal piece of intelligence from the end user's perspective because they bring heightened visibility into facility operations and maintenance to enable a new level of sophistication in building management." Learn more - download the study today.

View this on-demand webcast to learn the practical strategies, targeted initiatives and deployed technologies used by organizations that have "crossed the sustainability chasm", using findings from a wide-ranging survey of 130 sustainability-focused professionals.

Download this white paper to learn the practical strategies, targeted initiatives and deployed technologies used by organizations that have "crossed the sustainability chasm", using findings from a wide-ranging survey of 130 sustainability-focused professionals.

How can ERP with Green SCM tools help manufacturers satisfy green supply chain requirements in order to satisfy customers and regulators? Find out now

Download this white paper from IBM, and learn the basics of predictive maintenance, the benefits it provides manufacturing operations and the underlying technologies that make it possible.

Read this in-depth Aberdeen Group report, based on responses from 117 executives of successful companies, to find out how best-in-class businesses are proactively managing these challenges. You'll learn these techniques for optimizing maintenance and operations-and more.

This whitepaper explores six fatal mistakes" in ERP implementations, along with methods that can be employed to avoid or, at worst, rectify them.

Aside from being a leader in high-end office automation services, Ricoh Australia is a leader in corporate social responsibility and environmental management. With Polycom solutions they are able to continue to meet their green initiatives as well as increase sales and decrease operating costs.

This white paper outlines how the five lean principles are all supported by comprehensive information control and the management tools that an end-to-end enterprise software suite delivers.

In this white paper are the 12 criteria that will allow you to identify and select the ERP system replacement solution that will meet these expectations.

This paper discusses some important considerations for A&D manufacturers in the context of enterprise information systems and how they can help in addressing five important areas of concern-compliance, control, communications, competitiveness, and cutting cost, waste and complexity.

"Adopting the Best Practices for Ongoing Data Management"

The Variable Rate Resource services approach to project or product development enables companies to jump over resource hurdles whenever and wherever they appear.

Learn how recent advances in pricing science and technology have enabled a breakthrough approach for B2B companies wanting to improve their pricing --- one that generates results in a fraction of the time, with far less organizational upheaval.

Learn how a $4.8B distributor overcame resistance-to-change by simply feeding optimized prices through the quoting tools their salespeople were already using --- achieving over 80% adoption and generating 12% more margin-dollars as a result.

Read this paper to learn how a $3.8B distributor generated 9% more margin-dollars in just 4 months by using a new technology that feeds optimized, deal-level prices into legacy quoting tools right when the quote is being created.

Read this paper to understand the opportunity for optimizing shipping fees and freight charges in B2B and learn how one $5.0B distributor used advanced pricing science and technology to generate 34% more margin-dollars on its shipping fees.

Revenue assurance analysts at a top-tier US-based carrier studied this every day. Primarily focused on detecting fraud, revenue sharing contract violations and incomplete revenue collections, they had the need to query and analyze call detail record (CDR) databases that grow by millions of new CDRs every day.

In a world of growing data volumes and shrinking IT budgets, it is critical to think differently about the efficiency of your database and storage infrastructure. The Vertica Analytic Database is a high-performance, scalable and cost-effective solution that can bring dramatic savings in hardware, storage and operational costs.

For over a decade, IT organizations have been plagued by high data warehousing costs, with millions of dollars spent annually on specialized, high-end hardware and DBA personnel overhead for performance tuning. The root cause: using data warehouse database management (DBMS) software, like Oracle and SQLServer that were designed 20-30 years ago to handle write-intensive OLTP workloads, not query-intensive analytic workloads.

The goal of this article will be to contribute to the emerging dialog on the subject of business value by extrapolating from BI lessons learned and from DecisionPath Consultings experience working with Fortune 1000 customers and Government agencies.

Organizations in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry are discovering that high product volume sales come at the expense of extreme data complexity.  Meanwhile, these companies struggle to maintain open lines of communication with their retail customers and distributors in order to manage the upstream flow of product.