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By: Ciopages Staff Writer
Date: Oct 15, 2016
SLAs (Service Level Agreements) can feel generous when you're negotiating a contract, but when you get into the thick of execution, they can easily leave you wanting more. Processes enter a cycle of continual improvement and begin to flow more smoothly, allowing room for optimization of the pl...
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Date: Oct 15, 2016
Before making a significant investment or changing the process, it is a good idea to understand the Pros and Cons of Software Test Automation. The technology world moves at lightning fast speeds. Technology companies are under constant pressure to release new products and updates regularly. The buyi...
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Date: Oct 15, 2016
Post-Merger Information Technology Rationalization is an important, but invasive and complex task. Rationalization describes the process of determining which applications to keep and which to discard when companies want to make their IT departments more efficient and streamlined. Most companies find tha...
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Date: Oct 15, 2016
It's time for next generation business intelligence and analytics. For many years, companies have relied upon business intelligence (BI) to drive the direction of strategy and discover opportunities based on past data. However, in today’s lightening-paced, data-driven marketplace, conventional...
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Date: Oct 14, 2016
Supply Chain Management Systems Transformation Drivers Supply Chain Management Systems Transformation Drivers are some signs your company needs to replace the systems and transform the processes. From imagery of the dark cavernous warehouses, and smoke belching trucks shipping goods cross count...
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Date: Oct 14, 2016
Marketing Automation and Systems Transformation Drivers Marketing – direct, indirect, inbound and outbound – is a key function and a cornerstone of enterprise success. But in many companies marketing is replete with challenges such as silos, lack of automation, and spreadsheets. Today, many...
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Date: Oct 14, 2016
Human Resources Software Replacement - Transformation Drivers Human Resources software replacement is an ardous task with significant implications that reverberate across the enterprise. The HR function is a cornerstone of enterprise business operations, particularly in a highly competitive landsc...
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Date: Oct 14, 2016
Accounting and Finance Transformation Rationale What factors and facts are the basis for the finance transformation rationale? What will necessitate a systems replacement and process re-engineering? Finance and Accounting function is a cornerstone of your business operations. How do you know if...
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Date: Oct 14, 2016
CRM Systems and Processes - Transformation Drivers CRM Systems and processes are a cornerstone of enterprise business operations, particularly in a highly competitive landscape for customers from local and foreign, traditional and emerging competitors. How do you know if and when it is time for...
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Date: Oct 13, 2016
Is your company leveraging HR Process Analytics in your human resources processes? HR process analytics is a big part of the overall human resources transformation? Big Data has been an overused buzzword over the past several years. Companies are starting to use analytics to improve processes throu...
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Date: Oct 13, 2016
What do the first 100 days of a new CIO look like and should look like? While people know that the role of Chief Information Officer is integral to the success of the company, so much of what a CIO does to keep the business running occurs behind the scenes or at a level which most employees an...
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Date: Oct 13, 2016
A mobile procurement solution is an excellent option for enterprises across all industries and of all sizes to better manage the procurement process. In the past, enterprises could only monitor their spending environment from a desktop or laptop. However, thanks to mobile procurement software,...
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Date: Oct 13, 2016
Is it possible to assemble an ERP platform with best of breed applications? It depends! A number of terms are being thrown around these days in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) world, one of them being “best of breed.” This moniker refers to the identification of a software package for ...
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Date: Oct 02, 2016
Robotic process automation (RPA) is an important and emerging technology of the 21st century. Robotic Process automation entails using software with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities to perform large amounts of repetitive tasks that have historically needed a human ...
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Date: Oct 02, 2016
Can Elephants Dance? Bimodal IT in Large Enterprises seems like a challenge of similar proportion. Bimodal IT offers a strategy that makes an awful lot of sense in theory. Right now, the questions thrown back and forth are largely supposition with, of course, a great deal of weighed experience in ...
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Date: Oct 02, 2016
What are the Outsourcing Trends for 2017 and Beyond? They are diverse but disruptive. Increased concerns about security, shifting non-core processes to the cloud and even the rise of the microtask could impact outsourcing in 2017 and beyond. As companies become more aware of the ever changing tec...
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Date: Oct 02, 2016
Enterprises must be aware of security loopholes beyond the major and obvious ones. These little-known security loopholes are often overlooked and consequently, what are seemingly small issues will lead to big problems. The modern office workforce is changing, and rapidly. Cubicles and desks are no lon...
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Date: Oct 02, 2016
Without integrating disparate data structures, it is pretty much impossible to drive customer experience excellence, particularly in an omnichannel world. Customers today have a high expectation of the companies that they do business with on a regular basis. While nearly everyone that you ask ...
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Date: Oct 02, 2016
Drones as a Service has arrived! Drones zipping through the air, delivering packages their recipients haven’t even purchased yet- that’s a fairly clichéd projection of how UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) technology and Big Data and analytics will merge in the future to revolutionize not only onli...
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Date: Oct 02, 2016
Are you using a data driven IT strategy to enhance operational efficiency? New generations of data analytics and SaaS provide companies with the ability to make better real-time decisions and more effectively collaborate with partners. Below are just a few of the ways in which a data driven IT st...
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