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December 2006
December 22, 2006	Is Your Enterprise Application on a Road to Nowhere? Consolidation is a well-documented trend and is to be expected in the market for enterprise applications. This article outlines the evolution of the enterprise software market. Specifically, it focuses on the revolutionary technology known as service-oriented architecture (SOA).
December 20, 2006	Server and Desktop Solutions: What the Research Means for Small and Medium Enterprises Different types of organizations show distinct preferences when assigning importance to the criteria on which to base their operating system selection. Small and medium enterprises need to carefully analyze the available data to accurately evaluate their strategic IT investments.
December 19, 2006	Choosing Between Linux and Microsoft Windows Using an Analytical Hierarchy Process Because small to medium enterprises are limited in their resources, they must carefully consider which of the two major operating systems available—Microsoft Windows or Linux—will better serve their needs and be more cost-efficient to implement.
December 18, 2006	Evaluating Strategic Information Technology Investment: An Appraisal of Software Alternatives for Small to Medium Enterprises The problem of information technology investments particularly concerns small and medium enterprises, as they are much more limited in resources than large enterprises. One of the critical questions is whether to implement an open source or closed source solution.
December 15, 2006	The 2006 ECM West Conference: A Trial from AIIM The Association for Information and Image Management recently held a conference to educate organizations on the latest content and information management technologies. Among the key topics addressed were emerging trends in enterprise content management and the future of the Internet.
December 14, 2006	The Challenges of SAP Relationship and User Recommendations The potential of enterprise incentive management systems, as being closely related to human capital management, should not be ignored. This software category promises a fairly rapid and tangible return on investment in addition to its wide range of benefits.
December 13, 2006	Enterprise Incentive Management Leader's Challenges and Response Enterprise incentive management is an emerging field, and a number of players have entered the market. Callidus recently expanded its service offerings by introducing two new strategic service programs both to woo customers and to survive in this emerging field.
December 12, 2006	The Flagship Enterprise Incentive Management Offering The idea behind the Callidus TrueComp's initial design was for it to be sophisticated enough to tackle and manage the most complex and variable compensation plans, and yet simple enough to administer without heavy reliance on information technology (IT) resources.
December 11, 2006	Enterprise Incentive Management Leader Responds to Market Demands The market for enterprise incentive management (EIM) products is in its early stages and is rapidly evolving. Callidus Software is the EIM vendor of choice for some of the largest companies in the world.
December 8, 2006	Case Study: Community College Embarks on Financial Reporting System Implementation The Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) implemented Business Objects to create a financial reporting system that would run in real time, as opposed to taking weeks to generate reports. However, the NSCC environment presented its own unique set of challenges.
December 5, 2006	Project Portfolio Management's Missing Functional Link: Stakeholder Management A project's success is determined by the diverse stakeholder expectations. If some see return on investment as their primary stake, others may focus on profitability—meaning that stakeholder communication tools are only as good as their adaptability to stakeholder dynamics.
December 4, 2006	The CEO, CFO, and TCO Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a key component of the "investment" in "return on investment" (ROI). Naturally, the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief financial officer (CFO) care about ROI, but is TCO really a measure of agility?
December 1, 2006	Sizing the Enterprise Incentive Management Opportunity—And the Challenges Ahead Pure-play enterprise incentive management (EIM) vendors who have focused on providing the capability to manage highly complex compensation systems will be well positioned to take advantage of the major growth projected in the EIM market.
November 2006
November 30, 2006	Enter Enterprise Incentive Management and Incentive Compensation Management Companies with large sales forces, huge product portfolios, and complex incentive plans with many variables need to offer variable pay. This has created opportunities for a new enterprise software category called enterprise incentive management (EIM), or incentive compensation management (ICM).
November 29, 2006	What Makes Incentives and Compensation So Tricky? Managing incentive compensation presents challenges to almost every large and midsized company, due to the complex nature of the calculations. But along with the ability to perform these calculations, an effective compensation management solution must also provide visibility and transparency.
November 28, 2006	Are Sales Incentives Even In Tune With the Corporate Strategy? With sales being the lifeblood of virtually any company, selling should be an accurately accountable process forming the basis of overall strategic objectives. Still, the question remains: how much enterprise incentive management (EIM) do enterprises need, and in what form?
November 27, 2006	Thou Shalt Motivate and Reward Workforce Better The potential of enterprise incentive management (EIM) systems should not be ignored, since this software category promises a fairly rapid and tangible return on investment (ROI), outlines expensive over- and under-payment errors, and reduces administration overhead.
November 24, 2006	Difficult Conversations: Discussing CRM with Your CEO Part Two: Elements of the Discussion A customer relationship management (CRM) system's potential can be lost if the chief executive officer (CEO) doesn't play a continuous role in its implementation—especially when it comes to pain management, the operational relevance of CRM, and potential impediments.
November 23, 2006	Difficult Conversations: Positioning Your CEO in a CRM Implementation Part One: Sources of Misconception and Faulty Assumptions For a successful customer relationship management (CRM) implementation, the chief executive officer (CEO) must have an ongoing role in the process. The project implementer must be aware of common CRM misconceptions, and communicate the nature of CRM to c-level management.
November 22, 2006	The Case Against Modifying Your Enterprise Software The case against modifying enterprise software is a strong one. Standard software offerings are the products of millions of dollars of research, development, and extensive testing for consistent performance. For this and various other reasons, modifications almost never make sense.
November 21, 2006	To Upgrade, or Not To Upgrade: That Is Not The Question—But How To Upgrade Is Companies can easily spend hundreds of thousands of dollars implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) package. After completing this rollercoaster ride, however, companies are typically faced with the question of whether to implement the latest, greatest version of the package.
November 20, 2006	Minimizing The Total Cost of Technical Support for Enterprise Applications Many organizations don't follow formalized processes for technical support evaluation. However, technical support is a vital component of any enterprise software solution. The fact is, poor technical support can have a severe impact on a solution's total cost of ownership.
November 17, 2006	Unlikely Acquisition Has Insiders Scratching Their Heads The announcement in September 2006 that Illinois Tool Works Inc. had made an offer to acquire all of Click Commerce's common stock made many market insiders scratch their heads. However, the real benefits—and the challenges—may lie ahead.
November 16, 2006	Challenges for an Expanding Supply Chain Solutions Vendor Although Click Commerce is a thriving provider of on-demand supply chain management (SCM) solutions for a variety of worldwide industries, it does have to face up to a variety of challenges, some of which are of its own making.
November 15, 2006	Method to the (Expansion) Madness: Some Common Threads Click Commerce has been impressively active in its expansion efforts, and now offers quite a few solutions outside its traditional realm. While each of its solutions has a unique focus, the vendor's target market often requires solutions from several categories.
November 14, 2006	A Supply Chain Applications Vendor Expands Beyond Its Roots Click Commerce has evolved beyond its roots, into a provider of much more comprehensive on-demand supply and demand chain management software, consulting, hosting, and related services that should enable users throughout the world to collaborate in near real time.
November 13, 2006	Will a Tool Manufacturer and a Supply Chain Software Vendor "Click" in Matrimony? The merger of traditional brick-and-mortar manufacturer Illinois Tool Works with Internet-based Click Commerce is puzzling, but has some method to the madness. Only time will tell how easily and tightly their tools will "click" with each other.
November 10, 2006	Squeeze Play in the Supply Chain Management Market Changing business requirements have forced supply chain execution (SCE) vendors to expand via add-on modules. Seeing this upward push from the SCE vendors, enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors are now pushing downward and including SCE modules within their solutions.
November 9, 2006	User Recommendations for the Food and Beverage Industry Software systems must be able to handle your business basics. A focus on the details is essential. Look meticulously for the fatal flaws. If you don't select a system that meets your detailed needs, it can be fatal.
November 8, 2006	Fatal Flaws and Technology Choices Food and beverage manufacturers rely on information technology to meet market demands. However, food is one market where most enterprise applications show a number of "fatal flaws"—capabilities whose omission can impede operations to the extent of complete failure.
November 7, 2006	Business Process Management Notations within Business Process Management Business process management notation (BPMN) is an initiative to increase standardization within process modeling. What are the principles of BPMN, and what is the value of BPMN to vendors and organizations using business process modeling?
November 6, 2006	Competing Globally—Predicting Demand and Delivering Optimally To benefit from globalization (or to meet its threat), a food manufacturer must be prepared. To sell into new markets, the manufacturer needs to be a better partner, and collaborate with customers who have different needs from its traditional customers.
November 3, 2006	Dealing with Food Industry Pressures Small and medium food and beverage companies have the same regulatory requirements as large companies, but with significantly fewer resources with which to address them. Companies need systems that can provide comprehensive traceability information at the touch of a button.
November 2, 2006	Food Safety, Government Regulations, and Brand Protection Many food companies are investing significant funds in building awareness for their brands in the market, which can pay off amply in competitive, commodity markets. One highly publicized recall, however, can turn an established brand asset into a liability.
November 1, 2006	Margin Squeeze and Globalization in the Food and Beverage Industry In the food and beverage industry, the channel master makes final volume decisions and mostly controls the unit price, with the manufacturer having limited power to increase or maintain prices. The only real variable the manufacturer does control is cost.
October 2006
October 31, 2006	Food and Beverage Industry Trends and Issues Food and beverage manufacturers and distributors supplying major supermarket retailers share many common business challenges. The customers—powerful and demanding supermarkets and retail chains—want products manufactured "to order," with lead times measured in hours rather than days or weeks.
October 30, 2006	Food and Beverage "Delights" Food and beverage manufacturers and distributors have many challenges on their plate, and even industry giants cannot afford to sit back. Given this backdrop, how can small to medium manufacturers cope with the same external pressures with comparatively fewer resources?
October 27, 2006	The Challenges of a Business Intelligence Implementation: A Case Study The University of Illinois provides a good example of extensive integration of its business intelligence (BI) solution and data warehousing environment with its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.
October 26, 2006	Is there any Differentiation in the Corporate Performance Management Market? A Perceptual Map Gives You the Answer The corporate performance management (CPM) market is a good example of a common problem in the enterprise business-to-business software and services market—lack of differentiation. However, a perceptual map clarifies the positioning of the top five vendors in the space.
October 25, 2006	A One-stop Event for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Information The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) hosts quarterly World Conferences to help organizations involved in data warehousing, business intelligence, and performance management. These conferences supply a wealth of information aimed at improving organizational decision-making, optimizing performance, and achieving business objectives.
October 24, 2006	Customer Relationship Management and the Next Generation Network Next generation networks may eventually allow us to interact with the world in a way compatible with how we live. This would have the greatest impact on our ability to add value to the people we do business with.
October 20, 2006	Product Lifecycle Management: Expediting Product Innovation The highly competitive product manufacturing market makes true product lifecycle management (PLM) inevitable. PLM helps companies map product requirements to features, obtain control over product data, preserve product knowledge assets, and enter into the new paradigm of modular product development.
October 19, 2006	Aiming for Agility: Challenges and User Recommendations The preferred agile architecture will rationalize business processes without ripping out current application investments. In such cases, Agresso will have to explain whether its solution can leverage existing applications and fill in the cracks that exist in current business processes.
October 18, 2006	Soured on Expiration: The Value Proposition and Strategy for an Agile Enterprise Systems Vendor Post-implementation agility should be the goal of most companies in their enterprise resource planning (ERP) selection. However, it is not so easy to dispel a widespread preference for the "usual suspect" ERP choices that currently stop short at post-implementation agility.
October 17, 2006	How One Vendor Supplies Agility to Post-implementation Enterprise Systems Agresso's information warehouse, business process, and reporting and analytics information delivery models are inextricably linked in a virtual cycle. A change in any of these core competencies automatically informs a change in the others without instilling business disruption.
October 16, 2006	Enterprise Systems and Post-implementation Agility—No Longer an Oxymoron? The need to support flexibility prior to installation of enterprise systems has largely been mastered by many vendors. But what is really more important is ongoing agility after the installation. Agresso seems to have raised the bar in this regard.
October 13, 2006	Delivering Adaptive Discovery for Business Process Management Designing processes for business process management solutions can be daunting, as all flows, rules, and exceptions have to be defined. With Adaptive Discovery from Ultimus, however, processes can be designed on a high level, and exceptions defined after deployment.
October 12, 2006	An Unusual Human Capital Management Suspect With Infor Human Capital Management (HCM) 3.0, Infor has combined transactional and strategic human resources functionality with planned integration to its flagship enterprise resource planning and extensions solutions, so that customers can better align HCM initiatives with overall business strategy.
October 11, 2006	The Modelling Approach to Post-implementation Agility in Enterprise Systems Change happens, and it will always happen in virtually every business environment. The underlying enterprise system should thus be an aid to changing the business, rather than an obstacle, as is the usual case today.
October 9, 2006	Business Process Analysis versus Business Process Management Business process analysis (BPA) vendors are trying to enter the business process management (BPM) market by marketing themselves as BPM solutions. This article discusses the differences between BPA and BPM vendors, and examines the benefits of each.
October 6, 2006	Retail Applications Vendor Provides a Solid "Platform" As spending on technology by major players is growing at an increasing pace, there are good opportunities for vendors which have been in the market for a while, such as One Network Enterprises. But they also face some unique challenges.
October 5, 2006	Microsoft .NET-managed Code Enablement: Examples and Challenges Intuitive, Visibility, and Epicor offer .NET Framework-managed code products, but their "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mindset might work against them unless they can prove higher value propositions, such as new, more quickly developed vertical functionality.
October 4, 2006	Microsoft .NET Enablement: Analysis and Cautions Using technologies that are intrinsically compatible should result in faster and less costly development. Thus, any application suite rewritten in the Microsoft .NET managed code framework should not have to contend with inefficiencies resulting from mixing or wrapping technologies.
October 3, 2006	Examples of Microsoft .NET Enablement SYSPRO and Epicor are examples of .NET-enabled legacy software systems that have partly been componentized (rewritten), with "wrappers" added to the rest so that the legacy functionality can be used and extended through Web services on the .NET Framework.
October 2, 2006	Subtle (or Not-so-subtle) Nuances of Microsoft .NET Enablement The Microsoft .NET strategy continues to confuse many, due to the lack of understanding of the technology. Indeed, because of the massive marketing campaign undertaken by Microsoft, many vendors have adopted a "too liberal" approach to marketing .NET Framework-based initiatives.
September 2006
September 29, 2006	The Human Capital Management Market—Hot, but also Overpopulated? Many human capital management (HCM) vendors try to cover most of the bases through broader product suites. While there have been noticeable consolidation moves in the market, which vendors will eventually dominate cannot be exactly stated at this time.
September 28, 2006	Performance and Compensation Management at the Core of Human Capital Management? Strategic human capital management (HCM) solutions can help organizations transform their people into a competitive advantage by aligning managers and employees with corporate goals. There is now a statistical and causal relationship among key HCM applications and operating income growth.
September 27, 2006	Tactical Human Resources Evolves into Strategic Human Capital Management While decades have been spent investing in automation technologies for better use of tangible assets, only recently have enterprises begun to invest in optimizing human capital. Indeed, tactical and administrative human resources management is morphing into strategic human capital management.
September 26, 2006	Thou Shalt Manage Human Capital Better Although the human resources department has long been seen as a necessary evil at best, the scope of human resources management systems (HRMS) has been extended to include recruiting, competency management, training, time management, performance management, and so forth.
September 25, 2006	Seven Magic Questions: How to Improve Your Win Ratio by Selling Value Instead of Price There are many consultative sales methods. Each has unique strengths and techniques, but they all try to focus on what matters to the customer. To improve your win ratio, there are seven questions you must first be able to answer.
September 25, 2006	Success Keys for Proposal Automation Proposal writing has become a common requirement throughout the entire business world. And for many sales people, they are a necessary evil. If you're thinking about automating your proposal process, there are ten critical success keys to a successful implementation.
September 22, 2006	Warehouse Management Systems by the Numbers When it comes to warehouse management systems (WMS), the stats are both shocking and thought-provoking. And although you don't see these stats in the marketing brochures of WMS vendors, you need to think about them before you purchase a WMS.
September 21, 2006	A New Customer Relationship Management Framework: Twenty-first Century Necessity, or Blowin' in the Wind? The business ecosystem has shifted focus from corporation to customer, and the location of value has changed with it. Where value had historically been located in products and services, it is now located in the value produced by the customer.
September 20, 2006	Architecture Evolution: Service-oriented Architecture versus Web Services Collaboration and interoperability are critical where multiple business units reside under one larger corporation, or where there is a requirement to integrate the system into a disparate system when a business-to-business or business-to-consumer extension is part of the business model.
September 19, 2006	Architecture Evolution: From Web-based to Service-oriented Architecture Traditional enterprise systems have proven difficult to change and extend. The inherent problem of old core code and business logic duplication is part of the reason traditional enterprise resource planning systems have not readily taken to e-commerce.
September 18, 2006	Architecture Evolution: From Mainframes to Service-oriented Architecture Product architecture is going to do much more than simply provide the technical functionality, the user interface, and the platform support. It is going to determine whether a product is going to be able to accommodate increasingly evolving user requirements.
September 15, 2006	Fear of the Unknown, the Art of War, and Competitiveness It is not unusual to use the metaphor of war to construct theories of business competition—substituting competing vendors for the mortal enemy. But what about the enemy within? And what if it is in fact a company's strongest resource?
September 14, 2006	Creating a Business from a Project Many software services companies are not able to turn their individual project successes into a line of business that brings in additional revenue streams. At the root of this is the simplistic assumption that "if you build, they will come."
September 13, 2006	Professional Services Automation: Affordable Hosted Solutions for the Small to Medium Business Market Although technology is pivotal in maintaining a competitive edge, many smaller professional services organizations (PSOs) have limited time and resources to dedicate to their IT infrastructure. For this reason, the application service provider model can be a very attractive offering.
September 12, 2006	Mill Industries: A Generic ERP Challenge Mills are factories where value is added to raw material by processing it into a form suitable either for further manufacturing, or for immediate end-use. However, general enterprise resource planning software typically does not meet the requirements of these industries.
September 8, 2006	Cut-to-size/shape Industries The specialized material resource planning module for cut-to-size/shape industries must be able to recognize when current demand cannot be satisfied by the in stock inventory due to dimensional issues, and include that unsatisfied demand in its reorder messages.
September 7, 2006	Quoting and Costing for Multiple Units of Measure A common need of plastics producers is real-time shop floor production monitoring. This serves many purposes, including tracking cycles on tools or machines, data collection, precision measurement, analysis and reporting, gage management, and material usage and labor tracking.
September 6, 2006	Differing Plastics Flavors There is no one process used when manufacturing plastic products, since manufacturing methods depend on the final product. Indeed, products range from injection molding and plastic extrusion, to extrusion blow molding, injection blow molding, stretch blow molding, and thermoformed plastics.
September 5, 2006	The Tricky Enterprise Applications Needs of Plastics Producers General enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers, even those which are viable companies with a solid product, typically do not meet the tricky requirements that are vital to the plastics industry and related so-called mill or material converter businesses.
September 4, 2006	Professional Services Organizations Automate their Processes Major vendors are entering the professional services software market and small niche vendors are repositioning themselves to compete. This changing market is conveying mixed messages; however, users can navigate this space by separating market messages from vendors' functional capabilities.
September 1, 2006	2006 PMI Research Conference Aims to Link Project Management Discipline with the Business Community The 2006 PMI Research Conference was an excellent venue for gauging the direction in which project management research is heading. The presentations of the areas of portfolio management and program management confirm the rising demand for project portfolio management solutions.
August 2006
August 31, 2006	Microsoft Retail Systems Microsoft Point of Sale and Microsoft Retail Management System provide a complete point of purchase solution suite for small and midsize specialty retail businesses. Released in 2005, Microsoft Point of Sale has enabled Microsoft to further penetrate the retail market.
August 30, 2006	Off-shoring: Are You Getting Your Money's Worth? Are companies that offshore software development, call center operations, and remote implementations really saving money? Are customers and users realizing benefits? Indeed, there are areas where savings can be misstated. But companies can do something to protect themselves against disappointments.
August 29, 2006	Improving and Expanding: The Road Ahead for a Drop-ship Facilitator CommerceHub may be destined for leadership in collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment; trade promotions; new product design and introduction; sourcing and procurement; and so on. But given its current size and low global brand recognition, it is not there yet.
August 28, 2006	A Drop-ship Enablement Pioneer Leads the Way By providing a single plug-and-play connection to multiple trading partners, CommerceHub strives to enable basically any retailer to electronically integrate with its suppliers, regardless of the idiosyncratic systems and capabilities that might exist among them.
August 25, 2006	Is Enterprise Resource Planning Becoming a Commodity? All was fine, methodical, and elegant until enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors started aspiring to new customer acquisitions in the hundreds per annum. And with the advent of "ERP for small to medium businesses," the numbers are simply mind-boggling.
August 24, 2006	Asset Data for Accurate Lifecycle Management Among the areas where modern enterprise asset management (EAM) systems provide substantial benefits is the driving out of inefficiencies in business processes. This is why the development of effective maintenance policies is generally the foremost consideration for modern asset managers.
August 23, 2006	Captured by Data The benefits case for enterprise asset management (EAM) has been used to justify huge sums in EAM investment. But to understand this reasoning, it is necessary to explore how asset data can be used to further the aims of maintenance.
August 22, 2006	Customer Data Integration: A Primer Customer data integration (CDI) involves consolidation of customer information for a centralized view of the customer experience. Implementing CDI within a customer relationship management initiative can help provide organizations with a successful framework to manage data on a continuous basis.
August 21, 2006	Drop-Shipping—Internet Retailers' "Little Helper"? Relying on drop-shipping (sometimes called "virtual inventory") is neither as easy nor as profitable as it may appear to be. Nothing has hurt the adoption of multichannel shopping more than orders which are delayed—or even cancelled—because of stock-outs.
August 18, 2006	Paradoxes of Software Estimation Software development has spawned an independent industry in its own right. But the processes of asking for service, offering service, and pricing are all somewhat haphazard. Perhaps it's time to focus efforts on resolving the key paradoxes of software estimation.
August 17, 2006	A Customer Relationship Management Solution Aims To Cover all the Bases Surado Solutions aims to provide a complete customer relationship management suite. We'll analyze Surado CRM 5.0 from the perspectives of core functionality, its distinguishing factors, and the challenges users may face when considering the Surado solution.
August 16, 2006	Are You Adequately Protecting Your IT Infrastructure Components Inside the Firewall? Components such as applications, databases, web servers, directories, and operating systems rely mostly on built-in security features. But password and privileges are hardly enough, considering that many users have elevated privileges and fail to follow established corporate procedures.
August 15, 2006	Enterprises May Be Overlooking Profits from After-sales Service If service parts and service personnel management are well managed, manufacturers can significantly improve their profits from service operations. This will lead in turn to significant overall profit margins.
August 14, 2006	The Challenge of Fulfillment Integrated multichannel retailing will inevitably become the norm. For retailers, the key to multichannel success lies in understanding the factors that drive revenues and the ability to fulfill Web orders. Other challenges center around electronic integration, visibility, and exception management.
August 11, 2006	Nimble Enterprise Applications Vendor Faces Stiff Challenges in A Competitive Environment Despite intensifying competition in the enterprise applications market, IFS likes its chances. IFS has released the seventh generation of its component-based applications, while competitors are still on their first, or second at best. Nevertheless, IFS has a tough road ahead.
August 10, 2006	Resilient Enterprise Solutions Vendor Displays Sociability and Pragmatic Product Development During its stabilization phase IFS product development has brought about pragmatic developments, including its latest release, IFS Applications 7. The vendor has also been surging forward by harnessing new partnerships, including turning high-profile customers into developers and subsequent resellers
August 9, 2006	Enterprise Applications Vendor Reverses Fortunes - But Will Perseverance and Agility Be Enough? With seven consecutive profitable quarters, a feat unprecedented in the company's recent past, IFS enters a new phase of sustained profitable growth, along with its new chief executive officer. However, there are some challenges that just will not go away.
August 7, 2006	Enterprise Content Management Solution Creates the Ultimate Customer Experience Interwoven has grown from a web content management vendor to an enterprise content management (ECM) vendor providing a full suite of ECM components. With this suite, it helps its clients provide the ultimate customer experience.
August 4, 2006	Challenges and User Recommendations for a Global Trading Solutions Provider on a Roll The market is competitive, rapidly evolving, and highly fragmented, and one should only expect the intensity of competition to increase in the future. For the present, the biggest challenge remains a lack of awareness of the need for TradeStone's applications.
August 3, 2006	The Future for an E-sourcing Solutions Builder TradeStone will introduce several planning capabilities that bind existing sourcing and order execution functionality, and featuring significant enhancements to the Finance and Logistics modules, with the idea of fostering rapid adoption and deployment across expanding supply chains.
August 2, 2006	Web-based Solution Steps Out for Cohesive Retailer Sourcing TradeStone recently announced the commercial availability of its Unified Buying Engine, a technology platform that should enable user companies to streamline all purchasing into a single view and business process.
August 1, 2006	A Well-designed Solution for Sourcing: Its Technological Foundation and How It Works TradeStone has developed an application that can be quickly configured to shift data in and out of traditional enterprise planning systems. Organizations can thus more easily intertwine basic procurement information with crucial sourcing data such as specifications, schedules, and statuses.
July 2006
July 31, 2006	Collaborative Sourcing Solution Vendor Leaves No Stone Unturned By layering across an organization's current infrastructure and building a sourcing system that needs hardly any training, TradeStone users anywhere can sign on and have the system handle all the intricacies of international trade (without ever experiencing its complexities).
July 28, 2006	Challenges and User Recommendations for a Focused Enterprise Resource Planning Solution Some major SSI competitors, while possibly inferior regarding process or mill industry focus, will influence some purchase decisions through more comprehensive horizontal product portfolios, and superior global presence, localization capabilities, and viability—which are still hurdles for SSI to overcome.
July 27, 2006	Impressive Enterprise Resource Planning Solution Gets A Little Help From Its Friends Despite impressive product depth and breadth (for instance, customer relationship management [CRM], workflow, traceability, and quality management are provided natively), Strategic Systems International (SSI) has longstanding partnerships with several best-of-breed specialists.
July 26, 2006	Web-based Enterprise Resource Planning Solution Exhibits Lean Approach SSI's approach appeals to process manufacturers, as well as some discrete manufacturers with short lead times and high volumes, where the traditional manufacturing resource planning (MRP) approach often shows many shortcomings (and can even be a recipe for disaster).
July 25, 2006	A Focused Web-based Solution for Chemicals, Drugs, and Mill-based Industries SSI shows deep understanding of the requirements for chemical, drug, and mill-based industries. Consequently, it has developed such must-have capabilities as potency controls, container movements, top-down and bottom-up traceability, and controls for customs and excise, shelf life, and location validation.
July 24, 2006	Vendor Defends Its Strongholds with Focused Enterprise Resource Planning Solution Strategic Systems International (SSI) needs no special introduction to British process industries (such as consumer products manufacturers and whisky distillers), but it largely remains a well-kept secret elsewhere.
July 21, 2006	Supply Chains: Reinventions, Successes, and Failures Reinventing the supply chain can increase a company's value, or can in some extreme cases cause bankruptcy. Just a few case studies are enough to demonstrate the critical factors that can make all the difference between success and catastrophic failure.
July 20, 2006	Retailing Trends—Shopping Anyway and Everywhere Multichannel retailers have to flawlessly execute a full range of services to engage, transact, and fulfill orders placed via Internet. Thus, they either have to build a complete set of these services in-house, or outsource some (or all) of them.
July 19, 2006	Drug Pedigree Guidelines and How Software Can Help Drug manufacturers and retailers are tightening their data collection and reporting processes to meet new US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) guidelines. But which software offerings are best placed to help drug manufacturers comply with the new guidelines?
July 18, 2006	How To Write a Winning Proposal Your proposal should prove your case, and motivate the client to buy your services or applications. But all too often, reading a proposal is almost as painfully difficult as writing one. So what are the secrets of truly successful proposal-writing?
July 17, 2006	Discovering and Creating Value in Procurement through Continuous Assessment and Innovation Improvement is not simply an idea: it is a process. And processes without frameworks are recipes for underachievement, or worse, chaos. For this reason, value leakages in procurement functions must be resolved in a systematic, progressive, incremental, and formalized manner.
July 14, 2006	From Shoestring Budget to Millions: The Road Ahead for an Enterprise Management Software Vendor Indisputably, Deltek remains an enterprise applications vendor of choice for project-based businesses. With its recent capital infusion and product deliveries, it has taken some critical steps towards creating even more value for its customers.
July 13, 2006	Sweet Spots and What-Nots: Enterprise Management Software Vendor Provides Notable Solutions Deltek uses a wealth of standalone and bundled modules to target various markets, including professional services firms both domestically and internationally, as well as the full range of federal contractors and project-focused enterprises.
July 12, 2006	Enterprise Management Software Vendor Welcomes Additions Deltek recognizes that most organizations run their enterprises by using a sort of closed-loop, corrective action process. However, most product-based businesses still need solutions to repl