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• Data quality management helps U.K. gas giant ensure public safety

  Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  A strong focus on data quality management is helping one U.K. firm ensure safety as it executes a major gas pipe replacement project.
  
  
  
  Data quality - Business - Public safety - Databases - Data WarehousingView Article

• Gartner Magic Quadrant ranks data quality tools vendors

  Thu, 1 Jul 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  The best data quality software vendors offer platforms that combine data quality tools with data integration and MDM products, according to Gartner.
  
  
  
  Gartner - Magic Quadrant - Master Data Management - Databases - Data WarehousingView Article

• SAP BPM best practices: Who should lead BPM initiatives?

  Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  BPM ownership is often unclear in organizations, but getting the right people to take charge often dictates BPM success.
  
  
  
  Business process management - SAP AG - SAP - ERP - Best practiceView Article

• Successful carbon management software projects must go beyond compliance

  Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  Companies that are starting to track their environmental impact need to view enterprise carbon management and carbon data collection as continuous processes, industry experts say.
  
  
  
  Environment - Low-carbon economy - Carbon Cycle - Carbon Management - Products and ServicesView Article

• SAP value engineering services aim to boost SAP ROI

  Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  SAP is pushing its value engineering services, at one time offered to only the largest customers, to help with IT project prioritization and SAP ROI.
  
  
  
  SAP AG - ERP - SAP - SAP ROI - ConsultantsView Article

• Interest in SAP MII implementations up as manufacturers seek better visibility

  Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  More manufacturers are seeking manufacturing intelligence tools, and increasingly SAP MII is the pick for SAP shops.
  
  
  
  SAP AG - ERP - SAP - Manufacturing - ConsultantsView Article

• Celestica launches SAP Business Analytics Center of Excellence project

  Wed, 2 Jun 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  Celestica's senior director of business support solutions shared his tips on how his company launched a Business Analytics Center of Excellence project with SAP BusinessObjects.
  
  
  
  Business Objects - SAP AG - SAP - ERP - ConsultantsView Article

• SAP, RightNow make CRM more mobile

  Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:24:38 EDT

  With SAP's acquisition of Sybase and RightNow's new mobile capabilities, mobile CRM is taking off. Some early adopters are optimistic.
  
  
  
  SAP - SAP AG - Sybase - RightNow Technologies - Salesforce.comView Article

• SAP, RightNow make CRM more mobile

  Mon, 31 May 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  With SAP's acquisition of Sybase and RightNow's new mobile capabilities, mobile CRM is taking off. Some early adopters are optimistic.
  
  
  
  SAP - SAP AG - Sybase - RightNow Technologies - Salesforce.comView Article

• Monsanto ties together SAP CRM, Portal KM and Cisco telephony

  Thu, 27 May 2010 10:33:26 EDT

  Monsanto revamped its customer service operations with an upgrade to SAP CRM 6.0 that leveraged the KM portal and a Cisco infrastructure.
  
  
  
  Cisco Systems - Salesforce.com - SAP AG - SAP - ERPView Article

• Understanding the role of MSPs in ERP implementations

  Wed, 26 May 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  Managed service providers (MSPs) are helping organizations reduce costs and manage software implementations, according to spendmatters.com's Jason Busch. In this column, get advice on hiring MSPs.
  
  
  
  Enterprise resource planning - Business - ERP - Service provider - ConsultantsView Article

• Attaining source code in SAP ABAP

  Sun, 23 May 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  An SAP users is looking for the source code for "Display all objects" in SAP ABAP.
  
  
  
  SAP AG - SAP - ERP - ABAP - SAP ABAPView Article

• How to manage records through SAP BAPIs

  Sun, 23 May 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  An SAP users wants to know the best-performing method to load through millions of records every day through SAP BAPIs, and whether to use Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) or Remote Function Call (RFC).
  
  
  
  SOAP - ERP - SAP AG - SAP - Web serviceView Article

• Aligning bar codes on an SAP Smart Form

  Wed, 19 May 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  An SAP user is trying to align a barcode in the center of a defined window on an SAP Smart Form.
  
  
  
  Barcode - ERP - SAP - SAP AG - SAP Smart FormView Article

• Migrating from an SAPscript to an SAP Smart Form

  Wed, 19 May 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  An SAP user is working with an SAPscript form to create the form development for an Invoice List, and wants to know if it's possible to migrate the SAPscript to an SAP Smart Form.
  
  
  
  SAP AG - SAP - ERP - Consultants - SAP Smart FormView Article

• NPS, follow-up helps Sony Canada improve customer experience

  Wed, 19 May 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  At SAP's Sapphire conference, Sony Canada's CIO explained how the net promoter score helped his business improve the customer experience.
  
  
  
  Business - SAP - SAP AG - Net Promoter - ERPView Article

• Backblaze says the dog ate its data centre; IBM XIV debate rages

  Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:00:00 EDT

  Unified tiering stacks anyone? If only we could invent such a thing, storage bloggers may have a lot less to write about! Also, the best excuse for a data center disaster ever?
  
  
  
  IBM - Data center - Backblaze - XIV - HardwareView Article