A sales portal is one of many tools that can be used to help transform a business, especially a consumer packaged goods company. In this article, key structural and functional elements, as well as the advantages of implementing and effectively using a sales portal, are discussed.
As manufacturing becomes a global process, advances in demand management software have given rise to attribute-based demand management software.
Business intelligence (BI) represents the tools and systems that play a key role in the strategic planning process by allowing a company to manipulate corporate data for decision-making. But what exactly are the primary components of BI?
Today's Showdown pits two major enterprise resource planning (ERP) and accounting for small to midsized business (SMB) vendors against each other, head-to-head: Exact Software North America (a division of Exact Software) and Infor.
An integrated steel plant's manufacturing processes typically encompass three distinct types of manufacturing—flow manufacturing, process manufacturing, and mill manufacturing—making such a plant a mixed-mode manufacturer.
Because product lifecycle management (PLM) offers a host of benefits to manufacturers, it has become one of the fastest growing categories of enterprise applications.
Most companies create a new marketing plan every 12 months. At the same time, they should audit their message strategy to stay on top of competitors' marketing and to have confidence that they are delivering the right message to their market.
Learning management systems help organizations provide employees or students with access to classroom and online learning, as well as facilitate the planning and tracking of user development.
Business intelligence (BI) is in the midst of a new wave of innovations.
Compliance with the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act (and a slew of other regulations) is crucial for all businesses, as failure to comply with the law's strict standards and policies can spell disaster for executives and upper management of any enterprise.