Understanding the ERP market can be complicated because many organisations use multiple products, so call 2-tier ERP. ...
31/05/2010 | ERP May 2010 PDF.pdf | VIEW
IT managers that fail to embrace on-demand services will hold back the organisation they are supposed to be supporting. Such services can save costs within IT, as well as provide new capabilities to the business that have previously been unavailable or unaffordable. On-demand services also allow IT departments to focus more on managing information rather than fiddling with technology. Spend analysis is a good example. Available at a cost that is far cheaper than attempting to develop a system in-house, on-demand spend analysis provides a business with rapid access to a high quality integrated repository of cleansed, categorised and enriched spend data collected from a wide range of internal and external data sources. IT managers need to keep demonstrating how IT can help drive the business forward and underpin survival and growth, even in a tough economic climate. On-demand spend analytics is a quick and easy win with a potentially huge return on investment. ...
19/07/2010 | Quocirca - A gift from IT to the business - final.pdf | VIEW
Increasingly, there is a need to be able to manage the whole of an IT platform, not only at the server, storage and network levels, but also at the software, performance and even the datacentre facility level. This has led to a new term being bandied around – enterprise resource planning for information technology – ERP for IT or just ERP4IT. However, to see whether this has any value to the business, it is first important to see how we have got to where we are today. ...
27/06/2011 | ERP for IT - cw.pdf | VIEW
