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Dynamics NAV - SOX Readiness with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Learn how Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps customers comply with Sarbanes-Oxley. This white paper will help customers understand how Sarbanes-Oxley impacts their business, and how Microsoft Dynamics NAV can help.
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Dynamics NAV - How To Stop Your Warehouse Stealing Your Profits - A Prostrategy White Paper
This white paper is oriented towards small to medium sized (SME) wholesale distributors and manufacturers.
It is intended to help business owners and executives provide answers to questions such as: Are you spending too much on your warehouse processes?
Would you like to explore new ways of increasing your bottom line?
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Dynamics NAV - Integrated Innovation Adds Value
This white paper is intended for Microsoft partners. It reviews how integration between Microsoft DynamicsTM NAV 5.0 and other Microsoft products help small and medium-sized companies do more – faster than ever – without increasing cost
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Dynamics NAV - SOX Compliance
Growing companies face increasing financial accounting challenges each year. Depending on industry, markets, geographic location, and financing needs, an organization may be subject to local generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and one or more of:
• The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), a U.S. law passed in 2002 to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures.
• The International Financial Reporting Standards section of the European Union’s International Accounting Standards (IAS/IFRS), which went into effect in 2005 and sets forth international accounting standards for recognition, measurement, consolidation, and reporting.
• New Basel Accord (Basel II), enacted in 2006 to address issues of financial institution risk and to promote greater stability in the overall financial systemwhite ?
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Dynamics NAV - Generating Maximum Business Benefits From a Successful ERP Upgrade - A Prostrategy White Paper
The rewards of enterprise resource planning (ERP) upgrade and optimisation are becoming increasingly evident as users search for long-term solutions to sustain and exploit business growth, while circumventing unnecessary risks.
This white paper outlines strategies for organisations considering upgrading or replacing their enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) in order to handle business growth, streamline internal processes, and leverage technology innovation. It will help examine how to successfully upgrade your organisations ERP systems to generate maximum business benefits.
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Dynamics NAV - Generating Profitable Growth with a well tuned ERP Solution - A Prostrategy White Paper
A lean supply chain is a set of organisations and processes that are linked in a continuous flow of products, services, finances and information that interact collaboratively to reduce cost and waste. Most people in manufacturing are familiar with the idea of “lean” manufacturing. In its simplest form, lean supply chain means producing goods with less, as it applies fewer resources to the production process without affecting the quantity or quality of the goods produced. Demand management is easily the most critical component of the lean supply chain because inappropriate production of goods is the source of much waste and expense. The key to effective demand management is to define customer value.
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Dynamics NAV - an Understanding of Financial Management Requirements
After reading this paper you will understand:
• The need for an integrated solution when deploying financial management applications.
• The value of expandability beyond core financial management functionality.
• How financial information is used throughout the organization.
• How to use Microsoft Dynamics NAV to overcome the challenges of financial management.
• The importance of reporting and analytics.
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Microsoft - Let Information be your guide
Accurate Reporting and Analysis Can Improve Your Firm’s Performance.We’ve all been there before. Sitting in front of a PC, you type in one or more key words to initiate an Internet search for some analysis you are doing, and in an instant 1,687,439 hits are returned..
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Dynamics NAV - Business Intelligence
This white paper reviews how Business Intelligence tools and capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics NAV help empower companies to improve business performance as their business grows and their requirements change.
After reading this paper you will know:
• How business intelligence is defined today
• How Microsoft envisions a complete and integrated business intelligence offering for its customers
• How Microsoft Dynamics NAV enables business insight for companies with varying needs
• Which Microsoft business intelligence applications work with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
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Dynamics NAV - Integration with Other Microsoft Products and Technologies Adds Value
Investigate how integration with other Microsoft products and technologies adds value.This white paper is intended for Microsoft partners. It reviews how integration between Microsoft DynamicsTM NAV 5.0 and other Microsoft products help small and medium-sized companies do more – faster than ever – without increasing costs.
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Scalability with SQL Server 2005 - A White Paper
Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV is a complete business solution that helps small and midsized companies integrate financial, manufacturing, distribution, customer relationship management, and e-commerce processes and data. This fully customizable enterprise resource planning (ERP) product is ideal for growing businesses with specialized needs
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Dynamics NAV - Business Analytics Technical Paper
Business Analytics for Microsoft Business Solutions Navision 4.0 SP3 provides an interface between Microsoft Business Solutions Navision 4.0 SP3 and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. You can use both Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 for the Business Analytics part, while Microsoft Business Solutions Navision 4.0 SP3 itself can be either the SQL Option or the Native database server version. What Business Analytics does, put simply: Business Analytics makes it possible to populate cubes in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services automatically with data from Microsoft Business Solutions Navision 4.0 SP3. Any OLAP client that can access Analysis Services can then be used to analyze the data on Analysis Services, create reports, and so forth.
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Master Data Management -Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset
This white paper explores the importance of master data and the barriers to achieving sound master data, describes the ideal master data management solution, and explains the value and benefits of effective management of master data.
Think of master data management (MDM) as a single source of truth: the home of accurate data concerning everything that is vital to the company.
Data integration software and services empower your organization to access, integrate, and trust all its information assets, giving your organization a competitive advantage in today’s global information economy.
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Dynamics NAV - End-User Business Productivity: A Field Study of SAP & Microsoft
In this white paper, we measure how end users of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications describe the impact of Microsoft and SAP applications on their business productivity. This research found that Microsoft Dynamics end users on average rated their experience with Microsoft applications more favorably than SAP users rated their experience with SAP. These fi ndings are based on a business productivity measurement framework developed by Keystone Strategy, working under the direction of Dr. Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and sponsored by Microsoft.
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EVALUATING FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE …Is it time for a change?
Financial management software is the backbone of every organization and the foundation that helps a company manage and gain insight into the most important parts of their business. These applications streamline processes to help an organization manage business-critical functions such as accounting, project management, payroll, and human resources. When the financial management software of an organization becomes disjointed or broken, the implications can certainly impact the success and profitability of that organization. Evaluating financial management software can be an overwhelming task as there are many factors to consider. Some of the typical questions to ask about your system include: Does your financial system provide the latest and greatest functionality available? Are your users able to generate adequate reporting with the software’s reporting tools? Is your system completely integrated or are you required to enter the same data into multiple places and multiple systems? Do you spend more time finding the data than analyzing and responding to it? Do staff members spend a lot of time entering the same data into multiple systems to allow them to extract and analyze that information.
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Dynamics NAV - A Technology Review
When reviewing any accounting software solution, I think that it is important to understand how the product is different from its’ competitors. All products are developed with different tools, different philosophies, and with different objectives in mind. All products are targeted towards different sized customers, and different industries. When evaluating products, it is easy to get bogged down in the overwhelming complexity of the systems. The reality is that all accounting systems have a general ledger with account numbers and financial reports; they all have an average accounts payable module that works fine; they all have a bevy of standard features. Studying these common elements of an accounting system will get you nowhere.
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Informatica - Redefining Data Enterprise Warehousing
In this white paper, Informatica redefines Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) to address this new paradigm that mandates harnessing enterprise data to ensure competitive advantages and operational excellence. The paper will discuss:
• Why EDW?
• What is EDW?
• Whats different now?
• EDW architectural principles
• The Informatica approach
This paper specifically underscores core EDW requirements and capabilities, delineates key EDW architectural principles, and articulates the foundational role of a robust data integration solution in EDW deployments. Drawing from actual case studies, we also highlight the business benefits of our proposed approach to EDW. Finally, this paper demonstrates why, with the critical burden now placed on the data warehouse, it is essential to deploy EDW using a proven data integration platform with a track record of success to lower implementation risks for EDW initiatives.
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Dynamics NAV - Financial Management to Enhance Organizational Performance
This white paper is intended for Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV customers. It reviews how Microsoft Dynamics NAV financial management tools and the integrated capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics NAV help organizations maximize the value of their financial data to empower finance staff, executives, analysts, and
other decision-makers.
After reading this paper you will understand:
• The need for an integrated solution when deploying financial management applications.
• The value of expandability beyond core financial management functionality.
• How financial information is used throughout the organization.
• How to use Microsoft Dynamics NAV to overcome the challenges of financial management.
• The importance of reporting and analytics.
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Dynamics NAV - Integration with Other Microsoft Products and Technologies Adds Value
Investigate how integration with other Microsoft products and technologies adds value.This white paper is intended for Microsoft partners. It reviews how integration between Microsoft DynamicsTM NAV 5.0 and other Microsoft products help small and medium-sized companies do more – faster than ever – without increasing costs.
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Dynamics NAV - Business Intelligence
This white paper reviews how Business Intelligence tools and capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics NAV help empower companies to improve business performance as their business grows and their requirements change.
After reading this paper you will know:
• How business intelligence is defined today
• How Microsoft envisions a complete and integrated business intelligence offering for its customers
• How Microsoft Dynamics NAV enables business insight for companies with varying needs
• Which Microsoft business intelligence applications work with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
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IBM Cognos - Business Intelligence for Professional Users
Reporting requirements have changed dramatically in organizations. Yesterday, professional report authors, working with business managers who wanted relevant information, followed a laborious path to get their reports created. Professional report authors needed to work with business managers to understand the business requirements and expectations, translate those business requirements into report requirements, and then feed the reports back to their business managers and stakeholders. Often, they negotiated back and forth between these groups to make any adjustments. These negotiations resulted in a loss of productivity because, in most cases, professional authors were removed from an organization’s business needs and from the drivers for the report creation.
Accurate Reporting and Analysis Can Improve Your Firm’s Performance.We’ve all been there before. Sitting in front of a PC, you type in one or more key words to initiate an Internet search for some analysis you are doing, and in an instant 1,687,439 hits are returned..
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Informatica - Redefining Data Enterprise Warehousing
In this white paper, Informatica redefines Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) to address this new paradigm that mandates harnessing enterprise data to ensure competitive advantages and operational excellence. The paper will discuss:
• Why EDW?
• What is EDW?
• Whats different now?
• EDW architectural principles
• The Informatica approach
This paper specifically underscores core EDW requirements and capabilities, delineates key EDW architectural principles, and articulates the foundational role of a robust data integration solution in EDW deployments. Drawing from actual case studies, we also highlight the business benefits of our proposed approach to EDW. Finally, this paper demonstrates why, with the critical burden now placed on the data warehouse, it is essential to deploy EDW using a proven data integration platform with a track record of success to lower implementation risks for EDW initiatives.
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Microsoft - Let Information be your guide
Accurate Reporting and Analysis Can Improve Your Firm’s Performance.We’ve all been there before. Sitting in front of a PC, you type in one or more key words to initiate an Internet search for some analysis you are doing, and in an instant 1,687,439 hits are returned..
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Informatica - Accelerating ROI with SAP Software through Success ful Data Migration
A Mission-Critical Approach to Data Migration
The on-time migration and consolidation of existing corporate data from legacy applications to SAP® software is critical in achieving the fastest ROI. Toward that end, SAP and Informatica have partnered to provide a seamless data migration strategy to ensure that you derive maximum business benefit from your investment in SAP software.
Companies frequently assume that data migration and consolidation is a one-time effort. The reality is that nearly all enterprise applications are implemented and deployed in a phased approach – by country, by plant, or by lines of business, for example – that often represents a complex, time-consuming undertaking. While critical to the overall success of the project, data migration considerations frequently are not addressed until too late.
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Master Data Management -Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset
This white paper explores the importance of master data and the barriers to achieving sound master data, describes the ideal master data management solution, and explains the value and benefits of effective management of master data.
Think of master data management (MDM) as a single source of truth: the home of accurate data concerning everything that is vital to the company.
Data integration software and services empower your organization to access, integrate, and trust all its information assets, giving your organization a competitive advantage in today’s global information economy.
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IBM Cognos - Business Analytics, The perfect fit for agile enterprise
Today’s best, most competitive companies move very quickly to turn out new products or services, targeting new channels or entirely new markets. These enterprises, largely in mid-market, tackle unprecedented customer demand for individual treatment and pounce on operational problems, seeking innovation in every area with strong teams and aggressive strategies.
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IBM Cognos - Performance Management Spells
Accurate Reporting and Analysis Can Improve Your Firm’s Performance.We’ve all been there before. Sitting in front of a PC, you type in one or more key words to initiate an Internet search for some analysis you are doing, and in an instant 1,687,439 hits are returned..
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SAP Insider Article CRN Extending the value
Many customers choose IBM Cognos software to cure business pains such as lengthy reporting times, cumbersome report authoring, combining disparate data into a coherent view, and poor visibility into performance. Cognos, an SAP Software Partner, can also extend and enhance the value of your SAP investment:
- More users leveraging the value of the information available from SAP BW, a key component of SAP NetWeaver
- Self-service and increased reporting flexibility for novice users
- Added ability to amortize your overal SAP BW and SAP NetWeaver investment over a larger number of users.
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Market Overview - Gartner Research - Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms 2008
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IBM Cognos - Scorecarding for the public sector
Rising expectations for public sector performance have driven many public organizations to use scorecarding to monitor and manage their way to improved performance— with well-documented successes. Scorecarding provides the means to capture and clearly articulate the organization’s strategy, align all stakeholders and employees toward those goals, and help measure and manage the organization’s progress towards those objectives.
There are a number of unique issues and approaches to scorecarding in the public sector. In this white paper, Brett Knowles, one of North America’s leading authorities on the Balanced Scorecard, discusses some of the unique public sector issues and proven solutions.
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Dynamics NAV - Business Analytics Technical Paper
Business Analytics for Microsoft Business Solutions Navision 4.0 SP3 provides an interface between Microsoft Business Solutions Navision 4.0 SP3 and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. You can use both Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 for the Business Analytics part, while Microsoft Business Solutions Navision 4.0 SP3 itself can be either the SQL Option or the Native database server version. What Business Analytics does, put simply: Business Analytics makes it possible to populate cubes in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services automatically with data from Microsoft Business Solutions Navision 4.0 SP3. Any OLAP client that can access Analysis Services can then be used to analyze the data on Analysis Services, create reports, and so forth.
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Dynamics NAV - End-User Business Productivity: A Field Study of SAP & Microsoft
In this white paper, we measure how end users of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications describe the impact of Microsoft and SAP applications on their business productivity. This research found that Microsoft Dynamics end users on average rated their experience with Microsoft applications more favorably than SAP users rated their experience with SAP. These fi ndings are based on a business productivity measurement framework developed by Keystone Strategy, working under the direction of Dr. Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and sponsored by Microsoft.
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An Architecture for Data Quality - Kimball Group Consulting
In this white paper, we propose a comprehensive architecture for capturing quality data events, as well as measuring and ultimately controlling data quality in the data warehouse. This scalable architecture can be added to existing data warehouse and data integration environments with minimal impact and relatively little upfront investment. Using this architecture, it is even possible to progress systematically towards a Six Sigma level of quality management. This design is in response to the current lack of published, coherent architecture for addressing data quality issues..
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