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In jargon-free language, Andrews and Johnson explain how managers can get the most out of their IT investment. The authors focus on successfully managing IT projects, including controlling project scope.

You’ll also receive Executive Book Alert, which keeps business executives up-to-date on the latest in business thinking. Their editors scour the book lists and catalogs, talk with business book publishers, and network with top business authors, to find the next best business books to summarize. As they do this, they will share the results of their research in this e-Newsletter.

Traditional BI solutions face many obstacles and limitations. However, the need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow. As a result, BI has continued to evolve – creating a next generation of BI.

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Companies who implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software tend to be intimidated by the time and cost of an implementation and seek to accelerate the go-live date. Without the right strategy and tools, implementation acceleration carries the risk of abbreviated end user training and change management, over-engineering of business processes, and other problems that can lead to higher over-all cost of ownership and the erosion of business benefit. You’ll quickly see how reduced costs, minimized disruption to the business, and an accelerated go-live date are all well within reach.

Written by Performance Monitor LLC

Published quarterly, Profit Magazine is distributed to more than 110,000 C-level executives* and provides business leaders with a road map on turning their technology investments into top and bottom line advantages. Profit Magazine illuminates the business impact of technology and provides industry and line-of-business intelligence for your specific challenges. At the same time, Profit Magazine also wants to shed light on Oracle’s product and service strategies and how they’ll impact your business – today, and in the years to come.

If you’re in charge of buying or recommending products for a data center, you need to be receiving your own complimentary copy of Processor. See what thousands of others have discovered by reading Processor bi-weekly: They make it simple to keep up to date with the latest products available to meet your enterprise’s needs. Each issue covers the latest technologies and trends that impact the data center while also providing information on manufacturers and dealers offering new, used, and refurbished data center equipment for sale.

With both Oracle and SAP ramping up their efforts to attract midsize businesses to their enterprise applications, many have wondered: can they deliver successful deployments to smaller customers? Although larger companies may be able to invest in consulting or additional personnel to properly manage integration projects within budget and delivery timeframe, that’s often not possible for a midsized business — and unexpected disruptions and other risk factors can have a greater impact. You’ll gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of each provider in various deployment scenarios and you will see the key measures of success like ROI and progress against project timeframe and budget.

Written by Nucleus Research, Inc.

Until recently, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions were considered out of the question for all but the largest companies, due to the technology’s complexity and large price tags. However, these days, midmarket companies have more choices than ever when it comes to ERP solutions, as competition between vendors has heated up. But how do you sort through all the offerings to find the solution that’s best for your organization?

This Buyer’s Guide addresses topics such as:

• Midmarket ERP overview
• Basic and advanced features
• Average costs

Rather than implement across-the-board cuts, managers should take a more integrated view of how IT is used throughout the business. Targeted IT investments can make operations more efficient and increase revenues, delivering returns larger than simple cost-cutting measures typically do.

The latest Aberdeen Group report, Managing the T&E Lifecycle: Integrating Process, Driving Performance, finds that many best-in-class companies use an end-to-end travel and expense management process. Key findings from the report include:

• Best-in-class companies have 18% higher rates of compliance to corporate T&E policies than their competitors
• Employees in best-in-class companies are able to complete expense reports in 14% less time than those in all other organizations
• Best-in-class companies realize costs to process expense reports that are 63% lower than their peers

Published by Aberdeen Group.