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Dashboards as Easy to Use as Google: Sponsored by QlikView

In our personal lives, when we want to find information, our first stop is the simple and friendly home page of the Google search engine. We enter search terms in the box and then a list of documents appears. We look at the documents. If they are not want we want, we change the search terms. If another question arises, we search for related information. The feeling we get from this experience is satisfying, smooth, and effortless.

Helix - Best Practice Building Blocks

Providing an innovative consultancy approach to IT Service Management - blending online and onsite advice, planning, resources, mentoring, facilitation and training.

CFMS - Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting Solutions

Infor PM10 is targeted at solving the problem of the “Spreadsheet Workgroup”. That is, any group of people working with spreadsheets that needs to share information. The introduction of Lotus 123 in the early 1980’s brought enormous productivity gains to individuals doing financial analysis. Financial analysts were then armed with a tool that automated cumbersome repetitive calculations, allowing them to concentrate on understanding numbers rather than wasting time just managing them. Two to three years after its introduction, however, spreadsheet users began to find that the initial productivity gains they had experienced were disappearing and that they were actually spending more time managing numbers than they had prior to the introduction of the spreadsheet. The reason for this was simple: The spreadsheet's power had led people to move management of the workgroup numbers off the mainframe and on to the desktop PC. While the spreadsheet is an excellent tool for managing an individual's numbers, it is a disaster when used to manage numbers for a group of people. Today, almost anybody who is part of a spreadsheet workgroup will agree that they waste an inordinate amount engaged in some or all of the Ten Spreadsheet Time Wasters...

CFMS - Infor PM10 The engine for forecasting

Competition is fiercer now than it has ever been. Requirements for reporting up to date actuals are greater than ever and the need to analyse data and spot trends to gain competitive advantage is crucial. Most organisation’s reporting reflects this need, with weekly or monthly reporting of financial data the norm and often more frequent reporting of operational and sales related data. Why then is that planning, certainly the overall financial plan or budget, tends to be done on a much less frequent basis, usually annually? Does the organisation not have a requirement for up to date planning? Is it acceptable to measure performance, and make vital decisions, against plans that may no longer be applicable? Many companies still only set an annual budget and believe that they are managing their businesses when comparing actual performance against this “cast in stone” set of numbers. Whilst in some cases this may be true, most organisations would be more competitive if they had the ability to reforecast on a regular basis; better performance management.

Igel - Cloud Computing: Thin clients in the clouds

Cloud services represent an attractive and cost-efficient continuation of server-based computing and application service provider models. In combination with universal thin client solutions, the cost benefits apply not only to the data center but also to desktops.

Igel Technology - Thin Clients in Practice

Thin client computing with virtual desktops places particular demands on both manufacturers and end users. Universal solutions can be readily integrated into VDI environments and generate valuable synergy effects that can permanently cut the overall costs of centralized IT infrastructures.

ATG - Cross-channel commerce: The consumer view

A consumer researcg study commissioned by ATG.

Corda - Salesforce.com integration

Because of its many advanced features and hosted model, Saleforce.com has become the leader in software-as-a-service (SaaS) customer-relationship-management (CRM) software, and has been adopted by many organizations as their de facto solution for storing CRM data, tracking sales activities, and creating forecasts.