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• Best-in-Class companies achieved a 44% average year-over-year improvement in customer responsiveness
• Best-in-Class companies realized a 42% average year-over-year increase in employee productivity
• Best-in-Class companies saw a 30% average year-over-year increase in business process efficiency

This report demonstrates that Best-in-Class companies have successfully merged Business Intelligence (BI) functionality with collaborative techniques in order to produce substantial improvements in customer responsiveness, employee productivity, and business process efficiency. By leveraging a culture of information and other key organizational capabilities, top performing companies were able to expand the use of analytical capability to more areas of the business and lay a strong foundation for collaborative activity.

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As financial executives prepare for a prolonged recession, they are investing in technologies that help them run a leaner business.
Systems that make it easier for them to place a greater percentage of their spend under management. Tools to ensure a requisition is approved before the order is placed, and that an invoice is matched to a receipt and purchase order before it is paid. Software that provides real-time visibility into spend performance. Software like Coupa e-Procurement.

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With your fully functional trial, you will have the ability to try out the entire Coupa solution with your users, your suppliers, your approval rules, and your accounting information. Coupa’s Quick Start gets you up and running in just a few hours. There’s no hardware to buy, software to license, or IT projects to manage. All you need is a web browser.

There’s no better way to evaluate how e-Procurement will impact your business. Experience for yourself how Coupa can:

• Provide real-time visibility into company spending, and budget compliance
• Streamline manual purchasing, receiving and invoicing processes to improve efficiency and accuracy
• Ensure that all purchases go through the appropriate approval channels and comply with company policies
• Empower users to self serve to create requisitions, track order status, and receive against POs

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• Best-in-Class companies have reduced their detention and demurrage costs over the past 12 months.
• Best-in-Class companies are 3.3x as likely as all others to turn-around orders the same day they are received.
• Best-in-Class companies are 2.3x as likely as all others to have decreased their inventory carrying costs over the past year.

In difficult economic times, it is not surprising that managers across all areas are being asked to do more with less. In fact, 51% of respondents are feeling the pressure to manage change without increasing staffing or warehouse space. When demand grows increasingly uncertain, there may be a drive to focus and take action on those elements which are within your control: the costs of carrying inventory and its potential obsolescence, the cost of warehouse labor, and the potential inefficiencies of process that stand in the way of performance goals.

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Learn why the TCO of a Server-Based Computing deployment used to deliver all applications to users is around 50% lower than that of an unmanaged desktop deployment.
Citrix XenApp is the industry-standard way to virtualize business applications through a centralized and secure architecture. This means that IT can centralize and consolidate applications in the data center where they can be better controlled, managed and secured, while delivering a secure, satisfying user access experience to local, remote and mobile users, on any device or network.

This white paper compares user densities and the resulting Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for two types of implementations of XenApp 5 on Windows Server 2008.

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Provides the utility industry with information on transmission and distribution automation systems and information technology.
Utility Automation & Engineering T&D magazine is the most complete source of information on high-tech systems, infrastructure, equipment and engineering innovations that drive transmission and distribution. The magazine covers electric power from the generating plant switchyard all the way to the customer’s meter.

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Web 2.0, mobile learning, informal learning … keep up with the trends!
Users have wielded their unique power to significantly impact today’s top five learning technology trends. This new white paper explores those trends, looking at factors such as Web 2.0, mobile learning, and changes in the mix of blended learning. In addition, they discuss next steps to help your organization strategically select new technology in order to unlock its full potential.

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• Best-in-Class companies showed an increase in revenue of 4% or more in the past year
• Best-in-Class companies are 57% more likely to meet target launch/delivery dates
• Best-in-Class companies are 62% more likely to develop products that meet or exceed revenue targets

The average engineering organization is nearly half as likely as its Best-in-Class peer to report having a centralized process in place to support the capture and reuse of product data and information. Many engineering organizations also struggle with how to effectively document, approve and release final designs to manufacturing, as well as how to effectively manage engineering changes post-release. This report explores how the Best-in-Class apply tools and methodologies in each of these key areas in order to achieve greater profitability and efficiency - providing a roadmap for others to do the same.

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• Best-in-Class organizations being nearly 2x as likely to report improvements in document transfer times.
• Best-in-Class organizations are 58% more likely to reduce cost of distribution of digital content as compared to Laggards
• Best-in-Class organizations are 7x more likely to reduce buffer times as compared to Laggards

Streaming media, on-demand video and digital file transfers are bandwidth intensive applications and organizations are looking not only to improve quality of end-user experience, but also to optimize cost of enterprise infrastructure. Organizations are deploying digital content to improve responsiveness to market changes, differentiate from competitors and improve effectiveness of employee training initiatives while trying to reduce infrastructure cost and cost of bandwidth services.

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Learn how to attract and track more website visitors, ensure consistent follow-up, achieve increased sales productivity, keep valuable leads from slipping through the cracks and more with this exclusive Salesforce Small Business Success kit.

With your small business kit, you’ll instantly get access to:

• Sales & Marketing Success Map: See every step from first contact to close and get best practices for capturing leads and building interest
• Marketing in the Google Era, a webinar from the pros to help you take advantage of search, email, web tracking and more
• Free 30-day trial of Salesforce for up to five users
• Special discounts on services
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Customizable, vendor-neutral Request for Proposal (RFP) template for bids on Employee Performance Management software.
For any big project, getting started can be the hardest part. You may be well-versed in the art of requesting vendor proposals, familiar with employee performance management vendors, and intimately knowledgeable of your project requirements. Now you need to combine all that knowledge into a document that will provide both you and vendors with an accurate picture of project needs. They’ve done the hard work for you in this easy-to-use RFP template:

• Word file format is universally usable.
• Vendor-neutral format means the template works for any vendor.
• The questions cover the project, technical, and business rule requirements that come up most often.

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