Explore how complex manufacturers today are employing best practices to differentiate themselves from the competition and low-cost global providers through superior-value products and services.
A sea of challenges surrounds the complex equipment manufacture, and the best way to navigate through them is with best practices. You can read the proof in SAP success stories from customers who use best practices to manage what counts — from supporting service and aftermarket sales to controlling price and profits to improving the compliance process.
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Traditional linear supply chains with sequential processes are evolving into complex global ecosystems that are highly responsive to customer requirements.
This SAP white paper describes how an adaptive supply chain network allows all the stakeholders in the supply chain – both internal and external to the enterprise – to share knowledge, make collaborative decisions and immediately respond to changing conditions. Trading partners can avoid costly supply chain problems. Moreover, firms can enhance their financial position and improve their supply chain economics.
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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.
Server-Based Computing (SBC) is a mature client architecture that delivers substantial Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) savings when it is implemented in the right circumstances and with the right group of users. Gartner compares the TCO of SBC to that of traditional PCs in several scenarios to explain where the savings take place.
Published by Gartner, Inc.; Sponsored by Citrix Systems, Inc.
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Read this Forrester report for insight into what is on the minds of desktop operations and architects and where the client virtualization market is headed.
Day-to-day desktop operations headaches continue to grow at an alarming pace as employees become more mobile, application incompatibilities increase, and the importance of data security expands. From January 2007 to April 2008, Forrester’s inquiry load from IT professionals reflected a concern to standardize and simplify the corporate computing environment, with 39% of all desktop operations and architecture inquiries relating to client virtualization. As client virtualization moves from myth to reality, end users have shown an interest in taming the hype around desktop virtualization, with local and hosted desktop virtualization accounting for 59% of all client virtualization inquiries. Following in suit was vendor interest in the client virtualization space, application virtualization, and the costs associated with desktop virtualization.
Published by Forrester Research, Inc.; Sponsored by Citrix Systems, Inc.
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Dispel the five major myths surrounding Open Source Security and gain the tools necessary to make a truly informed decision for your IT organization
When choosing between proprietary and open source security solutions, many organizations are misled by open source myths. As a result, they ask the wrong questions when evaluating their options and unnecessarily limit their IT solutions. Is it risky to trust mission-critical infrastructure to open source software? Why should we pay an open source vendor when open source is supposed to be free? Will a shift to open source add complexity to our IT infrastructure? These questions all arise from open source myths that this white paper will explain and dispel, allowing IT decision makers to focus on more important organizational issues: return-on-investment, ease-of-use, agility, reliability, and control.
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