SAP launches on-demand business service
News Enterprise software giant SAP on Wednesday unveiled a mid-market on-demand service, Business ByDesign, putting it in competition with the on-demand offerings of Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Oracle. Business ByDesign will offer a range of on-demand...
[September 20, 2007, 15:02]
Going Beyond ITIL: IT Capacity Management With SAS - Exploiting SAS Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics Capabilities to Effectively Align IT Capacity to Business Demand Using a Best-Practice
White Papers In order to become accepted as a business partner and value provider instead of a cost center, IT organizations have to adapt the provisioning of IT capacity to its driving business demand - by providing not less, but also not more, capacity than...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
IT Resource Optimization: Automating to Become an On Demand Business
White Papers An on demand business is flexible and reacts quickly to changing business conditions. This paper introduces how a business could achieve more flexibility when it automates the communication between the processes of making business decisions and...
[April 21, 2007, 1:00]
Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals Saves 50 Percent of Its IT Budget With Oracle E-Business Suite On Demand
White Papers The company realized that by using Oracle On Demand the company wouldn't have to hire a DBA and two administrators, and they could be up and running in an Oracle E-Business Suite environment in a matter of weeks.
[October 30, 2009, 2:55]
On_Premise to On-Demand: Product Migration or Business Transformation - The Dos and Don'ts of Making the Transition to Cloud Computing
White Papers The growing customer fervor for SaaS offerings, a recurring revenue model that is highly attractive to both ISVs and Wall Street, lower costs related to product development/maintenance and revenue potential from new markets are all strong...
[March 13, 2009, 23:00]
On Demand Event: SOA and Business Process Management: Better Together
White Papers Check out this on-demand Webcast from IBM to hear noted industry analyst Jasmine Noel describe the evolution of business process management (BPM) and its integration with service-oriented architecture (SOA).
[December 5, 2006, 11:57]
On-demand Webcast: Quickly find the best accounting solution for your business
White Papers Sign on today to view this on-demand IBM and Intuit webinar. Discover the smartest way to acquire, use, and manage the accounting and financial solutions you need to run your business. Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, powered by IBM Smart...
[October 8, 2009, 12:41]
Voice-over-Data Network Gear Ahead of Business Demand
White Papers But manufacturers push seems to be outstripping demand. Every major networking firm is rushing to bring voice capabilities to its Internet-based data equipment, but most businesses say they're leery of installing the technology in their local area...
[January 9, 2004, 22:46]
Positioning your business to win: Forecast and Demand Planning
White Papers To correctly predict consumer demand, they need inventory strategies that rely on statistical forecasting models. This Forecast and Demand Planning eKit highlights case studies, best practices, and how IBM Express Advantage can help optimize...
[November 20, 2008, 10:37]
Customer Service Takes Off at Finnair With e-Business on Demand
White Papers Finnair sought new capabilities that would benefit customers but also sought to reduce IT-related expenses and move its cost structure from fixed to variable in order to release the capital needed to pay for the business transformation of its core...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
TORN Enables On Demand Business With Linux on IBM System z
White Papers TORN Sp.z o.o.provides strategic consulting services to a variety of companies in Poland. The company wanted to replace a mixed farm of physical servers, create a simpler, more flexible and more scalable infrastructure; increase the availability of...
[March 17, 2007, 0:00]
Enterprise-Proven On-Demand Business Portal Provider, EnterConnect, Delivers SaaS to Their Customers and Marketplace Partners
White Papers RedChip Companies was seeking a robust, online content, document and project management system to support their rapidly expanding research and reporting business. Limited IT resources, already consumed with running internal business systems and...
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence on Demand
White Papers The challenge was to obtain a complete view of the business, to enable timely access to accurate data, to streamline multiple data sources for more efficient reporting and to deliver robust BI functionality at an affordable cost of entry.
[September 19, 2009, 1:22]
Just the Right Size for Small & Medium-Sized Businesses: IBM DB2 Content Manager Fits Your Business Needs, On Demand
White Papers Once upon a time, content management technology made sense only for big business, big institutions, and big government. From a business perspective, that is a good because the need for the technologies collected in IBM DB2 Content Manager never...
[August 30, 2006, 1:00]
DaaS: Data Warehousing as a Service - On-Demand Data Warehousing That Drives Business Insight
White Papers The process of building any analytical data warehouse has involved a fairly rigid process incorporating all four of these activities, plus a significant ETL and business analytics exercise. To 'Design, build, deploy and run' a data warehouse as a...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Canadian Tire Fuels Business Innovation With Information on Demand Initiative
White Papers Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) is one of Canada's most-shopped retailers with more than 1,100 stores and gas bars. Complexity in integrating applications and sharing information within and across CTC businesses slowed the launch of new services...
[December 3, 2007, 0:01]
Architecting on Demand Solutions, Part 15: Use IBM WebSphere Integration Developer to Assemble Components - Wire Assembly of Business Processes and Business Rules
White Papers When using Integration Developer, it is important to be familiar with the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). Like IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation 5.1.1 (Server Foundation), Process Server comes with a business process...
[May 9, 2008, 1:02]
Toward an On Demand Service-Oriented Architecture
White Papers The success of an on demand e-business requires that business process, application, and information technology (IT) infrastructure integration merge into a comprehensive and cohesive architecture, where business process transformation drives...
[April 25, 2005, 3:00]
Half UK businesses expect database problems
News Nearly half of UK companies are expecting their core databases to suffer serious performance degradation over the coming year as business users demand more from them. Denis Howlett, chief operations officer, Isocra, said: "The research shows there...
[January 16, 2003, 14:13]
Choosing SOA and Application Life-Cycle Solutions Designed to Help You Achieve Your Business Objectives
White Papers This white paper examines the needs of organizations that run System z machines and their On Demand Business requirements. It reviews IBM software solutions that support On Demand Business in the context of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA...
[April 26, 2007, 1:00]



