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- SAP Case Study: Ritter Sport
- For many years, Ritter Sport's flagship product, the Ritter Sport chocolate bar, occupies a leading position on the global confectionery market. Corresponding to the organizational structures of a consumer products company, Ritter Sport began its implementation of the R/3 System not with financials, but with the Sales & Distribution and...
- Tags: SAP AG, Organizational Structure, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Software, Sales
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- Yamaha Motor India Enhances Financial Management
- Yamaha Motor India manufactures and sells motorcycles for the local and international markets. The company wanted to gain better control of finance and accounting processes and reduce time taken to compile month-end reports. Yamaha Motor wanted to improve accuracy and currency of business information, minimize the number of manual tasks,...
- Tags: Yamaha Corp., Oracle Corp., Financial, Re-engineering, Financial Management, Organizational Structure, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources
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- The Challenges of Emergency Management Planning in 2005
- Emergency management planning today faces many critical obstacles, such as an imbalance of focus between homeland security and natural disaster management, the challenge of involving the public in preparedness planning, the lack of an effective partnership with the business community, cuts to EM funding, and questions surrounding the evolving organizational...
- Tags: Obstacle, Disaster Recovery, Homeland Security, Organizational Structure, Business Structures, Data Management, Government, Human Resources, Finance
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- How Avaya Mobility Solutions Are Helping Padcom Build Competitive Advantage
- As one of North America's leading providers of mobile data solutions, Padcom has built a brand reputation for developing leading edge technology that consistently delivers superior performance and value. In late 2003, Padcom launched a re-engineering initiative that called for accelerated business growth and an even tighter linkage with key...
- Tags: Padcom, Competitive Advantage, Avaya Inc., Organizational Structure, Business Structures, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Human Resources, Finance, Marketing
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- G.D. Somani School Builds New Capabilities in Student Labs to Improve Performance and Reliability
- To ensure the reliable provision of water and gas supplies to over 3.2 million customers daily, international utilities company GELSENWASSER Inc. has over 180 field engineers helping bring new customers online, servicing problems and gathering up-to-date customer data. Striving to reduce costs while enhancing operational efficiencies and customer service, GELSENWASSER...
- Tags: Performance, Mobile, Intel Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Organizational Structure, Marketing, Human Resources
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- Capgemini Case Study: Grupo Bimbo
- Grupo Bimbo, established in Mexico City in 1945 is a worldwide leader in the baking industry and is present in 16 countries. Their business objectives were to define and establish a reliable, safe, centralized and readily available IT infrastructure. It should demonstrate the capacity to support Grupo Bimbo's global operations...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Capgemini, Organizational Structure, Servers, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Hardware, Software
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- Customer Case Study: Cost Savings, Increased Productivity and Improved Service
- The client, the IT service provider for a major US stock exchange, wanted to become more productive, responsive and cost effective, without impacting reliability. The client launched an operational excellence program early in 2004 and selected Consulting-Portal as their implementation partner. Working closely with the client's management and staff, Consulting-Portal...
- Tags: Client, Service Level Management, Organizational Structure, Business Services, Business Structures, It Services, It Operations, It service Management, Human Resources, Finance
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- Smead Manufacturing Switches From UNIX to Microsoft Windows 2000, Achieves 75% Reduction in Total Cost of Ownership
- Faced with serious performance and capacity problems, Smead Manufacturing began investigating the cost to upgrade the existing UNIX/Oracle platform that ran its mission-critical Enterprise Resource Planning ERP and Human Resources HRMS applications. When the initial estimate came back at $6 million, Smead started evaluating alternatives, and decided to switch to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, TCO, Microsoft Corp., Unix, Roi/Tco, Organizational Structure, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources
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- Global Insurer Improves ROI With Platform Migration for PeopleSoft HRMS
- The ACE Group of Companies ACE, one of the world's leading insurance and reinsurance organizations, has assets of U.S. $43 billion. ACE INA, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the company's U.S. division. ACE had begun to implement PeopleSoft HRMS on a UNIX operating system and Oracle database when it discovered...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., ROI, Reinsurance, Migration, Microsoft Corp., HRMS, Organizational Structure, Insurance, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance
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- Oracle Case Study: Russell
- In 1999, Russell Investment Group selected a PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS solution from Oracle but was forced to wait more than a year before beginning the implementation. Because Russell's 12-year-old DOS-based system was not meeting its needs, on receiving the internal executive go-ahead, Russell sought to implement PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS without...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Organizational Structure, Human Resources
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- Application Service Provider Moves From Linux to Windows, Cuts Downtime 95 Percent
- HR-ease offers its online human resources management tool in an Application Service Provider ASP hosting model. When a third party began hosting the computers for the solution, the solution became unreliable, and customers couldn't access their applications and data. The problems arose because the Windows-based servers that HR-ease executives thought...
- Tags: HRM, Downtime, Application Service Provider, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Human Resource Management (HRM), Application Service Providers (ASPs), Web Hosting, Linux, Organizational Structure, Business Services, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Internet, Human Resources, Hardware
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- Nufarm S.A. Enhances Organizational Structure, Aids Growth
- Nufarm S.A., based in Argentina, belongs to the Nufarm Limited group, an Australian-based international company that specializes in crop protection. The company wanted to find a financial tool to enhance business growth. The challenge was to improve efficiency of managing orders, inventory statements, and handling product deliveries according to best...
- Tags: Organizational Structure, Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial Accounting, Finance
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- Streamlining Commissions Management
- Swiss-based Alpina Insurance implemented Commissions Management with mySAP Insurance in order to centralize and standardize commissions handling. The highly versatile solution features direct integration with the company's disbursement and human resources management systems, creating a lean, end-to-end process. By helping the company to flexibly steer the activities of its sales...
- Tags: Commission, SAP AG, Human Resource Management (HRM), Sales Force Management, Organizational Structure, Sales, Human Resources
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- The British Red Cross Implements Oracles PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, Improving Emergency Response Coordination While Reducing Costs
- The British Red Cross is part of the Global Red Cross movement, the world's leading crisis response organization. The company wanted to gain an instant view of skills and resources available in a crisis and reduce communication and administrative overhead. The challenge was to consolidate data on staff and volunteers...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Red Cross, Emergency Response, Human Resource Management (HRM), Human Capital, Organizational Structure, Channel Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing
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- City of Redmond Replaces End-of-Life Systems to Update Technology Platform
- Redmond, a suburb of Seattle with a population of 49,000, prides itself for its high quality of life with good schools, a healthy economic base, a parks system that provides a variety of active and passive recreational opportunities, diverse offerings for shopping and dining, safe neighborhoods, and an emphasis on...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Redmond, Data Security, Human Resource Management (HRM), Financial Management, Organizational Structure, Security, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources
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- Personic Increases Developer Productivity With Microsoft .NET Platform, Reduces Development Costs by Over 50 Percent
- Using the Microsoft .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, Personic rebuilt its existing human resource management products from the ground up in just 10 weeks, achieving what an 18-month effort costing millions of dollars in another environment had failed to accomplish. By exposing the functionality of its new solution using...
- Tags: HRM, Microsoft Corp., Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, .Net, Microsoft Development Tools, Human Resources, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools
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- TOP-KNIGA Re-Engineers Business Processes to Drive Performance and Support Company Growth
- TOP-KNIGA is the largest retail and wholesale bookseller in Russia - operating more than 450 stores in 180 cities across nine time zones. The challenges were to create an effective and transparent management information system to help TOP-KNIGA maintain its leading market position and to support its aggressive strategy to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Management By Objective, TOP-KNIGA, Organizational Structure, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- Ineum Consulting Improves Productivity and Operational Efficiency With Hosted IT Infrastructure
- Created in 2003 via a spin off from Deloitte France's consulting division, Ineum Consulting is a major, independent player in the strategic and operational consulting market. The company wanted to create a standalone IT infrastructure that would enable the company to continue to expand internationally. The challenge was to improve...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Financial, Information Technology, Consulting, Ineum Consulting, Human Resource Management (HRM), Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Organizational Structure, Financial Planning, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources
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- Hogeschool Windesheim Eliminates Duplicated Data and Manual Processes, Streamlining Enrollment
- With approximately 16,000 students, Hogeschool Windesheim is one of the largest professional education universities in the Netherlands. Windesheim wanted to eliminate errors and time wasted manually entering the same student data in different systems during student enrollment and drop periods. The challenge was to accelerate enrollment so students and staff...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Enrollment, Hogeschool Windesheim, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, Portals, Web Services, E-learning, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Internet
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- NADRA Cuts Costs, Streamlines HR Management, and Improves Performance Analysis
- In 1998, the Government of Pakistan embarked on an ambitious project to collect demographic data of its citizens. The NAtional Database & Registration Authority NADRA was formed to undertake this challenging task and issue Computerized National Identity Cards CNIC to the country's adult citizens. The responsibility of registering Pakistan's citizens...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, HRM, Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, Human Resources
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