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Innovation in the Middle Market: An Outsourcing Option
One of the key challenges faced by almost every middle market enterprise is that of continuous innovation. Whether we refer to business model innovation, product and/or service innovation, marketing/selling innovation or any other process, the ability to achieve real innovation rests on an almost insurmountable need to invest human, financial and,...
Awards Season for American Unit
We really don’t like to toot our horn very often, but American Unit has had the privilege of being nominated for, and winning, a number of awards recognizing the strides we have made in becoming a trusted systems integration and application development service provider, as well as a great place to work. Most recently, we [...]...
Trends in Layered Data Security for MBEs
As threats to data security become more frequent and more complex, traditional “legacy� solutions are inadequate, inefficient, and insufficient. Waiting to receive and issue security “patches� severely delays rapid responses to high-risk exposures and attacks. New security strategies and defen...
The Top Ten Ways to Maximize Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications
Your organization can successfully run your business-critical applications while maintaining real-time availability and maintaining service quality. Delivering these capabilities can also be done at lower costs and with increased confidence by your IT department. 1)The virtualizing of an application is simpler than a full re-platforming of that app...
A recent survey by the Aberdeen Group reported the responses of 1,100 small- to midsize businesses (SMBs) about their usage or non-usage of ERP solutions. Drawn from data collected in 2009 Q4 and 2010 Q1, the survey found that only about 27% of SMBs used ERP, but of that percentage, the top twenty percent of [...]...
ERP for Small- and Mid-Sized Businesses
In 2009, the Aberdeen Group surveyed over 1,100 small to midsize businesses (SMBs) to analyze their business goals, business challenges, and business strategies. The survey, which took place in 2009 Q4 and 2010 Q1, focused on the impact of the still-struggling economy on those business and their predictions for an economic recovery. One of the [...
Revenue Performance Management
Revenue Performance Management (RPM) helps the CMO to manage the enterprise’s interactions with prospective buyers throughout the entire sales life cycle. The goals of the RPM include lowering the cost of customer acquisition, producing a shorter and faster sales cycle, achieving higher average sell...
5 Important Inventory Analytics Tactics for Retailers
The retail industry has always been competitive with very slim profit margins. Retailers can increase their sales, their profits, their relationships with their customers, and their competitiveness by effectively and efficiently managing their inventory. Historical sales data is just as important as a...
Innovate Your DFR and DPT Practices
Storage I/O solutions, in considering cost-effectiveness and best practices, address primary storage data footprint reduction (DFR) as well as support for data protection and recovery (DPR). DFR implementation allows more data to be stored in a smaller footprint and includes archiving email, databases...
Organizations seek to protect their networks from external and internal threats have utilized a variety of security strategies, including network-based intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS). Over the years these systems have evolved from supplying information to security professional about potential attacks to also including details...
When you successfully implement a flexible ERP system, you equip your manufacturing operations team with the best solutions that provide relevant real-time data and improve rapid responses to any business changes—whether your critical data resides on one or multiple systems. ERP allows you to execution processes and streamline your operations for t...
The Case for an Effective ERP System
Your critical business data is one of the keys to your business growth. The ability to quickly respond to business changes depends on your business processes. A variety of changes could be affected by the capability of your enterprise to be proactive, including customer delivery schedules, new product introductions, global business trends, or suppl...