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The Essential Guide for Selecting Today’s Business Software |
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When you invest in a business solution, you are buying a relationship, not just a product. The essential guide is intended to give you valuable, street-smart information about the inner workings of business technology partners. Throughout the guide, you will find supporting questions you should ask yourself and prospective partners. |
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Microsoft .NET: A Foundation for Connected Business |
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Today’s business has an almost overwhelming choice of technology tools to choose from—probably more than at any other time in history. In 2001, Microsoft announced a business strategy, a set of technology architectures and products, and a renewed developer and partner initiative called .NET. This executive white paper is designed to provide you with details about .NET and the vision for connected business. |
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A CRM Blueprint: Maximizing ROI from your Customer-Based Strategy |
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This white paper analyzes the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) marketplace and provides in-depth perspectives designed to help you build your company’s customer-based strategy. The report also includes a list of 12 key steps that can help your company become more customer focused. |
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Striking the CRM Balance — Greater Productivity, Lower Costs and Tight Integration |
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Rich customer relationships that generate loyalty and revenue are critical to sustained performance. Now more than ever, organizations must be able to flexibly adapt to the unique needs of individual customers. To meet this challenge, companies of all sizes are deploying Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications and strategies across their organizations. To achieve CRM success, organizations must strike the delicate balance between greater productivity, lower implementation costs and tight integration with applications already in use. |
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The Bottom Line on CRM Success |
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This guide explores strategies for effectively choosing and implementing your company’s next Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Solution. |
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Winning Distribution Strategies — 6 Sure-Fire Ways to Boost Profits |
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This report contains six strategies that have been proven to streamline processes for distribution-focused companies. Regardless of your years in distribution management, we’re confident you’ll find an idea or two to help you reduce costs and boost sales. |
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The First Steps to Achieving Effective Inventory Control (by Jon Schreibfeder, Effective Inventory Management, Inc.) |
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This report is the first in a series of white papers designed to help forward-thinking distributors increase efficiency, customer service and profitability with smart inventory management strategies based on tried and proven methods and best practices. The author, Jon Schriebfeder, draws from decades of experience helping more than 1,000 distributors achieve better inventory management. |
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Keeping Stock Balances Accurate (by Jon Schreibfeder, Effective Inventory Management, Inc.)
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This report is the second in a series of white papers designed to help forward-thinking distributors increase efficiency, customer service and profitability with smart inventory management strategies based on tried and proven methods and best practices. The author, Jon Schriebfeder, draws from decades of experience helping more than 1,000 distributors achieve better inventory management. |
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Improving the Accuracy of Your Forecasts (by Jon Schreibfeder, Effective Inventory Management, Inc.) |
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This report is the third in a series of white papers designed to help forward-thinking distributors increase efficiency, customer service and profitability with smart inventory management strategies based on tried and proven methods and best practices. The author, Jon Schriebfeder, draws from decades of experience helping more than 1,000 distributors achieve better inventory management. |
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Effective Financial Reporting — From Strategy to Action |
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Productivity and efficiency are key to the success of your business. So why expect less from your financial software? This collection can help you evaluate your core processes to ensure you have the speed and efficiency you need. It offers successful tactics for improved reporting that can ultimately increase efficiency company-wide. Plus, a simple diagnostic assessment helps you discern if your software is up-to-speed with the latest demands. |
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Manufacturing Solutions: Five Strategies for Lowering Inventory Costs |
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As a manufacturer, you need the right technology tools to help your company stay ahead of the competition. Based on work with many successful manufacturing companies like yours, we show you which factors directly and indirectly affect inventory costs and how you can control them. Regardless of the size of your business, we’re confident you’ll find an idea or two that will help you better manage and control inventory costs. |
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The Manufacturing Software Evaluation and Planning Guide |
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Speed, quality and customer service are critical components to success in the manufacturing environment of today — and tomorrow. If the software that controls your manufacturing process can’t provide all three, your company may find itself at a distinct disadvantage in an increasingly fast-paced economy. But how can you analyze the health of your manufacturing software? With this guide, you can evaluate your current system effectiveness and determine if your organization would benefit from implementing a new manufacturing system. |
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Tomorrow’s Enterprisewide Solution Today |
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This March 2003 Manufacturing Systems magazine supplement discusses flexible solutions that fit the bill for medium-sized manufacturers. |
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Five Ways Non-Profits Can Simplify Reporting and Reduce Costs |
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Based on work with thousands of non-profit organizations, Microsoft Business Solutions has developed five strategies for simplifying your reporting processes. In this guide, they also included inspirational success stories from two leading non-profit organizations who have managed to turn some daunting accounting and administrative challenges into an exciting opportunity for improvement and growth. |
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Finding the Strategic Power in Projects by Cynthia LeRouge, CPA, an industry expert in project management, accounting and technology |
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This book explains how your company can use new project management techniques and software to track labor expenses more efficiently, anticipate customer needs better, reduce administrative data entry costs, and increase profits. |