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This paper debunks 5 myths surrounding cost estimating for manufacturing, based on years of input—talking with thousands
of estimating managers, customer surveys, trainings, and on-going feedback. We expose these myths and offer improvement opportunities
that can save your business. Overpriced quotatio (...)
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2011-05-26
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Sustaining profitability in a landscape of volatile prices and exchange rates is difficult for even the best-run companies.
One key challenge is to understand the real economic costs in your business and of your products so you can make accurate
decisions about sourcing, substitutions, pricing, and logis (...)
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Accurate Costing Is Key to Profitability. Source: SAP. Document Type: White Paper Description: Sustaining profitability in
a landscape ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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A plethora of software estimation tools are available, each claimed to be better than the others, thereby confusing prospective
buyers. An effective tool ought to provide for all four aspects of software estimation, namely, size, effort, cost, and schedule. (...)
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... While software development effort in person days (PD) is the major cost
source, other cost items come into play while estimating the cost of software
to be ...
Published:
2007-04-25
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5-step CRM Software Selection Guide: a Pragmatist's Guide to CRM Software Selections. Read RFP Templates and Other Software
Related to a CRM Software Selection Guide. Selecting a new enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) solution is an
undertaking that requires careful planning and managed exe (...)
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5-step CRM Software Selection Guide: a Pragmatist's Guide to CRM Software Selections. Read RFP Templates and Other Software
Related to a CRM Softwa...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
SAP Upgrade Success Story. Acquire Free White Papers or Case Studies Linked To IT Maintenance Costs. Gruppo Tosinvest is by
no means a single-process company. Beside a core focus on health care, it also runs businesses in the media, real estate,
financial services, and engineering and construction sectors (...)
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SAP Upgrade Success Story. Acquire Free White Papers or Case Studies Linked To IT Maintenance Costs. Gruppo Tosinvest is by
no means a single-proce...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Traditional methods for capturing billable time on projects can cost your company money. Relying on paper forms, e-mail,
and spreadsheets prolongs the data gathering process, introduces errors, and can lead to missed hours and employee expenses.
A new breed of project time-tracking software can help. Thi (...)
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Timesheet Software For Client Billing: A Buyer’s Guide. ... Paper Description: Traditional
methods for capturing billable time on projects can cost your company ...
Published:
2011-10-05
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Many companies are looking to outsource development and maintenance of their application software. Common reasons that companies
outsource application software are to reduce their costs, improve quality, obtain flexible staffing levels, and obtain improved
service and support so they can focus on their c (...)
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... Estimating risk is transferred to the outsourcer, meaning ... most
popular approach to application software outsourcing. ... Philippines or some other low
cost location ...
Published:
2004-09-29
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Professional service organizations sell not just time, but knowledge. Thus, in addition to time and expense management, a
business management software product must support a means for knowing how this knowledge is tracked, assigned, managed, and
billed. But which product? (...)
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Professional service organizations sell not just time, but knowledge. Thus, in addition to time and expense management, a
business management soft...
Published:
2006-06-06
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Lost sight of your bottom line? Product pricing not in step with your actual costs? So busy trying to stay on top of cost
behavior that you can’t keep your costs under control? Cost and pricing models, as part of an enterprise resource planning
(ERP) system, can help you better understand your costs. P (...)
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Cost and Pricing Models in Food and Beverage Processing: Seeing the Forest through the Trees. Source: 3i
Infotech. Document Type: White ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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While not really a household name in North America before the Macola acquisition, Exact has always been a force to reckon
with in the lower end of the ERP mid-market in Europe, and occasionally, to a degree, elsewhere in the world. (...)
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While not really a household name in North America before the Macola acquisition, Exact has always been a force to reckon
with in the lower end of...
Published:
2004-02-28
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies. Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant and Time-Bound. Process industries (chemicals, food and beverage, oil and gas, etc.) face rising manufacturing and
logistics costs. And they’re finding that the old strategi (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies. Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant and Time-Bound. ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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By implementing timekeeping solutions for costing, organizations obtain valuable insight into project profitability. Project-oriented
timekeeping data is also used to bid on future projects, stay within budgeted costs, allocate appropriate resources, and track
projects already under way. These solutions (...)
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Project Costing for Maximum Profitability. Source: Journyx. Document Type: White Paper Description: By implementing timekeeping
solutions ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Choosing a Solution for Web-Filtering: Software, Appliance, Managed Service?. Find Free Strategy and Other Solutions to Define
Your Project Implementation In Relation To Web-Filtering. There are three types of web security solutions: software-based,
appliance-based, and managed services. Each needs to be (...)
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... Description: There are three types of web security solutions: software-based, appliance
... protection, ease of installation and use, and total cost of ownership ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Everything in the computer industry seems to be going off-shore, why not software implementations? This article looks at
reasons why remote implementation of software packages can make both logical and fiscal sense, particularly in the United
States. Read on to learn why your organization may want to loo (...)
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... your costs will be no greater than estimating an on ... the merits
of a remote implementation of software that typically go well beyond cost savings. ...
Published:
2005-04-28
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Abstract:
Successful Manufacturing in a Competitive Market.Search for White Papers and Other Software to Delineate Your Evaluation for
a Successful Manufacturing in a Competitive Market. Order-driven manufacturers—those who engineer-to-order (ETO), assemble-to-order
(ATO), and make-to-order (MTO)—face n (...)
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Successful Manufacturing in a Competitive Market.Search for White Papers and Other Software to Delineate Your Evaluation for
a Successful Manufactu...
Published:
2010-03-11
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The intangible or non-financial benefits of an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can be viewed from several
perspectives. For illustrative purposes, the discussion will focus on the benefits for accounting, product and process design,
production, sales, and management information syste (...)
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The intangible or non-financial benefits of an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can be viewed from several
perspectives. For i...
Published:
2004-02-11
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While pundits have been debating whether the configuration software deserves to be a CRM module on its own, it is certainly
a part of the much broader CRM class of products, which typically includes front-office applications for sales force automation
(SFA), marketing automation, and field service/call c (...)
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While pundits have been debating whether the configuration software deserves to be a CRM module on its own, it is certainly
a part of the much bro...
Published:
2002-11-08
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Function points (FPs) are the most popular unit of measure for measuring the size of software. But because FPs were developed
in the 1970s, are they not now outdated for today’s event-oriented programming and multi-tiered software architectures? (...)
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Function points (FPs) are the most popular unit of measure for measuring the size of software. But because FPs were developed
in the 1970s, are th...
Published:
2008-12-15
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The key to a successful data migration: read a Road Map to Data Migration Success, a SAP white paper. Many significant business
initiatives and large IT projects depend upon a successful data migration. But when migrated data is transformed for new uses,
project teams encounter some very specific manageme (...)
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The key to a successful data migration: read a Road Map to Data Migration Success, a SAP white paper. Many significant business
initiatives and lar...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Everything in the computer industry seems to be going off-shore, why not software implementations? This article looks at
reasons why remote implementation of software packages can make both logical and fiscal sense, particularly in the United
States. Read on to learn why your organization may want to loo (...)
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estimating software cost:
... your costs will be no greater than estimating an on ... the merits
of a remote implementation of software that typically go well beyond cost savings. ...
Published:
2005-04-28