...| SaaS Technology for SMEs | Kriti Soral | Table of Contents Introduction 2 Small and Medium sized Enterprises 2 SMEs in India 3 SMEs and ERP 3 Barriers to implementation of ERP systems in SME’s 4 Strategies used 5 Saas Technology 5 Advantages of SaaS for SMEs 6 SaaS Vendors 7 Case Studies 7 SAP for 10 Users Company- Heckler & Koch GB 7 SaaS ERP for Oxford Bookstore 9 References 10 Introduction Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) can mostly be considered as responsible for driving the competition prevailing in economic sectors. The definition and standards of a SME is different for different countries. These enterprises play an important role in setting the market trends and with this a need of using Enterprise Resources and Planning systems (ERP) for optimizing and automating their traditional business processes has aroused. But often ERP systems development, implementation and maintenance are very costly which makes it difficult for SMEs to use them. As a solution to these problems ERP system vendors now offer all the facilities of ERP system to the company without actually installing the hardware and software on the client side and this facility is referred to as Saas technology. This paper discusses SMEs of India, barriers of implementing ERP in SMEs, strategies used by ERP vendors and brief description of SaaS technology. Small and Medium sized Enterprises SME sector has been identified as an accelerator for economic growth...
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...Manufacturing: Human Resources Integration Proposal Riordan Manufacturing: Human Resources Integration Proposal In service request SR-rm-004 from Riordan Manufacturing, Chief Operating Officer Hugh McCauley writes, “Analyze the HR system to integrate the existing variety of tools in use today into a single integrated application” (Apollo Group, 2007). The company wants to use a more updated approach to handling Human Resources (HR) tasks. The following document provides a detailed proposal of how to fulfill Hugh McCauley’s request. The document is presented in several sections that are outlined below. 1. Information Gathering Techniques 1.1 Keys to Successful Information Gathering 2. Project Scope 3. Feasibility 4. Application Architecture 5. Data Flow 6. System Implementation 6.1 Coding 6.2 Testing 6.3 Installation 6.4 Documentation 6.5 Training 6.6 Support 7. Conclusion Information Gathering Techniques The information gathering process should begin with an Internet search using key Phrases such as human resources information systems (HRIS), human resources software, human resources handbook, and human resources model. All of these search phrases will return many results that will provide information on HR system designs, software specifically for HR departments, and other companies’ policies and capabilities. One may also receive results reflecting ideas for HR systems that may not currently be in use, and testimonial about ideas that...
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...8 IDEAS FOR ACCOUNTING BI SUCCESS Business Intelligence (BI)is a phrase that can mean many things. This white paper is focused on the topic of Business Intelligence for the accounting department. Your accounting department’s BI solution should serve your needs effectively. BI for accounting should be considered successful when the authorized accounting department staff have all the necessary software tools required to see the information in all necessary formats to answer all questions asked in the allocated time. Accounting departments need to have a window into the hundreds of tables of data that are stored in databases controlled by the accounting software. They also need to be able to manipulate that data for both compliance and ad-hoc purposes. Lastly, they need the ability to do this without taxing IT resources. If your organization is involved in, or considering a BI implementation, you know there are a lot of options out there. Many solutions are even providing specialized platforms for supporting line-ofbusiness applications. The promises of these BI options are shortened implementation cycles and reduced costs. Many vendors have gone a long way towards making data warehousing and BI tools more available and affordable for the mid-market. However, the mid-market accountant’s true needs are often underserved, resulting in large additional investments. These additional costs are due to the fact that you also need to spend time building on top of the platform that the...
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...The millennium has lead to further advances in the ways that people and business access this information. Information is limited and requires system programmers to extract the data for specific uses with the organization. As the global economy has opened new markets for companies, the need for accurate free flowing information is seen by many in management as essential to being successful. Companies in order to compete must ask themselves many questions about how to compete in this information age. The question is no longer, where can I get the information I need? The question is now, what new sources of technology are going to enable me to capture information easily about customers and how are we going to process that information to give us an competitive advantage in our company structure? New technologies in the ways that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is implemented have lessened the cost on the system implementation and have increased its effectiveness across the enterprise. This has been achieved through the use of new technologies in the areas of Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Social Media and App’s (Application...
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...| Business Intelligence | Today, Tools and Tomorrow | | Team 5 | 10/12/2010 | Final PaperBusiness XXXX | Introduction Business Intelligence Today Business Intelligence has different meanings and uses to different people. If you were to look Business Intelligence up on Wikipedia it will tell you Business Intelligence, “refers to the computer based techniques used in spotting, digging-out, and analyzing business data…” and that it “often aims to support better business decisions”. Many people only think of the data needed to understand the competition and others think of BI as the information that is confidential to their business. Today Business Intelligence is all of this and so much more. Business intelligence used successfully can be a powerful tool utilized for competitive advantage. To ensure success, companies must understand the importance of accuracy in the data they have gathered together. If the data they have pulled together is not accurate then the information that will be used to make business decisions could potentially cause poor or misdirected decisions having huge negative impacts on their organizations. During a time when the economy has taken such a down turn this can make or break an organization. One industry where business intelligence is being utilized heavily is insurance. The insurance industry in the past few years has taken a huge hit on their credibility. To ensure competitive advantage they must utilize their BI to ensure...
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...How can Play On Toys ensure its information technology systems are ready for growth? Issue: Play On Toys has enjoyed 5 years of success in the European market, experiencing strong growth, particularly in the past year, increasing its staff from 16 to 60 employees. With 200 customers, Play On Toys fulfils 3000 orders annually, with a turnover of 5million Euro and 1.4 million in pre-tax profit. Having expanded its range from 2 to 20 products, Play On Toys now works with 30 suppliers to acquire the 110 parts required to manufacture its wares. Expansion into Asia, Africa and America is planned over the coming three years, with the accompanying growth and challenges of moving into new markets and expanding the operation, Play On Toys is at a critical junction. Ensuring that internal systems are functioning at highest efficiency and are prepared for growth are essential elements for the continued success of Play On Toys. Currently, records and information for critical areas including sales, financial, production, and customer relations are held in isolated electronic and paper files as well as some small databases. Essential reporting and transaction processing are highly dependent on manual inputs. Critically, sales orders submitted via the website must be manually processed by sales administrators in a process requiring printing orders and entering them into a spreadsheet manually. The current system of record keeping and reporting lacks cohesion and efficiency, and coupled...
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...There is little doubt that technological advances have made our lives easier. Thanks to them the world has become a much smaller place. We can now traverse the Oceans in a matter of hours. We can stay up to the minute with current affairs via the expansive news networks available through various media, including the internet. Gone are the days of the home based phone being our only option to communicate (voice) with loved ones and friends. Think of a world without heat in the winter and air conditioners in the summer. It existed believe it or not! A lot of our manual tasks are taken up by machines, which manufacture, assemble and pack the products for them. People are leading longer and healthier lives due to development of vaccines and availability of state of the art surgical equipment. The advent of technological era has brought many changes which have made a considerable impact on human life. If we take each of these advances and look into their history, it is very likely, if not guaranteed, that we will find predecessors that were improved upon through innovations of the particular technology. Those advances would have been considered transformational and the innovations would have been cutting edge. Throughout history, humanity has sought to better itself through science and technology, well before those terms even existed. Prehistoric man’s quest for survival could be argued to be the building block for our desire to innovate. Man needed to eat, so he ate berries...
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...E-Commerce Business Strategy Abstract The purpose of this paper is to solve the business problem of creating an E-Commerce business strategy for a traditional brick and mortar women’s boutique. The internet allows a company to reach a demographic through the Web that is all over the world, which results in an accelerated global marketing strategy and a possible competitive advantage in women’s fashion. There is a lot of competition on the internet and captivating the attention of customers will not be an easy task. The E-Commerce business strategy for Simply Unbelievable will be implementation of a cloud-based digital commerce platform that will create an exceptional shopping experience for consumers. Company Background Simply unbelievable is a home-based business that sells boutique fashions specializing in women’s clothing, jewelry, and handbags and has been in business for 10 years. Location is critical to the success of any business and Simply Unbelievable does not maintain a traditional brick-and-mortar store. The success of Simply Unbelievable has been by the home party plan business concept of direct selling to their customers. The home party plan has provided the perfect location for customers to view current fashion trends in the comfort of their own home or surroundings. Women who are comfortable spend more money and this has generated Simply Unbelievable revenues for the past 10 years. Simply Unbelievable has had no significant...
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...contributed articles Doi:10.1145/ 2330667.2330685 Trust between client organization and cloud provider is a strong predictor of successful cloud deployment. By GaRy GaRRiSon, SanGhyun Kim, anD RoBin L. WaKeFieLD Success Factors for Deploying Cloud Computing “a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (such as networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be quickly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”14 The emergence of cloud computing is transforming the way organizations purchase and manage computing resources,17 providing a fundamentally different IT model in which a cloud provider might be responsible for a range of IT activities, including hardware and software installation, upgrades, maintenance, backup, data storage, and security. The result is that organizations can lower their IT capital expenditures ClOUD COMPUTiNg iS 62 Com muniCatio nS o F th e aCm | S epteM Ber 201 2 | vo L . 5 5 | N o. 9 and operating costs by purchasing ondemand technology resources (such as increased data storage, bandwidth, and processing power) while eliminating the need to maintain outdated equipment. Cloud services also include environments for application development and access to key technologies, software, and skilled IT personnel that might otherwise be too costly and difficult to obtain and maintain (see Figure 1). Along with hardware...
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...latest generation of industry-leading Toshiba laptops to remotely connect to the network, and these mobile PCs were even less protected against web threats. Using two different solutions cost extra time, money and resources and was eventually considered inefficient and ineffective. Toshiba headquarters required that Web security be improved and expanded to include inbound and outbound Web filtering for malware—so Jasmin began researching to find a better and more affordable solution. “We were doing research on different products and we needed to find one specifically for Web filtering that would be affordable but still offer great security,” Jasmin says. “One of our technical specialists had heard good things about Webroot Web Security SaaS and we decided to try it out.” Comments “We only need to designate one person to be in charge of managing the system. They can print many different t ypes of repor ts and then they provide a detailed repor t which we review and discuss at our monthly securit y meeting—our management team loves it!” –Jerome Jasmin Director of the Information Department, Toshiba France The Solution...
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...1) Perform Preliminary Readiness Assessment 2) Perform Preliminary Vendor Assessment 3) Perform Preliminary Migration Planning 4) Manage the Migration - Pre-Migration Planning -Migrate to Cloud Based Infrastructure -Decommission Legacy systems - Optimize for the Cloud - Maintain and Improve 5) Formalize Architecture Review Board process - Profile IT Systems -Review Business Impact Analysis -Formalize Future State Architecture 6) Manage Vendor Selection / Contracting -Develop Detailed requirements - Release RFPs and evaluate CSPs -Selects CSPs and Establish Contracts 7) Manage Enterprise Cloud Migration and Modernization -optimize re-architect systems for the cloud - monitor performance and service levels - Use cloud Maturity Model to evaluate Organizations and Improve Manage the Migration Key Activities Determine authority, scope and goals of the ARB (or review and update if already established) Formalize and document processes and procedures for the HUD Architecture Review Board (ARB) Establish governance structure to review modernization projects and determine alignment with cloud migration efforts and alignment with business impacts/needs Oversee vendor selection process and contract establishment Oversee cloud migration activities • Re-prioritize initiatives based on business needs, IT constraints, and security level • Review cost / benefit analysis for cloud migration initiatives • Review initiative specific migration plans ...
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...Case Study–C3 E-Business Strategy 1. CA technologies value was about $12.45 billion in early 2011. The firms traditionally was working on mainframe business, its suite of virtualization and security products, as well as a new mainframe platform release from IBM that would mean renewals and upgrades for the organization. CA technologies started with a focus on IBM’s mainframe market introducing CA sort which delivered full function sort, merge and copy capabilities and helped the company hit $5million within a year. CA focused on developing mainframe software that streamlined and automated mainframe operations lowering cost and freeing IT staff to work on more strategic projects. CA Technologies mainframe software had broadened to include workload scheduling software, security management products, helpdesk, application development and databases. The company grew to hold the number one or two market share position in many of these market segments. When it acquired Uccel Corporation in 1987 it became the largest independent vendor of mainframe infrastructure software, and in a span of two years it became the first software company to exceed $1 billion in revenue. CA Technologies approach is based on our Business Service Innovation (BSI) roadmap – a common set of guiding principles and disciplines that CA Technologies advocates to deliver any innovative business service. When applied to cloud computing, the BSI roadmap outlines core competencies that enterprises and service providers...
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...| M35BSSBusiness Process Integration | Coursework Reflective Pieces | Module leaderMark HaylesStudentFernando del Rio PerezSID: 40201587/27/2012 | | Contents Contents 2 List of Tables 2 Reflective Piece1: SAP and Article Review 3 SAP- Company ,products/services and benefits 3 Article review: Enterprize resource planing in reengineering business…………….....6 Reflective piece 2: Impact of Internet Technology on ERP 7 Benefits and adrawbacks of Web - based ERP systems 8 Reflective Piece 3: Understanding of ERPsim Game 10 Reflective Piece 4: Data mining and competitive advantage 12 Applications of Data mining 13 Reflective Work 5: ERP Sim Experience 15 List of References 17 List of Tables Table 1. SAP Business suite applications 3 Table 2. List of benefits and drawback of ERP systems 5 Table 3. Benefits and drawbacks of web - based ERP systems 9 Table 4. Individual roles of the group members 10 REFLECTIVE PIECE 1 – SAP and Article Review SAP- SAP – company, products/service and benefits Formed in 1972, SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is seen today as the largest inter-enterprise software firm in the global market. Due to the wide range of products that they have, SAP has become the third largest independent software solutions supplier for businesses. The headquarter of the company is located In Walldorf, Germany, However, they have subsidies in over 50 countries and thousands of customers...
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...fast and to keep up with our competitors we must embrace the latest technology and begin implementing cloud computing. Cloud computing is using a network of remote servers hosted on the internet to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server. This will allow us not only to continue to build our business but to put us on top as leading our competitors in this word of technology. I have done some extensive research on the new technologies available and cloud computing is where I recommend we place our IT dollars in the coming year. I know our budget is limited and I have taken that into consideration. It can be very costly to take on this type of project, however, I have found many cost saving options that will make this successful and within our budget. I have not prepared a cost saving analysis, but I don’t think one is needed to see the savings by using this new technology. We essentially lease the service of software, computing power and data storage from a third party. This eliminates the costly expense of us building a space and storing our servers, purchasing...
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...summary……………………………………………………..……………………………………………………………………………2 CRM industry review and CRM systems……………………………………………………………………………………………………4 Introduction to Salesforce CRM and its business objects………………………………………………………………………….4 Advantages of Salesforce CRM……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….11 Forecasting in Salesforce CRM………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..13 Salesforce CRM implementation insights for Healthcare……………………………………………………………..…………15 Efficiency and productivity can be achieved through Salesforce CRM…………………………………………………….17 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..20 Reference……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….21 Executive summary The main objective of this report is to give close insight into the CRM industry, need analysis for such business application software and its role to contribute to reach high efficiency, productivity in current business enterprises. Also, this paper gives industry information, leading CRM providers and particularly, Salesforce.com CRM and its strengths, capabilities. Salesforce.com CRM is as leading SaaS enterprise application that is helping businesses to re-engineer business process and automating them to the level that it reduces operation costs and reach efficiency and productivity in front-office and back-office processes. The purpose is to show how this enterprise application can contribute the buasisesses to achieve high efficiency, productivity in both front-office and back-office...
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