Optimising Business Performance With Standard Software Systems

Author : Heinz-Dieter Knöll
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3322898911
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optimising Business Performance with Standard Software Systems written by Heinz-Dieter Knöll and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is addressed at decision makers, project teams, project managers, company's IT-managers, and staff of consulting companies, who are either involved in complex standard software implementation, or release migration projects. The book stresses the shortcomings of many present standard software implementations which mainly pertain to insufficiently optimised business processes, thus standard software has caused a lot of dissatisfied companies. The authors analyse certain popular implementation approaches (life-cycle-models) of different Standard Software suppliers. It shows how a new semi-process oriented way of implementing modern standard software systems may contribute to a better business performance.

Author : Ferran, Carlos
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599045338
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enterprise Resource Planning for Global Economies: Managerial Issues and Challenges written by Ferran, Carlos and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local functional systems that create inefficient islands of information are being replaced by expensive enterprise-wide applications that unify the functional areas; however, while we have not yet been able to completely and seamlessly integrate across functions, we find that the new islands of information are no longer functional but political, cultural, linguistic, and geographical. The global village is a reality and enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations face new issues and challenges. Enterprise Resource Planning for Global Economies: Managerial Issues and Challenges provides authoritative research on the theoretical frameworks and pragmatic discussions on global implementations of information systems, particularly ERP systems. This book offers professionals, managers, and researchers, who want to improve their understanding of the issues and challenges that arise when information systems cross national boundaries, with an authoritative, essential research resource.

Author : Wolfgang W. Osterhage
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642299717
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computer Performance Optimization written by Wolfgang W. Osterhage and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computing power performance was important at times when hardware was still expensive, because hardware had to be put to the best use. Later on this criterion was no longer critical, since hardware had become inexpensive. Meanwhile, however, people have realized that performance again plays a significant role, because of the major drain on system resources involved in developing complex applications. This book distinguishes between three levels of performance optimization: the system level, application level and business processes level. On each, optimizations can be achieved and cost-cutting potentials can be identified. The book presents the relevant theoretical background and measuring methods as well as proposed solutions. An evaluation of network monitors and checklists rounds out the work.

Author : Mathias Kirchmer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642977154
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business Process Oriented Implementation of Standard Software written by Mathias Kirchmer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companies must confront an increasingly competitive environment with lean, flexible and market oriented structures. Therefore companies organize themselves according to their business processes. These processes are more and more often designed, implemented and managed based on standard software, mostly ERP or SCM packages. This is the first book delivering a complete description of a business driven implementation of standard software packages, accelerated by the use of reference models. The use of those models ensures best quality results and speeds up the software implementation. The book discusses how companies can optimize business processes and realize strategic goals with the implementation of software like SAP R/3, Oracle, Baan or Peoplesoft. The book cites numerous case studies and outlines each step of a process oriented implementation, including the goals, procedures and necessary methods and tools.

Author : Jurgen Ringback
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684869217
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do It Smart written by Jurgen Ringback and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-12-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade ago, manufacturing companies had visions of paperless offices, automated plants, and virtual enterprises. But the euphoria quickly evaporated when these visions failed to materialize. Now, from in-depth interviews in a worldwide survey of seventy manufacturing firms, a research team from the prestigious consulting group McKinsey & Company concludes that, far from being a failure, information technology (IT) can be a vital strategic weapon in the manufacturing sector, just as it has proved to be in service industries. In Do IT Smart, experts Rolf-Dieter Kempis and Jürgen Ringbeck along with the McKinsey team identify four cultures of IT users -- stars, big spenders, cautious spenders, and laggards -- based on how efficiently and effectively the users manage IT. The stars stand out because their strong command of IT means they are better able to manage core processes such as R&D, sales and service, and order processing, which in turn produces tangible payoffs in profitability, growth, and market share. From their study of star performers, the authors formulate seven rules for developing a superior IT organization. First, they argue, managers must make IT a top management issue and, second, a priority in product development. IT must be viewed as a strategic tool so that IT strategy can be aligned with business strategy. Clear objectives must be set, and core business processes redesigned. Warning that IT is reaching saturation in administrative applications, the authors describe how it is far more profitable to integrate IT into marketing, sales, and customer service. Finally, they describe how all these elements must be brought together into a lean, customer-oriented IT network. McKinsey's breakthrough study shows that as organizations are increasingly overwhelmed with data, IT will become more of a dividing line between the winners and the losers. IT stars will make quantum leaps in effectiveness, while poor management of IT results in a cost explosion. Managers and information officers who want their business to keep and gain the competitive edge IT offers need this unprecedented insight into how to Do IT Smart.

Author : Robert J. Thierauf
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 9781567205435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Business Systems for the Optimized Organization written by Robert J. Thierauf and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first books to probe the latest direction in computing technology, Thierauf's and Hoctor's innovative text explores ways in which smart business systems can help pick the best, most optimal or near-optimal solutions from among hundreds, even thousands of possibilities that threaten to swamp organizational decision makers daily. Authors make clear that while past information systems have focused on generating information that is helpful in the production of knowledge over time, smart business systems, utilizing optimizing techniques, can do it quickly, more efficiently, and in ways that can raise organizations to higher levels of competitiveness. Well-illustrated with examples and discussions of typical applications in such areas as strategic planning, marketing, manufacturing, and accounting, the book will help managers at all levels tie their organization's critical success factors into its key performance indicators and financial ratios. The result is a win-win situation within your company's complex of competing needs and goals, and a way to produce directly and immediately measurable benefits on the bottom line. The book is designed for company managers and other decision makers and for information systems professionals. It provides understanding of one of the most important developments in systems-decision making, and how these smart business systems are constructed. It is also suitable in an academic environment, specifically in undergraduate and graduate courses that cover the fundamentals of smart business systems, and which give special emphasis to optimization models. The authors explain that enterprise resource planning and supply-chain management vendors include optimization algorithms in their products and that their book will make software optimization more accessible to developers of business systems. Although optimization is undoubtedly a complicated subject, Thierauf and Hoctor go a long way toward simplifying it. In doing so, they enhance its value as an important tool for decision makers in almost all organizational capacities.

Author : Kevin R. Wadleigh
Publisher : Prentice Hall Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780130170088
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Optimization for High-performance Computing written by Kevin R. Wadleigh and published by Prentice Hall Professional. This book was released on 2000 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hands-on guide to high-performance coding and algorithm optimization. This hands-on guide to software optimization introduces state-of-the-art solutions for every key aspect of software performance - both code-based and algorithm-based. Two leading HP software performance experts offer comparative optimization strategies for RISC and for the new Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) design used in Intel IA-64 processors. Using many practical examples, they offer specific techniques for: Predicting and measuring performance - and identifying your best optimization opportunities Storage optimization: cache, system memory, virtual memory, and I/0 Parallel processing: distributed-memory and shared-memory (SMP and ccNUMA) Compilers and loop optimization Enhancing parallelism: compiler directives, threads, and message passing Mathematical libraries and algorithms Whether you're a developer, ISV, or technical researcher, if you need to optimize high-performance software on today's leading processors, one book delivers the advanced techniques and code examples you need: Software Optimization for High Performance Computing.

Author : Christof Ebert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540267344
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Practices in Software Measurement written by Christof Ebert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical approach to software measurement Contains hands-on industry experiences

Author : Mathias Kirchmer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783642635908
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business Process Oriented Implementation of Standard Software written by Mathias Kirchmer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, the author, an SAP R/3 expert and president of a consulting firm, shows readers how companies can achieve strategic goals through business process oriented implementation of software such as SAP R/3, Oracle, or Peoplesoft. The updated second edition of this best-selling title will help managers and consultants understand the necessary methods and tools.

Author : Sam Carpenter
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1608320529
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work the System written by Sam Carpenter and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simple Mindset Tweak Will Change Your Life. After a fifteen-year nightmare operating a stagnant service business, Sam Carpenter developed a down-to-earth methodology that knocked his routine eighty-hour workweek down to a single hour—while multiplying his bottom-line income more than twenty-fold. In Work the System, Carpenter reveals a profound insight and the exact uncomplicated, mechanical steps he took to turn his business and life around without turning it upside down. Once you “get” this new vision, success and serenity will come quickly. You will learn to: • Make a simple perception adjustment that will change your life forever. • See your world as a logical collection of linear systems that you can control. • Manage the systems that produce results in your business and your life. • Stop fire-killing. Become a fire-control specialist! • Maximize profit, create client loyalty, and develop enthusiastic employees who respect you. • Identify insidious “errors of omission.” • Maximize your biological and mechanical “prime time” so that you are working at optimum efficiency. • Design the life you want—and then, in the real world, quickly create it! You can keep doing what you have always done, and continue getting mediocre, unsatisfactory results. Or you can find the peace and freedom you’ve always wanted by transforming your business or corporate department into a finely tuned machine that runs on autopilot!