Organizations face many challenges in today’s business climate. Organizations whose success or failure is determined by the decisions they make are handicapped by systems that are centered on processes or functions. As a result, these organizations struggle to improve business productivity while managing costs and find it hard to make changes in their systems quickly,
Visa Europe addressed the unique nature of the European market by building a new payment platform which houses tens of thousands of business rules governing payment clearing and settlement. An open business rules management system speeds time-to-market and gains cost efficiencies. The result is greater business agility and competitiveness for both Visa Europe and its
To the business user of information systems, the relationship with the IT personnel who build and maintain those systems can be a contradictory experience: on the one hand, IT delivers significant productivity benefitsby automating routine tasks and improving access to information; on the other, the process of building automated systems often requires embedding business policies
There are major forces at play that are changing how business operates: Business processes are becoming more integrated and complex, economic pressures are forcing companies to do more with less, and the amount of information available is becoming more overwhelming. To meet these changing conditions, companies of all sizes are progressively more dependent on increasing
If you are looking for an edge in an increasingly competitive global environment, business intelligence software is a proven differentiator. Now, even smaller organizations can compete on a global scale using the data exploration, reporting, and dashboard management power of SAP® Crystal Server software.
SAP Crystal solutions deliver an affordable, open, self-serve approach to entry-level business intelligence to enable business users to securely explore, view, report, visualize, and manage actionable information.
SAP® Crystal solutions offer an open, self-serve approach to entry-level business intelligence that enables business users to explore, view, report, visualize, and manage actionable information in a secure environment. SAP Crystal solutions include SAP Crystal Server software, designed for data exploration, report viewing, dashboard viewing, management, and delivery; the SAP Crystal Reports® family of offerings,
Computer threats like malware, phishing attacks, and malicious web sites are a problem for businesses. They cost time and money and divert technical resources from other activities that could benefit a company, so they extract a double penalty. Although news stories about computer vulnerabilities often focus on hacker attacks on servers and networks, a far
Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in enterprise IT today. However, amidst all the hype and misinformation, it is critical that enterprise decision makers consider the Cloud as a viable strategic resource for their IT environment. This whitepaper discusses the IT challenges enterprises face and how the Cloud can help overcome those challenges.
Cloud computing stands well-poised to help enterprises significantly improve their IT speed, agility and costs. However the fear of technology “lock-in” – difficulty in efficiently switching cloud hosting providers or platforms due to enterprise size and scale – continues to discourage large organisations from realising the benefits of Cloud. This whitepaper discusses how OpenStack can