More than 75% of business leaders say their current ERP system doesn’t meet their requirements, let alone future plans. To enable today’s data-driven organization, the very foundation from which you are operating needs to be re-established; it needs to be “modernized”. To help you navigate your own journey to modernization, we’ve crafted this handbook series to share the knowledge gained working with many thousands of companies using both legacy and modern ERP systems.

In today’s evolving financial environment, your jurisdiction needs a flexible system built to adapt. The County of Placer chose to ensure that its constitutions receive timely, transparent services at all times with a cloud-based ERP system. Watch this webinar replay to learn about the benefits of the cloud for government agencies. Discover how you can get your jurisdiction into the cloud and prepared for the future.

To thrive in an outcome-based funding model, your institution needs an ERP and student information system that is efficient and adaptable in order to channel more resources into learning and support student success. Read the Ovum case study to learn how Broward College accomplished this with one cloud-based Workday system.

Struggling to adopt new technologies and deliver real-time information? Replacing your aging, on-premise solutions with cloud-based ERP systems can turn these challenges into opportunities for your government organization. Read the SmartFocus whitepaper to learn more about the benefits of cloud-based systems, such as: • Real-time analytics for better decision-making • Faster deployment and ROI than on-premise solutions • More time to focus on strategic initiatives

Workday has been recognized by global market intelligence firm, IDC, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Midmarket ERP applications. This report is a guide highlighting the most important criteria for midsize companies to considers when selecting a system. Being named a Leader also underscores the value that Workday brings customers ranging from mid-sized business to the world’s largest enterprises.

It’s important for services organizations to have a scalable ERP system that is easy to deploy and use. But figuring out which vendor best suits your specific needs can be a challenge. This IDC MarketScape report provides a look into the capabilities service organizations should expect from cloudenabled PSA ERP applications. Read an excerpt of the report to learn what it takes for an ERP system to lead your company into the future.

"Looking for an agile and scalable ERP system but don’t know where to start? IDC MarketScape has put together a guide specifically for midsize companies. Read an excerpt from the report to learn the capabilities your midsize company should expect from cloud-enabled ERP applications.

: It’s important for services organizations to have a scalable ERP system that is easy to deploy and use. But figuring out which vendor best suits your specific needs can be a challenge. This IDC MarketScape report provides a look into the capabilities service organizations should expect from cloudenabled PSA ERP applications. Read an excerpt of the report to learn what it takes for an ERP system to lead your company into the future.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is the backbone of modern manufacturing information systems, enabling the digital transformation that’s changing operations and customer expectations. As the movement toward a digital workplace evolves, your ERP system must keep pace. Epicor commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) of deploying Epicor ERP. Several manufacturers using Epicor ERP found: • Faster access to data and improved real-time visibility enabled better decision-making • Improved multi-company operational efficiency • Increased competitiveness with faster turnaround of customer quotes and improved pricing accuracy • Increased versatility with the Epicor ERP cloud offering • Access to deep expertise in manufacturing best practices Read the study to find out how else Epicor ERP has helped manufacturers.

Successful enterprise resource planning (ERP) software implementation depends on having a well-planned strategy that addresses each of these eight issues. If you haven’t been through the ERP selection process before, it can be daunting to compare features and functionality from a variety of vendors to determine which one best fits your needs. Epicor prepared this “8 Considerations When Choosing Your ERP System” eBook to help businesses identify the key criteria to consider when evaluating ERP software so you can find a system that solves problems instead of creating them.

When determining which investments to make in their technology infrastructure, organizations will often choose to make no changes at all. While this decision avoids short-term costs and business disruption, it will simply delay the inevitable—even making it worse. The cost of doing nothing is expensive in the long term. This report—from the independent researchers at Aberdeen Group—outlines the reasons organizations choose not to upgrade enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and cautions against this approach, supplying detailed research that illustrates the benefits of keeping your systems current. Epicor has a history of providing software solutions tailored specifically for the manufacturing industry. Check out the report, and see how upgrading to Epicor ERP can help grow your business.

Learn why a new approach is needed. Read this whitepaper, “A New Approach to Audit and Control in Enterprise Software”, and discover more about the changing landscape of control and governance. Learn how rethinking technology can be the touchstone to separation of duties, transparent business processes and comprehensive auditing. Understand: •How the changing world of control and governance places new requirements on today’s finance systems •Why legacy systems with bolt-on finance controls fail to deliver complete compliance •How technology innovations help transform the finance function and reinforce control

If you are considering the right deployment model for your contact center, economic guidelines can help you choose the solution that is best for your company. Cloud, on-premises or hybrid. Just a few years ago, businesses were still unsure of the viability of moving their contact centers and other critical enterprise systems to the cloud. Since then, with the decrease of cloud costs, and the corresponding increase in security and, the viability and total cost of ownership of cloud deployments are attracting more and more companies. This eBook will cover how different criteria can affect a choice between a cloud or on-premises contact center, including: • The size of your contact center, and business requirements such as customer journey management • The location and quantity of contact centers being managed • The need for scalability, speed of deployment, and maintenance requirements Read the eBook today!

Christian Kane is an Enterprise Mobility Management Research Analyst with Forrester Research, where he helps clients develop and improve their desktop and mobile strategy. His research spans mobile hardware, mobile operating systems, mobile device management solutions, and mobile applications.

"Businesses are currently experiencing a generational shift in competitive and operational environments due to a convergence of technological, social, and economic forces. A single characteristic is emerging as the key factor that determines a company’s success: speed. API-led connectivity is the integration approach that will provide the speed organizations are looking for. It provides an approach for connecting and exposing assets. With this approach, companies can deliver today’s projects faster than ever before while also building an infrastructure to increase productivity on future projects and an enterprise ready for change. In this paper, you'll learn: -How to adopt an API-led connectivity approach that packages underlying connectivity and orchestration services as easily discoverable and reusable building blocks, exposed by APIs. -How to structure these building blocks across distinct systems, process and experience layers, to achieve both greater organizational agility and

Enterprise content is growing at an average rate of 200% per year-and the risks of noncompliance are growing even faster. This paper examines the business and technical difficulties of managing content from disparate systems and presents the most viable alternatives for addressing these challenges.

Business runs on content and that content must be managed holistically, across the entire business. However, managing content is, in itself, not enough to drive business. Enterprises must incorporate ECM with other IT management systems to provide complete Business Service Management (BSM).

A recent survey of CIOs found that over 75% want to develop an overall information strategy in the next three years, yet over 85% are not close to implementing an enterprise-wide content management strategy. Meanwhile, data runs rampant, slows systems, and impacts performance. Hard-copy documents multiply, become damaged, or simply disappear.

This Executive White Paper, sponsored by Pitney Bowes Marketing Solutions, a provider of web-based marketing automation solutions, examines the competitive advantages offered by marketing automation portals and the potential impact of these types of portals on marketing campaigns deployed in complex, rapidly evolving markets.

This comprehensive PBX Buyers Guide explores the PBX technology (both hosted and traditional) and empowers the mid to enterprise business PBX buyers with critical information necessary that is helpful in selecting the right phone system for any business.

The mobile device is part and parcel of daily life. It’s fundamentally changed the way consumers behave, and this influence has spread to the enterprise sector as well. For instance, patron-owned mobile devices have largely helped pave the way for the widespread emergence of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies. Ten years ago, the idea of a company employee logging into the enterprise system while they’re on an airplane over the Atlantic would seem far-fetched, but today such behavior is relatively commonplace. Mobility is changing how we shop, work and live our daily lives.

The HX Data Platform uses a self-healing architecture that implements data replication for high availability, remediates hardware failures, and alerts your IT administrators so that problems can be resolved quickly and your business can continue to operate. Space-efficient, pointerbased snapshots facilitate backup operations, and native replication supports cross-site protection. Data-at-rest encryption protects data from security risks and threats. Integration with leading enterprise backup systems allows you to extend your preferred data protection tools to your hyperconverged environment.

Today’s idea-driven economy calls for a simpler, faster virtualization solution—one that can be managed by one IT generalist vs. numerous IT specialists. Enter HPE Hyper Converged 380, an advanced, virtualized system from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Based on the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 Server, this enterprise-grade VM vending machine enables you to quickly deploy VMs, simplify IT operations, and reduce overall costs like no other hyperconverged system available today.

This paper examines the potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises with current volume licenses may realise by upgrading to Windows Server 2012 R2 with System Center 2012 R2.

VCE pioneered Converged Infrastructure with the introduction of Vblock® Systems in 2009, and today we’ve helped more than 1,200 global enterprise customers transform their IT environments to become more agile, reliable, and cost-effective. Dell EMC brings together best-of-breed technologies in converged Vblock Systems and VxBlock™ Systems solutions to power data centers and simplify management and operations throughout the system life cycle.