Using Social, Mobile, and Cloud ERP Strategies in Professional Services to Deliver Value

Professional services firms are faced with a variety of unique challenges that can hinder their success. They are tasked with collaborating with clients to complete projects that will improve their clients' organizations and bottom line. Of course, this means they are especially subject to changing expectations and project plans. Additionally, this means employees are often deployed in the offices of the client. At the same time, a professional services organization's employees are the actual product. The organization must effectively distribute resources and promote knowledge sharing in order to standardize quality and minimize the impact of employees that leave the organization. When dealing with these unique obstacles and circumstances, visibility, collaboration, and agility are extremely important. Past Aberdeen research has illustrated the ways in which Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has helped professional services organizations to standardize processes, cut costs, and promote efficiency. This report, based on data collected from 82 professional services organizations, will demonstrate how professional services are combining social, mobile, and cloud strategies with ERP to collaborate internally and externally and deliver more value. Request Free!

Platform as a Service: Gaining Computing Power Without Losing Control

You've built, tested, and deployed your enterprise applications on your provider's cloud platform and all the bells and whistles are perfected. Then, your provider increases its prices. Or maybe, the level of service isn't what you had expected. You want to change providers, but your investment has locked you in and frankly, now you're stuck. Fearing this scenario, many IT architects shy away from Platform as a Service (PaaS)-in spite of all its productivity benefits for developers. But, it doesn't have to play out this way. Leveraging open-source, open-standard solutions, developers can enjoy all the advantages of PaaS, while IT admins keep their data centers under their own control. The question then becomes: How does an IT architect maintain that balance? How do you move into the cloud without the development team learning an entirely new language or adopting new middleware? How does an IT architect streamline application development workflows and accelerate IT service delivery? Request Free!

How Video Surveillance Systems Can Help Protect Your Business

Video surveillance can not only bring criminals to justice, they can often stop the crime while it is in progress. One of the biggest sources of asset losses for companies is not burglary or customer shoplifting, but employee theft. Thankfully, video surveillance can help business owners observe their workers and detect any unethical behavior. This free guide will showcase many businesses that have benefitted from installing a video surveillance system and outline the many ways your business can benefit from having one. They'll also show you how to choose the best provider as well as providing you with several free price quotes from reputable video surveillance system vendors. Request Free!