Cloud

JDA Software: Setting New Industry Standards for Performance, Flexibility and Interoperability while Lowering Total Cost of Ownership. Organizations are building the foundation to address complex, global business challenges and align common business goals.

The recent downtime experienced by Amazon E3 and Microsoft BPOS has created quite a buzz about the stability of cloud computing. Has your organization proactively made provisions and does it have cloud security best practices in place to protect your vital business data and processes in the event of a natural disaster?

What’s top of mind for most life sciences CEOs today? Sustaining business growth, especially with the tidal wave of blockbuster branded pharmaceutical products coming off-patent.

Supply Chain Visibility gives a clear view of inventory and supply chain activity, creating an agile global supply chain

Sourcing your goods usually means dealing with multiple suppliers located everywhere - time zones, cultures, distance, and languages - it's logistics.

Implementing a Big Data project might make sense for your organization. But before you start investing in the time and resources required, make sure the effort will ultimately enable you to differentiate between the beneficial “signals” and the distracting "noise.”

This Market Spotlight combines past research with current thinking about the challenges that continue to face manufacturers. It also discusses how visibility defined, and then enabled through cloud-based collaborative networks, can be a powerful tool in both solving existing business problems and anticipating new ones.

Performance improvement through effective labor management is critical to the success of any labor-driven operation and effectively managing your labor expense is often the single biggest opportunity for performance improvement and cost reduction in your distribution center, manufacturing plant, retail store and/or delivery operation.

Logistics organizations are expected to make additional contributions to the bottom line by continually eliminating costs and increasing workforce productivity.

Savvy business decision makers know that the Cloud presents a new wealth of possibilities to improve business agility and revenue through better analytic capabilities.

Okta Secures $27 Million to Accelerate International Expansion - Sequoia Capital Leads Series D Round; Okta Appoints Philip Turner As New GM For European Operations.

Addressing these customer requirements and providing a well-managed application for your customers will be crucial to your success as a vendor and to the success of cloud computing in general. It gives customers the ability to centralize authentication, and user and access management of your application

Gone are the days when the priorities of a few high-tech startups determined the pace of business technology development. Today, innovators come in all shapes and sizes, and they're all looking to maximize the return on their technology dollars by embracing more flexible and powerful solutions. In the year to come, these X trends will dominate the discussion and set the pace for global technology leadership.

As host to the largest Microsoft Dynamics customer base in North America, and the leading provider of Dynamics ERP in the cloud, Tribridge created this guide to help decision makers choose the right deployment model for their accounting and ERP solution, including key considerations and steps specific to cloud ERP.

Tribridge Concerto Cloud Services helps companies grow by providing cost-effective integrated Microsoft Dynamics ERP, CRM and business productivity solutions in the cloud. Concerto transcends traditional one-size-fits-all deployments by giving you access to critical business applications in a private cloud environment.

The best cloud offerings in supply chain will not only provide a platform. They will include tools that the IT team can use to configure the software to meet their unique business needs, gain access to a community of partners, connect seamlessly to other systems, and analyze high quality data from a single information source.

There are so many flavors of cloud, so what really matters is not that you are in the cloud, but how you are using the cloud.

“This software allows for a balcony view of the status of shipments and payments. Suppliers are clear…we’re clear. And payment is executed on time. That’s huge. That takes the place of 10-12 emails that aimed to get to the bottom of when they will get paid. It puts a lot of strain on the relationship. Visibility has improved for Patagonia and our suppliers and a byproduct of that is a much better relationship...” Doug Freeman, Vice President...

There's been a renewal of interest in the past few years around optimizing working capital in the supply chain, and cloud technology makes it easier. Visibility on a cloud-based platform and having standardized, electronic documentation over the network gives managers the tools they need to free up as much cash as possible in the supply chain.

Over the past century, UPS has become one of the world’s premier logistics companies. Among its notable strides are its “direct-to-store” delivery model, its forward-thinking embrace of the “cloud” as a new platform for international shipments and its dedication to ensuring that Brown also means green.