Corporate Performance Management (CPM): Organizations
providing strategic consulting, and implementation of complex, customized
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solutions that enable
companies to successfully measure and monitor Key Performance Indicators
(via Dashboards and Scorecards). CPM solutions provide reliable,
relevant, and timely information to decision makers.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Organizations
supplying strategic consulting, implementation or management services
related to leading CRM applications, as well as the custom development
of lead generation, customer retention, campaign management and
account management systems for the purpose of collecting information
that provides an integrated, enterprise-wide understanding of the
customer. This understanding facilitates the delivery of
an enhanced customer experience, and the future acquisition, development,
and retention of profitable customer relationships.
Digital Strategy: Organizations providing consulting,
implementation, or management services associated with the development
or refinement of a corporate internet presence, website assessment
and redesign, and the integration of multi-site and multi-channel
web solutions. Successful digital strategies maximize brand
equity, enhance user experience, increase revenue and decrease operational
costs.
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI): Organizations
delivering architecture, design and enterprise integration services
(of both legacy and packaged solutions) via leading EAI applications
and, often times, proprietary tools, adapters and accelerators. EAI
solutions integrate applications, data, mainframes, middleware, systems,
and legacy programs across an enterprise and between partners.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Organizations
providing strategic consulting, implementation or management services
around leading ERP applications, as well as the custom development
of systems tailored to specific functional areas including Financials,
Sales and Distribution, Human Resources Management System (HRMS),
Materials Management, Manufacturing, Logistics and Reporting. ERP
systems optimize productivity by seamlessly coordinating corporate
demand and supply requirements in such a way as to ensure that manufacturer,
supplier and customer resources are used in a manner that is both
efficient and cost effective.
Knowledge Management: Organizations delivering
strategic consulting, implementation or management services associated
with content-centric business solutions (content and document management,
portals, business process and workflow, imaging and integration)
via leading applications. Effective knowledge management solutions
facilitate community building, collaboration, content publishing
and back-office integration.
Microsoft: Organizations offering strategic consulting,
implementation or management of services connected to Microsoft Business
Solutions (encompassing Great Plains, Solomon, and Navision business
process applications) or Microsoft Server and Tools (including Microsoft’s
integrated server software, and software developer tools).
Network Infrastructure: Organizations
focused on the design, architecture, implementation, and ongoing
security and performance of enterprise-level network infrastructures
(intranet, extranet, virtual private network) to ensure the reliability
of mission-critical networks, e-commerce infrastructures and ongoing
organizational connectivity.
Storage: Organizations focused on the design, architecture,
implementation, and ongoing performance and scalability of enterprise
storage infrastructures and the delivery of associated services including
the creation of custom solutions, data migration, business continuity
and disaster recovery, and various managed services.
Supply Chain Management (SCM): Organizations delivering
strategic consulting, implementation or management services associated
with leading SCM applications in the areas of Supply Chain Planning,
Sourcing & Procurement, Inventory Optimization, Warehouse Management,
Logistics Distribution & Transportation and Supply Chain Integration
to optimize business processes and technology systems throughout organizations'
supply and demand chains.
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make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because
they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you
make them because—they're right."