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IDG White Paper: How to Respond Quickly to Changing Market Demands by Streamlining Processes

PublisherOracle
Format PDFDate added01 Jan 2009
Topics Knowledge and Data Management, CRM Software, Network Design, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Performance Budgeting and Management
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To thrive in today's competitive market midsize organizations need to be agile, responding quickly to changing market conditions and exceeding customers' demands. This implies flexibility in their underlying ICTCT infrastructure and business processes. But in the current economic climate, organizations of all sizes are under pressure to freeze expenditure and wring ever more return from existing assets. These two conditions need not be mutually exclusive: there are solutions that can release greater value from existing ICTCT investments while enabling an increase in efficiency across the organization.

This white paper shows that by improving process flexibility and transparency, not only can employees and systems adapt more easily to changing requirements, but existing infrastructure and applications can run more smoothly together for longer, thus raising ROROI. It will argue that enhanced visibility via centralized data management makes it easier for problems to be identified and resolved quickly. This helps increase uptime, and reduce maintenance costs.

Reducing the need for remedial maintenance also means skill resources are freed to focus on more strategic tasks, winning and retaining customers and increasing profit on revenue.

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