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Ten Critical Success Factors for CRM: Lessons Learned from Successful Implementations sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Customer relationship management (CRM) deployments can be complex and difficult. This white paper provides a checklist of the ten critical success factors for organizations to follow to avoid common pitfalls as they design and deploy their CRM system. Posted: 16 Jan 2007 \| Published: 01 Aug 2006 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| CRM \| CRM Best Practices \| Information Technology End Users \| ROI \| Systems Design and Development \| Vendor Selection

Doing Business with Comstor sponsored by Comstor WHITE PAPER: Learn more about Comstor, a leader in Cisco product distribution and an established provider of networking and advanced technology solutions. Posted: 01 Feb 2012 \| Published: 27 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Certification Programs \| Channel Management \| Distribution \| Marketing \| Networking \| Vendor Selection \| Vendors

Looking under the hood: Answers to top questions CIOs ask cloud-based HR vendors sponsored by SAP WHITE PAPER: Not every HR cloud application is made equal, but how can you identify the right software-as-a-service (SaaS) HR strategy? This resource counts down seven questions that savvy CIOs and business leaders need to ask HR SaaS application vendors in order to find success. Posted: 14 Aug 2013 \| Published: 14 Aug 2013 TOPICS: CIOs \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Human Resources Management \| Human Resources Service Providers \| Human Resources Services \| Human Resources Software \| Software as a Service \| Talent Management \| Vendor Selection \| Vendors \| Workforce Management Software \| Workforce Planning

Vendor Landscape: Video Conferencing sponsored by Avaya WHITE PAPER: This resource takes an in-depth look at the videoconferencing (VC) vendor marketplace, as well as must-have VC capabilities and features. Also inside, find a side-by-side comparison of VC vendor strengths and weaknesses. Posted: 12 Aug 2013 \| Published: 12 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Collaborative Applications Software \| Communications Systems \| Unified Messaging \| Vendor Selection \| Vendors \| Video Chat Software \| Video Telephones \| Videoconferences \| Videoconferencing Hardware \| Videoconferencing Services \| Videoconferencing Software \| Videoconferencing Systems

Enabling Advanced Analytics by Bloor Research sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company WHITE PAPER: There is a great deal of discussion right now about advanced analytics, predictive analytics and in-database analytics. What are these? Read this white paper to find out! Posted: 25 Mar 2011 \| Published: 25 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Warehouses \| Database Management \| Databases \| Predictive Analytics \| Vendor Selection

Information Workplace Platforms: Oracle Vs. Microsoft sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about Oracle and Microsoft workplace platforms strengths and weaknesses. Posted: 16 Oct 2008 \| Published: 16 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Environment \| Electronic Discovery \| Enterprise \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Financial Services \| ILM \| Information Management \| Middleware \| Vendor Selection

Considering Leading Architectures for Specialty Analytic Servers sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company WHITE PAPER: Recent reports expose the monumental growth rate of data volumes. With increasing data volumes comes a need for computational power to absorb and analyze all this data in an attempt to gain a competitive edge. This paper attempts to shed some light on the decision process for selecting a specialty analytic server in today's business environments. Posted: 05 Aug 2010 \| Published: 05 Aug 2010 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Server Software \| Architectures \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Database Server Software \| ILM \| Multi-core Processor Architecture \| SAP (Product) \| Vendor Selection

Deploying a Wireless LAN sponsored by BlackBerry WHITE PAPER: Many factors must be considered when planning for a WLAN deployment. This paper provides a starting point for posing questions to WLAN equipment and service vendors. Posted: 18 May 2007 \| Published: 01 May 2007 TOPICS: 802.11 \| Mobile Workers \| Security Standards \| Vendor Selection \| VoWLAN \| Wireless Computing \| Wireless Networks \| Wireless Security \| WLAN \| WLAN Management

RHEV for Servers: Competitive Pricing whitepaper sponsored by Red Hat WHITE PAPER: This document compares the pricing of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) with the pricing of VMware vSphere 5 for server virtualization. Inside, find detailed pricing comparisons for the use cases of 100 and 250 virtual servers. Posted: 25 May 2012 \| Published: 25 May 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Management \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Vendor Selection \| VMware

Stay or Switch? How Switching Your Value-Added Network (VAN) can Payoff Beyond Just Price sponsored by Liaison Technology WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses key capabilities needed in a value-added network (VAN) and what to look for in selecting your next VAN provider. Posted: 23 May 2012 \| Published: 23 May 2012 TOPICS: Content Management \| Data Management \| Document Management \| EDI \| Supply Chain Management \| Vendor Selection