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Not sure what software solutions are right for you? Click on any of the thumbnails below for in-depth informational white papers. Solid research is the foundation for any major software solution decision.

Customer Think White Paper Sales Productivity

The key to ramping up sales productivity in your organization is finding the points of leverage—where investments will yield the best return. Odds are you’ll find there are opportunities to not only increase the available selling time but also ensure that time is focused on working with the right customers using a sound sales process, enabled with easy-to-use technology.

 

Sales and Marketing: The New Power Couple

Today, both sales and marketing operate in a vacuum. It isn’t any individual’s fault. It is result of their company’s structure and culture. Now, fast-forward to a vision of the singularly focused, well-aligned sales and marketing organization focused on both short-term and long-term goals. This white paper explains how to create such an environment within your organization.



Evaluating Financial Management Software

This whitepaper identifies key challenges business and technical management face with their financial management software. Whether your current systems provide inaccurate data and delays in gathering financial information, or if you just do not have the time or resources to keep your financial systems running smoothly, there is hope.




Knowledge, Insight, Power

There are unprecedented challenges in the current economic situation for industrial distributors. In order to survive, significant changes in management and operations will be necessary. The good news is that there are a number of business techniques utilizing modern ERP applications that have been defined in research, then tested and proved in practice by leading organizations.



Optimizing Business Productivity:
Do More for Your Customers and Your Business

Business growth, cost optimization, customer relationships—these are among CEOs’ top priorities this year, according to a recent survey of 704 CEOs conducted by The Conference Board. Addressing all three is no easy feat.





How School Districts can Integrate Business Software and Tools

School districts have highly specialized requirements to support district financial, procurement, and human resource operations. Demonstrating a high level of accountability and wise use of contracts and grants to your board, state, federal, and other funding sources is crucial for future funding and the success of your mission.



Are You Paying Too Much for ERP?

Many companies now find themselves in an unworkable situation with their business software. They are paying an expensive bill for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) year in and year out. But instead of an asset that increases productivity and efficiency, ERP applications have become a liability that require too much ongoing cost and complexity to run, which offsets much of the value being delivered.



The Benefits of Running Your Business Software in the Cloud

As fast-growing companies achieve greater market penetration and gain more customers, they face the challenge and opportunity of expanding to new locations and efficiently growing their business. They must be able to effectively manage their sales teams and channels and improve back-office efficiency, while ensuring high levels of service for customers.



The Transformational CFO: Integrative SaaS and the Power to Change

The leaders of Finance are more and more becoming leaders of their companies. By no means are CFOs, controllers, or VPs of Finance taking over corporate leadership en masse. But they are increasingly being charged with being a part of that leadership, strategically and tactically.




Top 5 Signs Your Business Has Reached the Limits of QuickBooks

At what point do the costs to the business of maintaining QuickBooks-and the other systems it requires to function — outweigh the benefits of keeping it in place? When is the right time to make the move?




On-Demand ERP in the Enterprise

Something akin to an urban myth has grown up around SaaS adoption, depicting it as a choice that sidelines or eliminates the corporate IT function. On the contrary, most enterprises that adopt SaaS find it improves business-IT alignment. 





Get Your Finances In shape

In the past, companies could try to allocate the value of each item and recognize them separately, but if they couldn’t meet strict valuation requirements, they would have to account for the whole sale as a single unit of accounting and recognize all of the revenue together. Under the freshly minted set of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) rules, that’s no longer an option.