Despite successive waves of enterprise software applications, one frontier remains untouched by automation — processes on the front lines of business, such as field service, sales, and asset management. 
Emerging mobile solutions that extend SAP enterprise applications to employees outside the office promise that these processes won’t remain untouched for much longer. 
This book reveals how TransAlta, Volkswagen, TÜV Nord, METRO Group, Frito-Lay, and numerous other companies are successfully mobilizing SAP solutions to transform processes. The core drivers motivating these companies include cost reduction, productivity improvement, and operational efficiency. 
Mobilizing SAP: Business Processes, ROI and Best Practices guides readers through the real-world mobilization of business processes. Authors Ravi Kalakota and Paul Kurchina analyze the mobile business landscape. They discuss what is behind this trend, how it is paying off, and, most important, provide you with a step-by-step guide on how you can create and implement your own mobile strategy. 
The purpose of this book is to help readers achieve and sustain superior performance in their organizations by avoiding mobile strategies that have not been tried and tested and by recognizing and capitalizing on the lasting opportunities for renovating pen, paper, and clipboard processes with mobile solutions. 
Based on extensive research, Mobilizing SAP offers insight into how managers of leading firms are leveraging mobile technology to extract more value out of their SAP investments. Readers will find plenty of practical tips and tools to apply mobile technology in a wide variety of business process scenarios.

Mobilizing SAP: Business Processes, ROI and Best Practices

Business & Money

Kalakota, Ravi

Kurchina, Paul

Business Culture

Mivar Press, Inc.

Mashup Corporations: The End of Business As Usual tells the tale of Vorpal Inc., a company that pioneers the implementation of service-oriented architecture to transform its business model. CEO Jane Moneymaker believes in marketing manager Hugo Wunderkind's idea of creating a new market using non-traditional methods based on mashups, but struggles to achieve this vision. The story illustrates what it takes to achieve cultural change, overturning established business and IT structures. By embracing a service-oriented approach Moneymaker makes Vorpal faster, flexible and more responsive, bringing an end to business as usual. Mashup Corporations takes a unique approach to communicating its message. From the first page, readers will find themselves in a story populated with people who interact in ways that will ring true to others who have struggled to make technology work in an organization large or small. The conflicts that naturally arise between CEOs, CIOs, and line of business managers illustrate the important issues at stake within Vorpal and most other companies. As the leaders of Vorpal find their way out of their predicament, rules about how mashups and service-orientation can be properly applied emerge. These rules, which may be the most enduring contribution of the book, are illustrated and analyzed using real-life examples.

Mashup Corporations : The End of Business as Usual

THOMAS

Chris S.

Andy

Evolved Technologist Press

Imagine that you could hear the insights of more than 100 people with decades of experience about how to run a plant to meet the challenges of today's hypercompetitive, globalized world. In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant provides exactly that experience. The authors assembled more than 100 experts, whose ideas were distilled into a simple, easy to read story. Unlike most books on manufacturing, which are deep dives into arcane topics, this book provides an expansive view. People who have 30 or 40 years experience in manufacturing report that the book has increased their knowledge in surprising ways. The manuscript has proved especially popular with senior executives seeking to better understand the plants under their control and people early in their career who are preparing to move up the management ladder. The story shows the connections between business processes and technology in the all important areas of manufacturing, which leads to deeper understanding. Find out how people are using the book to make a difference in their plants at: www.PursuitOfThePerfectPlant.com.

In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant: A Business and Technical Guide

Kennedy, Pat

Bapat, Vivek

Computers & Technology

Evolved Technologist Pr

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