ERP WHITE PAPERS:

Click Here - Leveraging a Demand Driven Manufacturing Model to Enhance Profitablilty
Many manufacturers have chosen to become demand-driven rather than supply-driven, meeting the needs of a dynamic marketplace by building products to order rather than investing in large inventories, building products to stock and attempting to create customer demand. Demand-driven manufacturing, however, by its very nature, necessitates rethinking traditional manufacturing methods in favor of "lean" manufacturing principles, a highly efficient and collaborative supply chain, rapid order turnaround, the efficient deployment of resources, profitable contracts and, last but not least, sustained customer satisfaction.

This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful demand driven fulfillment manufacturing, including optimal channel and customer relationships, informed online buying and selling, flexible product configuration and order fulfillment and integrated operational infrastructures. It details the challenges that manufacturers face today, the most efficient infrastructures to accommodate the demand-driven model and the value concepts that are emerging in the demand-driven environment.

HIGH AVAILABILITY WHITE PAPERS:

Click Here - The Benefits of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and High Availability
As HA solutions replicate data in real time to a backup server, they also replicate corrupted data to the backup system. When HA is combined with CDP, the issue of data corruption is no longer a problem. This white paper will provide a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action.

Click Here - The Aberdeen Report - The Importance of High Availability
Learn how companies keep their system running 24/7.

Click Here - The One Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery - How to Ensure IT and Business Continuity
IT managers have been-or soon will be tasked-to find ways to mitigate, eliminate or minimize as cost-effectively as possible the risks and effects of unplanned outages on the business. And, even more important, their executives will want assurances that information assets-data and applications-can remain available no matter what happens.

This white paper will help you ensure business continuity and survival by leading you through three essential steps-from understanding the concepts of disaster recovery and information availability to calculating the business impact of downtime. We will discuss in general terms the concepts of business continuity and disaster planning. We will focus primarily on specific IT strategies you can easily and affordably implement.

Click Here - The Power of Information Availability: What Every Senior Executive Should Know
When systems, applications and databases are brought down for maintenance, backups or reporting activities this downtime currently delivers zero value to your business operations-and adds nothing to your bottom line.  This white paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can transform that non-productive, non-profitable downtime into the optimum level of value-producing business uptime for your organization.

Click Here - iSeries High Availability: Why it Has Become So Affordable and Easy to Use
Until recently… iSeries high availability solutions were reserved mostly for large enterprises. Now that high availability is dramatically easier to use and less expensive to own and manage, the picture has changed. Thousands of small and mid-sized companies can now afford to cost-justify the “luxury” of rapid, complete data recovery.

Interestingly (and fortunately), this shift is occurring when downtime is causing more of a disruption and expense to businesses than ever before. With technology costs dropping and downtime costs skyrocketing, companies have a huge incentive to evaluate iSeries high availability technology.

Click Here - Introduction to High Availability for iSeries
This paper presents an overview of iSeries high availability to companies that are beginning to explore this powerful business continuity technology. The critical components of high availability solutions are detailed in this paper, including data replication engines, system monitors, role swap capabilities, and the importance of autonomic processes. Also provided is information on the cost of planned and unplanned downtime, and a brief overview of disaster recovery strategies.

Click Here - Exploding the 6 Common Myths of iSeries High Availability
When it comes to iSeries high availability, many misconceptions abound. The most common myths address the lack of reliability, the difficulty of use, and the high expense. These and other common misconceptions about iSeries high availability are addressed in detail in this executive overview from iTera. You might be surprised about what you learn. And since finding the right high availability solution is critical for companies trying to reduce downtime, this also paper provides a comprehensive look at the most important factors to evaluate when looking at the various high availability solutions on the market.

ELECTRONIC INITIATIVE WHITE PAPERS:

Click Here - B2B Electronic Messaging - Maximising the Business Benefits
The challenges, opportunities and benefits available to business when implementing B2B electronic messaging in the SupplyChain.