- Cloud or on-premise: a contradiction in terms? Not if you have the right technology. This guide for IT directors describes how modern integration tools can help you achieve the best of both worlds.
- With cost per hire averaging £5,311 it pays to check that your recruitment process is streamlined and efficient. From online advertising to agency self-service, this guide provides ten tips for getting great return on your recruitment spend.
- Kickstart your cashflow now with our free guide to best practice credit control.
- Are you looking to capture, monitor and measure absence information? This guide will help you set a benchmark for your company and implement reduction incentives.
- With the explosion of affordable, web-based technology, anyone with an iPad can now access timely, accurate business metrics. Our free guide explains how opening up your business solution to the web can make your entire organisation more agile and responsive.
- The ability to accurately forecast future cash flow is essential, yet hindered by outdated and unreliable tools. This useful guide explains how today's made-for-purpose solutions can beat the spreadsheet trap and give you reliable figures at the click of a button.
- This free guide sets out the reporting framework from the Charity Commission so you know the exact legal requirements for your organisation.
- According to Forrester Research, the cost of attracting new customers is four to six times that of keeping customers. Read how CRM solutions can help keep customers coming back.
- Customer service is the new marketing as it costs more to attract new customers than retain existing customers.
- This introductory whitepaper provides specific tips that you can implement to evoke and maintain the strongest possible relationships with prospects and customers.
- While CRM is not without challenges, it remains a business essential – without it, your business will be unable to provide customers with the level of service they desire. This introductory whitepaper explains the history of CRM and the benefits you can expect to achieve by aligning this technology with your business strategy.
- Understand how CRM can dynamically monitor your defined selling process and provide the real-time view necessary to manage your business proactively.
- Marketing blames sales for not following up on the leads it generates, while sales accuses marketing of not pulling in the right leads: learn how CRM can close the gap.
- Are you coming up with workarounds that your software should be able to perform? Discover the signs you need to change your ERP solution in this handy guide.
- The second part of our director's guide is designed to help you improve the usefulness of your chosen ERP solution. Taking a comprehensive look at the functionality that's on offer, it breaks down key operational areas into clear, easy-to-read sections so that you can make an informed assessment of the specific features that will benefit you.
- Transform your decision-making by turning raw stats into business insight.
- Like many things, doing the best job relies on having the right tools. But how can you be sure what your team’s got what it needs? This guide takes you through what’s on offer so that you can help everyone from FC to credit controller work as one towards your operational goals.
- Inevitably the time comes when the business software that you rely on no longer measures up. Whether external market forces, business growth or lack of functionality drive the change, this guide will help you make the strategic decision about what to do next.
- Improve your data management and analysis through close integration between Excel and your business and accounting system.
- Buying a software solution is a big decision made easier with the right research, planning and guidance. The first part of our 'FD Bible' splits the main stages of the selection and implementation process into easy to manage tasks.
- Not sure which functionality to buy? Discover tools to suit your system and your business with the Access FDs' Bible. Updated for 2010, Part 2 of our comprehensive guide explains the key functions available and how you can use them to add value to every area of your business.
- With the right HR system, you can automate day-to-day processes – giving you more time for planning and staff interaction. This guide explains now.
- Scare stories about failed software projects make headlines – but there are many such implementations that go through perfectly smoothly. This white paper looks at how your organisation can achieve success in your own project - and the corporate benefits you can expect from a well-executed business and finance systems implementation.
- In-house payroll vs. outsourcing – which one is right for you? We’ll help you understand the differences so you can decide.
- Take a look at our helpful RFI toolkit, which provides step-by-step instructions for hassle-free RFI preparation.
- This quick-start guide explains the principles behind the Request for Information (RTI) process and provides a template to help you compare and contrast HCM solutions.
- How has the introduction of ABS’s affected the legal industry?
- One way to formulate a flawless strategy is to use specialist software. That way you can address training, L&D and performance management needs using established intelligence that knows what you know, helps when you don’t – and makes it happen. By using an integrated HR system you can bring all the elements of your plan together, making sure you’re able to monitor activities and hold a detailed view of your employee's needs, knowledge and abilities. And track, with accuracy and evidence, the outcomes of your L&D policies.
- With the amount of 'unstructured data' (such as documents, images, email) in business set to double every two years, how you store, access and manage this information is becoming increasingly critical. Cliff Mills, research manager for Evaluation Centre publisher NCC, reports.
- When the time comes, most IT and Finance Managers know their software systems need to change but have a mountain to climb in persuading senior management to make the necessary investment.
- 42% of manufacturers think WHAT is the biggest factor in winning business? Find out in our 2012 key trends in manufacturing survey.
- Have better control over each project so you never lose sight of your profit margins.
- Get your search for a new finance solution off to a flying start with our free customisable RFI (Request for Information) template.
- Let us take the hard work out of creating an RFI for a new HR system. Our free customisable template allows you to quickly come up with a scorecard against which vendors can assess their suitability.
- Helpful tips for choosing the tools you need to choose project administration efficiency.
- This structured approach to software selection will help you determine which solution best meets your needs. Covering everything from research to implementation, this useful guide also provides detailed coverage of service-specific functionality, such as meter billing & contract management tools, PDA integration and more.
- It can be tricky to find both the time and inclination to build a business case. This guide by business expert Mike Holmes will help you step back from daily frustrations, providing an easy-to-follow methodology that will help you build business-wide confidence in your proposal.
- We look back - and forward - to the opportunities and challenges created by mid-market technology.
- System integration is key to efficiency in the not-for-profit sector: third-sector professionals make their voices clear in this research paper.
- Whilst “profit leaks” within businesses across the UK are proving a huge cause for concern - and many companies currently do not have the visibility to identify inefficiencies within their end-to-end operations - there is wide recognition that significant savings can be made by plugging these leaks.
- By thinking about ERP as a “joined-up” way of working rather than just a software system, mid-market businesses can approach their
replacement project by focusing on those efficiencies not currently possible within their current technology
- From Sandbox from SOAP, SaaS to Paas, this director’s guide offers the ideal start into the world of cloud computing. Covering cloud’s origins, its key benefits, considerations and the most commonly used phrases, we demystify the mechanics so that you can form your own view on this hot topic.
- Choosing the right software is very important, but so are the people who sell it to you. This guide covers the key characteristics of a great software vendor so that you can start your search with confidence.
- Access Delta sets out how IT solutions can help mid-tier companies in the wholesale and distribution sector meet their order picking challenges and transform their warehouse into a competitive weapon.
- Warehousing is a core business process that can be continuously improved. This whitepaper makes the case for Warehouse Performance Management today, and also provides a ‘can do’ vision of future WPM.
- This guide contains 5 key takeaways to make every project watertight from day one.
- 5 key takeaways in resource allocation for effective and profitable management.
- How can implementing best practice around cost capture & WIP deliver results for your business?
- How small is too small for talent management to make a difference? This whitepaper tackles the misconception that mid-market enterprises should leave talent management to the big players.
- Developing fundraising strategies, drive up productivity and drive down expenditure (how to do more with less), streamlining collaboration (hear a case study from Liz Wilson, Director of Finance and Operations at Tenovus, on how they did so).
- With CRM systems getting closer to the front line, how can NFPs ensure that the back office stays in sync? This paper looks at the challenges involved in integrating a charity's key information sources and discusses the role that company culture has to play in overcoming 'silo mentality.'