Feb 11, 2010
Market Service: Manufacturing Operations
EH&S Content: A Foundational Component of Green Product Supply Networks
Simon Jacobson
Green supply chains are here, with product-specific environmental information transparency expected to increase dramatically in the next three years. Environment, health, and safety (EH&S) plays a crucial role in delivering key information content. Companies seeking to use environmental compliance as an embedded differentiator in their supply networks must shift from inside-out, reactive EH&S content management processes to outside-in orchestration, overcoming significant hurdles along the way.
Feb 8, 2010
Retail Strategies Service
Top Technology Trends in the Apparel Market: The Fourth Annual Apparel Research Study and Analysis
Janet Suleski, David Aquino, Lucie Draper
As economic conditions moderated in late 2009, apparel companies planned to loosen budget belts for this fiscal year-but only slightly. This Report provides insight to apparel executives about where their peers will be placing their IT bets as they look ahead to improved consumer spending patterns while still dealing with competitive, economic, and global market realities.
Jan 6, 2010
Enterprise Application Strategies
MDM Service Provider Profile: Infosys
Bill Swanton
Infosys Technologies' master data management (MDM) practice is clearly focused in a few industries, including high tech, life sciences, retail, and financial services. It has a broader experience with the Oracle and IBM products, which is consistent with its industry focus. This profile is a part of AMR Research's coverage of the MDM landscape.
Jan 6, 2010
Enterprise Application Strategies
MDM Service Provider Profile: Liaison Technologies
Bill Swanton
Liaison Technologies provides product information management (PIM) in the form of software as a service and business process outsourcing. It is an alternative to implementing a PIM product on-site and staffing for operation and data management tasks. This profile is a part of AMR Research's coverage of the master data management (MDM) landscape.
Dec 14, 2009
Industry Value Chain Strategies Service
P&G and Accenture Explore a New Universe
Allen Johnson
Procter & Gamble and Accenture have embarked on a journey to better exploit the digital universe. Is this is a random exploration, or are we seeing gravity established in a world that's inhabited by digital consumers?
Sep 18, 2009
Market Service: Global Business and Outsourcing Services
The Top 25 SAP Service Providers
Dana Stiffler
The SAP services market has a lot of runway left. Even as the core commoditizes and goes offshore, the market is still worth well over $100B, and growing at high single-digit rates annually. The very largest SAP service providers-the top nine-are longtime standard bearers of global IT services, but things get considerably cloudy beyond that with the increased influence of the Indian players and the arrival of several Latin American upstarts.
Jul 23, 2009
Market Service: Global Business and Outsourcing Services
State of the Outsourcing Industry in Mid-2009: Activity To Resume With a More Cautious and Global Focus
Phil Fersht, Dana Stiffler
In past recessions, enterprises have increased both IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) initiatives to drive out cost. But that hasn't been the case during the last nine months of severe economic downturn. Most enterprises have put outsourcing plans on the back burner while they tackle fundamental issues, including contemplating their very survival.
Jul 22, 2009
Market Service: Enterprise Performance Management
2009 Executive Guide to Selecting BI/PM Service Providers
John Hagerty, Dana Stiffler
Service providers offer a plethora of BI and PM services that incorporate sophisticated methodologies and packaged offerings. What buyers value highly are nuts-and-bolts technical skills that mesh with their chosen technical architecture. They also continue to want it their way on their terms.
May 21, 2009
Market Service: Global Business and Outsourcing Services
Gauging the Potential of IBM's Business Analytics and Optimization Initiative
Dana Stiffler, John Hagerty
What if you could bring the brain power of the team behind IBM's Deep Blue computing initiative inside your company? Applying Kasparov-crushing analytics to the supply chain, customer data, and product development is the hook behind the company's newest service line, Business Analytics and Optimization (BAO). Is launching a new service under current market conditions ill-advised, or is IBM getting out in front of an information services monster market?
Mar 23, 2009
Market Service: Global Business and Outsourcing Services
Consulting and Outsourcing Services Deal Review Data: Retail Weakens, Life Sciences Coming on Strong
Dana Stiffler, Phil Fersht
Inquiries from buyers seeking service provider assistance on projects, application support, and outsourcing in 2008 hummed along right up until the end. Here we review the shape of 2008's activity by company size, industry, initiative scope, and the functional or technology area addressed.