Whitepapers and Articles
Collection of whitepapers and articles providing critical insights into business and technology.
"Business Intelligence goes mainstream"
Ideaca's Richard Hines featured in Calgary Herald article
Industry: All | Solution: BI | Role: All
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Portal Governance – An Ideaca Perspective
Learn about portal governance best practices, and how governance can be applied to your organization.
Industry: All | Solution: Portals and Collaborations | Role: All
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2012 Canadian BI Maturity Results from IDC - The Current Reality of Analytics in Large Canadian Enterprises
This spring, Ideaca partnered with
IDC Canada to conduct a primary research study around the maturity of
Business Intelligence (BI) in Canadian organizations. The results of the survey measured the maturity of BI in Canadian organizations to develop a maturity model that gives insights into the current state of BI as it stands today. Uncover why Canadian companies aren’t getting the full value from their BI investments.
Industry: All | Solution: BI | Role: All
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Corporate Mobile Application Strategy
Ideaca's Brad Blaskavitch's writes an article in Exchange Magazine's May 2012 edition about the importance of developing a corporate mobile application strategy for your business.
Industry: All | Solution: Mobility | Role: All
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Business Impact of Employee Self Service
Article discussing SAP to Microsoft integration within HR departments and the business impact of employee self service.
Industry: All | Solution: All | Role: HR, IT
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Changing Role of the CFO
How the CFO can increase controls, enhance stakeholder collaboration, automate processes and drive business.
Industry: All | Solution: All | Role: CFO
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A Business POV - Building Applications in the Cloud
What cloud strategy best suits your business? This whitepaper focuses on the impact of deploying the Cloud in your organization. Take a close look at core service and deployment models and drill down into the benefits and inherent risks of deploying a Platform as a Service (PaaS) model. Finally, gain insight on recommended first steps in starting your journey to the Cloud.
Industry: All | Solution: CRM | Role: All
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Revenue Leakage in Professional Services: How to Quash the Silent Killer of Profitability
Ideaca whitepaper around the root causes of revenue leakage accross all Professional Services Organizations. This whitepaper dives into the effects revenue leakage can have on utilization rates, EBITDA, and project delivery; and how to stop it to drive company profitability.
Industry: Professional Services | Solution: ERP | Role: Finance, Operations, IT
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Beyond HR and into Operational Excellence: Time Management - Make it Strategic
This time entry best practices report discusses the value of technology enabled time entry, time entry components and the benefits of incorporating time entry best practices with your time management solution.
Industry: Professional Services | Solution: ERP | Role: Finance, Operations, IT
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Ideaca/CME Article: ERP in Manufacturing - Plant, Challenge, Solution
Ideaca produced article in Canadian Manufacturer and Exporters 20/20 Magazine. This insightful piece talks about the challenge of ERP for Manufacturing organizations and a first-hand look at life on the plant floor.
Industry: Manufacturing | Solution: ERP | Role: All
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Finding the Right Balance - Retail Speak Article
Ideaca produced article in Retail Speak Magazine explaining how to optimize inventory management with a hybrid replenishment framework.
Industry: Retail | Solution: ERP | Role: All
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HDS Retail North America Profile - Retail Speak Article
Profile on Ideaca customer HDS Retail North America on their End-to-End Retail Solution.
Industry: Retail | Solution: ERP, BI | Role: All
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ERP vs BI: The Cold War is Over - Information Week Article
Information week article focusing on the evolution of ERP and Business Intelligence.
Industry: All | Solution: ERP, BI | Role: All
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Embracing the Changing Role of Financial Executives - Ideaca Insight Article
Ideaca Insight article on how CFOs and Finance Directors can take a more strategic approach by constantly looking to create value, drive performance, and identify and plan for new business opportunities.
Industry: All | Solution: All | Role: Finance
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Leveraging Technology to Improve Retail Site Performance – Ideaca Insight Article
Ideaca Insight article about putting the Customer First: Balancing Corporate Needs, Storefront Interests and Customer Service Through Technology.
Industry: Retail | Solution: All | Role: All
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The Changing Retail Landscape – Ideaca Insight Article
Ideaca Insight article focusing on how successful Retailers must distribute customer information to the information end users, and sustain a continuous feedback loop between “information in” and “information out."
Industry: Retail | Solution: BI | Role: All
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Hitting the Mark with CRM Guide - 4th Edition
Helpful guide containing 20 concise yet powerful lessons to ensure your CRM project starts off right and stays on track for success.
Industry: All | Solution: CRM | Role: All
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Webinars and Videos
Collection of informative webinars and videos that talks about specific industry challenges and provides overviews of solutions that address these challenges.
Finding the ROI in Mobility for Professional Services Firms
Webinar outlining practical tips for searching out savings in your Professional Services Organization and how to make choosing a solution a less daunting and complex task (quantifying the costs and calculating ROI). Also, learn how PSO's can go mobile to attract and retain talent, automate mileage tracking and route planning, reduce invoicing, billing and collections costs and enhance real-time documentation.
Industry: Professional Services | Solution: Mobility | Role: All
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Connecting SAP to Microsoft: A brief look at the Possibilities
This webinar discusses how SAP customers appreciate the value of their SAP systems, but don’t take full advantage of the information and knowledge that it contains. Most companies that use SAP rely on it, and value it for HR, finance, operations, and other activities as well as rely on Microsoft productivity tools, but use them separately. This presentation describes how organizations can extend the benefits of SAP to information workers through integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
Industry: All | Solution: Integration | Role: IT, Opps
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Migrating Applications to the Cloud
Online Recording of presentation given at Microsoft Techdays 2011 outlining how to choose which applications are suitable for migration, how to map existing technologies to their Cloud equivalents and how to overcome common migration challenges.
Industry: All | Solution: Cloud | Role: All
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Ideaca and CME - Made in Canada Solutions for Global Manufacturing Competitiveness
Informative webinar hosted by Ideaca in conjunction with the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters’ Association (CME). This webinar, featuring ZCL Composites Inc. discusses the tools available to tackle manufacturing challenges where they matter most -- on the shop floor. Speakers discuss the importance of inventory reduction, cutting lead times, reliable delivery and streamlining operations.
Industry: Manufacturing | Solution: ERP | Role: All
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Retail Replenishment, Achieving the Ultimate Balance
Webinar pertaining to achieving balance in retail replenishment. Hear how Ideaca and TXT's solution has enabled retailers to reduce overhead costs, reduce out-of-stock-occurrences and reduce cash-to-cash cycle times.
Industry: Retail | Solution: All | Role: Operations (Supply Chain)
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Leveraging Performance Monitoring Dashboards in Professional Services Oganizations
Using industry leading research on best practices for Professional Services companies, this webinar outlines how best-in-class firms develop their roadmap and incorporate dashboards to analyze project and customer profitability, determine accurate cost of sale, analyze work-in-progress and backlog, and use advanced drill down functionality to understand margins by employee, employee level, line of business and service offering.
Industry: Professional Services | Solution: BI | Role: Finance, Operations, IT
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Integrating Resource Management with Sales and Service Delivery
Webinar on how top achieving organizations integrate their sales pipeline with resource requirements, optimize their processes for scheduling and deploying resources, align their sales pipeline, resource management, recruiting, human resources and skill development, and integrate their project and resource management.
Industry: Professional Services | Solution: ERP | Role: Finance, Operations, IT
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From Human Resources to Human Capital: Self-Service Strategies to Evolve You Organization
The next generation workforce's demand for instant access to people, processes and technology are creating challenges across the organization. To meet these growing demands, HR must become the enabler of business strategies, and the talent of tomorrow. This webinar discusses how to increase employee satisfaction and business autonomy, model and streamline processes, and reduce training costs iia self-service portals.
Industry: All | Solution: Portals and Collaborations | Role: Human Resources
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Leveraging Advisor Dashboards in Wealth Management
This webinar discusses how advisor-based business units can benchmark and measure tangible results, using our ROI framework to increase revenue from fee-based business, total assets under management, household size and quality, lift via up-sell/cross-sell and percentage up-take of targeted campaigns and offers.
Industry: Financial Services | Solution: Bi | Role: All
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Operational Improvements and the Value of a Discrete Manufacturing ERP Solution
Listen in to hear about several key improvement levers necessary to overcome common manufacturing challenges and learn how a discrete manufacturing ERP solution can help optimize those levers.Specific scenarios discussed include: Workforce productivity, controlling costs and responding to customer demands.
Industry: Manufacturing | Solution: ERP | Role: All
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PROPHIX Performance Management Solution
The unified PROPHIX solution fully integrates processes such as budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidations, statutory, and management reporting, providing a forward-looking view of company performance to stakeholders across the organization in a single extensible platform. This demo video shows how PROPHIX can help organizations: Automate finance processes, reduce errors and increase control, and enhance collaboration with other departments and key stakeholders.
Industry: All | Solution: BI | Role: Finance
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