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Below are our latest white papers, case studies and best practice guides submitted by IFS. If you would like to see videos or more reports of a specific type, click the links below.

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Selecting ERP for Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media Functionality

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Discover the criteria you need to evaluate ERP offerings with enterprise 2.0 features. Learn how to select ERP for its social media functionality.

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Enable Project-Based Manufacturing With Business Software

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As manufacturers change the way they are doing business, moving towards outsourcing and global sourcing or expanding into multiple modes of manufacturing like engineer-to-order (ETO), they are placing new demands on their enterprise software.

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Selecting ERP For Oil And Gas Industry Contractors And Vendors

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Discover how new ERP technology can automate best practices for oil and gas industry vendors and contractors.

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Is Construction Ready for Project-Based ERP?

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In this paper we'll look at some of the factors and drivers behind the trend toward construction ERP and examine the types of functionality and other requirements contractors need to look for when selecting what is often their first-ever enterprise-wide application.

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3 Things Business Decision Makers Need To Know About SOA

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Anyone even peripherally exposed to business media that touch on enterprise application technology has seen the term service-oriented architecture (SOA) bandied about in advertisements and articles. Major enterprise applications vendors are using the term SOA as a marketing buzzword and are indeed moving Read More

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Are You Ready For The Project Economy?

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The newly-emerging Project Economy is making the business philosophies and systems of the past obsolete, forcing companies to choose more agile organizational structures, management styles, and business systems. Industrial outsourcing has reached a new plateau where transaction EDI data must be supplemented Read More

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Components and SOA

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While service oriented architecture (SOA) has become a ubiquitous buzzword, the word component – or object – is not used as widely. Yet an effective SOA-based enterprise application relies on the use of well-defined, modular software components. What is a software component? For that matter, what, Read More

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Three Things Business Decision-Makers Need To Know About SOA

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Given the increasing importance of service-oriented architecture (SOA), this white paper cuts through the marketing hype surrounding SOA and focuses on the three most important facts you need to know about this groundbreaking technology. Anyone even peripherally exposed to business media that touch Read More

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