White Papers
USi's white papers, listed and summarized below, are designed to help you make the most of application hosting and the related technologies and services.
Developing a Spend Management Strategy for Maximum Supply Chain Savings
Supply chain management—identifying, acquiring, and using resources to attain strategic objectives— helps companies cut millions from their annual spending on goods and services. Web-based applications and real-time data improve accuracy and timeliness and decrease errors in the procurement process. Using spend management solutions, which combine information technology and best practices in procurement, is critical for controlling costs and managing performance across the supply chain. Gain insight into the options you must consider when implementing a spend management solution. Learn more today!
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Five Common Challenges to Optimizing Your Spend Management Investment
After investing millions of dollars in spend management software, infrastructure, and information technology (IT) resources, many companies fall short of their expectations. Common issues they run into are lack of staff expertise and slow, time-consuming processes. The pilot implementation may go smoothly, but once the application is in place across an organization, employees may not know how to use it effectively to analyze spending, identify suppliers, design workflow, and follow best practices. You also need to be sure the application is fully integrated with key vendors and with internal financial and human resource workings. Discover the hosting and support options that will ease your burden and help you overcome the barriers to achieving the forecasted return on investment from your spend management application. Download the report now!
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Managing ERP Applications for Strategic Advantage
It can take a lot of time to unleash the full potential of enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications—key software that plans and manages basic commercial functions of your business. Research suggests that during a typical three-year ERP application lifecycle, 90% of the information technology (IT) department's time is taken up with troubleshooting, patches, fixes, updates, user assistance maintenance, and functionality issues. Because IT staffers are so bogged down, they can't focus on helping you retrieve key data to boost your business's effectiveness. Discover how companies can free themselves to focus more on core business and strategic initiatives and less on application management and support. Learn more today!
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On-Demand Utility Computing for ERP Systems: A Conceptual Overview of the Utility Computing Design
Perhaps no role in an organization confronts as much relentless change as the information technology (IT) manager. IT leaders are forever challenged to ensure that their organization’s infrastructure keeps up with fresh business demands. On a daily basis, the IT manager worries: How can I deploy it in time? Will it scale? Will it stay up? Will it perform at acceptable levels? How can I address these concerns around systems that are frequently not viewed as integral to my company’s core business strategy? Fortunately, the capabilities of technology are also changing, and the tools are available to ease many of these concerns. Read more!
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Rightsourcing: A Hybrid Approach to In-house vs. Outsourcing for Payroll and Payroll Tax Processes
Years ago it made sense to outsource payroll functions, but today, with user-friendly web-based software and the advent of in-house enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that handle basic functions of your business, the choice is not cut and dried. Doing the job in-house can be cheaper and better because it avoids duplicate data entry, delayed reporting, and the financial impact of "float"—that is, payroll providers' practice of collecting, holding, and earning interest from your company's cash before it's due to employees or tax jurisdictions. On the other hand, processing payroll in-house can be more expensive and less secure than when it is outsourced. The answer for you may be "RightSourcing": taking advantage of an application service provider (ASP) to manage key payroll functions using your PeopleSoft payroll module. Learn more today!
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Using Ariba in Multilingual Environments
The globalization of business requires that today’s IT systems support multiple spoken languages, as users and data sources can be in all four corners of the Earth. Fortunately, it is possible to use a single instance of Ariba Buyer (Version 8.2) with any combination of European, Asian, and English languages. Depending upon the different languages spoken by those who will be using your Ariba application, however, you may need to make some adjustments to your system so that Ariba can function properly. Read more!
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