With the deadline for compliance just a few short months away, manufacturers are struggling to meet the requirements of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation.
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Manufacturers that properly govern their IT achieve both IT and business goals more frequently, according to a study by ISACA.
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Gartner says large manufacturers could slash $250,000 off the cost of enterprise search licenses by using federation or alternative delivery compromises.
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Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company says it expects to improve corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting when it goes live with Entropy's web-based software.
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Responding to a survey last year by the Chartered Management Institute, which revealed that only 47% of companies has a business continuity management plan, BSI British Standards has launched an online self-assessment tool.
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SAP has released a new version of its Business Objects Global Trade Services application to help manufacturers to improve their handling of governance, risk and compliance (GRC), during the downturn, it says.
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The fundamentals of risk management are to be the subject of a free seminar from Risk Decisions on Thursday 14 May in High Wycombe.
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Release 16 of Oracle’s on demand CRM service adds several new applications, ranging from self-service e-billing to disaster recovery.
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Enterprise content management (ECM) can bring business process efficiencies and help the environment at by reducing paper-based processes, latencies and costs, according to analyst Gartner.
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Levi Strauss says it intends to simplify corporate compliance throughout its supply chain, using a web-based audit solution from Entropy Software.
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IBM is top invest $300 million in constructing 13 ‘business resilience’ service delivery centres in 10 countries this year – increasing its ability to address what it describes as surging demand.
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Microsoft and BearingPoint, one of the world’s largest consulting firms, have launched a risk-based compliance solution designed to help manufacturers identify risk, handle control deficiencies, and strengthen compliance.
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With enterprise performance management (EPM) one of today’s key catch phrases, manufacturing SMEs might be interested to learn of subscription-based software catching on in the US and now coming over here.
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Manufacturers should look beyond the requirements of compliance for their DRM (document and records management) implementations, if they don’t want them to fail.
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WEEE (Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment) compliance schemes that act on behalf of producers and importers of electrical and electronic equipment are facing total chaos.
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Fiercely acquisitive ERP and supply chain house Infor has been recognised for the second time this year as top vendor for its performance management solution, Infor PM Business Process Applications (BPA) – this time by business intelligence (BI) services analyst Ventana Research.
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While IT has become increasingly central to manufacturing business success, many companies have not adjusted their processes for IT decision making, or risk management – and that needs to change, says analyst Gartner.
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Infor’s latest process industry PLM (product lifecycle management) software suite is claimed to streamline product innovation processes, improve operational efficiency across whole businesses and allow manufacturers “to significantly reduce time to market”.
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31 May will see Adobe kicking off a free five-city road show entitled ‘The Power of Acrobat’, starting in Birmingham and then running across the UK and Ireland.
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SAP says it is extending its leadership in delivering solutions for the CFO (chief financial officer) in acquiring integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation software developer OutlookSoft.
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Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle Audit Vault to help organisations address regulatory requirements and worries about insider threats:
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Electronic document software firm StreamServe is working with Adobe Systems to support XML Forms Architecture (XFA), the format of Adobe LiveCycle Designer software for XML form design.
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Computer recycling charity Digital Links, which sends computers to needy causes in Africa, is offering manufacturers a fully WEEE [Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive]-compliant collection, refurbishment and recycling service for redundant IT equipment.
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Database, middleware and applications giant Oracle’s acquisition spree rolls on, with today’s purchases being ECM (enterprise content management) developer Stellent and systems house SPL.
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After months of beta testing and enthusiastic reviews, Adobe’s Acrobat 8 software is now on general release with a raft of new tools aimed at helping companies to communicate and collaborate more efficiently across boundaries of operating systems, applications and firewalls.
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