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Social Responsibility's Strategic Benefits
December 15, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Ed Granger-Happ, CIO of Save the Children, for a discussion of how creating an organization that is socially responsible improves staffing, retention, leadership development and overall corporate health.
Working With and Communicating to Your Board of Directors
January 13, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
CIO panelists who will share tips and experiences working with their boards: Twila Day of SYSCO; Jeff O'Hare, West Corp.; Marc West, formerly with H&R Block.
IT's Role in Growing Mid-Market Companies
January 14, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET (GMT-5)
Mid-market Council members will share their companies' stories and challenges in driving or coping with growth. Panelists represent Veterinary Pet Insurance, Medicis Pharmaceutical, and Intrax Cultural Exchange.
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On-demand and SaaS software offerings have gained marketshare in the customer relationship management (CRM) product space and are making in-roads in the enterprise resource management (ERP) arena. The reasons why companies are now purchasing those SaaS solutions rather than traditional on-premise software solutions (such as faster implementations) will be the same rationale as to why companies will purchase on-demand/SaaS SCM services in the future. In fact, many vendors now offer mature SaaS SCM offerings because of their efforts with Web-based electronic trading exchanges of the past; it's just a matter of time before companies, their supply chain managers and IT staffers feel comfortable with a SaaS package. Just as with SaaS CRM and ERP, there are important security, ROI, integration, and pricing questions that the SaaS SCM vendors need to iron out before the software delivery mechanism takes off.
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