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By Solution:

ERP:

• How Your ERP System Can Help You Weather the Bailout Economy
• A Strategic Approach to Establishing a Two Tier ERP System
• Previewing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 - Nucleus Research  

CRM:

• Become More Efficient and Productive Through the Optimization of Your CRM System 
• Integrating CRM and ERP; Why It Makes Sense to Unify Now 
• The CRM Intersection: Where Business and Technology Collide
• Comparing the xRM Application Framework and Force.com: A Guide for Technical Decision Makers 
• A Tale of Two Enablers: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customer Adoption of Inside Sales and Sales Intelligence Best Practices
• Optimizing Business Productivity: Do More for Your Customers & Business - Peppers & Rogers
• The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 - Forrester Research  

Business Intelligence (BI):

• People Ready BI
• Think Big, Spend Little: Microsoft Announces Its Business Intelligence Strategy
• Empower Your People With Self-Service Business Intelligence
• Reporting and Business Intelligence in Microsoft Dynamics AX 

By Vertical:

Banks & Banking Services:

Distribution:

• Knowledge, Insight, Power: Increasing Industrial Distribution Profitability by Segmenting Customers, Suppliers and Products
• Keeping Stock Balances Accurate
• Inventory Management: Analyzing Inventory to Maximize Profitability
• Effective Inventory Analysis
• The First Steps to Achieving Effective Inventory Control
• Improving the Accuracy of Your Forecasts
• Effective Replenishment Parameters
• Maintaining Stock in Branch Locations
• Manage Demand with Consumer Driven Planning for Microsoft Dynamics AX
• Customer Compliance Demands for Consumer Packaged Goods

Manufacturing:

• Asserting Control, Seizing Opportunity in High Tech: Five Critical Success Factors
• The New Definitions of Innovation, Sustainability, and Responsiveness for High Tech Manufacturers
• Customer Focused Innovation in High Tech
• Optimizing Channel Coordination in High Tech and Electronics Manufacturing: Flawless Sales Execution from Innovative Lead Generation Through Aftersales Service
• The Value of Microsoft Dynamics AX for Manufacturers

Professional Services:

• From Laggard to Leader: How to Optimize Your Professional Service Organization for Peak Performance  
• Gain Efficiency, Flexibility, and Insight with Professional Services for Microsoft Dynamics AX
• Let Information Be Your Guide: How Accurate Reporting and Analysis Can Improve Your Firm's Performance
• Improve Operational Metrics and Streamline the Client Management Lifecycle in Your Professional Services Organization
• Better Manage Enterprise Resources with Professional Services Resource Scheduling
• Why Professional Services Organizations Need Improved Financial and Resource Management

Other:

• Ten Ways Business Software Can Help in the Days of Bailouts, Melt-Downs, and Worldwide Economic Downturn
• Finding a Competitive Tool for Competing in a Down Economy