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Download a Free Trial of SmartDraw: Learn why SmartDraw is the ideal alternative to Visio

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Overview SmartDraw's fundamentally different approach makes it the superior choice for the vast majority of users.

SmartDraw is:

AutomaticÂ—drawing for you, ensuring a professional result every time.
ComprehensiveÂ—includes hundreds of templates and examples for every type of visual, including flowcharts, timelines, org charts, mind maps, floor plans, marketing charts and more.
IntegratedÂ—works seamlessly with Microsoft OfficeÂ®. Transfer your visuals to PowerPoint, Word, Excel or to PDF with a single click. Even open and edit Visio files.

SmartDraw's ease of use means it requires very little support, plus it costs much less than Microsoft Visio. Download the free trial and evaluate SmartDraw for your organization today.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	smartdraw.com	File Format	Software
Date Published	October 2009
Format	Downloads
Topics	Back-Office, Graphics Applications, Data Visualization, UML, Collaboration Tools

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DOC1 Suite from Pitney Bowes Business Insight- a Butler Group Technology audit report

In the Butler Group's opinion, there is a growing market for personalised customer communications as competition in all market sectors intensifies.DOC1 Suite from Pitney Bowes is an electronic document composition...

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Pitney Bowes

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Download a Free Trial of SmartDraw: Learn why SmartDraw is the ideal alternative to Visio

SmartDraw's fundamentally different approach makes it the superior choice for the vast majority of users. SmartDraw is: Automatic—drawing for you, ensuring a professional result every time. Comprehensive—includes hundreds of templates and examples for...

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smartdraw.com

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back-office

Performance Monitor: ERP at the Speed of Light

A successful accelerated implementation will provide a client the power of ERP in the fastest way possible while causing the least disruption of existing business operations

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Oracle

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back-office

Enterprise Performance Management - Financial Excellence and Beyond

This paper explores how enterprise performance management software can help you maximize profitability, immunize your company against noncompliance, and optimize operational efficiency by ensuring delivery of information when it's needed,...

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SAP

The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence

In this white paper, we discuss how corporate finance centers can overcome the barriers to a fast, high-quality close. By converging previously disparate disciplines of business intelligence; governance, risk, and compliance;...

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SAP

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Harnessing the Power of Location Intelligence in the Public Sector

Throughout the world, public services today are under pressure. The current economic climate, where taxreceipts are naturally suppressed, provides very seriousfunding challenges. Moreover, in good times and bad, increasing regulation at the regional and national level is imposing additional duties and responsibilities on the public services without additional resources to carry them out. Store closures are changing the urban landscape. Demographic and/or economic change isincreasing demand for health and social services.Demand for decreased crime rates is focusing minds in law enforcement. And the threat of internationalterrorism is forcing greater contingency duties on the emergency services. The net result is a need to do more with lessÂ—quite a challenge.

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IBM XIVÂ® Storage System: Power Consumption Reinvented

Reducing power consumption is one of the most significant challenges of IT centers today. With storage needs on a steep rise, it is increasingly clear that new approaches must be explored. This IBM whitepaper shows how, on average, a traditional storage system using mirroring effectively uses less than 21% of its raw capacity, and an XIV system uses approximately 46% of its raw capacity.

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IBM

3 Strategies for Reducing IT Support Costs

As companies brace for more bumps in the economic downturn, many organisations are indiscriminately cutting costs. To ensure a seamless transition into the post-recession market, however, slashing and burning is not recommended. Now is the time to strategically trim and strengthen for success. This IDC White Paper explores 3 tangible areas that IT departments should investigate to help strategise cost reduction during the downturn. Download the White Paper to learn: -- Why IT utilisation, end-user support and maintenance budgets are the most strategic areas to investigate -- How to effectively approach cost-saving measures within these areas while maintaining IT performance -- Tools and services the IDC recommends for achieving maximum cost savings and efficiency