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<li><img src="http://images.technologyevaluation.com/newsletters/monthly/dash.gif" alt="dash" /> <a href="#BIsystem" style="color: #14517b;">What Do Companies Want from a BI System? Preview Our New Report</a><br /> <a href="#presenting" style="color: #14517b;">and Find Out</a></li>
<li><img src="http://images.technologyevaluation.com/newsletters/monthly/dash.gif" alt="dash" /> <a href="#ComingSoon" style="color: #14517b;">Coming Soon: Evaluate Workforce Talent Management Software</a></li>
<li><img src="http://images.technologyevaluation.com/newsletters/monthly/dash.gif" alt="dash" /> <a href="#Tecpresent" style="color: #14517b;">TEC to Present at Upcoming info360 Conference</a></li>
<li><img src="http://images.technologyevaluation.com/newsletters/monthly/dash.gif" alt="dash" /> <a href="#certification" style="color: #14517b;">Software Certification: Recent Highlights </a></li>
<li><img src="http://images.technologyevaluation.com/newsletters/monthly/dash.gif" alt="dash" /> <a href="#TECguide" style="color: #14517b;">Presenting TEC's BI Buyer's Guide</a></li>
<li><img src="http://images.technologyevaluation.com/newsletters/monthly/dash.gif" alt="dash" /> <a href="#ComingSoon2" style="color: #14517b;">Coming Soon: TEC's ERP Buyer's Guide</a></li>
<li><img src="http://images.technologyevaluation.com/newsletters/monthly/dash.gif" alt="dash" /> <a href="#FrenchNL" style="color: #14517b;">TEC Launches French-language Newsletter to Over 50,000 Subscribers</a></li>
<li><img src="http://images.technologyevaluation.com/newsletters/monthly/dash.gif" alt="dash" /> <a href="#Australasian" style="color: #14517b;">Australasian Consultants Solution Minds Signs On for Another Year as a</a><br /> <a href="#Australasian" style="color: #14517b;">TEC Preferred Partner</a></li>
<li><img src="http://images.technologyevaluation.com/newsletters/monthly/dash.gif" alt="dash" /> <a href="#ERPFailure" style="color: #14517b;">ERP Failure: When Best Practices Meet Real Life</a></li>
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<span style="color: #14517b; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;" ><a name="BIsystem">What Do Companies Want from a BI System? Preview Our New Report and Find Out</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">TEC is developing a new series of reports analyzing trends in demand for enterprise software. And we want to know what you think.<br /><br />
Follow the link below to download your free preview copy of the first report in the series. It examines the high-level priorities of companies that are evaluating business intelligence (BI) systems, using data from over 17,000 online software evaluation requests.<br /><br />
Just answer a few short questions, and we'll take you straight to the report.<br /><br />
<a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12782" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">Download your free report now.</a>
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<span style="color: #14517b; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;" ><a name="ComingSoon">Coming Soon: Evaluate Workforce Talent Management Software</a></span>
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Here at TEC we've seen fervent interest in talent management software lately, with organizations seeking to attract the best-suited candidates, and to develop the best talent for key positions. Companies in a range of industries also need systems to capture important events such as skills completions, application submissions, and interview responses—and to issue automatic updates and alerts to appropriate personnel, freeing up vital managerial resources. <br /><br />
That's why TEC has developed a <strong>talent management model for human capital management</strong>. Organizations will be able to assess talent management software in a variety of functionality areas, including: <br />
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In the coming weeks, the talent management model will be integrated into TEC's online software selection and evaluation system, <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12783" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">TEC Advisor</a>, and our other software selection services.<br /><br />
Stay tuned for details, or <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12784" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">contact our Selection Services team</a> for more information.
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<span style="color: #14517b; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;"><a name="Tecpresent">TEC to Present at Upcoming info360 Conference</a></span>
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<td style="padding-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 20px; line-height: 18px; border-bottom: 1px; border-bottom-color: Gray; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Taking place <strong>March 21–24</strong> in <strong>Washington, D.C.</strong>, this one-of-a-kind international conference and expo is for business and IT professionals looking for new ways to capture, store, analyze, access, and deliver enterprise information.<br />
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In addition to launching a special edition of our <em>2011 Business Intelligence Buyer's Guide</em> at the event, TEC BI Analyst Jorge García will be leading the seminar <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12785" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">What Do I Get Out of BI?: The Role of Business Intelligence in Your Content Strategy</a> at the BI summit portion of the event, on March 23. He'll be discussing the role BI plays in extracting value from content sources to benefit business decision making. He'll also reveal some of the tools and technologies that BI vendors are developing to analyze unstructured content, and examine the ways businesses are applying these technologies to extract actionable insights from their content management systems and from the Internet. <br /><br />
Interested in attending this event? <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12786" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">Register at the info360 Web site</a>.</span><br /><br />
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<td style="padding-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 20px; line-height: 18px; border-bottom: 1px; border-bottom-color: Gray; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">When searching for new software to fulfill their business requirements, potential buyers would really like to know one thing: is the software going to do what it's supposed to do? In other words, do the vendor's feature and functionality claims really stand up? TEC can help you answer that question—via <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12787" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">TEC Certification</a>.<br /><br />
Through product briefings and live demonstrations with vendors, TEC analysts verify key functionality and features, and query any discrepancies. Once certified, a "Certified TEC Product" logo is placed next to the vendor's product in <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12788" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">TEC's Vendor Showcase</a>, an indicator that the product has passed TEC's rigorous standards of assessment—which provides software buyers with an objective standard of reassurance.<br /><br />
<a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12789" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">Find out more about TEC certification</a>. <br /><br />
Recently, TEC certified <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12790" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">SmartOrg product Portfolio Navigator</a> (product development and portfolio management) and <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12791" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">MicroStrategy product MicroStrategy 9</a> (BI).<br /><br />
For a list of all recent certifications, visit the <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12792" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;"><strong>TEC home</strong></a> page and click the <strong>Recent Certifications</strong> tab.<br /><br />
You can also download the full certification reports from <strong><a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12793" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">TEC's White Paper site</a></strong>.
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<span style="color: #14517b; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;"><a name="TECguide">Presenting TEC's BI Buyer's Guide</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">To stay competitive, organizations of all sizes need to make better business decisions based on reliable data and analysis. Business intelligence (BI) solutions can help, empowering users within an organization to access the information they need, with less reliance on valuable IT resources. What's more, cost barriers that previously inhibited smaller companies from reaping the benefits are falling away, with BI options built to scale. <br /> <br />
TEC has developed a <em>2011 BI Buyer's Guide</em> for small to medium businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises. This guide will provide
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TEC's Buyer's Guide will also contain a special section devoted to software as a service (SaaS) for BI.
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TEC will be launching a special edition of its <em>2011 Business Intelligence Buyer's Guide</em> at the <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12794" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">info 360 Business Intelligence (BI) summit</a> on March 23, in Washington, D.C., and will discuss the role that a BI system can play in your content strategy—and how it can unlock the valuable information that's hiding in your content systems.
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<td><span style="color: #14517b; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;"><a name="ComingSoon2">Coming Soon: TEC's ERP Buyer's Guide</a></span>
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TEC's upcoming <em>ERP Buyer's Guide for Medium and Large Manufacturers</em> will provide key information to decision makers in the manufacturing industry to help them find solutions for addressing changes in their growing business, balancing IT costs, and providing more accurate and up-to-date information for decision making while increasing productivity and improving the customer experience.<br /><br />
Look for the publication of the guide in April.
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<td><span style="color: #14517b; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;"><a name="FrenchNL">TEC Launches French-language Newsletter to Over 50,000 Subscribers</a></span>
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<td style="padding-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 20px; line-height: 18px; border-bottom: 1px; border-bottom-color: Gray; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In mid-February, TEC released Volume 1, Issue 1 of our <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12795" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">French-language TEC Newsletter</a> to over 50,000 subscribers, who can now tap into the latest in software news, enterprise trends and analysis, management information, and product and vendor reviews. <br /><br />
This new publication joins TEC's media roster alongside the <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12796" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">Spanish TEC Newsletter</a>, the <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12797" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">Chinese TEC Newsletter</a>, and the flagship <a href="http://c.technologyevaluation.com/indexNew.asp?cl=1&uid=!*2860622*!&e=!*inn-bugs@isc.org*!&tecnlid=3776&i=12798" target="_blank" style="color: #14517b;">TEC Newsletter</a>, with a subscription base of nearly 900,000 subscribers worldwide, including C-level executives, vice presidents, and line-of-business leaders at Fortune 1000, Global 2000, midsize, and small enterprises.
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<td><span style="color: #14517b; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;"><a name="Australasian">Australasian Consultants Solution Minds Signs On for Another Year as a TEC Preferred Partner</a></span>
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The Australasian consulting group Solution Minds offers unbiased advice in software selection, specializing in enterprise software and performance management solutions. Since January 2010, Solution Minds uses TEC's vast knowledge bank of vendor capability, decision support engine—TEC Advisor, and expert guidance to help clients in New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.
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