Nearly all CIOs today are under pressure to contain costs, yet many enterprises need better systems, not cutbacks. How can you do both?
Right now is an ideal time for CIOs to make careful investments in key areas that wring better business results from smaller IT budgets. Given the limitations of software now being used for sales and operations planningâspreadsheets, ERP, and legacy planningâ this paper looks at one way CIOs can roll out significantly more powerful supply chain management functions at an affordable cost by extending existing systems with specialized software delivered as a service (SaaS).