Kresge Research Guides: Supply Chain: IT Systems & Analytics

Information Technology Trends & Assessments - Gartner

Evaluates emerging technology applications and trends for purchasing, inventory management, logistics and other enterprise systems
Use to analyze ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), MRP(Material Resource Planning) and other related operation systems
Magic Quadrants compare IT vendor capabilities
Hype Cycles determine if a system is coming or going
Top 25 company supply chains
Top supply chain IT vendors

Frost & Sullivan
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Research reports on IT systems and automation impacting supply chain functions
Use policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of Frost & Sullivan."

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Forrester
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Some supply chain IT system vendor analysis. B2B eCommerce topics
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IDC
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Market intelligence covering the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets.

ABI/INFORM Collection
IT trade journals and research on computing and IT management. Use Browse to locate info about application providers, value added resellers and IT systems
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IEEE Xplore
Covers computing. Full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, standards & online courses, plus related e-books.
ACM Digital Library
Access all ACM publication including the Communications of the ACM, the premier journal emerging trends in IT and computer science

O'Reilly Safari Books Online
Programming languages, information technology management, operating systems, software applications & other business titles