Business Processes Research
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Crystal Reports Server: A Functional Overview
Sponsored by: SAP AGCrystal Reports Server software offers small businesses and mid size companies a proven reporting and dashboard solution on a single server. It addresses the complete reporting process – from data access and report and dashboard design to report management and delivery, including content integration with portals and enterprise applications.
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Demystifying IT Risk to Achieve Greater Security and Compliance
Sponsored by: LumensionRead this white paper to learn how organizations need an intelligent approach to gaining the upper hand when it comes to assessing IT risk and managing compliance.
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Five Fundamental Data Quality Practices
Sponsored by: Pitney Bowes Business InsightWhen developing or reengineering the enterprise architecture, implementing fundamental data quality practices can reduce the complexity of the data management framework thus reducing effort, risk, and leading to a high degree of trust in enterprise information. Read this paper to learn more about data quality practices and core data services.
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Core Data Services: Basic Components for Establishing Business Value
Sponsored by: Pitney Bowes Business InsightStandardizing data management practices when developing the enterprise architecture lowers risk and increases consistency; Organizational trust in the data simplifies application development. This paper explores how a set of value-added data services can reduce operational costs, increase efficiency and improve the quality of enterprise data.
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CIO Perspective: To Be Great at IT, You Must Be Great at BPM
Sponsored by: IBMOne of the most popular business motto’s within the past year is "more for less." Organizations want things better, faster, and cheaper. In the IT world this is all too true as well. BPM is the tool that delivers faster, better, and cheaper solutions. Read this paper for an in-depth look into BPM from the perspective of the CIO.
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Time to Change New Thoughts on Supporting Business Change Fast and Flexibly
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.This joint paper from SAP and Capgemini discusses the challenges of the interconnected economy and describes solutions that enable companies to use technology to innovate the way they do business.
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E-book: Planning upgrades in global SAP environments: Best practices, common pitfalls and real-world advice
Sponsored by: Atos OriginIn this e-book, find out what you need to know before embarking on a global SAP upgrade project. Learn best practices and tips for global SAP upgrades. Read a real-world case study about an SAP upgrade for a major multinational - and discover insider advice about the most common pitfalls of global upgrades - and how to avoid them.
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Project Management & Business Skills Training Catalog
Sponsored by: Global KnowledgeThroughout the following pages, you can read about our approach, solutions, methodology, and courses - the sum of our vast resources - all designed to promote your pursuit of superior personal and business performance through rapid skills development.
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Business Rules and Gap Analysis: Discovery and Management of Business Rules Avoids Business Disruptions
Sponsored by: Micro Focus, LtdThis paper will assess how to locate and account for functionality gaps. It will also illustrate a methodology for realigning applications with business goals.
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Smarter Healthcare Processes in 2010. Reduce Costs, Increase Productivity, Deliver Best Outcomes with IBM ILOG Business Rule Management System (BRMS) and Optimization Software
Sponsored by: IBMFind out how the role technologies such as Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) and Optimization software will play in helping Healthcare organizations of all types and sizes build smarter processes that allow you to adapt to change faster, overcome process silos and improve patient care and safety.
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Integrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SAP
Sponsored by: Microsoft Corporation India Pvt LtdThis white paper describes the innovations in Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 that make interoperability with SAP easier than ever.
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Empowering the Business to Sense and Respond: Delivering Business Event Processing with IBM WebSphere Business Events
Sponsored by: IBMThis paper addresses one of the critical IBM technologies for supporting agility and alignment, Business Event Processing (BEP).
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Whitepaper-- IBM InfoSphere Software: Trusted Information
Sponsored by: IBMRead this paper to learn how you can use IBM's InfoSphere software, and integrated platform for trusted information, to align business and IT, accelerate your projects for faster time to value, leverage your existing infrastructire, and adapt to the changing needs of your business.
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Online Trial: Rational System Architect
Sponsored by: IBMTry IBM® Rational® System Architect® V11.3, which enables business managers and IT professionals to plan, model, and execute changes to improve their business strategy and process as well as the IT systems and infrastructure that support them, enabling successful enterprise planning and transformation.
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Take a Holistic Approach to Business-Driven Security
Sponsored by: IBMThis paper introduces actions that organizations can take to drive security efforts from a business and operational perspective and discusses how security leadership from IBM can help enable their success.
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Securing a Dynamic Infrastructure
Sponsored by: IBMThis white paper describes how security that is built into a dynamic infrastructure can mitigate risks, enabling agility, secure collaboration, and business transformation. The IBM Security Framework and lifecycle approach can help address changing business requirements.
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HCL Insurance BPO Services Transforms Its Mainframe Environment to Reduce Costs by 75% and Improve Service Performance
Sponsored by: Micro Focus, LtdFollowing a Business Process Outsourcing agreement for the administration of Life and Pension products, HCL Insurance BPO Services, undertook a full analysis of the inherited infrastructure. A risk was identified with the third party mainframe used to host its CAPSIL insurance application.
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Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance
Sponsored by: SAP AGThis report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.
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Dynamic Business Processes Podcast Series: Tips for Thriving in Today’s Economy with BPM
Sponsored by: IBMToday, more than ever, organizations must deliver the benefits of cost optimization and business agility. This podcast series explains how that goal can be realized through dynamic Business Processes Management. The series focuses on banking, government, healthcare, insurance, cross-industry and retail.
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Green Mountain Power reduces the use of paper with ReadSoft’s AP automation solution
Sponsored by: ReadSoftLearn how streamlining the AP process can help your company gain control over its invoice management. With the electronic workflow, invoices don’t get lost avoiding late fees.
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Presentation Transcript: Getting There From Here: Delivering Unified Communications to Your Organization
Sponsored by: IBMThis presentation explains the business value of unified communications to improve productivity by streamlining processes. Discover how to get started and which considerations to keep in mind when implementing this technique. Gain an understanding of various use cases of this approach and determine which applications best fit your needs.
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A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Agile Tools
Sponsored by: IBMThis evaluation guide is designed to help you choose the best tool for your needs today, while protecting your investment as your team, needs and agile maturity grow.
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The State of Data Quality Today: An Information Difference Research Study
Sponsored by: Pitney Bowes Business InsightThis paper brings an in-depth look at the results of this survey and tries to clearly define and measure the state of data quality. Read this paper to learn what 193 respondents who completed the survey from all around the world had to say about the state of data quality.
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Creating and managing value-driven product portfolios
Sponsored by: IBMThe product portfolio decisions you make today will determine whether your company is relevant tomorrow. To increase the chances of marketing a successful product, organizations must deliver products and services to the consumers they value the most, and they must provide those deliverables when their consumers want them. Read on to learn more.
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Faster, Cheaper, Safer: Improving Agility, TCO, and Security with Agentless Job Scheduling
Sponsored by: BMC Software, Inc.Enterprise job scheduling is a mature and mission-critical IT capability that supports some of the most important business processes throughout a modern enterprise. This EMA whitepaper will review the implementation and benefits of agentless job scheduling.