Business Process Automation

WHITE PAPER: Corporations are getting much more interested in how analytical decisions can be embedded into business processes on an ongoing, repeatable basis. The purpose of this paper is to provide practical advice on how to identify the best opportunities for making your business processes more analytical.

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: As economic realities dictate companies tighten financial controls and automate business processes, Accounts Payable still remains a largely manual and disconnected business process. This whitepaper discusses best practices options and a solid approach to implementing solutions for automating and optimizing Accounts Payable in the SAP environment.

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This White Paper explores how traditional approaches fall short, what the automated solution and its benefits look like, how the on-demand delivery model best represents the integrated stack necessary for automation, and how the automated, on-demand model brings the benefits of BI to a far broader audience than ever before.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WEBCAST: This webcast discusses the latest advances in business intelligence solutions for medium-sized businesses. Watch this webcast to learn how your mid-sized company can make the most out of BI.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WHITE PAPER: Commando teams carefully plan and execute to reduce risk and achieve success. Read this sales survival guide to learn how to - and why you should - adopt this philosophy and the main factors to focus on that will ensure your sales organization not only survives 2009 but comes out of it successfully.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT executives are under intense pressure to cut costs, and that pressure is significantly increased by the current grim economic outlook. So, how can your organization weather this economic storm? Surprisingly, a variety of opportunities for IT are hidden within today's financial challenges. Learn how with the right approach, processes, and...

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: The journey to ITIL is challenging and requires clarity of vision and a disciplined execution to achieve that vision. By following ITIL practices, your IT organization will become more closely integrated with the business. BMC recommends making the journey to ITIL in a sequence of six incremental steps, the phases of which are driven through...

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Working harder simply won't get you there. No matter how many people you allocate, sinking more labor into old IT practices cannot concurrently meet rising demands on IT and cut costs. Read about cost-effective, automated ways to meet this challenge head-on in our latest article, “Strategies for Modernizing IT, Reducing Costs, and..”

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT executives and their teams need a comprehensive and accurate view of IT services. A service catalog includes all relevant details about your services, including which service level agreements (SLAs) are associated with it, who is able to request it, how much it costs, and how to fulfill it. This paper describes the IT Infrastructure...

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: FICO™ Blaze Advisor® is the world's leading business rules management system, maximizing control over high volume operational decisions.

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Automating your data center can improve operational efficiency and give you control over service quality, security, and business agility, while simultaneously reducing risk and costs. Learn how five simple steps can help you chart your course to automation and show you how to develop a deliberate and well-planned incremental approach.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT organizations can significantly improve efficiency and reduce operational costs by creating environments with shared access to common data to support Operations and the Service Desk, and evolving and automating key processes between the two groups.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Many IT organizations still perform a majority of Data Center administration tasks manually. Today, manual techniques are obsolete as Information Technology is required to manage complex multivendor infrastructures cost-effectively. There is one way to meet this challenge and that is Automation.

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2009

CASE STUDY: A large fuel logistics and delivery company with over 77 fixed based terminals, 2500 trucks, and 3500 truck drivers in 36 states was using a paper and phone based system to deliver over 2 million loads of petroleum per year. PSC was engaged to design the end-to-end solution to automate the company's complex business process.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Deploying business applications and vertical industry applications is complex and time-consuming. EMA research has found that while enterprise IT organizations are very good at deploying and maintaining infrastructure, they are still struggling to effectively deploy and manage the business services and applications that infrastructure supports.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Organizations are using specialized enterprise software designed exclusively for scheduling and managing thousands, even millions, of appointments per year. This document is designed for a project leader or business consultant tasked with developing the business case for customer self-service appointment scheduling using EAS software.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

CASE STUDY: The St. James's Place (SJP) Wealth Management Group offers a wide range of high quality wealth management services to businesses and individuals. This case study shows how SJP worked with Xenos and EMC Document Sciences to implement an integrated document solution (IDS) that enables the creation, formatting, control, transformation, storage..

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Untamed costs can deplete the precious working capital that's critical to your ongoing operations and new expansions. By instituting efficient automated processes throughout your organization, you can reduce waste, unnecessary overtime, and a host of other cost factors.

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2007

ANALYST REPORT: To find out how senior executives view their financial processes, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed a global sample of mostly financial executives in September 2008. Some respondents focused on the importance of developing processes that reduced costs and improved efficiency. Others acknowledged the importance of cost and efficiency..

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WEBCAST: View this webcast on financial process automation to find out what the drivers are for a company to consider automating its invoice processing, automating data entry & extraction, reducing the high cost of data entry and minimizing errors, increasing revenue recognition with quicker order fulfillment, and automatic notification of confirmation.

Posted: 29 May 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

CASE STUDY: This Beagle research study shows how adding automated appointment scheduling that is easy to use for both customers and service providers is beneficial for most any business.

Posted: 26 May 2009 | Published: 26 May 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Gartner has positioned BMC CONTROL-M in the Leaders Quadrant of their “2009 Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling”. The report assesses the ability to execute and completeness of vision of key vendors in the marketplace. Read a full copy today, courtesy of BMC Software.

Posted: 21 May 2009 | Published: 21 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn ways of detecting leakage in your companie's ERP system, several time and labor trends that most companies overlook, and how to repair leakage using Kronos Inc's Workforce Central and Kronos 4500 terminal solutions.

Posted: 20 May 2009 | Published: 20 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will discuss the reasons why companies consider automating their time and attendance functions and how many companies achieve a greater ROI from using Kronos over SAP solutions.

Posted: 20 May 2009 | Published: 20 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: To understand the power of a BPM initiative, this paper provides background on the workflow solutions of the 90's, documents a few important events that helped shape the market, and presents the elements of a successful BPM suite.

Posted: 18 May 2009 | Published: 18 May 2009