Business Development

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI metrics) together with associated Key Performance Drivers (KPD metrics) within the context of value stream management to support continuous operational performance improvement.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: To thrive in today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, top businesses of all sizes and in all industries are looking for better ways to achieve operational excellence that enables them to run their companies more efficiently and cost-effectively and drive innovation that matters to recognize market needs and respond to them quickly and decisively.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper, you will learn how to work smarter so you can solve the problems of today and seize the opportunities of tomorrow.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: SOA standards, such as Web Services, make information resources and task automation applications available yet loosely integrated for process designers to use and reuse at will. Thus processes modeled with BPM tools can be rapidly implemented in production via SOA infrastructure.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper gives you an overview of how Ovum has helped penetrate the upper-midmarket. Even when the slowing growth of the market hasn't.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this new release of SOA Suite, Oracle continues to emphasize the development, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission-critical environments.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the Oracle SOA Maturity Model and explains how the model is used to accelerate SOA adoption by identifying specific capabilities that are either completely lacking or which are lagging with respect to the other capabilities necessary for successful SOA adoption.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Over the last few years, BPM has seen rapid growth because it succeeds where earlier approaches have failed -— uniting business strategists and technologists together with a shared set of tools to accomplish common goals. The future promises even more explosive growth as BPM products continue to mature. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: More and more organizations are looking to SOA as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate, hard to change, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The true value of SOA is unlocked when services are leveraged for process orchestration to deliver automation of business processes. Industry's leading process orchestration engine, the Oracle BPEL Process Manager supports a 100% standard approach to orchestrating systems and services into end-to-end process flows.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This Case Study examines how Culver Franchising Systems turned to the RedPrairie-Microsoft Business Intelligence solution to make better decisions and improve store operations, while vastly reducing reporting time. With the RedPrairie-Microsoft solution in place, Culver now gets early warning of underperforming stores.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Datamonitor surveyed 100 SAP customers to understand the implications of sole-sourcing. Read the survey findings and learn the trends and behaviors associated with sole-sourcing BI from ERP vendors.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Increase revenue. Decrease costs. Reduce development time. Every day you strive to meet these goals. And each business decision you make either enables you to advance toward them - or impedes your progress. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Integrated business planning can help your company align strategic, operational, and financial plans.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This article focuses on the need for transparent collaboration, and clearly demonstrates the value of collaborative systems that work: they save money and they boost revenue.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This Hurwitz and Associates whitepaper shares the successes, challenges and future plans of three companies - Sogeti Group, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), and Scotiabank.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 11 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Your organization can reduce information technology (IT) costs, improve IT service levels, and enable new business scenarios by adopting best practices that will enable you to modernize your branch infrastructure. These best practices presented in this paper include virtualization, centralized management, and increased network efficiency.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper offers a solution for businesses to achieve balance between profitability and sustainability by leveraging the platform of packaged implementations.

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 27 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will focus on the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP and the pain points caused by the uncertainty of SAP's product roadmaps and the difficulty of integrating their products. It will then outline some effective business intelligence strategies.

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Published: 08 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to see how HP's Business Availability Center software can help you monitor customer experience and proactively identify issues before they become problems.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization introduces fundamental changes to IT, and adds significant management challenges. Read this informative white paper written by Enterprise Management Associates to learn what these challenges are as well as some of the solutions and strategies used to deal with them.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Midsized companies often feel challenged by their deep pocketed competitors. However, being a midsized business actually makes you more agile in the market. However, this agility is dependent on your ability to manage data, information, and develop processes. This paper will outline how Oracle can help assist your data management solutions.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009