Business Environment

WHITE PAPER: A new approach to Business Process Management (BPM) is the use of BPM and SOA together in a layering strategy. This white paper explores the BPM layered concept and offers a case study of how ABN AMRO, one of the world's largest financial institutions, has benefited from its deployment.

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses considerations for A&D manufacturers in the context of enterprise information systems and how they can help address 5 areas of concern: compliance, control, communications, competitiveness, and cutting cost, waste and complexity. The needs of the A&D market aren’t easily addressed by one-size-fits-all products.

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 | Published: 04 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Aberdeen Research brief hones in on the critical time element of a Best-in-Class BI strategy. The research shows that these top performers are leveraging real-time or near real-time analytics in order to proactively manage their business and drive substantial performance improvements.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 22 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper aims to explore the role and relevance of organisations in a future defined by economic uncertainty, changing workforce demographics, globalisation and rapid developments in social and business technologies.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: IT spending is often an issue for any organisation, but especially in harsh economic times it is even more important to see what benefit IT brings to the business. This report looks at the degree to which UK organisations understand what IT is doing for their business, and in particular how some companies measure this and benefit from it.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: More than ever, small businesses need to efficiently control costs and optimise cash flow, but how, and what role does automation play in this process?

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: What can you, as a buyer do to strengthen your business case for Cloud and keep your company competitive? What are some real-world success stories where companies have applied Cloud to solve specific business challenges? What business risks are clients facing which have influenced Cloud buying decisions?

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Web applications are extremely flexible and valuable assets to any organization. But they’re also vulnerable to threats like hijacking, splitting, forging and injection. Read this white paper to find out how IBM Rational® AppScan® solutions can help your agency overcome virtual threats to achieve mission objectives.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Enterprise analysis by a Business Analyst (BA) is a method used to identify and define why an organizational change is needed. Read this whitepaper to learn the importance of this process to an organization.

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 | Published: 26 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: During past economic slowdowns companies didn’t plan ahead to safeguard the ability to grow profitably. While the current economic downturn shows a need to reduce costs, many SMMs are also pursuing growth. They’re responding to market pressures and rising costs by targeting IT solutions like industry-specific ERP to set the stage for future growth.

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 | Published: 06 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Although enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an important tool for boosting operational efficiency and cost savings, it also offers manufacturers a leg-up in their globalization efforts. Read this white paper to see how critical ERP can be to global business, and how to choose the best solution to support this imperative.

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 | Published: 29 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The three main drivers of SaaS adoption-low initial cost of ownership, speed of deployment, and low internal IT resource profile-make SaaS solutions attractive at any time, but even more so in times of a challenging market, provided there is a bona fide business need and the initiative can be expected to create additional revenue or save money.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: So you have a requirements plan. You have elicited functional, non-functional, and quality of service requirements. You have validated and verified them, and your stakeholders are satisfied. Now what? Read this paper to learn more about the tools needed for business process improvements.

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 | Published: 15 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Conducted by the research firm ORC International, this study found that performing common database management tasks for Oracle Database 11g R2 took less time and fewer resources than performing the same tasks for DB2 Enterprise 9.7. Although funded by Oracle, the study was independently conducted by ORC.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 12 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: The globalization of all industries, the need to decrease application lifecycles and the adoption of agile tools and methods are building momentum and taking on a life of their own. Enterprises of all kinds are realizing that their traditional software development tools and approaches can no longer deliver end-to-end ALM for business agility.

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 08 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: How to have a successful customer relationship management (CRM) implementation.

Posted: 23 May 2011 | Published: 23 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will highlight solutions for application development in globally dispersed organizations. Insights and strategies for maximizing efficiencies in a distributed environment will be presented, along with best practices.

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper delves into the trend of aquiring and integrating a human capital management (HCM) application in order to aid in global growth. Continue reading to discover the advantages application integration can provide growing companies, as well as impressive cost-cutting results of HCM.

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 | Published: 19 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses why CFOs should care about the cloud and how the approaches of IT and finance executives differ when it comes to cloud computing.

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 | Published: 13 Apr 2012