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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: As new challenges continue to arise related to mobile devices, legislative pressures, social media, and the continued degradation of core security, learn 5 key predictions for strategies and trends in IT and security operations in 2012.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses five rules for negotiating that can help make the transaction more pleasant for everyone involved and better your chances at getting what you want.

Posted: 01 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This resource explores practical tips on how to avoid common pitfalls in order to ensure a successful Business Service Management (BSM) implementation.

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 | Published: 16 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: In today's rapidly changing business environment, organizations of all types face one common and persistent challenge: how to become—and remain—agile enough to satisfy ever-increasing customer expectations and accommodate new compliance mandates, all while staying ahead of the competition. The solution is building business based on SOA principles.

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 | Published: 23 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Just as the U.S. space program could not have put a man on the moon using conventional aviation technology, IT leaders and business executives cannot use yesterday’s approaches to realize tomorrow’s objectives.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Whether you are trying to reduce costs, manage risks, decrease capital expenditures, or expand your business, you must make sure to select the right service that offers the experience and expertise to help you achieve your goals. Access this resource to learn how to leverage your vital strategic resources while transforming your credit services.

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 09 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: What about small and mid-sized businesses? Who’s looking out for you and your data? Who’s creating affordable, reliable and ultra-simple solutions that fit your needs? Who’s able to guide you to evolving environments like virtualisation and the cloud? Who’s backing up your success? Read this white paper to find out.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the challenges of trying to deliver quick time-to -value for IT projects and achieve the status of ‘agile enterprise’. It illustrates how IBM® WebSphere® ILOG BRMS can facilitate the alignment of IT with business and support the implementation of an ADS to provide business value within months of project adoption.

Posted: 12 Dec 2010 | Published: 12 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems has implemented an information security strategy and business continuity plan - on the foundation of desktop virtualization - that incorporates technology and best practices designed to mitigate risk while supporting business agility and growth. View now to join a Citrix security insider to explore the benefits.

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 | Published: 23 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Alpha ImageWorks 9000 centralizes patient records into a single, secure repository, providing easy access, accelerated processing time and billing, and significant time saving in reviewing patient records.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft patterns and practices provides .NET developers with guidance, tools, libraries, and frameworks to help them build better applications.  Development teams adopting patterns and practices achieved greater developer productivity and improved ongoing application management and application performance.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: After implementing Foglight, a major telecommunications company gained the ability to monitor and control its entire IT applications infrastructure in greater depth avoiding downtime and extra support staff, while boosting efficiencies of business-critical applications and staff productivity.

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 | Published: 26 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Senior managers who have balked at the cost and complexity of adopting technology such as business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) should consider IBM Cognos Express as a way to adopt these technologies while minimizing time to benefit, deployment costs, and support costs.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: SAP users preparing to invest in functionality such as business intelligence (BI) or performance management (PM) should consider an IBM Cognos application.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: IBM’s SPSS acquisition gives SPSS users a broader support network, IBM Cognos users a predictive analytics platform, and more enterprise users one-stop shopping.  Looking to the future, that could mean analytics ― and better predictive decision making ― on every desktop.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Independent software vendors (ISVs) that embed DataDirect drivers can leverage DataDirect’s expertise to improve data connectivity.  Using DataDirect helps them reduce cost and risk so they can focus on innovation and competitive advantage.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Life Sciences is one of the fastest moving and most dynamic global industry sectors.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Companies should consider investments in time and attendance applications as a low-risk, low-cost way to reduce payroll costs and improve productivity.  Companies that already have time and attendance applications should consider maximizing the breadth of their deployment or extending it to other workforce-related functions.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Most companies have pay rule environments with some complexity, such as multiple states and shift differentials or collective bargaining agreements.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Kronos Workforce Central enables companies to reduce payroll error, reduce human resources management time and cost, and increase employee productivity by providing a centralized system for managing all the facets of the employee lifecycle.The solution can also increase visibility into labor issues and costs for improved decision making.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft partners that follow a structured methodology to sell, deliver, and optimize Microsoft Dynamics solutions can reduce their own cost and risk, focus on core competencies, and ultimately increase profits and customer satisfaction.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Nucleus has found NetSuite customers are both satisfied and loyal, as NetSuite enables them to rapidly deploy ERP functionality that is integrated with other components without the cost and timeline of traditional on-premise systems.

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 | Published: 26 Oct 2011