Getting Personal with Business Continuity: Five Critical Success Factors in Overcoming Workforce Disruptions
sponsored by IBM
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This white paper addresses the critical factors you need to address when dealing with workforce disruption, including threats like pandemics.
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009
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BPM and SOA: Better Together
sponsored by IBM
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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
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Leveraging SUSE Linux Enterprise and HP Platforms for Business-Critical Workload Deployments
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This IDC White Paper takes an in-depth look at the use of Linux as a commercial solution in business-critical environments. It offers a deeper review of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) and HP's portfolio of standards-based server solutions.
Posted: 30 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009
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Business Process Management Enabled by SOA
sponsored by PointSource
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The purpose in this IBM Redpaper is to introduce you to the concepts used in the IBM BPM Enabled by SOA methodology. The IBM® Business Process Management (BPM) Enabled by SOA Method provides a structured process for developing an organization's cross-functional, customer-focused, end-to-end core business processes.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009
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Six Mistakes Companies are Making Today and How You Can Avoid Them
sponsored by SAP AG
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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
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Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT
sponsored by SAP
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Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organization.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009
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Making Strategy Real
sponsored by SAP AG
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How can management communicate business strategy effectively and assure that the entire organization has bought in to the strategy and is aligned behind it? Business performance optimization systems are an important tool for success.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009
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Five Requirements for Greater Efficiency During IT Failures
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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For many companies, the upside to a down economy is an opportunity to consolidate IT operations. Read this white paper for five requirements to attain greater IT efficiency.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009
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State of the Business Process Management Market 2008
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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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
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Culver Franchising Systems Improves Operations with Microsoft Business Intelligence Solution
sponsored by Microsoft
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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
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Office Pro Suite Comparison
sponsored by Microsoft
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This whitepaper will discuss the primary differences between Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007, Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition 2003, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2000 Professional.
Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009
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Sustainability Matters: Why - and how - business is widening its focus to consider the needs of stakeholders
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices.
Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009
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Desktop Virtualization: Overcoming Five Real-World Challenges
sponsored by Citrix
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This paper explores the most significant hurdles any desktop virtualization program needs to overcome. Staying focused on the ultimate goal--delivering core applications effectively to users--helps clarify the issues involved in desktop virtualization deployment.
Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 11 Sep 2009
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Business Problems Solved: With Better Business Intelligence
sponsored by Board International
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This document presents a series of business challenges, why organizations faced them, and how these problems were solved through the use of Business Intelligence best practices.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009
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The BI Survey 8: The World's Largest Independent BI Survey
sponsored by Board International
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Now in its eighth year of publication, The BI Survey by Nigel Pendse is an annual report based on the world's largest independent survey of Business Intelligence and Performance Management users.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009
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Size Up Top Security Vendors with Comparative Security Testing
sponsored by ESET
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Read this paper to learn the results of a study that examined performance evaluations and comparative tests on the ESET Smart Security Business Edition package as well as other leading solutions.
Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009
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Sybase IQ 15: An InDetail Paper by Bloor Research
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
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Read this paper to learn how Bloor Research determined that Sybase 15 will provide substantially better performance at lower cost than traditional approaches for analytics, reporting, and data warehousing environments.
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 | Published: 13 Aug 2009
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Sybase Analytic Appliance on IBM Power Systems
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
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The Sybase Analytic Appliance is revolutionizing the data warehouse appliance market by integrating the leading column-based analytic software with hardware from the industry's number one provider of UNIX systems. Read this paper for more.
Posted: 06 Aug 2009 | Published: 06 Aug 2009
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IT Modernization: An Exercise In Alignment
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
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A survey conducted in February 2009 by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Oracle and HP, shows in most companies the business functions and the IT function understand the benefits of modernization. But that does not mean that most companies know how to do it right. Read this white paper for practical advice on achieving modernization.
Posted: 30 Jul 2009 | Published: 30 Jul 2009
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Oracle on the HP BladeSystem Matrix: Standardize, Optimize and Automate
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
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IT projects are being increasingly scrutinized, so expenditures must support business requirements and contribute to the operational efficiency of the data center. Combined with HP technology, Oracle dynamically optimizes shared resources to simplify administration of the physical and virtual platforms, letting you meet those business objectives.
Posted: 30 Jul 2009 | Published: 30 Jul 2009
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The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance
sponsored by IBM
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Download this white paper for an extensive summary of <i>The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance</i>, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions.
Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 20 Jul 2009
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Performance Management for a Challenging Economy
sponsored by IBM
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In a challenging economy, the price paid for bad decisions can be dire. Even average decisions can cost your organization dearly. See how information sweet spots and performance management can help you not only weather the storm, but be better prepared to steer your way with greater agility into the upturn.
Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 20 Jul 2009
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BI for Business Users: How IT Can Make Business Intelligence Easy for Everyone
sponsored by IBM
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Today, the latest BI solutions put the power of advanced business intelligence into the hands of more people throughout the organization - improving the speed and accuracy of decision-making from top to bottom. Knowing your business, market, customers, and competition is critical for any organization. Read this for more...
Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 20 Jul 2009
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Fixing the Pain in Fax and Mail Automation: Discover the Hard Return in Automating these Time-Intensive Tasks
sponsored by Esker Inc.
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This white paper describes in depth the advantages of mail automation in a business world that still relies on paper-based transmissions such as faxing and mail distribution.
Posted: 17 Jul 2009 | Published: 17 Jul 2009
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