Business Performance Management White Papers

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Maximizing Smartphone Value: Standardize and Simplify
sponsored by BlackBerry
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn how your midsize organization can build a comprehensive mobile strategy and stay head of the competition.
Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Published: 05 Apr 2010

BlackBerry

From Reporting to Performance Management – A Roadmap: How IT Can Drive Better Business Performance
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IT decision makers can drive better business performance through strong strategic, tactical, and advanced reporting.
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 25 Jul 2009

IBM

Making Mobility Your Business Advantage
sponsored by BlackBerry
WHITE PAPER: Learn more about how mobile technology from Research In Motion (RIM), and members of the BlackBerry Alliance Program can make your enterprise more agile and give you a business advantage.
Posted: 17 Feb 2010 | Published: 17 Feb 2010

BlackBerry

Get Personal: Capitalize On Your Subscriber Data With a Unified User Profile
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the role of user profile management. HP’s solution for this business issue is discussed as a means of addressing the subscriber experience infrastructure.
Posted: 08 Feb 2010 | Published: 12 Sep 2008

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

The Path to EPM Success
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces the concept of using an EPM Center of Excellence to help organizations realize the full potential of an enterprise performance management initiative and recommends best practices for creating a center that will succeed in the long term.
Posted: 03 Feb 2010 | Published: 02 Jun 2008

Oracle Corporation

Risk Management: Protect and Maximize Stakeholder Value
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: All companies must take risks to survive, and the most successful companies are those that actively integrate risk management into their decision-making processes. This white paper explains how a risk management program can help identify opportunities for value creation while also protecting against potential threats.
Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009

Oracle Corporation

Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER: This report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Dec 2007

SAP AG

Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
WHITE PAPER: One in a series of white papers about management excellence, this white paper describes the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence.
Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

Oracle Corporation UK Ltd

Rapid Bottleneck Identification - A Better Way to do Load Testing
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

Oracle Corporation

Maximizing Customer Value with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

Oracle Corporation

Performance Management Applications Overview
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Hyperion performance management applications deliver a wide range of Business benefits as well as IT benefits; this overview outlines key benefits.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

Oracle Corporation

Understanding the Components of Business Confidence
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be.
Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Jul 2009

IBM

Business Analytics and Optimization for the Intelligent Enterprise
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Executives recognize that new analytics capabilities, coupled with advanced business process management, signal a major opportunity to create business advantage. Those who have the vision to apply new approaches are building intelligent enterprises positioned to thrive.
Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Apr 2009

IBM

The Information Agenda: Rapidly Leveraging Information as a Trusted Strategic Asset for Competitive Advantage
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: An Information Agenda is an approach for transforming information into a trusted strategic asset that can be rapidly leveraged across applications, processes and decisions for sustained competitive advantage.
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2008

IBM

Getting Personal with Business Continuity: Five Critical Success Factors in Overcoming Workforce Disruptions
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses the critical factors you need to be aware of when dealing with workforce disruption, including threats like pandemics.
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009

IBM

BPM and SOA: Better Together
sponsored by IBM
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

IBM

Sustainability Matters: Why - and how - business is widening its focus to consider the needs of stakeholders
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: 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: 01 Dec 2008

Oracle Corporation

Managing the Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: The white paper discusses what US organizations can do to prepare for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and focuses on what Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management solutions can do to help with top-end reporting.
Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Published: 29 Jul 2009

Oracle Corporation

The Business of Sustainability: Information Technology as a Catalyst for Short and Long-Term Profitability
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read how SAP software can help your company manage risks and exploit operational and business opportunities regarding social, environmental, and economic sustainability.
Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 03 Jun 2009

SAP America, Inc.

The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Download this white paper for an extensive summary of The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, 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: 14 Feb 2008

IBM

Leasing Helps Small, Midsized Companies Stretch Their IT Dollars
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
WHITE PAPER: In the current economy, leasing can be a particularly attractive option for companies looking to deploy state-of-the-art technology while also conserving capital resources. Read this white paper and find out if leasing is right for your organization.
Posted: 06 Jul 2009 | Published: 06 Jul 2009

Hewlett Packard Company and Intel

Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements - Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will explain what to look for in a complete integration platform and how to use BI technology in conjunction with BAM tools to achieve zero information latency and self-correcting processes.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

Information Builders

Leveraging Integration to Weather the Economic Storm
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights four primary ways to use integration to make your business better during a down economy. You'll discover how, with the right integration plan and supporting software in place, your company can increase efficiency, minimize expenses, and streamline and accelerate core processes.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

Information Builders

Automated Business Intelligence: Delivering Real Business Value, Quickly, Easily, and Affordably
sponsored by Birst
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

Birst

Web 2.0 and Sales Process Management
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: How can Web 2.0 systems and applications support management of sales processes? Read this white paper to find out!
Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

Oracle Corporation