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Feb 10, 2012

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ALSO CALLED: Process Management, BPM DEFINITION: Business process management (BPM) is a systematic approach to improving an organization's business processes. BPM activities seek to make business processes more effective, more efficient, and more capable of adapting to an ever-changing environment. BPM is a subset of infrastructure management, the administrative area of concern dealing with maintenance and optimization of an organization's equipment … Definition continues below.
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Cricket Communications Turns to Splunk for Assuring Automated Service Management sponsored by Splunk WHITE PAPER: Keeping up with a quickly expanding business is difficult if you do not have the right tools. Read on to learn how Cricket Communications handled their growing business's operations with a enterprise application, data and operational management system. Posted: 10 Feb 2012 \| Published: 10 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Activity Monitoring \| Business Intelligence \| Business Performance Management \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Business Processes \| Data Analytics

Splunk for Big Data sponsored by Splunk WHITE PAPER: This white paper details an enterprise system for managing and analyzing machine data. Posted: 10 Feb 2012 \| Published: 10 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Warehouses \| Databases

BPM Partners: The Strategic Need to Automate The Last Mile of Finance sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn about the business challenges and risks in existing manual ‘last mile’ processes dependent on different version spreadsheets, word processing files and unsecured emails, and the benefits and the value of automating ‘last mile’ processes. Posted: 08 Feb 2012 \| Published: 08 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Compliance (Finance) \| Financial Management \| Financial Reporting \| Last Mile Services

Integrated and Automated Budget, Program and Performance Reporting sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IBM Cognos FSR with TM1 helps budget and finance teams to automate the generation of complex, process driven reports while maintaining the agency’s current business processes and disclosure management Posted: 08 Feb 2012 \| Published: 08 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Automation Software \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Financial Management \| Financial Reporting \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software

Profitability Analysis & Optimization: Gaining a competitive edge sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Improved business processes, powered by optimized technology, can help many companies significantly improve their profitability. Read this paper released by BPM Partners to see how a business can take advantage of new trends and tools for profitability. Posted: 08 Feb 2012 \| Published: 08 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Activity-based Costing \| Business Intelligence \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management

PAC White Paper: Building a foundation for growth with SAP Business All-in-One and the fast-start program sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper gives an insight into the challenges faced by small to medium sized enterprises (SME’s), and how SAP Business All-in-One solutions can help organizations to build a solid IT foundation for the future. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| SAP (Product) \| Small Businesses \| SMBs

Top Five Obstacles Companies Face and How to Overcome Them sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses five obstacles that small businesses and midsized companies face. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| Business Process Automation Software \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Business Process Outsourcing \| SAP (Product) \| Small Businesses

MPI Group: The Informed Manufacturer — Tips, Tricks and Tactics for Discrete Manufacturers sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Download this comic book package to take a light-hearted look at today’s manufacturing challenges – and to gain serious solutions for achieving success. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Compliance Best Practices \| Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| Lean Production \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Industry \| Manufacturing Systems

HR Best Practices: Delivering Strategic Value to the Enterprise sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: To be a true strategic partner to management, human resources (HR) requires process and systems excellence. HR needs to know the business — the drivers, mission, and challenges. Read this IDC white paper to learn how to achieve excellence in HR by focusing consistency, integration, insight, responsiveness, and agility. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Human Resources Management \| Workforce Planning

Overall Equipment Effectiveness: Monitor and Improve the Effectiveness of Your Manufacturing Processes sponsored by Plex Systems WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents a thorough understanding of what overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is, how it works, and the countless benefits that result from its use. Also discover tools that enable you to accurately measure OEE so you have a clear picture of how it's improving your process efficiencies. Posted: 01 Feb 2012 \| Published: 01 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| Business Process Automation Software \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Business Processes \| Enterprise Asset Management Software \| Equipment Maintenance Management Software \| Lean Production \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Industry \| Manufacturing Industry Organizations \| Manufacturing Systems \| Productivity \| Warehouse Management

From Idea to Delivery: Take a Holistic, End-to-End Approach to Bringing Products to Market sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Many organizations still struggle with siloed operations for lack of a clear path to collaboration. But with the right IT strategy and organizational change, a company can enable collaboration beyond its four walls and extend out to suppliers, customers, and partners, integrating all processes from idea to delivery. Read this paper to learn more. Posted: 30 Jan 2012 \| Published: 30 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Collaboration \| Collaborative Master Data Management \| Collaborative Product Development \| Manufacturing Industry Organizations \| Manufacturing Software \| Product Life Cycles \| SAP (Product) \| Supply Chain Management

The Balancing Act of Mobile Workforce Management sponsored by ViryaNet Ltd WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about creating a plan to tackle your mobile workforce obstacles and the details of a system that will assist with your complex tasks. Posted: 26 Jan 2012 \| Published: 26 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Mobile Workers \| Workforce Management Software \| Workforce Planning

Transform your Service Organization Into a Performance-Driven Leader sponsored by ViryaNet Ltd WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how you should balance customer service and organization efficiency by using performance data. Posted: 23 Jan 2012 \| Published: 23 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Performance Management \| Business Performance Management Software \| Business Process Management \| Customer Service

3 Ways You Will Overpay for Your Mobile Workforce Management Solution and 3 Strategies to Avoid it sponsored by ViryaNet Ltd WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to minize costs when implmenting a mobile workforce management system. Posted: 23 Jan 2012 \| Published: 23 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Performance Management \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Workforce Management Software \| Workforce Planning

Business Process Management as a Blueprint for Mobile Workforce Management sponsored by ViryaNet Ltd WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn the fundamentals and benefits of business process management (BPM), and how BPM systems work so well the mobile workforce management industry. Posted: 23 Jan 2012 \| Published: 23 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Mobile Workers \| Workforce Management Software \| Workforce Planning

Driving Situational Awareness: Optimizing informational visualization to facilitate decisions at the executive level sponsored by CA Technologies. WHITE PAPER: Learn how IT leaders can foster visibility across their organization that arms the executive community with the knowledge needed to make proactive decisions — and identify and mitigate emerging risks and issues before they negatively affect the bottom line, customer satisfaction, and brand reputation. Posted: 20 Jan 2012 \| Published: 20 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Performance Management Software \| Applications Management \| Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Process Management \| IT Management \| IT Managers

An Alternate Perspective on how Accurate ETL and Data Integration Improves Business Intelligence (BI) sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this brief white paper and learn how many business intelligence (BI) teams, such those at Electronic Arts (EA), are shifting their perspective on extract, transform and load (ETL) job scheduling to an enterprise-oriented view, elevating efficiency and offering greater control and data accuracy. Posted: 20 Jan 2012 \| Published: 20 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Data Integration \| Data Quality \| ETL (Software)

The Right Availability and Performance Management Model: Your Recipe for Value Maturity sponsored by BMC-Accenture WHITE PAPER: This resource explains the challenges of traditional IT maturity models for guiding the evaluation of IT monitoring capabilities, the purchase of monitoring tools, and the creation of effective monitoring strategies. Learn how to meet the challenges of new technologies and management requirements. Posted: 13 Jan 2012 \| Published: 13 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Process Management \| IT Management \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Services

Beyond EDI: How a Smart Invoice Network Reorders P2P to Drive Global e-Invoicing and Collaboration with All Suppliers sponsored by Ariba, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn best practices for automating workflow and AP to increase accuracy, overall business efficiency, and decrease costs to improve your AP operations. Posted: 10 Jan 2012 \| Published: 10 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Collaboration \| ERP \| Supplier Management \| Supplier Relationship Management \| Supply Chain Automation \| Supply Chain Management \| Supply Chains \| Workflow Management Coalition

Best-In-Class Spend Management Hinges On Spend Analysis sponsored by Ariba, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This research report examines the crucial set of processes that encompass spend analysis by exploring the pressures, strategic actions and capabilities of 132 organizations surveyed globally in September 2011. Posted: 09 Jan 2012 \| Published: 09 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| ERP \| Procurement \| Spend Management \| Spend Management Software

Managing Business Risk in Electronics And Computer Markets: For Sage sponsored by Sage Software WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn the three serious areas of risk associated with growing small and midsized businesses and best practices for managing the risks and ensuring compliance. Posted: 06 Jan 2012 \| Published: 06 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Risk Management \| SMBs

An ERP Guide to Driving Efficiency sponsored by Sage Software WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology can improve efficiency by automating business processes, offering a fully integrated suite of business management applications, and providing flexible and customizable reporting. Posted: 05 Jan 2012 \| Published: 05 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Systems Integration

Enhancing Business Process Management with Business Rules sponsored by FICO WHITE PAPER: While a business process management system can save time and cut costs by governing processes, it can’t decide what to do, given a particular circumstance. A business rules management system enables the right decisions to be made quickly. This white paper uses case studies to illustrate the value of adding rules to BPM. Posted: 05 Jan 2012 \| Published: 05 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Decision Support Systems

Sharpen your focus on core business goals: Business Process Outsourcing sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Limited WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about HP's extensive Business Process Outsourcing offerings. Posted: 05 Jan 2012 \| Published: 05 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Outsourcing

HP Procurement Services: Boost Margins with Proven Global Spending Strategies sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Limited WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn more about HP's business processes services. Posted: 05 Jan 2012 \| Published: 05 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Process Outsourcing \| Business Processes \| ERP

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BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT DEFINITION (continued): … and core operations.A business process is a set of coordinated tasks and activities, conducted by both people and equipment, that will lead to accomplishing a specific organizational goal. The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), a non-profit organization, exists to promote the standardization of common business processes, as a means of furthering e-business and business-to-business (B2B) development. To this end, the organization has developed the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML), an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based metalanguage for modeling business processes.Getting …
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