Business Process Management White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how an information governance strategy that includes the database archiving capabilities of the IBM ®InfoSphere™ Optim™ Data GrowthSolution can help increase the business value of your enterprise applications and simplify your IT infrastructure to garner significant savings.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Lacking a strategic solution for Enterprise License Optimization most organizations are greatly overspending on some licenses and out of compliance on others, putting them at risk of costly software license audits. FlexNet Manager Suite is a comprehensive and proven solution for Enterprise License Optimization and license compliance management.

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 | Published: 11 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Manual and siloed document processes can leave you literally drowning in paper with higher operational costs, less visibility and reduced agility. ECM can bring greater speed, reliability and efficiency to business processes as well as provide better assurance and process visibility to managing contracts and slash document processing costs.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Health care organizations across the country are migrating toward automated systems in an effort to operate more efficiently and improve quality. The push to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) has grabbed significant attention from health care leaders as well as the media and government. Read this white paper now to learn more!

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Manufacturers regulated by the FDA 21 CFR Part 11 regulations understand that the integrity of manufacturing processes must be achieved and maintained in order to sustain compliance. The purpose of this document is to demonstrate that Apriso FlexNet platform and application suite can support the intent of the 21 CFR Part 11 regulatory guidelines.

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 | Published: 09 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Continuous improvement, improving processes and increasing efficiencies are important when the economy heads south. Although the current economic situation is improving, many organizations are opting to keep operational expenses on a tight leash. View this paper to learn how to Increase productivity and reduce costs across the enterprise.

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 | Published: 25 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Putting together a business case does not rank high on most IT executives’ list of favorite activities. But the ability to put together a compelling case is now more than ever a core competency. This paper explains how you can significantly increase your chances of approval if you follow the nine steps provided within.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates how Sterling Commerce solutions drive greater efficiencies, and improve the return on your B2B infrastructure investment. It explores how to automate more transactions with your existing electronic partners, and how to simplify the assessment and onboarding of your remaining manual trading partners.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: SLAs are critical tools that can help ensure appropriate performance. And the use of SLAs as part of the service delivery management process is on the rise. If you’re going to succeed, you’ll have to do your homework. This paper identifies the five critical steps you should take before you define your Service Level Agreements.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: As enterprises find new offerings and better products available to them, and as customer requirements change, there is a move to reassess and improve their processes involving B2B integration. This white paper provides guidance and tools that will help guide B2B teams as they go through their reassessment.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This research provides advice on when to replace FTP with managed file transfer (MFT) solutions and which features to consider.  MFT solutions can be MFT software and MFT as a service.  The report also highlights where MFT fits into the technology landsacpe, along with some of its key benefits.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: IDC conducted a study on behalf of Sterling Commerce, an IBM Company, to determine how Sterling Commerce customers were using B2B integration software innovatively to improve core processes. Continue reading this paper to learn the results of that study and find out how innovators use b2b integrations software to shrink cycle time and cost.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Handling large volumes of incoming mail - and making sure it reaches the right recipients at the right time - is key to operational efficiency and customer service quality across a variety of departments and processes. Check out this white paper to learn a better way to automate the business processes in the mailroom.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 23 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at trends that cause manufacturers to reevaluate and revamp their B2B processes and integration capabilities. Read on to also learn how manufacturers are reorganizing their internal operations to facilitate the shift from EDI-only transfer to a broader range of functions that support a larger view of commerce.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 23 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how organizations are turning to Microsoft SharePoint to connect their knowledge workers, business processes, and enterprise-wide content. New features in SharePoint Server 2010 are aimed at improving the platform’s scalability and usability, inherently driving the SharePoint deployment to evolve and grow as business dictates.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Agile techniques and SOA principles are necessary elements to successfully delivering business software in this environment but by themselves they’re not sufficient. This report highlights key features of tools that you should consider if you’re interested in delivering IT capabilities that integrate people, processes and systems in flexible ways.

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 | Published: 16 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: FlexNet Manager for SAP Business Suite optimizes the SAP system measurement and checks for potential license savings. By checking the usage of each individual license, it determines whether the correct license type was purchased for a given user and whether enough licenses are available. This removes the guess work and optimizes license allocation.

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights the key role that SAP users play in enabling their organizations to improve processes, and discusses how their expertise is lost in some of the traditional approaches companies use to try to improve processes. Learn an alternative “user-centric” approach that will enable companies to measurably improve their processes.

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines five frequently encountered BI and ETL process management painpoints, which can affect the accuracy and timeliness of vital enterprise data delivery, and how each of these painpoints can be successfully managed using process automation technology.

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 | Published: 31 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems, looks at the advantages of implementing an efficient storage system through virtualization. Read on to learn more!

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: While Agile development is designed to increase efficiency, it can also introduce risk as testing cycles get condensed and serious bugs can get overlooked. In this whitepaper, learn how Coverity can help you assure the quality, security and safety of your code in Agile or hybrid development environments. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 | Published: 27 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: What is the relationship between a loyal customer and a profitable enterprise and what role can feedback play in improving loyalty? Organizations with fiercely loyal customers take the time to listen to feedback and integrate it into decision making. EFM solutions provide the tools needed help businesses transform feedback into business results.

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 | Published: 26 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at both the strategic benefits and the strategic challenges of moving to Cloud and SaaS for mid-sized businesses, using insights developed from more than eight years of SaaS and Cloud research among user executives by Saugatuck Technology.

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 | Published: 14 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Agile makes teams responsive to the needs of the business and empowers them to be adaptable and flexible. Agile processes help to break down barriers between development and production, allowing teams to work together to meet stakeholder expectations. Agile and Cloud free developers to innovate and to ultimately bring value to the business.

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 | Published: 13 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu Interstage Business Process Manager (Interstage BPM) is a leading solution for Agile BPM - the next generation of BPM. Agile BPM is designed to flexibly address the requirements of all types of processes used to conduct a business: structured, unstructured, and hybrid process types, giving support to all forms of work.

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 | Published: 03 Jan 2011