Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE)

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: 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

WHITE PAPER: This paper details five reasons there is a shift to data discovery tools for business intelligence (BI) tool kits.

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 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: Your customers are also calling, chatting, tweeting and emailing your contact center agents, sharing valuable information during each interaction. Download this complimentary white paper to learn how you can easily gather and leverage data from all customer interactions to assess how your agents are performing and improve the customer experience.

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 | Published: 28 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: This white paper addresses HR challenges and metrics solutions for improving operations.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

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: This white paper helps you manage more data in a cost-effective way. With data volumes tripling every two years, Oracle advanced compression delivers compression rates of 2 to 4 times across all types of data and applications.  Read this to learn more about how it can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this comprehensive white paper now to learn more about real-time business intelligence (BI) and the benefits of implementing agile BI into your current BI strategy.

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Feb 2012

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: In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Published: 03 Jan 2012

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

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

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