Business Process Automation

EBOOK: Manual configuration changes are the no. 1 cause of service disruptions. In this article, customers, analysts and IT experts share strategies to help automate your manual processes and ensure that changes are applied according to configurations – every time. Download the ebook.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: Before investing in an event management solution, you’ll want to know how the product will fit within your overall event-to-incident and problem management processes, including workflow, escalation and integration with service desk tools. Gartner assesses the vendor landscape in their latest Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: BMC Software's internal IT organization launched a virtualization and automation initiative that achieved financial payback in less than six months. The effort improved productivity, increased responsiveness, and saved the company $5 million per year.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: As you know, automation is a critical component in achieving long-term IT savings. We've compiled a few resources to give you an overview of the benefits of service automation and the technology behind our comprehensive solution.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

PODCAST: In this podcast, learn how to best approach a hardware and software refresh. Gain insight into key systems management considerations for a desktop and server upgrade including costs, security and compliance.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 29 Oct 2009

VIDEO: In this videocast, learn how to best approach a hardware and software refresh. Gain insight into key systems management considerations for a desktop and server upgrade including costs, security and compliance.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 29 Oct 2009

PODCAST: Attend this podcast to listen as food pioneer Rich Products shares the strategies that streamlined payable processes, consolidated AP processing from 19 locations to one and saved them $600,000 in early pay discounts.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about the operational costs and resource drains that organizations need to address when they engage in Oracle E-Business Suite projects. This paper provides tips about process automation and native tools, which help eliminate errors and simplify project execution.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses best practices options and a solid approach to implementing solutions for automating and optimizing Accounts Payable in the SAP environment.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

PODCAST: Today, more than ever, organizations must deliver the benefits of cost optimization and business agility. This podcast series explains how that goal can be realized through dynamic Business Processes Management. The series focuses on banking, government, healthcare, insurance, cross-industry and retail.

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 15 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Petmate enlisted the help of TAKE Supply Chain's X.PC to not only streamline the administration of contract manufacturing for Petmate. Read this case study to learn how X.PC transformed Petmate's manual approach to working with manufacturers through a Web-based collaborative environment that improved shared communications.

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: To improve inventory management and standardize procedures, Blue Bell turned to TAKE Supply Chain's Gemini Series™ for OPM mobile software solution. Read this case study to learn more about the benefits Blue Bell experienced from switching to TAKE Supply Chain’s Gemini Series™, and learn how your company can do the same.

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 | Published: 14 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Returns management is an area that poses incredible challenges and opportunities for businesses. This paper will act as a guide to help you implement more effective returns management. Read on to learn more about the three pillars of effective returns management and how they can be used to drive significant costs out of returns lifecycle.

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 | Published: 14 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides the compelling case for taking an enterprise approach to automating document driven business processes. Find out how document capture is quickly moving toward mainstream adoption and how the shift from scan-to-archive to scan-to-process is profoundly changing the strategic importance of capture as an enterprise standard.

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 | Published: 14 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Find out how Picis incorporated business intelligence (BI) reporting and analysis technology from SAP BusinessObjects in the development of the Picis CareSuite family of products. You'll also learn how they comprise best practice applications for automating and documenting their business and clinical processes in their acute care departments.

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 13 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Learn how streamlining the AP process can help your company gain control over its invoice management. With the electronic workflow, invoices don’t get lost avoiding late fees.

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 13 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Find out why the benefits from applying business intelligence (BI) in the healthcare environment are tremendous. Learn how leveraging the wealth of information to understand patients and physicians, to monitor operational performance, and to anticipate the need for action or change are strong incentives for adopting BI.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the important elements and key benefits of standardizing business processes and operating procedures based on uniform, organization wide technology. It also serves as a guide for engineering and construction (E&C) firms choosing the right technology to promote standardization across their organizations.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper recognizes three principal solution areas in the capital project delivery lifecycle: project design, project execution, and organizational governance. In particular, it addresses the area of project execution and the means available today to drive successful project delivery on a consistent basis.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: Attend this webcast to listen as food pioneer Rich Products shares the strategies that streamlined their payable processes, consolidated AP processing from 19 locations to one and saved them six figures in discounts.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 06 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates that solutions exist today, both as traditional software and Software as a Service, with a proven track record of success in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW: Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 04 Oct 2009

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW: Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 04 Oct 2009

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW: Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 04 Oct 2009

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is business applications that are delivered as an on-demand service via a secure internet connection and a standard web browser. Click below to learn what questions need to be answered to decide if SaaS is right for you and learn how SAP Business ByDesign delivers a new class of SaaS solutions.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009