Business Performance Management White Papers

WHITE PAPER: The complexity of operational processes can be a significant obstacle to any effort for improvement through modeling and analysis. Access this white paper for 3 principles that can be used to simplify management strategies and arrive at models that will provide you with a better understanding of your business.

Posted: 09 May 2011 | Published: 09 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Manage continued data growth to drive business results: Align application performance with business processes to meet service levels Segregate inactive application data from current activity and safely move it to a secure archive Archive, manage and retail.

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 | Published: 05 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN. It typically involves assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and traffic prioritization to improve application performance.

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes a set of six management processes that lead organizations to become smarter, more agile, and better aligned—the key attributes of management excellence.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 03 Nov 2008

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: 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

WHITE PAPER: HP Insight Software is integrated management software to manage infrastructures including HP ProLiant, HP Integrity, and HP BladeSystem. A core element of the HP Converged Infrastructure and Matrix Operating Environment, HP Insight Software is designed to provide customers with deeper insight into their systems to make more informed decisions.

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 | Published: 15 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: It’s easy to understand why business leaders regard their experience and intuition as inadequate tools for optimizing their enterprises.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: To succeed in today’s competitive marketplace, consumer goods manufacturers need to pay attention to several areas including operational excellence, compliance, and supply chain synchronization. Learn how today’s powerful and cost-effective solutions, such as Apriso’s MOM offering, can provide companies with benefits in each of these areas.

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 | Published: 13 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The current utilities environment requires companies to decrease costs while increasing the ability to control utility assets. One key challenge is how to take advantage of new technologies to better manage the delivery of service to customers today and into the future. IBM Service Management for the IUN provides a blueprint for getting started.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: In top - performing organizations, analytics has replaced intuition in predicting and acting upon real-time information. Read this white paper and see how an effective business analytics strategy can help organizations optimize performance, operationalize decisions and solve mission problems.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This study of over 150 Fortune 1000 firms from every major industry or vertical explores issues associated with the lifeblood of today’s enterprises: data. The findings demonstrate the often dramatic impacts that even marginal investments in information technology can have when that technology addresses data quality, usability, and intelligence.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Ray Wang of The Altimeter Group explores the IT and business criteria organizations must consider when planning their next BI deployment.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Integrated business planning can help your company align strategic, operational, and financial plans.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This collection of journal articles focuses on the many facets of enterprise performance management that can help organizations thrive through the recovery, including; integrating the financial close and reporting process, managing the transition to IFRS, centralized enterprise dimension management.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Evolve to Thrive: From Operational to Management Excellence, successful companies are connecting disparate management strategies to align performance networks, not just transactional activities. Read how Oracle's Strategy-to-Success framework can guide you on your evolutionary journey to Management Excellence.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn why Intel IT decided to implement an enterprise-wide deployment of Microsoft Windows. This paper provides a discussion of all the performance, manageability, and security benefits that come with this upgraded opeating system.

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the key strategic issues and best practices involved in transforming your business to enable growth. Discover the steps you must take to innovate, translate business strategy into IT strategy, develop a roadmap for strategic business transformation, and obtain maximum benefit from your SAP investment.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Understanding how to manage many different types of back-office tasks in the most consistent and efficient manner is a perplexing challenge. This paper will describe how automated workforce optimization is the solution. Continue reading to learn how to improve the customer experience while decreasing required staffing through predictive modeling.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 10 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Whether or not analytics should become an integral part of an organization’s planning and decision-making seems to be beyond question However, at what level, for what purpose and how to go about deploying analytics are questions that each organization needs to answer for itself. These questions are the focus of this paper.

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 | Published: 05 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: SAP solutions are business-critical, requiring high levels of availability, performance and support services. HP's Mission Critical Services Enhancement for SAP Environments proactively address performance and availability issues, benefiting from a single point of accountability for all support requirements. Read this paper for more details.

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 | Published: 23 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Software allows you to thrive in the midst of change. Managing your software assets requires a partner who delivers more—and that’s HP Software Licensing & Management Solutions (SLMS). Download this brochure and learn more.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 02 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper will present an overview of the changing landscape as companies develop practices and processes to measure their performance as sustainable enterprises. It will examine the complex new drivers of sustainability reporting, as well as the rapidly changing legislative environment that will make reporting mandatory, not voluntary.

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2010