Business Process Automation White Papers

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Solving Scripting Problems with Technology: The Limitations of Scripting in a Complex Business Environment
sponsored by Network Automation, Inc
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains that as automation tools continue to evolve in a quest to deliver the most comprehensive set of automated capabilities, the notion of writing scripts will be rendered anachronistic. Continue reading to learn more about the shift from scriping to dynamic, intelligent process automation.
Posted: 27 Oct 2010 | Published: 27 Oct 2010

Network Automation, Inc

Process Automation for the Twenty-Ten Decade: The Automation of Business Technology
sponsored by Network Automation, Inc
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the need for business process automation and how it can make your company vastly more efficient. Continue reading to learn how to stay ahead of the curve on process automation during the twenty-ten decade.
Posted: 27 Oct 2010 | Published: 27 Oct 2010

Network Automation, Inc

IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: IBM Tivoli® System Automation Application Manager offers unsurpassed capabilities designed to help meet high levels of availability for mission-critical composite business applications, reduce unplanned downtime, improve business flexibility, and meet strict SLAs across complex heterogeneous environments. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 25 Oct 2010 | Published: 24 Jun 2010

IBM

Virtual Firsthand Training – A New Dimension of SAP® Education
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how new virtual learning options from the SAP® Education organization fulfill the requirements of many companies and consultants. Continue reading to learn how they reduce training investments, meet various needs, and offer a flexible learning approach.
Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

SAP America, Inc.

SAP® Knowledge Acceleration: For Effective Business Planning and Consolidation
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how SAP® Knowledge Acceleration software for business planning and consolidation will help your organization acquire insight and reporting skills it needs to execute today and tomorrow. Read on to learn all the business benefits this SAP software will provide for your organization.
Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

SAP America, Inc.

SAP Safeguarding for Operations: Keep your Business Running Smoothly Now and in the Future
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how the SAP® Safeguarding for Operations portfolio of services offers the expertise and tools needed to stabilize, optimize, and efficiently maintain today’s complex landscapes, while simultaneously reducing operational costs.
Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

SAP America, Inc.

How to Transform Your Business: A Strategic Roadmap for Delivering Value
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
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

SAP America, Inc.

SafeGuarding Upgrades of your SAP® Applications: Ensuring Upgrade Success by Identifying and Addressing Potential Challenges Proactively
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how the SAP Safeguarding for Upgrade portfolio of services helps you identify and address potential challenges associated with an upgrade of your SAP solution early – and ensure its success. Read on to learn more about how to upgrade successfully with SAP Safeguard.
Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

SAP America, Inc.

Safeguard the Implementation of New Technology: Reduce Implementation Risk and Optimize Performance
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Organizations have increasingly complex software, interface, and IT landscapes. This paper explains how the SAP Safeguarding for Integration Validation portfolio of services offers the process, tools, and expertise you need to reduce the technical risk and cost associated with implementing new software solutions.
Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

SAP America, Inc.

Capitalize on Business Opportunities and Respond to New Industry Situations: Quickly Extend Business Applications and Connectivity Solutions to Customers, Partners and Suppliers with Industry Data Acceleration
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes benefits of integrating industry data, how partner and supplier integration through industry connectivity can help maximize the value and effectiveness of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) or business process management (BPM) initiative, and the IBM® WebSphere® portfolio of products available to achieve such integration.
Posted: 03 Aug 2010 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

IBM

Achieving Business Agility with BPM and SOA Together: Smart Work in the Smart Enterprise
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the principles for the convergence of BPM and SOA from a business perspective. The primary audiences are leaders and architects that need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and SOA as a key differentiator for successful enterprises in their drive toward business agility.
Posted: 03 Aug 2010 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

IBM

BPM and SOA Require Robust and Scalable Information Systems
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for a discussion of the principles for the convergence of BPM and SOA from an information system perspective. The primary audiences are IT leaders and architects that need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and SOA in support of business integrity and operational excellence.
Posted: 03 Aug 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

IBM

Dynamic Business Process Management (BPM) from IBM
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how to accelerate process change and lower IT costs and to learn how IBM can work with you in a Business Value Assessment (BVA) to quantify the benefits for your projects.
Posted: 02 Aug 2010 | Published: 11 Aug 2009

IBM

Accelerate ROI for Business Process Management with IBM Solutions Designed for Rapid Deployment
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: With IBM products, services and programs, businesses can develop business process management solutions to support their business priorities and objectives, both now and in the years ahead. Read this paper to learn how.
Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 15 Jan 2010

IBM

Benefits and methods of implementing BPM on System z
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper is intended to inform the reader of what business process management (BPM) is about, the benefits that can be obtained from its implementation, how to place BPM into operation and why IBM WebSphere® Process Server should be deployed on the IBM System z™ mainframe.
Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

IBM

7 Signs You Work Harder for your ERP Than it Works for You
sponsored by Kronos Incorporated
WHITE PAPER: Think an ERP is the solution for your workforce management needs? Stop and consider how hard you would have to work, to make your ERP work for you. This paper presents seven signs that will tell you that it’s time to go with Kronos.
Posted: 10 Jun 2010 | Published: 10 Jun 2010

Kronos Incorporated

Global Trends in Sustainability Performance Management
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
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

SAP America, Inc.

 Achieving Measurable Gains by Automating Claims Processing
sponsored by Kofax, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper identifies seven levels of claims automation and provides a roadmap that can be followed to enhance claims processing for insurance companies worldwide.
Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 31 Mar 2010

Kofax, Inc.

Accounts Payable: Building a “Lean and Green” Invoice-to-Pay Process
sponsored by Dolphin
WHITE PAPER: Business processes are expected to run lean and green. The Accounts Payable process that runs with optimal efficiency and accuracy will diagnose bottlenecks in seconds, generate minimal waste and keep vendors and partners happy with fast inquiry response and timely payments. Read this paper from Dolphin Corporation to learn about automating AP.
Posted: 11 Mar 2010 | Published: 10 Mar 2010

Dolphin

Insurance: Converging Customers, Cost Management and Compliance
sponsored by Kofax, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Through a case study with Pan-American, this white paper examines how insurers can generate measurable progress toward these goals by treating document driven business process automation as a strategic initiative at the C-level.
Posted: 03 Feb 2010 | Published: 03 Feb 2010

Kofax, Inc.

Time to Change: New Thoughts on Supporting Business Change
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Learn how a new, interconnected economy is forcing companies to manage an ever-growing information network -- and the best way to adopt new technologies to give you greater flexibility for faster growth while maintaining business integrity.
Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

SAP America, Inc.

Three Ways to Prevent Insider Risk Within Your SCCM-Managed Environment
sponsored by Lumension
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how removable device policy enforcement can prevent risks while enabling managed use of necessary productivity tools—seamlessly within your Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager-managed environment.
Posted: 27 Jan 2010 | Published: 27 Jan 2010

Lumension

Demystifying IT Risk to Achieve Greater Security and Compliance
sponsored by Lumension
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how organizations need an intelligent approach to gaining the upper hand when it comes to assessing IT risk and managing compliance.
Posted: 26 Jan 2010 | Published: 26 Jan 2010

Lumension

Patching of Oracle Databases in SAP Environments using Oracle Enterprise Manager
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how you can automate the patching task for your database, significantly reducing time and effort normally involved in the manual patching activity.
Posted: 13 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jul 2009

Oracle Corporation

CIO Perspective: To Be Great at IT, You Must Be Great at BPM
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: One of the most popular business motto’s within the past year is "more for less." Organizations want things better, faster, and cheaper. In the IT world this is all too true as well. BPM is the tool that delivers faster, better, and cheaper solutions. Read this paper for an in-depth look into BPM from the perspective of the CIO.
Posted: 18 Dec 2009 | Published: 18 Dec 2009

IBM