Business Process Automation White Papers

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The Forrester Wave - BPM Suites, Q1 2013
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: BPM has played a substantial role in driving back-office efficiency, process automation, and worker productivity. Now in 2013, BPM is positioned to star in its most challenging role to date: helping the enterprise embrace disruptive forces of change -- technological, competitive, and regulatory -- that are often unknown and unforeseen.
Posted: 28 Aug 2013 | Published: 28 Aug 2013

IBM

Disaster Preparedness for Core Network Services
sponsored by Infoblox
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will take a look at how failures can unexpectedly disrupt core network services and the applications that depend on them despite employing traditional approaches to providing redundant configurations. Read this white paper to learn how to minimize the effects of failures to ensure business continuity.
Posted: 15 Aug 2013 | Published: 31 Jan 2013

Infoblox

Is an Open Source Business Process Management Solution Right For You?
sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER: Open source options are taking the pain out of business process management (BPM), and putting the value of BPM within reach of more companies and projects. But is open source BPM the right move for you? Read on now to find out.
Posted: 13 Aug 2013 | Published: 13 Aug 2013

Red Hat

Behavior Driven Development: Agile Testing with Red Hat JBoss BRMS
sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER: In this resource, discover how a software development process known as behavior-driven development, combined with a tool that integrates business rules management, business process management (BPM), and complex event processing (CEP), enables you to speed up and improve the application delivery lifecycle.
Posted: 08 Aug 2013 | Published: 30 Jun 2013

Red Hat

Network Rightsizing Blueprint for the Next-Generation Workplace
sponsored by Aruba Networks
WHITE PAPER: This resource provides a blueprint for the workplace of the future, explaining in-depth the four key characteristics of the network in a next-gen enterprise. View now to learn how to prepare for, embrace, and enjoy the many benefits of a mobile enterprise.
Posted: 17 Jul 2013 | Published: 20 May 2013

Aruba Networks

Create a Referral Program to Grow Your IT Business
sponsored by ConnectWise
WHITE PAPER: The primary mode of growth for most technology provider businesses is by good, old word of mouth.  Yet, many businesses have not established an official referral program to capture as many referrals as possible.  Check out this guide to find the proven best strategies for creating the perfect referral program for your business.
Posted: 16 Jul 2013 | Published: 16 Jul 2013

ConnectWise

Practitioner's Guide to Establishing an SOC
sponsored by AT&T Cybersecurity
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of how to evaluate the security controls needed to establish a Security Operation Center (SOC), along with what data a SOC needs to quickly detect and respond to a breach.
Posted: 12 Jul 2013 | Published: 09 Apr 2013

AT&T Cybersecurity

Why You Should Automate Processing of Vendor Invoices
sponsored by Esker Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, discover the results that Esker research found indicating that accounts payable automation can typically save organizations 40 to 60 percent of operational and administrative AP costs. Also explore the abundant benefits that automated processing of vendor invoices can help business like yours achieve.
Posted: 10 Jul 2013 | Published: 10 Jul 2013

Esker Inc.

How Improving Fax Can Optimize Business Processes
sponsored by Esker Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Since faxing is at the core of most businesses, you need to ensure yours can rely on it at all times. Delayed or lost transmissions can send ripples through the supply chain. This paper will help you answer the pressing questions involved in evaluating your faxing system. Learn the impact it has on business processes, product selection and more.
Posted: 10 Jul 2013 | Published: 10 Jul 2013

Esker Inc.

Improve Order-to-Cash Performance with SaaS
sponsored by Esker Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Automated order management software can be expensive and complex to implement. Read this white paper to learn how leveraging SaaS for order processing automation can save you time and money.
Posted: 10 Jul 2013 | Published: 10 Jul 2013

Esker Inc.

Eliminate Paper in Your Business Processes: A How-to
sponsored by Esker Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper identifies some of the challenges involved with automating document processing and how to overcome them. Also learn the benefits available to you after you successfully quit paper and manual processing.
Posted: 10 Jul 2013 | Published: 10 Jul 2013

Esker Inc.

The Financial Benefit of Cisco’s Elastic Core
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Explore how three Cisco software-based initiatives for the core network can help you address the challenges facing core networks today – including the increasing volumes of traffic, diversity of services, and adoption of cloud services.
Posted: 28 Jun 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco® ONE: The Value of Advanced Flow Control
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Discover how utilizing the advanced flow control capability in Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) can help you overcome the complex monitoring challenges you are facing today.
Posted: 28 Jun 2013 | Published: 31 May 2013

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco® ONE: Traffic Visualization and Control
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This resource explores how Cisco ONE's traffic visualization and control capability can help service providers visualize traffic end-to-end across the network and respond to unpredictable network capacity demands quickly, easily, and efficiently.
Posted: 26 Jun 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

Cisco Systems, Inc.

BPM Patterns & Practices in Industry
sponsored by Oracle India Pvt. Ltd
WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews common BPM adoption patterns and best-practices across different industries to illustrate the value of BPM.
Posted: 31 May 2013 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd

Infrastructure Agility Through Affinities
sponsored by Plexxi
WHITE PAPER: The way your applications take part in your infrastructure – and influence it – is crucial to business success. Unfortunately, this has been inherently complex and costly to achieve. Until now. View this white paper to learn how affinities can help you overcome these challenges.
Posted: 10 May 2013 | Published: 29 Mar 2013

Plexxi

Unified management supports the convergence of healthcare assets
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper demonstrates how enterprise asset management can help improve clinical outcomes while lowering the cost of care and ensuring compliance. View now to learn how health IT leaders can more easily manage the increasingly sophisticated assortment of devices, tools and technologies that make high-quality health care possible.
Posted: 24 Apr 2013 | Published: 24 Apr 2013

IBM

Mitigating the Risks of IT Change
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Riverbed® Cascade® is an application-aware network performance management solution with built-in application discovery and dependency mapping capabilities. Cascade quickly provides a complete and accurate inventory of the IT environment, including an understanding of how services and their underlying infrastructure impact the business.
Posted: 19 Apr 2013 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

Riverbed Technology, Inc.

BPM Patterns and Practices in Industry
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews common BPM adoption patterns and best-practices across different industries to illustrate the value of BPM.
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 | Published: 18 Sep 2012

Oracle Corporation UK Ltd

Expanding Active Decision-Making: The Power of Integrating Business Rules and Events
sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss
WHITE PAPER: This white paper demonstrates how using JBoss Enterprise BRMS, business analysts, developers, and integrators can create and manage rules and events in a single product using a shared set of authoring tools.
Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 05 Jul 2012

Red Hat and JBoss

Oracle BPM Suite 11g: BPM without Barriers
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces Oracle's latest Business Process Management Suite and discusses how its next-generation features can help you optimize process efficiency and simplify management tasks.
Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

Oracle Corporation

Increasing the efficiency of case file coordination in social services
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Social service agencies are experiencing challenges with manual processes. Advanced case management strategies are being implemented to streamline these processes and foster greater insight, collaboration and decision-making capabilities. This white paper explains how one such solution allows you automate these processes to elevate processing.
Posted: 16 May 2012 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

IBM

Advanced case management solutions for smarter decision making in banking
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Financial institutions are under pressure to make better decisions. Real-time decisions depend on access to information and the technology available to analyze it. This paper outlines an option that aggregates all of the content from across the entire organization to enable a holistic view of each case, reduce risk and support accurate decisions.
Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

IBM

Advanced Case Management for Smarter Energy and Utilities
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to gain an approach to unifying utility company's information, processes and people to gain a 360-degree view of contracts, work orders and so much more, effectively enabling employees to make better-informed decisions which then reduce costs and elevate efficiency. Learn how case management can make your business smarter.
Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 23 Oct 2010

IBM

JBoss Enterprise BRMS Overview: Business Rules and the Red Hat Open Source Way
sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for an overview of JBoss Enterprise BRMS – an open source system that automates decisions by using simple rules development, access, and change management. Learn about the features and benefits of this system, as well as why BRMSs are important for the success of your business.
Posted: 07 May 2012 | Published: 20 Apr 2012

Red Hat