Business Process Automation White Papers

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Expanding Active Decision-Making: The Power of Integrating Business Rules and Events
sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER: Business rules management systems (BRMSs) help organizations gain real-time insight into application performance and incorporate automation strategies into their processes. Read this white paper to learn more about the budget-friendly open source options when it comes to integrating business events with automated decision-making.
Posted: 19 Apr 2012 | Published: 19 Apr 2012

Red Hat

Enabling business agility through real-time process visibility
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this brief paper to learn about a platform that offers end-to-end visibility while transactions are in process. Learn how a customizable, operational dashboard enables real-time visibility into the overall state of operations and transactions across disparate systems and applications.
Posted: 12 Apr 2012 | Published: 12 Apr 2012

IBM

Lights Out Testing for End-to-End Business Process Validation
sponsored by Worksoft
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn why automation is the best way to make your testing processes more efficient while preventing critical business process disruption.
Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 11 Apr 2012

Worksoft

Why Buy Vs. Build Serena Service Manager
sponsored by SERENA Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This decision guide demonstrates how migrating to Serena Service Manager will help transform your IT organization into an agile, responsive, and business-focused service provider.
Posted: 04 Apr 2012 | Published: 04 Apr 2012

SERENA Software, Inc.

Risk-Based Test Automation from a Business Process Perspective: Automating the Testing of Critical Business Processes Enables you to Manage Change More Effectively
sponsored by Worksoft
WHITE PAPER: Being able to adapt your business processes to changing environments effectively is crucial to the overall success of your business. Read this white paper to learn how SAP users can implement the best risk-based testing strategies and the right automated testing tool to accommodate change.
Posted: 02 Apr 2012 | Published: 02 Apr 2012

Worksoft

Capturing Data to Multiple Business Processes - what's holding you back?
sponsored by Kofax, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers a fresh perspective on using data capture. Learn how to compile information in various locations through automated business process management (BPM) strategies to drive multiple processes across multiple enterprise business systems.
Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 06 Mar 2012

Kofax, Inc.

Eleven habits for highly successful BPM programs
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Using the framework of Stephen R. Covey’s best-selling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, this resource describes 11 habits IT organizations must develop to foster business process management (BPM) success, including building a complete BPM while also forcing collaboration across the enterprise.
Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

IBM

CIO Perspective: To be great at IT, you must be great at BPM
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Sound business process management (BPM) lies at the heart of IT's ability to respond to the constant mandate to deliver "more for less." Access this resource for a Q&A on BPM with Toby Redshaw, the Group CIO leading a successful BPM program at Aviva plc, the world’s fifth largest insurance group.
Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

IBM

Smarter Computing and Breakthrough IT Economics
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper examines multiple case studies that demonstrate how smarter computing - the idea of transforming IT to deliver breakthrough economics and support innovation - offers improved IT economics. The case studies inside cover different IT domains — optimized systems, federated data, cloud and new service delivery models.
Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

IBM

Cricket Communications Turns to Splunk for Assuring Automated Service Management
sponsored by Splunk
WHITE PAPER: Keeping up with a quickly expanding business is difficult if you do not have the right tools. Read on to learn how Cricket Communications handled its growing business' operations with an enterprise application, data and operational management system.
Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

Splunk

Integrated and Automated Budget, Program and Performance Reporting
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IBM Cognos FSR with TM1 helps budget and finance teams to automate the generation of complex, process driven reports while maintaining the agency’s current business processes and disclosure management
Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

IBM

Profitability Analysis & Optimization: Gaining a competitive edge
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Improved business processes, powered by optimized technology, can help many companies significantly improve their profitability. Read this paper released by BPM Partners to see how a business can take advantage of new trends and tools for profitability.
Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

IBM

Top Five Obstacles Companies Face and How to Overcome Them
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses five obstacles that small businesses and midsized companies face.
Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

SAP America, Inc.

Business Process Management as a Blueprint for Mobile Workforce Management
sponsored by ViryaNet Ltd
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn the fundamentals and benefits of business process management (BPM), and how BPM systems work so well the mobile workforce management industry.
Posted: 23 Jan 2012 | Published: 23 Jan 2012

ViryaNet Ltd

Leading Interactive Games Designer Accelerates Business Intelligence Program
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, Rajesh K. Gupta, Electronic Arts' senior manager of applications for business intelligence (BI) and data services, explains how EA avoids many costly problems due to timely data access. Read this now to gain insight into how EA deployed job scheduling software and what benefits it reaped by doing so.
Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of Oracle's capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.
Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

Oracle Corporation

Irish Dairy Board Cuts Admin Costs and Optimizes Order-to-Cash Processes with IBM Sterling e-Invoicing Solution
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this report and discover how the Irish Dairy Board achieved user productivity increase, cost reduction, significant improvements in order to cash and more.
Posted: 16 Nov 2011 | Published: 16 Nov 2011

IBM

Fast Delivery of Complex Financial Reports - How Leading CFOs Do It
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Reporting speed and accuracy are vital today. But it would be wrong to assume that you have to spend more to go faster and do a competent job. This white paper illustrates how some organizations achieved top-tier results in financial reporting and why some did not.
Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Published: 14 Nov 2011

IBM

Time to Build the “Last Mile”
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: As the global economy slowly heals, finance leaders are looking to fulfill the promise of the last 20 years. Much of the hard work has been done, the infrastructure largely in place. The challenge is to build upon this platform to drive dramatic improvement in the quality and value that finance delivers.
Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Published: 14 Nov 2011

IBM

Business Process Improvement with IBIS RBE Plus
sponsored by IBIS America LLC
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, discover RBE Plus Analysis, a system designed by IBIS experts in SAP to pinpoint problem areas in business processes, master data and customizing usage and communicate the results with fact-based, easy to use content front-ended by a browser-based navigation tool.
Posted: 04 Nov 2011 | Published: 04 Nov 2011

IBIS America LLC

Risk-Based Test Automation from a Business Process Perspective
sponsored by Worksoft
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how you can improve your risk-based testing without automating thousands of existing manual test cases, and why validating critical business processes will enable you to better accommodate change for greater success as well as reduce the ongoing operational costs associated with running your enterprise systems.
Posted: 03 Nov 2011 | Published: 02 Nov 2011

Worksoft

Transforming Insight Into Action With Business Event Processing
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores key business event processing capabilities that are helping energy and utilities organizations to manage instrumented and intelligent utility networks detect outages, improve grid security, and prevent fraudulent use of energy.
Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2009

IBM

Recession Proofing Your Organization with Electronic Forms
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn how to help your organization position themselves for success with electronic forms and process automation.
Posted: 04 Oct 2011 | Published: 04 Oct 2011

IBM

IBM Business Process Manager—Powerfully Simple
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Getting executive buy-in and implementing BPM can seem like a daunting task. Read this white paper to learn how to simplify the process with a simple, scalable, centralized BPM platform that provides total visibility and management of your business processes, real-time analytics, a process coaching for easy user adoption.
Posted: 01 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

IBM

Analyst Report: Case Management Automation - Facilitating Compliance
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the compliance implications of case-based process automaiton.
Posted: 22 Sep 2011 | Published: 30 Sep 2010

EMC Corporation