Business Process Management White Papers

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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

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

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

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

WebSphere MQ 7.0 Features and Enhancements
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This e-book provides details about IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0 product features and enhancements required for individuals and organizations to make informed application and design decisions prior to implementing a WebSphere MQ infrastructure or begin development of a WebSphere MQ application.
Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Published: 28 Dec 2011

IBM

Managing the Extended Enterprise for Profitable Growth
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: When today's modern, extended enterprises make the move to standardize on a single business software solution, they often find that very few vendors offer products with the necessary scope and flexibility. Read this paper to discover the required elements of successful, unified business software for the extended enterprise.
Posted: 02 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

SAP America, Inc.

WebSphere Application Server vs. Oracle WebLogic
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper briefly covers key differences between IBM WebSphere Application Server and Oracle WebLogic Server. While both products are of high quality and will perform well even in demanding mission-critical environments, there are still some differences in their efficiency and resulting total cost of ownership.
Posted: 01 Jan 2012 | Published: 28 Dec 2011

IBM

Advanced Compression with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper helps you manage more data in a cost-effective way. With data volumes tripling every two years, Oracle advanced compression delivers compression rates of 2 to 4 times across all types of data and applications.  Read this to learn more about how it can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.
Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

Oracle Corporation

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

Cost Take-out: The New Top Priority for U.S. Government CFOs
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The goal of this white paper is to serve as a platform from which to explore a range of possibilities and opportunities available to government CFOs in their quest to operate in a more efficient and effective manner by not only presenting a case for change, but also providing a road map for it.
Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

IBM

Operational Logistics/Resource Allocation: The World's Best Business Intelligence Applications
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights several real-world success stories, where a proactive approach to resource allocation was implemented.
Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

Information Builders

Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes configuration considerations, best practices and performance results of TimesTen running on Exalogic.
Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

Oracle Corporation

Managing Big Data Using Sybase IQ VLDB Option
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper outlines information lifecycle management (ILM), a set of strategies for managing the growth, storage and retrieval of information over its useful life. Its goal is to ensure that frequently accessed data is returned as fast as possible, while controlling storage costs.
Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

Sybase, an SAP company

FTP Replacement: Where MFT Makes Sense and Why You Should Care
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This research provides advice on when to replace file transfer protocol (FTP) with managed file transfer (MFT) solutions, and which features to consider. This Gartner report includes MFT software and MFT as a service. Also highlighted is where MFT fits into the technology landscape and some of the key benefits.
Posted: 29 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

IBM

Collaborative software delivery: improving software quality with better lifecycle management
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn how an IBM Rational solution can help your company build better software faster, using an integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) solution designed to support collaboration across distributed agile development teams.
Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

IBM

Transforming Software Delivery: An IBM Rational Case Study
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In 2007, the IBM Rational Development organization realized they needed to make improvements in their development lifecycle. This white paper explores that transformational journey, highlighting: How to improve team collaboration, why agile practices are essential, how to gain development intelligence and more!
Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

IBM

The IBM Rational Jazz Strategy for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the vision for the Jazz initiative, the technology and associated products from Rational and its partners, and the community that is participating in all of these elements. It includes experiences shared by users of Rational Jazz products as well as those of partners building complementary Jzzz-based capabilities.
Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

IBM

Real Time Business Intelligence  - SAP In-Memory Appliance Software (SAP HANA™)
sponsored by Intel
WHITE PAPER: This paper introduces SAP In-Memory Computing technology concepts, explains how SAP HANA uses them to help deliver real-time business insight, and describes how synergies with Intel architecture-based server platforms drive solution value.
Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

Intel

Faster, Higher, Stronger: In-Memory Computing Disruption and What SAP HANA Means for Your Organization
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper.
Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

SAP America, Inc.

Capturing Value from Patient-Centered Care
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the leading practices employed by healthcare systems worldwide and proposes a patient-centered care approach for IT investment that combines a series of capabilities to improve quality care, reduce operating costs and optimize revenue.
Posted: 18 Nov 2011 | Published: 18 Nov 2011

IBM

Business Analytics and Optimization Jumpstart: Embedding analytics to transform insights into action
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The combination of a complex world, the vast proliferation of data and the pressing need to stay ahead of the competition has sharpened focus on using analytics within organizations. Analytics-driven organizations are outperforming their competitors by connecting people with trusted information, enabling them to make real-time decisions.
Posted: 18 Nov 2011 | Published: 18 Nov 2011

IBM

Market Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2009-2014
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn about developments in the B2B infrastructure market, such as key findings and trends, valuable recommendations, what the future landscape holds and more.
Posted: 16 Nov 2011 | Published: 16 Nov 2011

IBM

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