Business Process Management White Papers

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The Business of Sustainability: Information Technology as a Catalyst for Short and Long-Term Profitability
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read how SAP software can help your company manage risks and exploit operational and business opportunities regarding social, environmental, and economic sustainability.
Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 03 Jun 2009

SAP America, Inc.

The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Download this white paper for an extensive summary of The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions.
Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 14 Feb 2008

IBM

Red Hat Service-Oriented Architecture
sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER: Red Hat can alleviate common infrastructure problems by moving organizations toward service-oriented architectures (SOA). High-quality, low-cost, SOA-enabled solutions from Red Hat and JBoss let customers focus their resources on the applications and business processes that differentiate their business and give them a competitive advantage.
Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 16 Jul 2009

Red Hat

Leasing Helps Small, Midsized Companies Stretch Their IT Dollars
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
WHITE PAPER: In the current economy, leasing can be a particularly attractive option for companies looking to deploy state-of-the-art technology while also conserving capital resources. Read this white paper and find out if leasing is right for your organization.
Posted: 06 Jul 2009 | Published: 06 Jul 2009

Hewlett Packard Company and Intel

Leveraging Integration to Weather the Economic Storm
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights four primary ways to use integration to make your business better during a down economy. You'll discover how, with the right integration plan and supporting software in place, your company can increase efficiency, minimize expenses, and streamline and accelerate core processes.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

Information Builders

Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements - Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will explain what to look for in a complete integration platform and how to use BI technology in conjunction with BAM tools to achieve zero information latency and self-correcting processes.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

Information Builders

Web 2.0 and Sales Process Management
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: How can Web 2.0 systems and applications support management of sales processes? Read this white paper to find out!
Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

Oracle Corporation

Growth And Complexity: The Challenges Ahead For Midsize Manufacturers
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER: This is the first in a series of six reports addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by midsize manufacturers.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

SAP AG

The Future of Financial Reporting: A Market Perspective
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
WHITE PAPER: Following on the heels of corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and others, global investors are demanding stricter corporate governance and compliance requirements for publicly held companies. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the issues, principles, and technologies underlying new requirements in corporate governance.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2008

Oracle Corporation UK Ltd

Journal of Management Excellence - Introducing Management Excellence
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: A recent global study from Cranfield School of Management found organizations are too internally focused and did not use sufficient external information or benchmarking. A better understanding of management processes is needed. That is why we introduced our view on the management process: strategy-to-success. Read this whitepaper to learn more.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2008

Oracle Corporation

Challenges & Strategies for UK Annuity Providers
sponsored by Wipro
WHITE PAPER: This white papers talks about the challenges facing the UK annuity market and the strategies that can be taken by the product providers to meet them. The paper also talks about how Wipro can partner with providers to tap the opportunities present in the marketplace.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 11 May 2009

Wipro

Demystifying Customer Service Correspondence Work Flow in Cards
sponsored by Wipro
WHITE PAPER: Methods for capturing customer attention and loyalty may have changed over the years, but the basic DNA of business has not - a focus on establishing new customer relationships and retaining existing ones. This paper provides both a business & technology insight into the credit card customer service workflow.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 12 May 2009

Wipro

Increasing the ROI of Mobility
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn that virtually every organization with a mobile workforce can benefit from Afaria. This powerful and proven technology that is capable of handling large data transfers to and from mobile devices is already delivering notable business benefits to many organizations.
Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009

Sybase, an SAP company

Data Protection Strategies Leveraging Replication: An In-Depth Look at Evaluation Criteria and Usage Scenarios
sponsored by Double-Take Software
WHITE PAPER: As dependence on continuous access to critical data grows, so does the importance of avoiding service interruption. This paper examines four data protection strategies and compares their merits for the most common business continuance scenarios.
Posted: 01 May 2009 | Published: 29 Feb 2008

Double-Take Software

ePlus Technology IT Sourcing, Services, Support & Solutions
sponsored by ePlus Technology
WHITE PAPER: ePlus Technology helps you develop cost-effective strategies that meet your immediate IT needs as well as your long-term business objectives - letting you focus on your core business. When combined with our suite of on-demand supply chain and financing solutions, ePlus IT services will help you improve asset utilization across your organization.
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | Published: 28 Dec 2007

ePlus Technology

Faster, Cheaper, Safer: Improving Agility, TCO, and Security with Agentless Job Scheduling
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Enterprise job scheduling is a mature and mission-critical IT capability that supports some of the most important business processes throughout a modern enterprise. This EMA whitepaper will review the implementation and benefits of agentless job scheduling.
Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 17 Apr 2009

BMC Software, Inc.

The Top 3 Cost-Cutting Mistakes CIOs Make And How to Avoid Them
sponsored by Rally Software
WHITE PAPER: The current economic downturn has resulted in contraction of IT Department budgets and a mandate to allocate resources to only the most critical projects, then execute it flawlessly. In these tough times, it is imperative for CIOs to deliver more value as IT budgets fall.
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 | Published: 03 Apr 2009

Rally Software

Optimizing PC Performance with Simple Benchmarking Processes
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Check out this paper to learn how to enhance PC performance and overall IT efficiency by utilizing Intel's unique new platform performance benchmarking process.
Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2008

Intel Corporation

New Security Solutions Using Intel vPro Technology
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Intel IT security specialists have identified significant new enterprise security use cases that we can implement using Intel vPro technology. We focused on three high-priority, high-value categories and successfully performed lab tests to validate each use case.
Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Apr 2009

Intel Corporation

Success with Static Analysis for Security: Why Code Audits Fail
sponsored by Parasoft Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains why and how to apply static analysis tools in the context of a policy-based security process that not only prevents security vulnerabilities, but also focuses on SDLC productivity.
Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

Parasoft Corporation

Overall Labor Effectiveness (OLE): Achieving a Highly Effective Workforce
sponsored by Kronos Incorporated
WHITE PAPER: A sound measurement framework is something every manufacturer would like to have. Yet today, most measurement systems focus on machinery effectiveness or production output.
Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

Kronos Incorporated

Flexing the Workforce: Using Overall Labor Effectiveness to Manage Fluctuating Demand
sponsored by Kronos Incorporated
WHITE PAPER: Flexing the workforce is an efficient way to maintain labor effectiveness when there is changing demand. But when it's used ineffectively, it can act as a buffer that masks inefficiency.
Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

Kronos Incorporated

Microsoft Exchange 2007- End-to-End Messaging Infrastructure Solution
sponsored by Cisco, EMC, & VMware
WHITE PAPER: A complete end-to-end messaging solution in a virtualization-enabled platform for Microsoft Exchange 2007 can provide a number of technical and operational benefits. This document provides an overview of this end-to-end infrastructure that takes advantage of the best-of-class technologies from Cisco, EMC, and VMware.
Posted: 17 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

Cisco, EMC, & VMware

Requirements Definition as the Foundation for Effective Software Delivery
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the challenges that impede teams as they try to collect, analyze, and evaluate ideas to define the best solution requirements. The paper also provides information on the four critical areas to defining great requirements and how IBM Rational® solutions help teams address these areas.
Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 13 Mar 2009

IBM

Using Code Quality Metrics in Management of Outsourced Development and Maintenance
sponsored by McCabe Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides answers to basic questions relating to the management of outsourced development and maintenance. What is the metrics approach to managing sub-contractors? What is the quality of the code expected to be that has been developed by the sub-contractor? Read on for the answers to these and other important considerations.
Posted: 13 Mar 2009 | Published: 13 Mar 2009

McCabe Software, Inc.