Business Processes White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how this software can aid in starting new projects and adding and transitioning team members quickly, thereby increasing your ability to respond to changes in your business as well as marketplace demands.

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 | Published: 29 Dec 2009

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

WHITE PAPER: In their latest book, Thomas Davenport, Jeanne Harris and Robert Morison show how companies apply analytics in their daily operations. We see examples of analytics at work within core processes in a variety of business areas. Read this white paper to learn how embedding analytics into your organization's processes can help you.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

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

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

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

WHITE PAPER: Rapid Application Development (RAD) Tools have become the best way for businesses to incorporate agility into their application development projects. This paper examines the FileMaker Platform and how it offers certain advantages over tools that use more traditional methodologies such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Salesforce.com.

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 | Published: 12 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: SAP provides a comprehensive product offering to support you in your Information Lifecycle Management strategy. Learn more about the three cornerstones of ILM, including data archiving/data management, retention management, and retention warehouse. 

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 | Published: 15 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Crystal Reports Server software offers small businesses and mid size companies a proven reporting and dashboard solution on a single server. It addresses the complete reporting process – from data access and report and dashboard design to report management and delivery, including content integration with portals and enterprise applications.

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 24 Feb 2010

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

WHITE PAPER: When developing or reengineering the enterprise architecture, implementing fundamental data quality practices can reduce the complexity of the data management framework thus reducing effort, risk, and leading to a high degree of trust in enterprise information. Read this paper to learn more about data quality practices and core data services.

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 | Published: 11 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Standardizing data management practices when developing the enterprise architecture lowers risk and increases consistency; Organizational trust in the data simplifies application development. This paper explores how a set of value-added data services can reduce operational costs, increase efficiency and improve the quality of enterprise data.

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 | Published: 11 Jan 2010

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

WHITE PAPER: This joint paper from SAP and Capgemini discusses the challenges of the interconnected economy and describes solutions that enable companies to use technology to innovate the way they do business.

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 | Published: 18 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will assess how to locate and account for functionality gaps. It will also illustrate a methodology for realigning applications with business goals.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Find out how the role technologies such as Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) and Optimization software will play in helping Healthcare organizations of all types and sizes build smarter processes that allow you to adapt to change faster, overcome process silos and improve patient care and safety.

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the innovations in Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 that make interoperability with SAP easier than ever.

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses one of the critical IBM technologies for supporting agility and alignment, Business Event Processing (BEP).

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 25 Jul 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how you can use IBM's InfoSphere software, and integrated platform for trusted information, to align business and IT, accelerate your projects for faster time to value, leverage your existing infrastructire, and adapt to the changing needs of your business.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper introduces actions that organizations can take to drive security efforts from a business and operational perspective and discusses how security leadership from IBM can help enable their success.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how security that is built into a dynamic infrastructure can mitigate risks, enabling agility, secure collaboration, and business transformation. The IBM Security Framework and lifecycle approach can help address changing business requirements.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: The product portfolio decisions you make today will determine whether your company is relevant tomorrow. To increase the chances of marketing a successful product, organizations must deliver products and services to the consumers they value the most, and they must provide those deliverables when their consumers want them. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 23 Jun 2009

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

WHITE PAPER: This paper briefly defines text analytics, describes various approaches to text analytics, and then focuses on the natural language processing techniques used by SPSS Inc.'s text analytics solutions.

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009