Business Processes Information Systems Software - KnowledgeStorm

Driving Effective Software Quality to Address Application Complexity

Hewlett-Packard Company — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

Join Melinda Ballou as she answers how organizations can be successful and maintain high-performing business-critical software with fewer resources and strategies for successful quality adoption.

How to Achieve 100% Electronic AR Invoicing Realistic Steps to Quit Paper

Esker Inc. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper illustrates that solutions exist today with a proven track record of success in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing while satisfying their customers' needs.

Improving Business by Improving Fax

Esker Inc. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

The paper will discuss key factors to consider with regard to fax technology, the impact of your faxing system on business processes, product selection and project execution. This paper advises an approach centered around choosing a vendor who is still paying close attention to fax communication as it relates to business processes.

Application Integration Using the SID: A Practical Approach for Project Scoping and Design ...

Progress Software — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper focuses on the creation of an information "exchange" between applications or services in the context of the business process ticketing systems in an enterprise eBonding example. In this paper you will learn about application integration using the SID; Read on to learn a practical approach for project scoping and design in five steps.

A Unified Approach to Managing the Virtual Infrastructure

Forsythe Technology Solution — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Managing the virtual infrastructure end-to-end is becoming more challenging as virtual environments continue to grow and more data center elements meld into the "cloud". This whitepaper will discuss the push for continued virtualization and the "cloud", and present you with questions that will help you create the best organizational strategy.

Gartner Videocast-- Lean IT: Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality

CA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Effective management is critical to addressing IT challenges. In this program, leading experts David Williams of Gartner and Roger Pills of CA break down IT's three key challenges to managing IT complexity: aligning IT to the business, managing costs, and IT maturity.

Virtualization Flash Demo

CA — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

View this Flash demo on virtualization to understand how CA can help you accelerate your time to market, achieve operational excellence across physical and virtual environments and reduce risk associated with virtualization.

Presentation Transcript: Competing on Innovation

Sybase, Inc. — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Read this transcript to learn how to get all the speed, flexibility and processing power of a custom-built data warehouse.

EMA Impact Brief: CA Spectrum Service Assurance Bridges Service Management Gap

CA — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this brief paper to learn how the new CA integrated service management product offers real hope for beleaguered IT organizations that are trying to bring together the pieces to build an integrated service management story.

Competing on Innovation... Next-Generation BI Appliances

Sybase, Inc. — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

View this Webcast and learn to get all the speed, flexibility and processing power of a custom-built data warehouse.

Case Study: Welch’s & reg; Improves its Warehouse and Inventory Management Operations

TAKE Supply Chain — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Welch's selected the TAKE Supply Chain Gemini™ for OPM mobile software solution and Compliance Label Manager (CLM), a barcode and radio-frequency identification (RFID) label management solution to improve the speed, visibility, accuracy and control of extended manufacturing and distribution supply chains. Read on to learn more.

Taking Relationship Management to a New Level with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Microsoft — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Join Microsoft Dynamics CRM technology evangelist Phillip Haase in this webcast to learn about the Microsoft strategy and investments in enterprise CRM solutions and to understand how these solutions address the requirements for users, management, and IT.

Driving Business Process Productivity by Tuning Your Customer-Centric Business Processes ...

Microsoft — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webcast demonstrates how Microsoft Dynamics CRM can be used to capture and manage structured and unstructured sales and marketing customer data within a single, integrated system can help increase your organization's return on investment.

Operational Responsiveness: Case Studies of Business Making Progress

Progress Software — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read these case studies to learn how Progress Software made it not only possible but also made it easy to improve operational responsiveness for several leading companies that operate in many varying industries. Learn the benefits these organizations accrued from Progress Software and learn what benefits your company can experience.

Automated Invoice Processing into Oracle E-Business Suite

ReadSoft — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Document automation will add to the company's bottom line, save time, better business processes, and increased control. This paper will demonstrate how to automate the AP process within Oracle E-Business Suite, and what type of investment will need to be made and what kind of benefits can be expected.

The Executive Guide to Data Loss Prevention

Websense, Inc. — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Data Loss Prevention is designed to protect information assets with minimal interference in business processes. It provides new insights into how information is used, and enforces protective controls to prevent unwanted incidents. Read on to learn how DLP can reduce risk, improve data management practices, and even lower certain compliance costs.

Expanding BI ' s role by including Predictive Analytics

SAP BusinessObjects — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In today's economic downturn, organizations are looking for ways to improve the way they do business, to keep ahead of the competition, and to grow revenue. With reduced funding for new initiatives, it can be difficult to meet these objectives. Read on to learn how expanding your business intelligence with predictive analysis can help.

Five Steps to Secure Internet Single Sign-On (SSO)

Ping Identity Corporation — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper describes why and how any organization can implement secure Internet single sign-on, which provides for the portability and interoperability of identity information across organizational boundaries. Read this white paper to learn the five steps to secure internet single sign-on.

SAP Data Migration Using Business Objects Information Management Software

SAP America Inc — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper is about using information management software from Business Objects, an SAP company, for SAP data migration projects, either for upgrades from one version of SAP to a newer one, or from other environments to SAP.

BI for Business Users: How IT Can Make Business Intelligence Easy for Everyone

IBM — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Today, the latest BI solutions put the power of advanced business intelligence into the hands of more people throughout the organization - improving the speed and accuracy of decision-making from top to bottom. Knowing your business, market, customers, and competition is critical for any organization. Read this for more...

Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality: Managing Service Quality and Risk to Service ...

CA — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

With the economy down it is important for IT organizations to be as efficient as possible. This means that IT operations, those responsible for the product and health of the enterprise, must have full visibility and control over their resources - and of course, the technology to do so.

Performance Management for a Challenging Economy

IBM — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In a challenging economy, the price paid for bad decisions can be dire. Even average decisions can cost your organization dearly. See how information sweet spots and performance management can help you not only weather the storm, but be better prepared to steer your way with greater agility into the upturn.

How to control the risk and costs of e-discovery

Hewlett-Packard Company — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

In this webcast hear from leading analyst firm Gartner Research and Information Management solution providers HP on how to reduce the cost and risk of e-discovery, with a focus on Legal Hold best practice and solutions, and how a proactive e-discovery strategy will help you optimize the Legal Hold process.

Preparing for e-discovery - The litigator and the information professional responsibilities

Hewlett-Packard Company — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper reviews e-discovery scenarios where Legal and IT must be a united front; understanding both sets of requirements and responsibilities, managing the e-discovery process, and action steps for Legal and IT to ensure regulatory compliance and reduced costs and risk of e-discovery.

Why Records Management is important

Hewlett-Packard Company — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process inefficiencies. This white paper explains why such a process is important.

The HIPAA Solution: Meeting the Security Standards Set Forth in Section 164

Tripwire, Inc. — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

Meeting the requirements of HIPAA requires most businesses to set up strong process, methods and controls to assure auditors that security and integrity of Protected Health Information is assured. This whitepaper outlines solutions that support secure processes as dictated by HIPAA.

How to Ensure That Your Employees Will Want to Use CRM

Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper outlines the technology building blocks that enable you to create an information-rich environment that empowers your workforce to perform at its peak. Learn how to use data to its fullest--without having to become IT experts.

User Directed Storage Management: How To Make Users Accountable For Responsible Storage Usage

Northern Parklife — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.

Business Intelligence for the Health Care Industry: Actionable Insights for Business ...

SAP America Inc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Hospitals from across the world are facing increased pressure to improve operations from multiple directions. What is needed is a new generation of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications designed with the health care sector in mind, capable of integrating cross and inter-departmental processes and information.

ERP Software for Manufacturers - SearchManufacturingERP.com Product Directory 2009 Edition

SearchManufacturingERP — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Compiled by SearchManufacturingERP.com editors, this directory includes ERP software products for process and discrete manufacturers of all sizes, as well as all verticals. It includes software that is meant to be deployed on-premise as well as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-demand software.

Using enterprise architecture to develop a blueprint for improving your energy efficiency ...

IBM — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns?

Introduction to Requirements & #45; The Critical Details That Make or Break a Project

Global Knowledge — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This whitepaper will discuss the various kinds of information technology requirements, their importance, the different requirement types, the concept of requirements engineering and the process for gathering requirements.

EMC ' s Comprehensive Approach for Building Proven Information Infrastructure Solutions

Wipro Technologies — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

In this paper, Wipro Technologies focuses on the methodology EMC follows for building its Proven Solutions for organizations of all sizes and domains. This paper also demonstrates the methodology using an example of the solution development process for Microsoft Exchange in physical and VMware environments.

The Information Agenda: Rapidly Leveraging Information as a Trusted Strategic Asset for ...

IBM — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

An Information Agenda is an approach for transforming information into a trusted strategic asset that can be rapidly leveraged across applications, processes and decisions for sustained competitive advantage.

Building Blocks for Enterprise Business Architecture

Infosys Technologies Limited — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

We evaluate the established meta-models and frameworks of enterprise business architecture, and extract the key ingredients to build an innovative meta-model.

Structuring the Haystack - Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search Solutions

Information Builders — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

A researcher at The Data Warehousing Institute recently estimated that 80 percent of information available in an average enterprise is unstructured and unavailable from any standard database management system. What can you do about it? Enterprise search software incorporates unstructured documents into the same architecture as classic reports.

Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements - Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities

Information Builders — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Staffing Service Coordinates Sales Activities, Utilizes Business Intelligence with CRM Solution

Microsoft — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Volt Information Sciences, Inc. provides staffing services, telecommunications, and information solutions to Fortune 100 customers. Executives completed an in-depth request for proposal process to narrow CRM solution options to four enterprise alternatives. They selected Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM because it best met the firm's usability, user..

HEALTHsuite® - Claims Processing Software

RAM Technologies, Inc. — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

HEALTHsuite is an administrative claims processing system designed for health plans and other health care organizations. Rich in features and functions to support health plans of all sizes and types, HEALTHsuite supports all aspects of health care administration including HMO, Consumer Driven, Medicare, Medicaid and Federal Health Benefits.

The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance

IBM — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

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.

HP Enterprise Virtual Array tiered storage solution for Oracle: Aligning storage ...

Hewlett Packard Company and Intel — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Together HP and Oracle offer a comprehensive suite of information management tools to help efficiently capture, manage, retain, and deliver information over time. This yields a highly integrated hardware and software infrastructure, leveraging storage tiers with differing performance and availability characteristics. Read this paper to learn more.

The Business Value of Business Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This document provides you with the knowledge to gain a complete understanding of all the issues you'll face when implementing a BI solution. In this paper, you'll find numerous examples of current Business Objects customers who are using BI in a variety of creative ways to make their organizations more responsive, productive, and profitable.

WebFOCUS Business Intelligence Application Development & Deployment

Information Builders Inc. — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

WebFOCUS development and deployment solutions provide easy-to-use Web-based applications for unlimited numbers of users, tailored to their skill level and preferences regardless of location, as well as flexible and intuitive development tools for building applications.

Worst Practices in BI: Why Business Intelligence (BI) Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail

Information Builders Inc. — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Tthis paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for BI. It also provides guidance on how to avoid and/or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid BI failure and achieve success with your BI initiatives.

Managing Requirements, Tests and Defects with HP Quality Center

Hewlett-Packard Company — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

HP TestDirector for Quality Center software drives a more effective and efficient global application testing process and supports high levels of communication and collaboration among distributed testing teams.

Drive Business Processes: Achieving the " Last Mile " of Business Productivity

Microsoft — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

Bring the two most powerful information systems in your business together more intuitively and more completely than ever before. Microsoft Dynamics and the Microsoft Office system work together in new ways to help workers reach the information and people they need to be productive and deliver excellent customer service.

Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset

SAP America Inc — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service.

Get the Facts on Information Availability: How to Solve Downtime Challenges to ...

Vision Solutions — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

This white paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can unlock the latent potential of your IT environment and deliver new value for your organization.

Process & #45;driven Business Intelligence: Building Smarter Business Processes

Information Builders — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

The concept of BAM revolved around the notion that data could be gathered at critical points and information produced that could give businesses the ability to make better decisions on a near-real-time basis.

WebFOCUS Operational Enterprise Business Intelligence

Information Builders Inc. — Tue, 25 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT

WebFOCUS is a comprehensive and fully integrated enterprise business intelligence platform. It sets the standard for enterprise business intelligence by scaling to support every level of the global organization – executive, analytical, & operational – and make data available, accessible, and meaningful to every person or application that needs it.