Business Process Management

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The CFO needs a unified view that integrates multiple data sources and KPIs, and places them in the context of strategic goals.

IT professionals need to support users through innovative and cost-efficient IT services but currently lack the budget, staff and tools to meet their goals.

Designed for the sales executive, this series of research briefs focuses on the advent of metrics-based sales productivity and the new approaches delivering huge dividends to forward-thinking sales organizations.

Read how taking five straightforward steps to BPA planning can root out inefficiencies to improve key processes and give your business a clear competitive advantage.

Read about best practices that can help your organization build success into each process it automates, from a process automation expert.

To be successful, BPA must start with clear business objectives, must focus on strategy as well as people and technology, and should support "quick win" goals and continuous improvement initiatives alike.

Fixing dysfunctional service-related processes requires addressing four general problem areas first. Read how to identify and fix those areas, and service will consistently exceed customer expectations.

To better understand how integrated, automated management tools can improve IT productivity, Kaseya recently posed the following questions to Mary Johnston Turner, research director for IDC's System Management Software service, on behalf of Kaseya's corporate IT customers.

This white paper examines the business case for a BPM CoE, the required components, and the expected value. It also includes a case study of how an investment management firm's CoE evolved from informal to strategic.

This Aberdeen Group report reveals that Best-in-Class organizations are delivering process management capability to their non-technical business users faster and more efficiently, and leveraging these optimised processes for a substantial reduction in operating cost and cycle time.

In this report, Datamonitor provides a comprehensive evaluation of the burgeoning SaaS BPM market.

In this paper, independent analyst Bruce Silver examines the Appian/MEGA integration of BPA and BPM, calling it a unique solution that "does it right".

Leveraging Rapid Process Application Development, Deployment, Adoption and Use for Business Value.

Regional government offices can be neglected outposts of IT, but they need reliable resources to serve the residents who come to their agencies for help and guidance. This challenge is felt nationally, as agencies are consolidating some of their operations and the IT that sup¬ports them. But combining branches and their IT technologies without a plan for adapting the IT infrastructure can be difficult, complicated and expensive. This guide discusses the challenges and explains HP's solutions approach, which is based on its latest generation of ProLiant servers and designed for different-sized organizations.

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g provides the runtime engine for mission-critical Java EE, SOA and middleware applications. This white paper outlines some common challenges faced by IT administrators running enterprise applications deployed on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, and describes how Oracle Enterprise Manager enables customers to reduce the cost of management by providing a single management console to manage the end-to-end application environment.

Customers turn to third-party logistics (3PL) companies because they expect that you will be able to run their warehousing and transportation operations more efficiently and cheaply than they can run it themselves. Tall order! How can you deliver cheaper warehousing, exceptional inventory visibility, seamless freight management and timely and accurate billing for your customers? Download this free report to learn how 3PLs can leverage supply chain technology to; Onboard new customers more quickly, bill more easily and accurately, track inventory attributes by customer, and provide value-added services.

Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a significant step forward toward empowering enterprises across the chasm to the next generation business applications that is powered by a platform delivering rapid composition, comprehensive lifecycle management, customizability, and easy upgrades.

In a recent Forrester study, upgrades made the top concerns list of ERP customers together with Improving Integrations and Shifting the Process Orientation. This is not surprising, given that Applications upgrades are prone to cost overruns, delays and unexpected outages. Maintenance costs, for major point releases as well as more frequent patches, is a topic that catches the attention of most ERP and CRM customers. A study by SOA Industry Analyst Zapthink shows that maintenance and change costs of SOA-based integrations, architected properly, are dramatically lower than traditional integration approaches. Read this whitepaper to understand why and how SOA-enablement will reduce cost and risk of Application upgrades for your organization.

When properly architected and executed, Data Services can provide the missing link that unifies conventional data systems with the emerging SOA paradigm. By offering a decoupled data facade and an easily virtualized API, Data Services can give SOA the opportunity to establish system control without always forcing enterprise data through an inefficient XML layer.

As more and more IT shops deploy multitier middleware platforms and frameworks for the delivery of business-critical application services, they are expecting to garner the benefits of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) or composite application development approach: agility, flexibility, productivity, and extensibility.

This white paper will address data services implementation and the role of Oracle Data Service Integrator in that process. It will describe the technical benefits of a data services implementation within the context of initiatives to promote business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), portal projects, and business intelligence (BI).

The challenges faced by today's government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied-and to stay afloat, these organizations must not only promote change from within, but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets, policies, regulations, and business models.

In today's rapidly changing business environment, organizations of all types face one common and persistent challenge: how to become-and remain-agile enough to satisfy ever-increasing customer expectations and accommodate new compliance mandates, all while staying ahead of the competition. The solution is building business based on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles.

Whether your organization's service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 50 services being used by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need SOA governance; increased business agility depends on it. SOA governance provides the ability to quickly and continuously translate and transmit business strategy and requirements into the processes, policies, and controls that will guide the evolution of your infrastructure and your enterprise. Failure to provide effective SOA governance exposes your organization to serious risks resulting from:Insufficient adoption of services,Fragmented approaches to SOA, Resources wasted on services that can't be reused, Rampant and redundant service creation across siloed SOA initiatives,Ineffective communication of priorities and best practices, Cultural resistance to change For any organization that has adopted SOA as its primary approach to enterprise architecture, governance becomes the conduit that connects and aligns corporate, IT, and business unit objectives. For these organizations, effective governance ensures that communication, collaboration, and the two-way flow of information keep SOA initiatives and investments inextricably connected to the enterprise to deliver sustainable business value.