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Winning the Performance Battle: Standardizing Best Practices with Technology
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
 | White Paper: | Posted: 09 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Mar 2009 | |
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This white paper highlights the important elements and key benefits of standardizing business processes and operating procedures based on uniform, organization wide technology. It also serves as a guide for engineering and construction (E&C) firms choosing the right technology to promote standardization across their organizations.
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How SYSPRO Leverages a Lean Manufacturing Model to Enhance Profitability
sponsored by SYSPRO
| White Paper: | Posted: 09 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 09 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful Lean manufacturing, including the establishment of optimal customer relationships, improved channel visibility, flexible product configuration, shortened cycle times, improved capacity utilization and integrated operational infrastructures.
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Understanding the Components of Business Confidence
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 Jul 2009 | |
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With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be.
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Improving Confidence by Increasing Understanding in Information
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 May 2009 | |
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Building greater confidence in your underlying data is easier said than done. The typical organization is home to a wide variety of fragmented data sources. Organizations with a baseline of data management maturity will get better value from their BI investments. They are also more likely to outperform organizations less mature in data management.
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Business Analytics and Optimization for the Intelligent Enterprise
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 07 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 Apr 2009 | |
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Executives recognize that new analytics capabilities, coupled with advanced business process management, signal a major opportunity to create business advantage. Those who have the vision to apply new approaches are building intelligent enterprises positioned to thrive.
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Smarter Products - The Building Blocks for a Smarter Planet
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2009 | |
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IBM offers the first integrated software platform dedicated to the delivery of smarter products, with our portfolio of software, hardware and services, IBM can help companies create and manage smarter products for a smarter planet. Read on to learn more.
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SOA Governance: An IBM White Paper
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 06 Oct 2009 | |
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As SOA becomes a new way of implementing applications, organizations need a way to manage the assets (especially reusable services) developed as part of their SOA activities, to permit the use of these assets to be maximized and insure the results the enterprise envisions. Read on to learn more.
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How CIOs can drive growth, business flexibility and innovation in a flex-pon-sive* company
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2007 | |
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This white paper is a study on the business value of service-oriented architecture (SOA). What they found was that those companies moving to what we would call the flex-pon-sive* world were seeing the results in flexibility from SOA.
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Driving Business Agility through SOA Connectivity & Integration Whitepaper from IBM
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 06 Oct 2009 | |
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In this whitepaper, you will learn how to work smarter so you can solve the problems of today and seize the opportunities of tomorrow.
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100% Electronic AR Invoicing with SAP® Solutions: Realistic Steps to Quit Paper
sponsored by Esker Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 05 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper examines solutions, both traditional software and Software as a Service models, with a proven track record in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing.
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BPM and SOA: Better Together
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 05 Oct 2009 | |
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SOA standards, such as Web Services, make information resources and task automation applications available yet loosely integrated for process designers to use and reuse at will. Thus processes modeled with BPM tools can be rapidly implemented in production via SOA infrastructure.
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Dynamic Infrastructure - Helping Build a Smarter Planet: Delivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 02 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 13 Feb 2009 | |
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IBM has developed a strategy for a dynamic infrastructure that will help organizations address higher service expectations, rising cost pressures and new risks and threats.
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Driving business agility through SOA Connectivity and Integration
sponsored by PointSource
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jan 2009 | |
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This paper describes some of the business and IT issues that enterprises must address to become more agile and to improve their responses to challenges and opportunities. Included is how a service oriented architecture (SOA) can help an enterprise align its IT infrastructure with business needs.
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Business Process Management Enabled by SOA
sponsored by PointSource
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 26 Mar 2009 | |
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The purpose in this IBM Redpaper is to introduce you to the concepts used in the IBM BPM Enabled by SOA methodology. The IBM® Business Process Management (BPM) Enabled by SOA Method provides a structured process for developing an organization's cross-functional, customer-focused, end-to-end core business processes.
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Six Mistakes Companies are Making Today and How You Can Avoid Them
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 28 Sep 2009 | |
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This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization.
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