June 03, 2008 - (Free Research) With the advent of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the business analyst now has to think about issues such as IT services and how to define business logic as rules for easier and faster change cycles. Thus, a new position called the business rules analyst has emerged. This article will examine the role of this new star in the business world.
August 12, 2010 - (Free Research) BI with expansive search, social networking, and mobile capabilities can revitalize and revolutionize your business intelligence deployment. Find out how to evaluate emerging trends for all these innovations and understand where they add value.
May 03, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper presents the building blocks for private cloud, which include virtualization, automation and cloud service management. Read on to learn more about each building block and how they can be used to create a successful private cloud.
July 28, 2010 - (Free Research) Salespeople want to sell. It’s why you hired them, and it’s what you’re counting to move your organization forward. The last thing you should do is slow them down with endless, time-consuming data entry and reporting. Read this paper to learn how the Landslide CRM approach gives salespeople a tool that they will actually want to use.
April 26, 2010 - (Free Research) Roy Wildeman, senior analyst with Forrester Research, will discuss fast payback MES projects. Wildeman will discuss how to identify projects, who should be working on them and some common projects that can bring quick ROI.
April 09, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper outlines the impact of data deduplication on data protection, and specifically how EMC Data Domain pioneered, and now leads, the combination of storage system interfaces and software to make the disk-based solution an efficient and cost-effective alternative to tape-based methods.
June 23, 2010 - (Free Research) To achieve effective objectives and drive effective Application Lifecycle Management, an organization must transform its Customer COE by enhancing the value it delivers to the business. Read this paper to learn so much more.
June 05, 2009 - (Free Research) The experiences of BPM leaders have created, for CIOs just beginning the implementation process, a road map to success: improved business and IT communication, an overall refresh of roles and responsibilities and greater process flexibility - those that do BPM right reap the ultimate reward of business innovation: competitive advantage.
January 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Business process management provides a new management discipline, a new suite of software technologies and tools, and a new IT implementation style based on concrete links between strategy and execution. This white paper explains SAP's place in the BPM landscape and describes its new offering in that arena, NetWeaver BPM.
January 29, 2010 - (Free Research) Brumlow Mills Inc. is a small, privately held textiles and carpet manufacturer based in Calhoun, Georgia. It replaced its legacy business software, which was incapable of sustaining the company’s future growth, with the SAP® ERP application. As a result, Brumlow Mills has increased its efficiency and the speed of many vital business processes.
March 01, 2010 - (Free Research) Customers need to better understand how the use of virtualization and cloud computing changes datacenter infrastructure management requirements. In this paper, May Johnston Turner, IDC's research director of System Management Software, answers questions posed to her by Dell’s customers.
December 28, 2009 - (Free Research) Interest in case management has climbed higher and higher. The convergence of BPM, ECM, business analytics, and event processing will breathe new life into case management. These forces will push document-centric BPM suites toward packaged case management offerings, and this new category of software will emerge as a distinct market by 2013.
December 28, 2009 - (Free Research) Interest in case management is growing. This white paper includes five explanations as to why dynamic case management
April 14, 2010 - (Free Research) The study focused on the impact on core business metrics when deploying various solutions within the Oracle Enterprise Manager suite. Read this paper to learn how the right IT choices can produce significant ROI and other financial benefits to your business.
June 30, 2010 - (Free Research) Attend this live event on June 30th and join Clay Richardson of Forrester Research and Serena Software in an interactive session on how clients have successfully reaped the benefits of Lean thinking and Lean Business Process Management (BPM) to rapidly deliver customer value, increase business process flexibility, and eliminate waste.
February 01, 2010 - (Free Research) The Project HealthCheck Survey 2010 explores the current project panorama in UK corporate businesses, comparing levels of project management maturity and priorities between users and non-users of PPM systems. Read this independent research study to learn more about project and portfolio management.
June 18, 2010 - (Free Research) Protecting your IT network and applications against cyber-threats continues to grow more complicated and challenging. As a result, spending on IT security continues to reach record levels. Read this analyst brief to learn more about current security spending trends, what’s causing them, and how managed security services can help mitigate costs.
November 30, 2006 - (Free Research) Storage challenges for IT professionals are particularly complex in today's environment of rapid obsolescence of storage hardware and digital media.
November 30, 2006 - (Free Research) Research has shown more than 30 percent of IT spending is on integration, with software costs running into the millions of dollars for large enterprises.
February 20, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper explains how, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is first and foremost a strategy. This guide provides insight to help you take a more customer-centric view of your business.
April 17, 2009 - (Free Research) Mission-critical data processing relies in large part on the automated initiation, execution, management, integration, and recovery of batch-mode IT processing. Read about BMC Software's solution that integrates their batch process automation solution, BMC CONTROL M, with their CMDB solution, BMC Atrium.
June 05, 2009 - (Free Research) There are many elements that impact a company's brand. Concentrating on a select few lets you control financial investment while maximizing the returned benefit. This SAP Executive Insight focuses on efforts that target a key set of brand-related opportunities and describes how companies can strengthen brand value even in a recession.
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