WHITE PAPER - This paper outlines the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI metrics) together with associated Key Performance Drivers (KPD metrics) within the context of value stream management to support continuous operational performance improvement.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Corporate Governance | Corporations | Enterprise | Performance Testing

WHITE PAPER - To thrive in today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, top businesses of all sizes and in all industries are looking for better ways to achieve operational excellence that enables them to run their companies more efficiently and cost-effectively and drive innovation that matters to recognize market needs and respond to them quickly and decisively.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Cost Benefit Analysis | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Operational Support Systems | ROI | SOA

WHITE PAPER - In this whitepaper, you will learn how to work smarter so you can solve the problems of today and seize the opportunities of tomorrow.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Processes | IT Management | SOA

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Business Development | Business Management | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This paper gives you an overview of how Ovum has helped penetrate the upper-midmarket. Even when the slowing growth of the market hasn't.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Activity Monitoring | Business Development | Business Environment | Cost Benefit Analysis | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Systems | Global Economy | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This paper outlines the Oracle SOA Maturity Model and explains how the model is used to accelerate SOA adoption by identifying specific capabilities that are either completely lacking or which are lagging with respect to the other capabilities necessary for successful SOA adoption.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Business Development | Business IT Alignment | Oracle (Product) | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Over the last few years, BPM has seen rapid growth because it succeeds where earlier approaches have failed -— uniting business strategists and technologists together with a shared set of tools to accomplish common goals. The future promises even more explosive growth as BPM products continue to mature. Read on to learn more.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  BPEL | Business Development | Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management Software | SOA

WHITE PAPER - In this new release of SOA Suite, Oracle continues to emphasize the development, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission-critical environments.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  802.11g | Business Development | Business IT Alignment | IT Infrastructure | Performance Testing | Scalability Testing | SOA

WHITE PAPER - More and more organizations are looking to SOA as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate, hard to change, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Development | Application Infrastructure | Application Monitoring | Application Portfolio Management | Business Development | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Best Practices | Oracle (Product) | SOA

WHITE PAPER - The true value of SOA is unlocked when services are leveraged for process orchestration to deliver automation of business processes. Industry's leading process orchestration engine, the Oracle BPEL Process Manager supports a 100% standard approach to orchestrating systems and services into end-to-end process flows.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2006


Topics:  Business Activity Monitoring | Business Development | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Process Management | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business Management | IT Asset Management | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Systems | Operational Support Systems | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This Case Study examines how Culver Franchising Systems turned to the RedPrairie-Microsoft Business Intelligence solution to make better decisions and improve store operations, while vastly reducing reporting time. With the RedPrairie-Microsoft solution in place, Culver now gets early warning of underperforming stores.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | ERP | ERP Software

WHITE PAPER - Datamonitor surveyed 100 SAP customers to understand the implications of sole-sourcing. Read the survey findings and learn the trends and behaviors associated with sole-sourcing BI from ERP vendors.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Enterprise Resource Management | ERP | Reporting Software | SAP (Product) | Surveys

WHITE PAPER - Increase revenue. Decrease costs. Reduce development time. Every day you strive to meet these goals. And each business decision you make either enables you to advance toward them - or impedes your progress. Read this paper to learn more.
Posted: September 16, 2009 | Published: September 14, 2009


Topics:  Balanced Scorecards | Business Continuity Planning | Business Development | Business Intelligence | Information Management | Oracle (Product) | Reporting Software | Spreadsheets

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn how Integrated business planning can help your company align strategic, operational, and financial plans.
Posted: September 16, 2009 | Published: September 14, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Development | Business Intelligence | Data Management | Data Security | Risk Assessment | Risk Management