Business Process Management (BPM)

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Cloud, BYOD Increases Need for Automated IAM Systems

As traditional security concepts of perimeter and end-point defense break down as a result of the proliferation of cloud services and the BYOD phenomenon, enterprises are increasingly feeling the need for greater control over access to applications. That's where automated identity and access management comes in. Full Story »
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Texas Supermarket Stocks Up on iPhones, Mobile Apps

Texas grocery store chain United Supermarkets starts down the iPhone trail with a mobile workforce management app that simplifies communication and keeps shift schedules under control. But this Lone Star chain has only begun circling the mobile wagons.

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IT Must Provide Enterprise Collaboration Tools Employees Will Use

Businesses are under pressure to enable collaboration beyond the corporate firewall as workers increasingly need to connect with remote colleagues as well as business partners, suppliers and consultants. The challenge to IT departments is that many employees are turning to email and consumer-grade file-sharing services to get their work done and exposing the enterprise to risk in the process.

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Inadequate SSL Certificate Data Threatens IT Security

SSL certificates are a fundamental component of secure online transactions, but a new survey finds that a majority of organizations don't know where or how many certificates they actually have, and nearly as many lack an accurate idea of which certificates are about to expire. Venafi CEO Jeff Hudson says this increases organizations' operational, security and audit and compliance risk.

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Private App Stores and Tablets: Notes from an Early Adopter

Mobile devices and apps are everywhere -- including the workplace. But while users reap benefits, IT departments struggle with risks. Cisco's AppHQ running on its Cius tablet promises a controlled environment. One of the first to test the private app store is tech reseller and consulting company CDW.

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Adobe to Reduce Enterprise Software Investment

Its enterprise division sells Adobe Connect and Adobe LiveCycle, among other products

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How Effective Leaders Can Make Principled Decisions When It Matters Most

Wharton School Professor Michael Useem says every leader has guiding principles. In his new book, The Leader’s Checklist, he offers 15 principles that are important when making difficult decisions.

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TIBCO CEO: How Real-Time Computing Will Change the Landscape

Tibco CEO Vivek Ranadive talks with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about why your company needs to move to real-time computing and how TIBCO's 'two-second advantage' can change your business.

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2011 CIO 100 Winners: Innovating With IT to Create a Greener Enterprise

A greener enterprise requires new tools for managing critical business processes. Three 2011 CIO 100 winners turned to IT to meet the need.

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OpenText Buys BPM Vendor Global 360 for $260M

Content management vendor OpenText is moving further into BPM (business process management) software, scooping up Global 360 for US$260 million, the company announced Wednesday.

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IBM Launches City Government Software Platform

IBM plans to launch a software framework that will help city and local government executives get a more complete view of how well their operations are running.

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Build Or Outsource That Business Integration Project?

The first question with any IT initiative is do you buy on-premise software and manage it yourself or outsource the work to a service provider? The same is true when it comes to business-to-business (B2B) integration projects, whether you are looking to replace a legacy B2B system, consolidate multiple B2B solutions or automate a manual process.

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iPad Security: How a Hospital Group Treated Trouble

Take an inside look at how one hospital group is testing and perfecting its prescription for security as its doctors demand to do more work on iPads. One decision: Not all apps are ready yet.

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How British Airways Made Money From IT

British Airways leverages BPM changes into a new revenue stream

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How Botox Battles Compliance Wrinkles

A BPM overhaul saved the day after legal issues complicated compliance at Botox-maker Allergan.

 
Every company wants to maximize its network resources, but doing so can be tough when struggling with traffic floods, malicious users, or underperforming applications. Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager helps guarantee service levels for your important users by prioritizing key transactions and much more.
Learn to produce a viable business case analysis to justify a significant technology investment. This white paper includes step-by-step instructions for building a business case analysis and for calculating key financial metrics such as ROI, NPV and payback period, and documents best practices.
Organizations today must deal with a vast amount of incoming information from many different sources. Efficient, automated business processes are critical to managing it, improving productivity and serving customer needs. But getting there can be a challenge. Each step may contain internally and externally generated information, combined with human interactions and decisions that can cause processing delays, introduce potential for error and pose a compliance risk. This Kofax whitepaper shows how these challenges can be resolved through capture-enabled business process management.
Audi-Volkswagen required a user-friendly, easy-to-use Business Process Management system that did not require programming skills or high levels of technical expertise in-house. This case study looks at the decision making process that Audi-Volkswagen went through, including a tender involving six companies, and describes why they choose to work with Kofax to supply a Business Process Management system.
This Kofax paper shows how successful customer service organizations have transformed customer service by empowering their employees. We will see how Dynamic Case Management applications are best placed to deliver employee empowerment and transform customer service, delivering benefits to all three stakeholders in the customer relationship; the customer, the business and the employee.
In this Aiim Market Intelligence report, produced in association with Kofax, we look at the success of paper-elimination projects, where and why paper is still leaking into the business, the features and success of scanning and capture investments, forward plans for document process outsourcing (DPO), and the potential impact of mobile devices.
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT

Whether your B2B complexity is caused by multiple technologies due to M&A, business or application specific needs or traditional under investment, the net effect is usually the same: high cost and lower productivity. Enabling business-to-business (B2B) integration using point-to-point EDI translators is usually time intensive and cost prohibitive.

Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess you B2B approach.
With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything - down to the very last platform and application - from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really - the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can.
Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, quadrupled its complex batch environment with zero extra headcount using BMC Control-M's Automated File Transfer features.
Learn how intelligent imaging and BPM solutions, coupled with pragmatic best practices and methodology, can improve productivity, lower cost, increase accuracy, reduce cycle times and lower overall risk.
Tackle Your ERP Challenges in 2012 with Microsoft Dynamics AX

Learn the 3 Ways Microsoft Dynamics AX Helps Drive Productivity by watching this video which is designed specifically to address some of the top concerns of business leaders who are experiencing:
- Poorly integrated systems
- Expansive staff needed to keep current
- Limited access to information
Lay a Foundation for Growth

In this insightful webinar produced by Aberdeen Group and Microsoft®, you will see benchmark data that highlights how successful IEM companies respond to growth challenges using Best-in-Class strategies and hear how top manufacturers are answering some of the most pressing technology questions in the industry today.
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