Key trends driving global business resilience and risk - Findings from the 2011 IBM Global Business Resilience and Risk Study
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2011-
Integration, cloud, security and company-wide participation are among key elements of successful business resilience and risk management strategies that deliver business value and competitive advantage - as detailed in the new 2011 IBM Global Business Resilience and Risk Study research report.
Business Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices of Material Master Data Management
[ Source: Zynapse ]
January 2010-
Wondering why most organizations are challenged in driving continuing positive ROI from their system consolidation exercise? This paper focuses on what Meta group analysts Barry Wilderman and Bruce Hudson have to say about the impact of Material Master Consolidation in a system consolidation exercise.
Harnessing Your Tribal Knowledge
[ Source: Altus ]
November 2009-
Corporations are modern tribes, with their own members, culture, and knowledge. Capturing, saving, and sharing the collective knowledge of the tribe can lead to a more informed and productive organization over the long haul.
Most senior corporate leaders would readily agree that the wealth of their organization lies with the knowledge that is locked in the minds and desktops of their employees. The ability to capture and share that knowledge to maintain success and growth ...
Realizing Business Value through Collaborative Document Development
[ Source: Value Prism Consulting ]
October 2009-
Collaborative Document Development is a business process that is common to organizations across all industries and all functional areas. In every business, information is communicated through reports and presentations - documents which are used in decision making at every level within an organization.
Collaborative Document Development describes how process stakeholders collaborate, create content, review content, revise content, publish final drafts, and archive important business documents. This paper describes how groups from a variety ...
Aligning BPM, SOA, and Lean Six Sigma for Real Business Results
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2009-
Lean Six Sigma (LSS) produces real results in difficult economic times by uncovering process waste, reducing non-value adding activity, and increasing productivity. The benefits are even felt in IT. According to the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, “companies can reduce application development and maintenance costs by up to 40%.” That application development productivity can be improved “by up to 50%” by applying LSS techniques, freeing budget for needed investments.
Business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architectures (...
Thinking Outside the Cell: 6 Questions to Ask Yourself About Spreadsheet Security
[ Source: Atlantic Global PLC ]
July 2009-
The overuse and abuse of spreadsheets presents a real danger to the security and competitiveness of your organisation. This paper aims to further the debate over the viability of spreadsheets versus commercial business systems by posing 6 questions you should ask yourself if you use spreadsheets to manage your finances, expenses, projects, contracts or resources. It explores the dangers of using spreadsheets and letting them get out of control.
In this paper are examples of the ...
Open Architectures To Improve Plant Visibility And Performances
[ Source: Integration Objects ]
February 2009-
Manufacturing companies have invested large amounts of money in industrial automation infrastructures, but many have yet to realize the full value from their investment as many of these infrastructures remain islands of automation; information silos disconnected from other systems, including business systems. This paper will discuss some of the options available for integrating automation islands and for distributing information at any level in the organization. In particular, two main players in the system integration arena ...
Improve Your Vision and Expand Your Mind with Visual Analytics
[ Source: Tableau Software ]
April 2009-
Learn why data visualization is important to overcome the limits of short term memory, and how it can result in finding what’s meaningful in your data and then making sense of it.
You will learn how visual analysis can allow you to:
• Identify what’s meaningful in the data in ways that your eyes can see and brain can understand
• Keep focused on what’s important and not ...
Lean BPM: A Pragmatic Approach to Automating Business Processes
[ Source: Serena Software ]
March 2009-
Times are tough. There is no doubt in light of the current economic and corporate downturn, businesses – and their IT departments – are actively seeking tools and methods to reduce cost and increase productivity. These goals become even more important when an organization is not able to bring additional resources (read: people) to address a need. Or worse, when they need to maintain the level and quality of work in light of a reduction in resources, ...
Multi-Customer ROI Analysis: The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Enterprise Manager Database
[ Source: Oracle ]
March 2009-
In this report, discover how to:
• Increase database administrator (DBA) productivity;
• Reduce system downtime and increase availability;
• Reduce capital spending on servers by 20%;
In this whitepaper, Forrester Research initiated work on a research project that focused on examining the potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by adopting Oracle Enterprise Manager. This study highlights the benefits and costs of deploying Oracle Enterprise Manager Diagnostic Pack ...