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Looking for a way to double customer satisfaction while slashing cycle times as much as 90 percent? Look to BPM.

The pressure on business and IT to deliver results continues to increase. At the same time, limitations in many applications make it extremely difficult for IT to keep pace with the needs of the business. Check out this on-demand webcast to hear Hank Barnes, VP of...

Tags: Business Process, BPM, Customer Satisfaction, Ultimus, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software

Webcasts 2005-05-11

Ultimus and the BPM Advantage

This paper discusses about BPM, which is the discipline of modeling, automating, managing, and optimizing business processes. A successful BPM initiative, which includes the right mix of business leadership and technology, enables significant reduction in cycle times - sometimes as much as 90% - and costs. This is particularly true...

Tags: BPM, Ultimus, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software

White papers 2004-04-08

Supporting BPM Teams

This paper discusses the key element for success in most BPM projects is to assemble a team for designing, building, modeling, optimizing and deploying business processes. An effective BPM team is made up of people from around the organization, each of whom plays an important role in the success of...

Tags: Team, BPM, Ultimus, BPM Team, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Team Management, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software

White papers 2004-01-01

Understanding Business Process Modeling & Analysis: The First Step to Achieving Breakthroughs in Productivity Improvements

This paper focuses on Business Process Modeling and Analysis BPMA, which leverages the computational power of modern software to enable organizations to document, model, understand and improve their business processes. BPMA software tools provide the ability to define and build a model of a business process and then use statistical...

Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Ultimus, Operational Planning, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2003-09-01

Additional Resources

Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT

Open source-based IT jobs will grow and the cloud will be ubiquitous, as long as the community takes certain steps, according to a roadmap from the Open World Forum. Within the next 12 years, 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, and open-source-based cloud computing...

Tags: Information Technology, Floss, open source, cloud, Floss Roadmap, Open World Forum, predictions, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-12-03

Slicing up Sun

Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls -- one of which is from a disclosure perspective, I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for, because it could  influence the...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?

I must admit I'm more than a bit skeptical when any company, Microsoft in particular, goes out of its way to make rivals' software work better with its own, especially if it's a cash cow product. But here we are, nine months after Microsoft announced its document...

Tags: Interoperability, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenXML Document Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernel

The enterprise-software company has collaborated with networking-hardware company Emulex to produce Linux kernel data-integrity code. Oracle has announced that it has contributed data-integrity code to the Linux kernel. The open-source code, which has been accepted into the Linux 2.6.27 kernel, is designed to reduce data corruption...

Tags: Data Integrity, Oracle Corp., Emulex Corp., Linux, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Oracle, Emulex, Linux kernel, code, open source, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-12-03

Martin free wireless plan brings muni WiFi disaster back from the dead

OK, public spectrum, take 2. Or is it 3? After the infamous D-block auction meltdown, the FCC is set with a new plan to have the private sector deliver free Internet over the airwaves, Reuters reports. And FCC chair Kevin Martin's plan includes another long-held fantasy of policymakers: a...

Tags: FCC, Municipal Wi-Fi, Broadband, Spectrum, Wireless, Martin, Internet, Federal Government, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Government, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Sage results show impact on SMB market

  Earlier today, Sage, the UK's largest software vendor announced its full year results to 30th September and provided an update on how it sees the market going forward. Both the UK and US markets are the most affected by the economic downturn. In his review, CEO...

Tags: Revenue, Growth, Health Care, U.K., Small And Medium Business, Sage, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-03

News to know: Mac malware, Windows 7, Netbooks, Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adam O'Donnell: Despite what blogs and Apple say, Macs will eventually have malware Ed Bott: Windows 7 Beta 1 to arrive January 13? Andrew...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Data Center, Microsoft Windows 7, Malware, Data Centers, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Live Webcast: Taking the Guesswork Out of Your Business Decisions

When it comes to decision support, corporate executives typically rely first and foremost on a range of key performance indicators. For many, though, the real challenge lies in determining just how accurate their data actually is -- and how to adjust for any irregularities. It's a guessing game you...

Tags: Guesswork, Webcast, Performance, Decision-making, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

Webcasts 2008-12-03

A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives

Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...

Tags: Mr., Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy

It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....

Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Big Three Automakers get Wall Street Fever: give us more money

Forget $25 billion for the U.S.-owned auto companies. Small change. They've upped their request from the feds. GM alone now wants $18 billion. Doesn't that raise your confidence level that these guys are really on top of the situation? Oh, by the way,...

Tags: Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., CEO, Hummer Brand, Focus, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-02

CIOs vote on Vista for '09

Silicon.com's CIO jury ruled unanimously on the question of whether to implement Microsoft Windows Vista in 2009. The latest silicon.com CIO Jury has unanimously voted that they are not ready to invest in Microsoft's latest OS Vista. When asked if they had any plans to implement Vista,...

Tags: CIO, CIO jury, IT management, Windows Vista, implementation, Julian Goldsmith, silicon.com, Julian Goldsmith, silicon.com

News items 2008-12-02

Fortune 500 series: How Newell Rubbermaid uses social media

How can Newell Rubbermaid, the parent of many wide-ranging brands, benefit from social media? Bert DuMars, the company's VP of e-business and interactive marketing, explains. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Brand, Social Media, Newell Rubbermaid, Graco, Graco Team, Branding, Marketing Research, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Is this CT scan necessary?

There's a lot of work to be done developing cost-benefit analyses of medical imaging. Dr. Baker has uncovered a huge new business opportunity, just in time for Christmas. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Patient, Health Care, CT, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Scanners, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Mervyns – The cautionary tale of selling one's business

Too Many Cooks Spoil the Livelihoods of Thousands BusinessWeek (12/6/2008) did a great job of dissecting of what went wrong in the collapse of U. S. retailer, Mervyns (see "What Have You Done to My Company"). The subtitle of the story pretty much sums up the...

Tags: Private Equity, Private Equity Company, Firm, Mervyns, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Sage to step into the on-demand ring

News started leaking late last week that Sage, the UK's largest software company, will release an on-demand accounting application called SageLive aimed at the SMB market. Details are sketchy beyond a blog post by competitor KashFlow but it seems the company is finally getting serious about the on-demand space after...

Tags: Accounting, On-demand, U.K., Details, Sage 50, Cloud Computing, Smb/Sme, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-02