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Business Process: An action taken in the course of conducting business. Whether manual or automated, all processes require input and generate output. Depending on the level of viewing and modeling,...; Full Business Process Definition >>

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Part 2: Green tech and corporate ethics: Just following up my post from yesterday about a new consulting service from IBM designed to examine the ethical weight of green technology practices. There's another white paper on the Web site for business process management software vendor Metastorm about the impact that surprise rethinking the way...; Tags: Business Process, Metastorm, Green Technology, Ethics, Operational Planning, Business Ethics, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-01
SOA enabled business process transformation: achieving sustainable agility for the globally integrated enterprise: This paper explores the nature of the globally integrated enterprise and how service oriented architecture SOA takes on a whole new meaning in a world where market dynamics are constantly changing and business transactions are crisscrossing company firewalls and geographic boundaries. SOA is helping companies achieve the business ...; Tags: Business Process, SOA, Business Process Transformation, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2008-06-13
QPR ProcessGuide Xpress (zip): QPR ProcessGuide Xpress provides business users with a powerful tool for exposing, analyzing, developing, documenting, improving and communicating business process information. It focuses on the business user who is seeking to create and maintain end to end process model hierarchies, rather than isolated presentations of flowcharts.This version is the first...; Tags: Business Process, Business User, QPR Software, QPR ProcessGuide Xpress, Operational Planning, Business Operations; Software downloads 2008-06-10
Think Liquidate: Oracle dismantling BEA's AquaLogic business?: AquaLogic line may be split between SOA and BPM by Joe McKendrick; Tags: Business Process, BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., BEA AquaLogic, BPM, Register, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-06-06
ActiveVOS (zip): ActiveVOS makes the design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of services-based applications easy. By delivering the best of open standards like the Business Process Execution Language BPEL, BPEL4People and WS-Human Task in a comprehensive, all-in-one environment, developers working in a services-oriented architecture environment can deliver applications flexibly, freeing their processes...; Tags: Business Process, BPM, Active Endpoints, ActiveVOS, ActiveVOS 5.01, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software; Software downloads 2008-05-12

Integrate services into business processes to achieve your SOA objectives: A correctly implemented service-oriented architecture SOA is built on flexible and effective business and infrastructure services. This sample chapter from Implementing SOA: Total Architecture in Practice discusses various ways you can integrate those services into your organization's business processes. It looks at service interaction patterns, service access mechanisms, types of...; Tags: Business Process, SOA, Service, Addison-Wesley, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Operational Planning, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations; Book chapters 2008-05-08
German Crime Agency Bundeskriminalamt Pursues SOA to Automate Processes and Protect Data: Bundeskriminalamt BKA is the German federal crime agency. Bundeskriminalamt BKA wanted to implement a service-oriented architecture SOA and automate internal BKA business processes and ensure a smooth integration with the existing operational IT infrastructure. The challenge was to establish a component model to support a gradual, iterative strategy and support...; Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Agency, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Operational Planning, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations; Case studies 2008-05-01
IT Manager Webcast: Windows Mobile Series: Mobilizing Business Processes and Applications (Level 100): Mobile workforce numbers are growing steadily each year, and IT organizations are under increasing pressure from employees and executives to provide company-wide mobile solutions that extend beyond just e-mail. For those organizations with field sales, mobile professionals, mobile service technicians, or remote support staff, connected mobile solutions based on the...; Tags: Business Process, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Webcast, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Mobile Workforce Number, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Webcasts 2008-04-29
Put New Capabilities of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to Work, Part 8: Enabling WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1 to Receive Events Via WebSphere MQ: In the mortgage lending business scenario used throughout this series of papers, the implementation of the business process application has not yet been defined. WebSphere Business Monitor can monitor business process applications running in virtually any environment, as long as CBEs can be generated from their activity and transmitted to...; Tags: Business Process, Monitor, IBM WebSphere, IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM Corp., Business Process Application, WebSphere Process Server Application, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2008-04-29
Innovate Over ERP with Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, and Enterprise Social Computing: In this free white paper, learn how to unlock the hidden potential of SAP and other Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems to improve agility and responsiveness. Discover how the right mix of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, Business Process Management BPM, and Enterprise Social Computing can dramatically increase the return on...; Tags: Business Process, BEA Systems Inc., BPM, Social Computing, ERP, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Middleware, Software, Business Operations, It Operations; White papers 2008-04-21
La Caja Improves Visibility Into Business Processes With an Integrated IT Platform: La Caja has the most assets of any business in the Argentine insurance market. When the present shareholders of La Caja took control of the company in 1994, the insurance market had been opened to intense competition due to the lack of previous development of this market, as well as...; Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, La Caja, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance; Case studies 2008-04-01
HP Open Extensibility Platform: Streamlining Paper-Intensive Business Workflows: MultiFunction Peripherals MFPs are transforming business workflows. The initial motivator for deploying these devices in the enterprise office was cost savings from the consolidation of copier, print, scan and fax devices. This reduced maintenance costs, power consumption and warranty costs and yielded lower space requirements. Once MFPs were deployed, many...; Tags: Business Process, Hewlett-Packard Co., Workflow, Fax, Operational Planning, Business Operations; White papers 2008-04-01
2-Layer BPM: Oracle's Unique Strategy Towards Exceptional Agility and Business Process Efficiencies: This CNET white paper explores the unique concept of 2-layer Business Process Management BPM supported by Oracle's Service-Oriented Architecture SOA offering, and its successful implementation at ABN AMRO, a global financial services company.; Tags: Strategy, Business Process, Oracle Corp., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Web Services, Business Process Automation, Financial Planning, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Finance; White papers 2008-03-31
EA/Studio Community Edition (zip): EA/Studio Community Edition is a free business process modeling BPM tool that allows you to build, manage and understand complex business processes, and is based on the BPMN standard. It includes configurable importing capabilities that let you import diagrams from Microsoft Visio and Excel. This version is the first release...; Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Embarcadero Technologies, EA/Studio Community Edition, Operational Planning, Business Operations; Software downloads 2008-03-18
Assessing the Role of IT in BPO Success: 2008 Market Study Update: Business Process Outsourcing BPO is typically viewed - as the name implies - as a "Business" initiative. It is EquaTerra's position, however, that information technology IT, both as an organizational unit and a collective set of applications and systems, is a critical component of the success of any BPO effort....; Tags: Business Process, Market Study, BPO, Information Technology, EquaTerra, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, Operational Planning, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management; White papers 2008-03-17
Voice over SOA sounds promising -- will vendors deliver?: Can SOA add automation and intelligence to the way calls and other communications are routed throughout the enterprise? This may be the next great frontier for SOA -- and, at long last, a tangible benefit of architecture for the business. Digital communications, enhanced by SOA ...; Tags: Business Process, Voice, Communications Server, Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., David Greenfield, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-03-16
The Instantly Responsive Enterprise: The Marriage of BPM and CEP: In this free white paper, learn how two proven but separate business process technologies, Business Process Management BPM and Complex Event Processing CEP, can be merged to achieve better results and improved ROI. Now a mainstream business tool, BPM provides the visibility; while CEP, proven successful in countless business realms,...; Tags: Business Process, BPM, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software; White papers 2008-03-01
Infomercati Modernizes and Automates Business Processes to Increase Operational Efficiency: Infomercati is an obligatory association established in Italy under a 1996 law requiring creation and management of an information system for wholesale food and agriculture markets. Infomercati wanted to deploy a single tool for recording the prices of food and agricultural products, such as produce, fish, flowers, and meat and...; Tags: Business Process, Food, Open Standard, Oracle Corp., Italy, Infomercati, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing; Case studies 2008-03-01
Finansbank Streamlines Business Processes and Increases Implementation Speed by Over 100%: Finansbank is one of the largest private banking institutions in Turkey. Finansbank wanted to implement an automatic data management system for business intelligence to reduce man time lost through manual coding and reduce mistakes and anomalies caused by human error when manually coding. The challenge was to streamline systems for...; Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Finansbank, Data Management, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Banking, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Management, Financial Services; Case studies 2008-03-01
Italian Institute for Foreign Trade Improves Business Processes With Integrated Financial Infrastructure: The Italian Institute for Foreign Trade ICE is a public sector organization responsible for developing, facilitating, and promoting Italy's international economic and commercial ties - with a special focus on the needs of smaller enterprises and associations of emerging businesses. ICE wanted to replace it's legacy financial applications with an...; Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Financial, ICE, Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Finance, Financial Planning; Case studies 2008-03-01