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whitepaper HP Open Extensibility Platform: Streamlining Paper-Intensive Business Workflows2008-04-01 Hewlett-Packard
  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 companies found that the digital send feature (the ability to scan a document to e-mail) reduced distribution costs and streamlined the movement of paper in the enterprise. This trend for streamlining paper-intensive business processes has continued to the point where the term "Multifunction peripherals" is no longer accurate. These devices have now transformed into clients of business processes.   
whitepaper General Assembly Manufacturing2008-01-01 siemens
  Recognizing that a lack of process consistency is seriously hampering production efficiency, companies are enforcing standard processes and methodologies across their extended enterprise by adopting a digital manufacturing environment where knowledge and best practices can be captured and shared through a centrally managed repository. Digital manufacturing solutions based on PLM provide a common backbone that links all of the interrelated aspects of assembly manufacturing. These solutions provide highly sophisticated tools that make it possible to manage product and process information more effectively and to ensure that all parties across the value chain work together in highly focused teams that operate in a consistent manner.

Tags: IT Manufacturing, 		  
whitepaper Understand Flexible Work Arrangements2007-12-01 Microsoft Tips
  Considering proposing a flexible work arrangement to the employer? When one makes the proposal to management, one will want to cover several points, most of which will address benefits, as well as barriers, for the company and how one will handle them. For example, how will one ensure that the new schedule won't be disruptive to workflow? What sort of additional support or equipment might one need to make the new arrangement work? How will the arrangement make one more valuable to the company than one is now? But, before one begin answering these questions, one first need to understand the type of work arrangement options that are available - and which one will best suit the needs, as well as that of the employer.   
whitepaper The Evolution of Job Scheduling: CA's Approach to Workload Automation2007-11-01 IDG (International Data Group)
  This IDC White Paper presents an overview of key concerns driving IT management and how they translate into needs that can be addressed through modern approaches to job scheduling and workload automation. The paper traces evolutionary trends in job scheduling software, which is growing from traditional batch job schedulers to cross-platform and event-driven capabilities. It also explores the role of job schedulers in providing automation capabilities. The White Paper examines CA's workload automation strategy, which is based on the evolutionary development of CA's portfolio of job scheduling and management software tools into a comprehensive workload automation solution. The objective of CA Workload Automation is to help IT organizations optimize real-time performance of complex business workloads across diverse IT infrastructures, including both mainframes and distributed systems.

Tags: Software Engineering		   
whitepaper Strategic Initiatives Build Global Innovation Networks in the Machinery and Industrial Products Industry2007-10-01 Siemens
  In the machinery and industrial products industry, increasing globalization and the need for greater collaboration with suppliers present manufacturers with intense challenges as well as rich opportunities. Competition from low-cost countries is requiring companies to become more innovative and to partner closely with far flung suppliers to both maintain and grow their businesses. Among the 20 percent of machinery and industrial products companies that are world leaders in their niche and the 50 percent who are among the top five in their sector, most executives agree that innovation is the key to success and prosperity in the global marketplace. Long-term growth of the industry has been encouragingly consistent over the last several years.

Tags: Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Establishing Global Innovation Networks2007-10-01 siemens
  Manufacturers today are striving to achieve top-line growth while maintaining the cost reductions they've achieved in recent years. It's a delicate balance, particularly when business is increasingly global, fluid and complex. It requires that manufacturers become more adept at managing their businesses - in particular, their product lifecycles - more effectively. It demands that they look beyond traditional sources of inventions and innovations to create a sustainable competitive advantage. In a business environment marked by accelerating change on a global scale, companies must find new sources of innovation that extend well beyond in-house invention. To accomplish this, more and more best-in-class companies are choosing a road that leads to Global Innovation Networks.

Tags: Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Migration and Deployment Testing Services2007-05-06 AppLabs Technologies
  Changes to the network infrastructure or desktop configuration across large organizations can provide enormous benefits; with improvements in productivity amongst staff and better communications, both internally and with clients and suppliers. At the same time, widespread change presents tremendous risks in terms of the potential for interruption to daily operations, loss of reputation with clients and, for commercial organizations, erosion of shareholder confidence. The AppLabs Delivery Method provides a comprehensive range of fully-detailed methods and processes complete with workflows and templates, to enable the clients to implement large-scale migrations efficiently and with the minimum of risk. The focus on validation and testing throughout the process ensures that issues and defects are identified early and costs of rework are minimized.

Tags: Migration Tools, Software Engineering		   
whitepaper The Five Pitfalls of Implementing Project & Workflow Management Software2007-05-01 Interneer
  The benefits of implementing an end-to-end project and workflow management system may seem like a panacea to executives and senior managers. Operational efficiencies and increased collaboration among employees may result, along with improved compliance and a comprehensive real-time view of operations for rapid executive decision-making. However, what happens when the software goes live and the ROI cannot be presented to the CEO or CFO? Presented here are 5 pitfalls one should keep in mind before implementing process management software. This paper present high-level method to avoid the pitfalls described. Invariably, cultural factors can be as important as technical factors in a smooth implementation.

Tags: Methodology		   
whitepaper Make Composite Business Services Adaptable With Points of Variability, Part 1: Choosing the Right Implementation2007-04-10 IBM
  Explore options for building Points Of Variability (POV) in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) composite business services in this series. This paper provides an overview of the different options for designing and developing composite business services to cope with change and describes the features and capabilities in IBM WebSphere software that can help to enable points of variability. Topics include business rules and selectors; mediation using an Enterprise Service Bus; dynamic routing using a service registry and repository; and dynamic workflow assembly using content, contract, and context routing. The reader will also learns about options for exposing points of variability and the benefits of adding more advanced WebSphere capabilities to a solution.

Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper User Task Flows: Bringing the User Into the Development Process2007-04-01 Pathfinder Development
  Today's web applications support the editing and manipulation of data, allowing a much more robust dialogue to take place with between the software and the user. The basic concept of fetching static data from a hyperlink is expanded to include user actions such as add, delete, modify and clone, thereby allowing the user to effect some sort of permanent change. Adding in a rich interaction layer furthers the dialogue by presenting the opportunity to manipulate screen data without permanently changing the stored data. This technology greatly expands the robustness of the user experience and blurs the distinction between desktop and web-based applications.

Tags: Application Development