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whitepaper The Fair Isaac® Blaze Advisor® Business Rules Management System17/11/08 Fair Isaac
  The Fair Isaac® Blaze Advisor® Business Rules Management System is a complete solution for enterprise business rules management through decision service design, authoring and testing and rule service deployment and maintenance. A rule service is defined as a monolithic view of all the conditions and actions that need to be considered in performing a self-contained, callable decisioning process as a service function from a larger application. This white paper illustrates how the Blaze Advisor system's functional components interact with business applications and data.  sponsored by
whitepaper A Five-Point Plan for Rewiring Your Decisions17/11/08 Fair Isaac
  With customer centricity the rallying cry for today's retailers, CIOs and CTOs are called on to create the systems that support instant, highly personalized and targeted decision across multiple channels. Key to successful customer-centric decision making is sharing consistent insights and business rules across all business functions that touch the customer. Creating this infrastructure at scale requires a business rules management system. By implementing business rules as the base platform for marketing and merchandising operations programs, technology leaders can execute a five-point plan for operationalizing customer centricity. This paper explains how leading retailers such as Coca-Cola and Dell are building a customer-centric infrastructure for sharper marketing  sponsored by
whitepaper Achieving Decision Consistency Across the SOA-Based Enterprise17/11/08 Fair Isaac
  The adoption of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides businesses with the ability to rapidly deploy new applications and easily integrate with other component applications both inside and outside the organization. This decentralized application environment provides a great deal of flexibility for business units and IT departments, but it also creates difficulty in managing the consistency of business decisions delivered through various applications. Business rules management systems (BRMS) provide a mechanism for managing decision logic and act as a conductor in order to align application decision behavior.  sponsored by
whitepaper The business value of Web 2.0 technology.2009-11-09 IBM
  Benefits of enterprise mobility span the business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) spectrums. Enterprise mobil-ity can improve an organization's productivity, optimizelogistics operations, enhance customer relationships and streamline supply chain management.

Tags: Internet and Web, Internet and Web, Enterprise Planning, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Is Your Enterprise Architected for Tomorrow's Growth?2009-11-01 Sybase
  Today's business climate makes it imperative that organizations make the necessary plans for tomorrow's growth. Implementing an Enterprise Architecture can be a necessary, but challenging undertaking to prepare for that growth. "EA for Dummies" can help you cut through the chaos and get the business results that EA can deliver, if applied correctly. Register today and a free copy of this booklet will be mailed to you. This 44 page booklet takes you down the path of implementation using the 'Dummies' lighter tone and sense of humor. Sybase PowerDesigner sponsored this booklet to help users understand the value of EA and how to facilitate implementation.

Tags: Government		   
whitepaper Strategic Secret Weapon for Tightening Business & IT Alignment: Modeling!2009-11-01 Sybase
  Achieving alignment between an organization's core goals and the IT infrastructure that supports an enterprise's strategic direction is an ongoing challenge. Learn how aligning business processes with data from information systems enables the development of a model-driven approach that will ultimately lead to heightened agility and greater productivity across the enterprise.

Architects, analysts and IT management will appreciate the ways that different data flows can be used to visualize, understand and contribute to effective business processes when business models and data models meet.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Software Development Tools, Internet and Web, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Information Management, BPM and Integration: Achieving Cost Efficiency in the Financial Sector2009-10-28 Optical Image Technology
  Digital capture and storage make information easily retrievable and useful, but don't necessarily enable enterprise-wide efficiency. Data housed in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, accounting, human resources, and other applications has limited value if it's not reused efficiently everywhere it's needed. The solution? Instant, secure, central access to all of digital content. A work management system that systematically drives work forward, drawing on business systems for pertinent documents and information. Electronic Document Management (EDM) and Business Process Management (BPM) do both and more, unleashing great power by connecting people with information and transforming both service and institutional performance.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Workflow Management		   
whitepaper TechRepublic Resource Guide: Software as a Service (SaaS) for Small and Midsize Businesses (SMBs)2009-10-27 SAP
  Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) face the same challenges as larger companies when it comes to cutting costs and saving money in a difficult economy. Many are now turning to software as a service (SaaS) which allows them to save money and provide better service by essentially renting as opposed to purchasing their business applications.

This TechRepublic Resource Guide provides a basic overview of SaaS for SMBs for anyone who wants to learn more about this potentially beneficial innovation:
  • Learn the key terms and concepts for Software as a Service (SaaS) to better understand the most common features, benefits, and challenges
  • Gain a better understanding of the most important considerations for SaaS in small and midsize businesses (SMBs)
  • Discover the most critical questions to ask yourself and your vendor when evaluating a SaaS solutions for your SMB


Tags: Software Development Tools, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting, Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper The Creative Business Analyst Part 3 - Making Better Decisions2009-10-27 IRM Training
  This final paper of the series it looks at decision making techniques - how to select the best idea from the many come up with - and how to justify recommendation to client, manager and peers. Unfortunately the word solution means different things to different people - to a designer it describes the architecture of the application. To a developer it defines how the application will be coded and to a project manager, how the application will be built and implemented. However, to the client (and business analyst) it means what the system will do.

Tags: Data Tools, Enterprise Planning		   
whitepaper Bigger picture, smarter decisions: Today's BI tools2009-10-21 IBM
  With people and systems increasingly interconnected, it's hard to keep up with data. In the ForwardView article, "Bigger picture, smarter decisions: BI tools," you'll learn how Business Intelligence (BI) solutions provide greater visibility across the entire business to help you spot trends in real time. See how a midmarket company used BI solutions to make smarter decisions and increase competitiveness.

Tags: Data Tools, Enterprise Planning, Data Tools, Data Tools		   
whitepaper Top 10 DMVs for Easier SQL Server Monitoring2009-10-21 Quest Software
  Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) don't have to be mysterious! In this Quest Software Pain-of-the-Week webcast, join SQL Server experts Tim Ford and Brent Ozar as they discuss the most valuable DMVs, and how to use them.
    Learn about the DMVs that can help you:
  • Gain greater insight into your SQL Servers
  • Improve the performance of your databases and their indexes
  • See exactly what users are doing to your SQL instances
Take the mystery out of DMVs, and learn how they can best benefit you. Watch this on-demand webcast today.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Enterprise Planning, Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper People + Processes + Technology: Creating a Winning Formula for Customer Support2009-10-20 Citrix Online
  You might have the world's best support professionals or the most sophisticated technologies - but if you don't effectively combine the two, your service and support will be run-of-the-mill or even mediocre. This new SupportIndustry.com white paper explores the critical relationships between people, processes and technology and provides best practices for delivering superior service and support.

Tags: Internet and Web, Internet and Web, Enterprise Planning, Mobile and Wireless		   
whitepaper Turbocharger Service Giant Speeds Up Global Expansion With Enhanced Workflow Integration2009-10-16 Microsoft
  Facing the time crunch, Tru-Marine knows that meeting its customers' demand for excellent service quality within the shortest turnaround time requires its staff to "Get their work done right the first time". Once the vessels' turbochargers are serviced, they should not require another servicing until two years' time. To achieve this, Tru-Marine's entire value chain from its spares warehousing, turbocharger repairs and eventually customer delivery, has to be tightly integrated to run like clockwork. After several proof of concept exercises, Tru-Marine chose Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics CRM to empower its business.

Tags: Enterprise Planning