Business Management White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Software allows you to thrive in the midst of change. Managing your software assets requires a partner who delivers more—and that’s HP Software Licensing & Management Solutions (SLMS). Download this brochure and learn more.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 02 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Recognizing that successful IT innovation requires deep involvement with the business overall, CIOs increasingly help set business strategy, use IT to enable business flexibility, and help corporations meet enterprise-wide goals. Learn what this means to IT managers, operations managers, development managers, strategy and architecture leaders.

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Through data modeling of BI systems, we can meet many of today’s data challenges. Through logical and physical modeling of business intelligence systems, we can enable the delivery of the correct business information to business users. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Your network must deliver non-stop services to support business operations and be highly scalable to support future growth. It must also address multiple communications needs cost-effectively and flexibly. The communications network must meet the demands of a dynamic business-critical environment. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 20 May 2010 | Published: 20 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Crystal Reports Server software offers small businesses and mid size companies a proven reporting and dashboard solution on a single server. It addresses the complete reporting process – from data access and report and dashboard design to report management and delivery, including content integration with portals and enterprise applications.

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 24 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, Ovum will offer a short guide for enterprises as they establish and then continue to evolve their managed mobility strategies.

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 | Published: 19 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn why the Monte Carlo modeling method provides a beacon of financial sanity and reliability at a time when consumer confidence is at an all-time low and managers face new levels of accountability and keen public scrutiny in their decision-making.

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 | Published: 06 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: There is only one good way to approach the adoption and facilitation of SOA and Web services, and that is to establish, right from the beginning, a corporate Center of Excellence to guide the revolution from making a compelling business case to putting in place a long-term solution for measuring and improving on every success.

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 | Published: 21 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: Efficient business processes are one of the main competitive differentiators for any successful company. These processes orchestrate interactions between systems, services, people and partners to achieve key strategic and operational objectives.

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

WHITE PAPER: Today's server technology is surprisingly affordable and user-friendly and well worth your attention. Read this paper to learn about key benefits a server-based network can bring to your business.

Posted: 16 Dec 2009 | Published: 09 Jul 2007

WHITE PAPER: Find out how the role technologies such as Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) and Optimization software will play in helping Healthcare organizations of all types and sizes build smarter processes that allow you to adapt to change faster, overcome process silos and improve patient care and safety.

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how IBM identity and access management solutions help organizations realize business value through a centralized, automated identity and access management infrastructure.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper introduces actions that organizations can take to drive security efforts from a business and operational perspective and discusses how security leadership from IBM can help enable their success.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Executives recognize that new analytics capabilities, coupled with advanced business process management, signal a major opportunity to create business advantage. Those who have the vision to apply new approaches are building intelligent enterprises positioned to thrive.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: IBM offers the first integrated software platform dedicated to the delivery of smarter products, with our portfolio of software, hardware and services, IBM can help companies create and manage smarter products for a smarter planet. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is a study on the business value of service-oriented architecture (SOA). What they found was that those companies moving to what we would call the flex-pon-sive* world were seeing the results in flexibility from SOA.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2007

WHITE PAPER: As SOA becomes a new way of implementing applications, organizations need a way to manage the assets (especially reusable services) developed as part of their SOA activities, to permit the use of these assets to be maximized and insure the results the enterprise envisions. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: SOA standards, such as Web Services, make information resources and task automation applications available yet loosely integrated for process designers to use and reuse at will. Thus processes modeled with BPM tools can be rapidly implemented in production via SOA infrastructure.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: How do companies create winning business cases to justify key data center and IT initiatives and speed-up the budget approval process? Read this paper for tips and best practices for how to succeed in the budget approval process and business case development.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper identifies the many challenges companies face when implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in corporate reporting and explores tightly integrated solutions that together centrally manage data and metadata on a unified platform--the first step in implementing a complete performance management solution.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2008

WHITE PAPER: Today the use of balanced scorecards for performance management has become a hallmark of a well-run company. This paper will provide guiding principles to help your company's overall performance.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the increased demand placed on financial services organizations to improve their straight-through processing (STP) levels across all business units.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of the enterprise architecture concept and highlights how an actionable enterprise architecture approach from IBM can help organizations manage complexity and align IT projects and solutions with business objectives.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009