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<title><![CDATA[whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/Enterprise Applications/Business Process Automation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Business Process Automation, or BPA is the process a business uses to contain costs. It consists of integrating applications, cutting labor wherever possible, and using software applications throughout the organization.]]></description>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/enterprise-applications/enterprise-applications/</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Web Enabled Customer Support - Self-Service Business Processes]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper285/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-15 15:03:52</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The benefits of moving manual processes to the web are well understood. But very few organizations have web-enabled product returns, bill disputes or other complex business processes. This paper discusses requirements for web-enabling complex processes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Information Lifecycle Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper298/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-20 13:26:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is an impression today that Information Lifecycle Management is a new concept. Management of the information lifecycle has been with us since the dawn of the computer age. While recent legislation and shifts in media cost have spawned a mini-boom in replication start-ups and new storage technologies, the fundamentals of information management have not changed.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PayStream Advisors Analyst White Paper: Imaging and Workflow Automation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper317/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-22 12:41:39</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A survey of Fortune 1000 finance, treasury and accounting professionals found that 20 to 30 percent of respondents are actively exploring Imaging and Workflow Automation (IWA) solutions. This analyst white paper provides an introduction to IWA, describes the most common forms that solutions take and highlights the benefits they deliver.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Populating Solution Manager Content Through Automation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper411/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-24 13:12:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to find up-to-date, consistent business process documentation that matches the strict hierarchy of Solution Manager. Usually, the only solution is a manual process of identifying current business scenarios through interviewing process owners and detailed examination of the IMG. IntelliCorp can help overcome these challenges by identifying business processes supported by SAP software.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Resolving Critical Business Problem Areas in Data Center Operations Through Automation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper417/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-25 12:58:55</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Automating repetitive Data Center Operations into best practices makes response times faster, more reliable, and less costly. Learn how to extend your current IT systems to do more of the routine work, freeing up IT staff for higher-value projects. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Essential Ingredients for an Effective CPM Solution]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper497/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-27 08:19:15</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An effective corporate performance management (CPM) solution leverages a unified application for all key business processes, a centralized database ensuring the highest level of data accuracy and consistency, and provides critical decision-making information in real-time. Read this insightful white paper to learn more.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Accelerating Business Processes for Products That Are Sold, Engineered, or Manufactured to Order]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper557/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-29 13:22:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Manufacturers of products with highly configurable and ever-changing customer requirements must confront specific challenges and operate far differently than traditional product development environments.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Introducing webMethods Fabric: Realizing the Promise of Business Process Productivity]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper662/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-29 15:18:03</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The goal of Business Process Productivity is to enable enterprises to become both highly agile and highly efficient, allowing them to more easily leverage their existing information technology (IT) assets to address market opportunities and pressures, and to create competitive differentiation through their business processes. This white paper describes how webMethods Fabric helps companies increase Business Process Productivity.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business and IT Requirements for High Availability]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper666/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-13 13:01:06</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The primary IT concern today is to ensure that the applications and information that drive critical business processes are available when they are needed, whenever they are needed. We present a description of the required architecture and operation for an automatic failover solution, demonstrating how a solution should be carefully engineered for ease of operation and management.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Process Automation: Moving Beyond Scripts in Operations Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper688/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-25 12:57:26</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper describes how automating IT processes greatly reduces operational costs and improves service delivery. Learn how to standardize best practices and integrate data center and operations tools without the management burden associated with scripts and home-grown programs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On Demand IP Communications at IBM]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper692/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:32:33</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Download this paper to learn why IBM believes that the real business value of IPC voice systems is reflected in improved employee productivity, enhanced business processes, and the ability to deliver more responsive services and offerings.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Integrated Business Communications: A Force For Business Transformation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper693/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:32:05</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many forward-thinking organizations are beginning to see the true potential of the convergence of voice, video and data.&nbsp; It has the power to transform business relationships, business processes and collaboration between employees, suppliers and customers. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Automate Now! Achieve Immediate Cost, Productivity and Security Benefits by Automating IT]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper747/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-22 14:20:41</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) white paper takes a close look at automated IT management, especially for&nbsp; medium-sized businesses.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business-Oriented Architecture: Combining BPM and SOA for Competitive Advantage]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper792/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-24 22:22:35</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this paper, we will discuss the benefits of BPM and SOA in more detail and show how leading companies have recognized that implementing BPM and SOA together gives them unique capabilities.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Making the Case for BPM: A Benefits Checklist]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper793/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-24 22:25:44</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper is intended for groups who want to make the business case for investing in BPM to drive process improvement. It provides an overview of the areas of benefit that companies can expect from BPM as well as concrete examples of value.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What's the Difference Between Workflow Engines and BPM Suites?]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper794/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-24 22:27:12</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ask 10 different vendors to define BPM or BPM suites, and you will likely get 10 variations of the definition, even though all vendors use the same basic terminology to explain it.&nbsp; Learn more about BPM now. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Introduction To Business Process Management (BPM)]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper795/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-24 22:24:38</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For those individuals or organizations that are being asked to investigate process improvement, Business Process Management (BPM) is a term that frequently associated with the process improvement. This paper defines BPM and explains how it can be applied to help companies achieve process improvement goals.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Advanced Global Name Recognition Technology]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper803/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:29:44</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this paper is to highlight the issues, requirements, and technologies available for automated advanced name recognition.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Rules Extracting (BRE) and Legacy to SOA  Auto Re-architecting (L2S) Webcast]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper847/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-16 08:41:52</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn the &#39;bottom-up&#39; approach to start Business Rules Extracting, Migrating and Auto Re-architecting your current mission-critical legacy system and their data, into an SOA.&nbsp; This is a &quot;how-to&quot; presentation addressing how to get started and eventually establish an internal L2S Center of Excellence.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Legacy to SOA: What You Need To Know]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper852/</link>
<pubDate>2007-07-19 09:53:30</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn the &lsquo;bottom-up&rsquo; approach to start Business Rules Extracting, Migrating and Auto Re-architecting your current mission-critical legacy system and their data, into an SOA. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Virtualization Improves Business Continuity]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper856/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:28:39</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Business continuity and disaster recovery are made more difficult by the pace of business change.&nbsp; Adapting to market changes requires proactive IT. For the first time, you can consolidate business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning in a heterogeneous IT environment with a single, central automated solution.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Realizing ROI from Automating Business Processes]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper894/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-24 22:19:58</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper examines some of the business benefits and potential cost savings that can accrue to an organization that implements a BPM solution. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Process Innovation: A Process Industry Perspective]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper943/</link>
<pubDate>2007-09-24 11:33:41</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In recent years, industry leading companies have identified business process innovation as the only real competitive advantage. But what sets the most admired process companies apart from the rest is their continued business process innovation and scale? Download this white paper to find out.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reporting & Dashboarding with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1155/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-11 14:11:59</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Read how Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers complete reporting to all users with one business intelligence product&mdash;to make it simpler, faster, and easier to manage.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Dynamics RoleTailored Business Productivity]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1223/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-04 15:29:17</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Businesses don&rsquo;t garner insights or make decisions. Businesses don&rsquo;t close deals, invent new products, or find new efficiencies. People do. Companies excel when they empower their people to drive the business forward. But to see results, you also have to give your people the right tools, information, and opportunities&mdash;because success ultimately comes down to your people. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Printer Applicators: The Right Choice for You?]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1263/</link>
<pubDate>2007-11-02 13:58:23</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Wherever there is a label on a product, there is a potential need for printer applicators. Download this whitepaper now for a thorough analysis of the complete labeling requirement, from part production to end user application, which must to be completed to determine the correct printer applicator.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Future of B2B Leaders: The Transition from Operations to Business Value Drivers]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1272/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-30 09:10:02</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper provides an overview of the growing opportunities for EDI managers and coordinators. It highlights how their role can change from being responsible for implementation of technologies for operational activities to being infrastructure leaders. It shows how they can deliver increased efficiencies and velocity for value chain automation, which increases visibility, control and agility for a business.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Achieving the Perfect Order: Improving Supply Chain Communication]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1274/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-30 09:08:44</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[No enterprise is an island. Goods and services flow in from suppliers. When you include suppliers of wares for raw material extractors, along with recyclers that turn consumer and commercial waste into new raw materials and finished goods, it is a supply chain with no beginning and no end.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Adaptive Discovery: Accelerating the Deployment and Adaptation of Automated Business Processes]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1303/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 08:45:23</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By making process discovery easier and on-demand, Adaptive Discovery overcomes a major hurdle to success with BPM and shortens the time it takes organizations to capture the competitive advantages of BPM.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Adaptive SOA: Enable Composite Applications with Real-Time Agility]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1304/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 08:58:59</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By enabling Adaptive SOA, Ultimus Adaptive Discovery takes SOA to the highest level of rapid deployment and agility. It accomplishes this by enabling business processes to be developed rapidly, and to embrace change in real-time. More importantly, it empowers business professionals and analysts who own processes to discover and change processes with IT playing the supporting role to manage the infrastructure.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BPM: The 'Must Have' Enterprise Solution for the New Century]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1305/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 09:02:03</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By helping companies model, automate, manage, and optimize their business processes, BPM provides the framework for sustainable competitive advantage.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Future-Proof Your Compliance Using BPM]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1306/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 09:03:58</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A BPM-based compliance solution is the most efficient and flexible way to optimize and future-proof your compliance investment to create long term business value.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What Makes Human-Centric BPM Different?]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1307/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 09:08:15</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The challenge for BPM today is not to simply &ldquo;automate&rdquo; processes, but to deliver the human-centric capabilities people need in order to fully embrace the new, more efficient work processes. When BPM systems deliver on these needs BPM close the gap between its high potential and its relatively modest adoption to-date.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An Introduction to BPM]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1308/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 09:01:08</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the coming years, we believe that BPM will become the most important technology-driven business initiative for most companies. It leads you toward a focus on using technology to support your business processes, rather than adapting your business processes to support your technologies. It provides strong, sustainable ROI and competitive advantage.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ultimus and the Business Process Ecosystem: Complementing SAP and Enterprise Applications]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1309/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 09:06:54</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With the largest global installed base of pure-play BPM solutions, the Ultimus BPM Suite exemplifies the role of managing OSAP processes in the business process ecosystem. Customers worldwide use it to extend, maximize and complement their investments in SAP or other enterprise applications.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enterprise BPM Scalability]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1310/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 09:02:33</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ultimus has been build from the ground-up with scalability in mind. Ultimus&rsquo; component-based, database centric architecture position it perfectly as a solution that allows you to effortlessly scale your enterprise business processes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Workflow Foundation, SharePoint Workflow Designer and the Ultimus BPM Suite]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1311/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 09:05:53</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and the Ultimus BPM Suite compliment each other. WF can be used to extend the capabilities of Ultimus by performing specialized services. The Ultimus BPM Suite can be invoked by WF activities to perform workflows that are not simple and require extensive and robust human-centric capabilities.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Data Center Automation: Enabling the Agile Enterprise]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1380/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-04 16:30:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From humble roots in basic provisioning, data center automation has grown in response to years of unbridled server proliferation, and is now transforming the enterprise data center.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Web-Enabled Applications and the Internet: Satisfying the Growing Expectations of Business Users]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1572/</link>
<pubDate>2007-11-13 10:18:26</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Businesses across Europe are becoming increasingly reliant on web-enabled applications that are accessed over the public internet. One of the key drivers for this is to open up communications with external organizations that are fundamental to core business processes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option? 7 Styles of Data Integration]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1589/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-16 12:40:14</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to access data for analysis and reporting. You should analyze each business challenge to understand whether a data warehouse or another type of information-access method presents the best solution. This white paper identifies seven basic ways to integrate and access data to solve various business problems.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How AON Simplified & Automated Files Transfers with GlobalSCAPE]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1770/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-15 11:16:23</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[AON&rsquo;s Human Capital division needed a better way to automate their data transfer processes. They wanted a simple yet flexible system that didn&rsquo;t require customization to adapt to growing needs.&nbsp; They wanted to consolidate their sensitive data transfers and ensure the security of this data and to provide integration with current workflow and key legacy applications. AON deployed the GlobalSCAPE EFT (Enhanced File Transfer) server. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Releasing Resources to Support Growth: The Long-Term Benefits of Finance Transformation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1774/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-29 11:11:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CFO Research Services and Concur developed the hypotheses for this research jointly.&nbsp; This study discovers how companies have deployed the savings they&rsquo;ve realized so far through their transaction-processing improvement efforts. Our survey of senior finance executives in North America reveals that the finance function has freed time and resources to pursue high-value activities like decision support and financial planning and analysis as a result of transaction-processing automation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IDC: Business Agility as an Enabler for Growth]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1836/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-04 22:55:40</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It can take time and considerable energy for a growing business to finally put in place processes and procedures that really work. Of course, the solutions for today&rsquo;s problems are not likely to be the right ones for tomorrow, never mind two or three years out. The key is to have an adaptable, flexible organization that anticipates change (or at least can accommodate it) rather than one that is disrupted and confounded by new developments.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Driving Workforce Productivity with Unified Communications: The Path to Fixed/Mobile Convergence]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1954/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-13 09:58:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Aberdeen&#39;s research shows that Unified Communications (UC) solutions have a measurable impact on the productivity of an organization&#39;s workforce. Read this report to learn how best-in-class organizations are leveraging their UC solutions as part of an integrated business-process mapping program to understand how UC solutions help the workforce most effectively impact those core business processes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WebSphere Message Broker: Delivering Business Value Through an Advanced Enterprise Bus]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2337/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Business integration, along with the IT integration resources required to support it, has become an essential focus for companies across industries. These organizations want to update existing technology assets&mdash;and realize new value from what were previously disconnected and isolated applications.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ITIL and CMDB Synergy: Enhanced Service Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2393/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IT organizations that want to achieve the full business value from their service management initiatives need consistent, current, accurate, and secure information. That&rsquo;s why an increasing number of these organizations are seriously looking at how a configuration management database (CMDB) can help them manage their infrastructure more effectively.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Streamlining Service Request Processes: A Key to Business Success]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2395/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine being able to give your employees the luxury of one-stop, online shopping for all the services they need.&nbsp; Now, imagine that you could provide all of your service providers with a centralized location to promote available services to those employees. With service request management technology, you can. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Get Solutions for Workload Automation and Service Execution]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2484/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As service execution becomes increasingly important and complex, traditional job management tools aren&#39;t cutting it. With IBM Tivoli workload automation products, you can easily automate and manage simultaneous workloads across heterogeneous environments.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Achieve Fuel Distribution Excellence]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2497/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-24 17:44:42</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn how the SAP for Oil &amp; Gas solution portfolio provides functionality that gives fuel marketers and distributors visibility into their distribution network, integrates customer information, and automates processes to improve efficiency, forecast accuracy, and adaptability.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reinventing Workload Automation with SOA]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2612/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:51:37</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although typically thought of as an artifact of legacy computing, batch processes remain vital to today&rsquo;s real-time enterprises. Behind the real time systems that power the real time enterprise, such as customer order fulfillment, account management, supply chain scheduling and optimization, or financial trading systems, are regularly-updated back office business systems. Over the years, batch technology has evolved from script-based automation to rules or policy-driven workload automation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Brave New World of IT Workload Automation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2614/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:49:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Enterprise Job Scheduling, once the back office function of Operations in the mainframe world, has evolved to become a critical factor in the real time enterprise (RTE). Think you know all there is to know about job scheduling? Take another look and learn how the next generation of job scheduling is evolving into IT Workload Automation, and how CA can help your company realize the real time enterprise.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Key Ingredient for Compliance Automation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2617/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:48:26</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The recent economic downturn and corporate scandals compounded concerns of corporate accountability and confidence in U.S businesses. To improve shareholder confidence in management&rsquo;s ability to self-govern, the Federal Government implemented strict regulatory protocols to help restore accountability and improve public as well as shareholder confidence. The primary example of course is the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 which sought lasting eradication of corporate corruption by implementing specific controls across key financial business processes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Eurekify Enterprise Role Manager for CA Identity Manager]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2699/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-25 10:26:51</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Organizations are facing an explosion in the number of users of all types - employees, customers, partners and contractors - all of which need access to applications, data and other resources. While trying to provide access to the resources each user needs as quickly as possible, the organization must also ensure users do not have access to things they do not need.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Steps Every CIO Should Follow to Increase Operational Maturity through IT Automation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2807/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-27 15:20:02</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This whitepaper is directed to technology executives and team members who are looking to increase the efficiency and operational maturity of their IT operations. It will discuss in detail the following five steps, each required to fully realize the potential of your technology investments.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Improve the Efficiencies of Your SOA Solutions with Performance Testing]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2877/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IBM Rational Testing Solutions for SOA help software delivery and QA teams to improve the quality of SOA solutions, by automating the creation, execution and analysis of functional, regression and performance tests of non-GUI business processes and services. In this webcast, we will demonstrate the benefits of IBM Rational Testing Solutions for SOA.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An Evaluation of Buy Versus Build for Portal Solutions by IDC]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2903/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-14 13:34:56</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Portals are becoming integral enablers of business and IT innovation for many organizations. From first-generation content aggregation portals to more sophisticated enterprise process portals, organizations have used portal solutions to improve productivity, streamline business processes, enable new Web-based product and service delivery models, and provide IT with a powerful platform for new and composite application development.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Benefits of Business Service Automation: An In-Depth Customer Survey]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3193/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What can you really expect from the use of HP Business Service Automation? HP customers share real results! ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reducing Cost, Risk, and Errors with IT Process Automation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3209/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:51:23</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Despite increasingly complex data center environments, IT is expected to provide business owners with faster service, higher reliability, and greater agility than ever before &ndash; all within a tight budget. It is impossible to meet these goals with manual IT processes. However, EMA research shows that IT Process Automation (ITPA) helps achieve these goals, delivering annual savings of $500,000 on staff costs alone, and 64 hours of additional uptime per year &ndash; plus improved resource utilization, security and compliance, problem response times, and agility.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Virtualization: Simplify. Automate. Lower Costs. Discover the Business Benefits of Virtualization]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3262/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-22 11:58:21</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Enterprise Strategy Group analysts Mark Bowker and Mark Peters will share the business drivers and benefits for virtualizing both servers and storage. You&#39;ll gain an understanding of IT infrastructure virtualization in order to evaluate the operational benefits it could provide. You&#39;ll also learn what steps to take to assess your IT environment to quantify the benefits of virtualization. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Energen Corporation Transformed Its Business With SAP Plant Maintenance and Project Systems]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3293/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-25 12:57:38</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[See how this diversified energy company used SAP Best Practices and the SAP for Utilities solution set of software and services to automate processes, eliminate inefficiencies, and reduce costs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Managing New Technology Realities]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3310/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Managing new technology realities explores the move towards greater investment in process automation in the insurance industry. The paper features an interview and case study with Oliver Bussmann, CIO of Allianz of America.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Job Scheduling Evaluation Guide]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3356/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-03 14:35:25</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IT groups must support many applications and servers across multiple platforms that frequently operate independently of each other. However, coordinating job scheduling across all these applications and networks is often required to optimize resource utilization. The traditional approach of applying more staff, toolkits, and rudimentary scheduling software to cobble together automated batch processing solutions becomes cost-prohibitive, inefficient, and error-prone, as the number of moving parts increases and the environment becomes more heterogeneous.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tidal's Enterprise Scheduler Provides Staples with Cost-Effective Automation and Centralization]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3357/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Staples&rsquo; information systems play a critical role in delivering on their brand promise &#39;that was easy.&#39; As part of a recent strategic imperative, Staples recently embarked on a major modernization of its systems architecture and supporting processes. The goal was to ensure IT&rsquo;s systems could scale with the company&rsquo;s continued global expansion without sacrificing the quality of the brand experience. One critical target for modernization was Staples&rsquo; enterprise job scheduling processes and systems. After researching the top software providers in this space, Staples selected Tidal Software to support its efforts to centralize and streamline automated batch processing.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Simplify Scheduling through Consolidation and Automation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3358/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With 50+ percent of all business processes leveraging batch operations, it is essential to keep your batch production running smoothly in order to keep your business running smoothly. Whether you are consolidating datacenter operations, moving apps to more cost-effective platforms, or transitioning from customized to packaged applications, learn how you can simplify and lower the cost of batch management with a single interface to all batch processes across platforms and applications and more.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Automating Job Scheduling for Windows]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3359/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Datacenters experience constant change under pressure from technology and business drivers. IT systems are becoming more, not less complex as new technologies are introduced, and IT staffs are not growing to keep pace with the growth in size and complexity of the typical datacenter. Windows administrators need to radically simplify both complex and routine tasks if they are going to effectively respond to the constant pressure to deliver increasing value with limited resources. The most effective thing Windows administrators can do to address this issue is to minimize duties associated with maintaining the existing infrastructure.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 5 Automation Imperatives]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3372/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Get detailed information about business service automation from HP Software. Learn how it works, how it is different, what best-of-breed components make up the complete solution and how to use it for maximum efficiency.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CA's Workload Automation: Product Roadmap and Integration Strategy]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3401/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:49:31</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper provides insight into CA&#39;s vision of advanced job scheduling. With the acquisition of Cybermation products, CA has gained components of workload automation not currently in CA Job Management solutions. The technologies from both companies combined, when integrated, will provide you with a strong solution for advanced workload automation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dealing with Changes and Pressures for Business Intelligence (BI) Today]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3439/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-23 10:16:19</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[BI and data warehousing have undergone significant changes in the past decade. With the advent of operational BI came major pressures on the BI environment, involving the need to support operational decision-making. This white paper explores these pressures and how to deal with them by creating a dynamic, future-proof infrastructure.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reducing Cost, Risk, and Errors with IT Process Automation Webcast]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3549/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Featuring an expert from Enterprise Management Associates, this webcast discusses some tactical steps towards automation of various IT processes, showing how even in processes with interdependent tasks, IT Process Automation can start IT groups down the path of reducing complexity and error rates, two of the leading drivers of cost and chaos.]]></description>
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