Business Process Automation

In this Podcast with Eli Almog, Corporate Architect in BMC's CTO Office, discusses how IT managers can know when it's time to look at BSM, consider CMDB, learn how virtualization fits into your organization, and how automation can help your company retain its competitive edge.

Forrester Research has named Apama as a standout leader in the complex event processing (CEP) platform market in The Forrester Wave: Complex Event Processing Platforms, Q3 2009 Report. The Report evaluated nine CEP platform vendors based on a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria.

To meet the challenges of intense competition and increasing customer demands, companies must tightly align their IT service management with business issues and priorities. This paper outlines the maturity steps involved in the progression towards proactive Business Service Management (BSM) and explains how ASG's metaCMDB helps secure its seamless adoption.

Batch Application Integration allows you to process critical transactions, such as payment authorizations, in real-time, and cue fulfillment (such as packaging and shipping) or other lower priority actions for batch processing. Learn more about Batch Application Integration, and how BMC CONTROL-M makes it possible.

Gartner has positioned BMC CONTROL-M in the Leaders Quadrant of their "2009 Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling." The report assesses the ability to execute and completeness of vision of key vendors in the marketplace. Read a full copy today, courtesy of BMC Software.

This document will show that workflow and application automation are similar, but that there are important distinctions, and that ultimately they serve different purposes. The document concludes by making the argument that your ultimate goal should be full automation. Learn more today!

This document describes automation tools that are used in an organization, the problems of using different tools and the advantages of consolidating them nto a central automation solutions such as UC4 Workload Automation Suite. Learn more today!

This paper examines the evolution of IT organizations as they move from static batch processing to dynamic workload automation capabilities that integrate with and understand business processes and trigger revenue-generating actions based on real-time requests. The paper also looks at the role of vendor UC4 in this strategically important market. Learn more today!

Managing service delivery in todayís complex and dynamic business environments demands new and different approaches from IT. The explosive growth and the rate of change of information has brought particularly daunting challenges for IT that have contributed to incredibly complex underlying infrastructures. To get a true picture of all of the components necessary to support an IT or Business Service, you must access and bring together data that resides in disparate data silos throughout the enterprise.

Delivering world class customer service in today’s fast paced business environment is becoming more difficult as information and data requires instant access.

See how this integrated out-of-the-box help desk, asset management and Change Management solution can help solve many IT help desk problems with ease.• Easily create tickets and requests • Automate repetitive workflows • Perform asset discovery • Manage software license compliance • Run pre-built dashboards and reports 

Find out how Numara Track-It! can help you build better processes, manage organizational knowledge and solve problems quickly. Keep issues from falling through the cracks and efficiently manage help desk requests as well as other processes that require request management: • Optimize help desk efficiency with easy to use systems • Empower customers with self service • Improve productivity with automated alerts, notifications and assignments • Reduce diagnostic time with knowledge management • Reduce resolution time with asset and work order history

Discover how Numara® Track-It!® helps you avoid unplanned service interruptions, lost revenue and customer dissatisfaction due to unmanaged change. With change management capabilities, you will have the flexibility and management tools you need.• Implement change control • Reduce time and effort while improving productivity and compliance • Leverage your IT investment with a fully integrated change management solution • Improve customer satisfaction • Adhere to best practices in IT change management • Reduce the cost of IT services

Batch Application Integration allows you to process critical transactions, such as payment authorizations, in real-time, and cue fulfillment (such as packaging and shipping) or other lower priority actions for batch processing. Learn more about Batch Application Integration, and how BMC CONTROL-M makes it possible.

In the transport and logistics market where timing is critical, a matter of minutes can make or break a performance-based contract. Your success will depend on your organization's ability to visualize, monitor and act on internal events and external events that effect your operations.

Enterprise content is growing at an average rate of 200% per year-and the risks of noncompliance are growing even faster. This paper examines the business and technical difficulties of managing content from disparate systems and presents the most viable alternatives for addressing these challenges.

Differentiate yourself from the competition with superior services and products. Business process management (BPM) powered by the IBM Smart SOA™ portfolio makes it possible by enabling you to monitor, manage and improve business operations. Constant insight fuels smarter decisions and a more proactive approach to business.

With the economy in constant fluctuation, this white paper is especially timely. “Enhancing your infrastructure in an uncertain economy to support your SOA business initiatives” defines the challenges facing IT executives, and outlines actions they can take now to cut costs, increase productivity and get more out of existing IT investments.

Today we share information faster and farther than ever before. Despite this, 42% of people make decisions based on wrong information every week. This brochure from IBM® will show you how to join the smart revolution and create a more productive, efficient and sustainable world. Learn more.

Batch Application Integration allows you to process critical transactions, such as payment authorizations, in real-time, and cue fulfillment (such as packaging and shipping) or other lower priority actions for batch processing. Learn more about Batch Application Integration, and how BMC CONTROL-M makes it possible.

The intrepid data miner runs many risks, including being buried under mountains of data or disappearing along with the "mysterious disappearing terabyte."  This article outlines some risks, debunks some myths, and attempts to provide some protective "hard hats" for data miners in the technology sector.

Innovation is no stranger to the information technology function. Armed with increasingly sophisticated applications, IT-led teams have consistently found new ways to streamline enterprise business processes, vastly improving operating efficiency and reducing costs. Corporate leaders, however, are raising the bar: they expect IT’s core mission to expand from cost-cutting to enabling revenue generation within a short period of time.

ASG's Business Service Portfolio (BSP) Virtualization Management provides comprehensive oversight, inspections, discoveries, warnings, diagnostics, and reporting for the critical technology and administrative disciplines involved in virtual workload management. This is all done in parallel with physical systems management.

Improved business productivity often requires more efficient IT and more efficient IT cannot be achieved without a better understanding of the way business services are run and delivered. Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) have emerged as a central component for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and business service management (BSM).

ASG's Business Service PortfolioT (BSPT) Virtualization Management provides comprehensive oversight, inspections, discoveries, warnings, diagnostics, and reporting for the critical technology and administrative disciplines involved in virtual workload management. This is all done in parallel with physical systems management.