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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.

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Tidal's Enterprise Scheduler Provides Staples with Cost-Effective Automation and Centralization
By :Tidal Software Published Date: Aug 20, 2008
Staples’ information systems play a critical role in delivering on their brand promise 'that was easy.' 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’s systems could scale with the company’s continued global expansion without sacrificing the quality of the brand experience. One critical target for modernization was Staples’ 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.
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Reducing Cost, Risk, and Errors with IT Process Automation
By :CA WA Published Date: Jul 30, 2008
Despite increasingly complex data center environments, IT is expected to provide business owners with faster service, higher reliability, and greater agility than ever before – 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 – plus improved resource utilization, security and compliance, problem response
times, and agility.
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Reducing Cost, Risk, and Errors with IT Process Automation Webcast
By :CA WA 2 Published Date: Jul 21, 2008
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.
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Virtualization: Simplify. Automate. Lower Costs. Discover the Business Benefits of Virtualization
By :HP Published Date: Jun 11, 2008
Enterprise Strategy Group analysts Mark Bowker and Mark Peters will share the business drivers and benefits for virtualizing both servers and storage. You'll gain an understanding of IT infrastructure virtualization in order to evaluate the operational benefits it could provide. You'll also learn what steps to take to assess your IT environment to quantify the benefits of virtualization.
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The 5 Automation Imperatives
By :HP Software Published Date: Jun 06, 2008
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.
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Business Benefits of Business Service Automation: An In-Depth Customer Survey
By :HP Software Published Date: May 31, 2008
What can you really expect from the use of HP Business Service Automation? HP customers share real results!

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Eurekify Enterprise Role Manager for CA Identity Manager
By :CA Published Date: May 12, 2008
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.
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Dealing with Changes and Pressures for Business Intelligence (BI) Today
By :IBM Published Date: Mar 21, 2008
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.
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Automating Job Scheduling for Windows
By :Tidal Software Published Date: Mar 14, 2008
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.
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Job Scheduling Evaluation Guide
By :Tidal Software Published Date: Mar 03, 2008
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.
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Achieve Fuel Distribution Excellence
By :SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
Learn how the SAP for Oil & 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.
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Releasing Resources to Support Growth: The Long-Term Benefits of Finance Transformation
By :Concur Published Date: Jan 26, 2008
CFO Research Services and Concur developed the hypotheses for this research jointly.  This study discovers how companies have deployed the savings they’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.
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Simplify Scheduling through Consolidation and Automation
By :Tidal Software Published Date: Jan 24, 2008
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.

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How Energen Corporation Transformed Its Business With SAP Plant Maintenance and Project Systems
By :SAP Published Date: Jan 01, 2008
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.
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Managing New Technology Realities
By :SAP Published Date: Jan 01, 2008
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.
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An Evaluation of Buy Versus Build for Portal Solutions by IDC
By :IBM Published Date: Dec 20, 2007
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.
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5 Steps Every CIO Should Follow to Increase Operational Maturity through IT Automation
By :Stratavia Published Date: Nov 18, 2007
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.
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Stratavia
Reinventing Workload Automation with SOA
By :CA WA Published Date: Nov 16, 2007
Although typically thought of as an artifact of legacy computing, batch processes remain vital to today’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.
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Web-Enabled Applications and the Internet: Satisfying the Growing Expectations of Business Users
By :Quocirca Published Date: Oct 26, 2007
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.
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Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option? 7 Styles of Data Integration
By :Information Builders Published Date: Oct 03, 2007
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.

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Information Builders
Driving Workforce Productivity with Unified Communications: The Path to Fixed/Mobile Convergence
By :Motorola Good Technology Published Date: Sep 26, 2007
Aberdeen's research shows that Unified Communications (UC) solutions have a measurable impact on the productivity of an organization'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.
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IDC: Business Agility as an Enabler for Growth
By :SAP Published Date: Aug 28, 2007
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’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.
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How AON Simplified & Automated Files Transfers with GlobalSCAPE
By :GlobalSCAPE Published Date: Aug 24, 2007
AON’s Human Capital division needed a better way to automate their data transfer processes. They wanted a simple yet flexible system that didn’t require customization to adapt to growing needs.  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.

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Data Center Automation: Enabling the Agile Enterprise
By :Quocirca Published Date: Jul 11, 2007
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.
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Quocirca
The Future of B2B Leaders: The Transition from Operations to Business Value Drivers
By :Inovis Published Date: Jun 28, 2007
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.
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