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Business Process Automation
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.
Case Study Published By: Turn
Published Date: May 20, 2013
Forrester Consulting examined the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by utilizing Turn Audience Suite and Turn Campaign Suite. Learn how this brand achieved a 50% ROI and attributes 80% of it’s digital media services revenue growth to Turn.
White Paper Published By: Prophix
Published Date: Apr 24, 2013
Spreadsheets are error-prone and unable to support the critical nature of important financial processes.
Read this free guide to learn how leading companies have broken the spreadsheet habit, adopting packaged applications specifically-designed for budgeting and forecasting.
White Paper Published By: Marketo
Published Date: Apr 23, 2013
Marketing Automation is technology that allows you to nurture leads through automated campaigns. Because marketing automation uses email as one of its methods for engaging customers, we are often asked, “What is the difference between Marketing Automation and Email Marketing?” For small businesses, marketing automation is a tool to take your marketing to the next level while saving your organization’s resources in the long run. Marketing automation builds upon your email marketing strategies to produce superior results. In this paper, we’d like to show you what marketing automation can do for you and help you decide if your organization is ready to graduate to a marketing automation solution.
White Paper Published By: Success Factors
Published Date: Jul 27, 2012
By automating your paper-based performance management processes, you can increase insight into the workforce and, ultimately, transform your business-turning strategy into successful, measurable results. Learn more by downloading your white paper now, compliments of SuccessFactors.
Read how taking five straightforward steps to BPA planning can root out inefficiencies to improve key processes and give your business a clear competitive advantage.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Apr 23, 2013
Now is the time for the finance organization to step up to the challenges and become a strategic business partner in the deployment of profitability analysis across the enterprise. This requires a fundamental shift—in terms of both vision and execution. Tomorrow’s winners will be the ones that are not content simply to survive this economic onslaught, but work to emerge nimble enough to thrive. Profitability analysis is critical in this context.
Read this whitepaper to learn more about profitability analysis and its benefits.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Apr 23, 2013
Profitability analysis is important to all companies. But in times of economic uncertainty, it becomes even more critical because organizations need a comprehensive and forwardlooking view of profitability to ensure that they can remain financially viable, whatever the economic circumstances. For companies to be successful, they need automated systems that enable interactive profitability analysis that can be shared across a broad swath of users. They also need robust, advanced analytics, to provide detailed granular metrics for assessing profitability and measuring performance. IBM offers solutions that can meet those needs.
Webinar Published By: ServiceNow
Published Date: Apr 19, 2013
Providing a good online shopping experience starts with understanding customer needs and expectations in order to deliver suitable goods and services. Employees expect a similar experience with a Service Catalog.
An effective business service catalog captures employee needs and communicates negotiated service offerings and service level agreements. However, hitting service level targets requires more than just listing services. It’s essential to provide an automated self-service portal and open communication.
Webinar Published By: ServiceNow
Published Date: Apr 19, 2013
Every enterprise relies upon multiple custom applications – to do things that you just can’t get packaged solutions to do and, in some cases, to provide competitive advantage. But those custom applications can be an Achilles heel as business needs and underlying technologies evolve. One size does not fit all, and not every available platform is appropriate for every custom application.
Webinar Published By: ServiceNow
Published Date: Apr 19, 2013
As an IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leader you understand the business and IT impact of service management and automation (SMA). SMA done right will improve staff productivity, increase the quality of services, reduce operational costs, and improve the overall IT organization’s reputation with the business. That is why building the business case to secure funding and executive support for SMA is critical.
White Paper Published By: Salesforce
Published Date: Feb 21, 2013
What can Salesforce do for you? This ebook is a great first step to your answer. Download it now and get a taste of the world's #1 sales, service, and marketing app. Download now.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Feb 21, 2013
Disclosure management tools ave transformed the so called ‘Last Mile’ of finance, turning a haphazard, time consuming and error-prone process into a much more streamlined, timely and controlled endeavor.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Feb 21, 2013
With this book, you find out how a unified CCR process gives leaders timely and accurate insights to make smarter decisions. You also discover features of the ideal CCR solution and learn what to look for in the selection process.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Feb 21, 2013
Read this book to discover the benefits and value of a single, integrated, financial reporting and disclosure management platform that automate the production of these critical reports.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Feb 20, 2013
This paper reviews the processes involved in a company’s extended financial close process, the problems associated with a manual effort, and the benefits of using an integrated and automated single-platform solution for Financial Close Management.
Case Study Published By: IFS
Published Date: Dec 27, 2012
Setting the price of goods for sale can be considered either an art or a science. And accurately tracking the cost of the thousands of component parts that go into a piece of complex machinery can be some combination of both.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Oct 01, 2012
Despite advances in technology, paper forms abound. But paper-based forms are time intensive and error prone. As a result, customers become frustrated with the increased cycle times and drained administrative resources.
White Paper Published By: Dell
Published Date: Jul 30, 2012
Small and mid-sized businesses are hopping on the virtualization bandwagon. A recent study indicates that a healthy number of SMBs have virtualized some aspect of their IT environments.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Jul 09, 2012
SAP users have been slow to adopt cloud computing, but IBM PureFlex Systems offer the potential to transform the server, storage and network infrastructures that support SAP enterprise environments and extend management services to non-SAP applications. Read this executive summary to learn how PureFlex Systems can dramatically reduce costs and cycle times.
Webinar Published By: VMWare - vFabric
Published Date: May 10, 2012
Attend this webcast to learn how VMware vFabric Application Director can help you ensure simplified and highly flexible application provisioning and create best practice application architectures to be reused by other functions in your organization.