Business Process Automation White Papers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learn how an ETO manufacturer can go about selecting ERP software that truly meets their needs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The What, Why & How of CRM Integration This report contains insights from C-level executives, business analysts and IT engineers, and systems integrators and consultants who design and implement data integration for their enterprise clients.

Using Splunk, Cricket was able to identify system degradation and failures, even in the application area of Cricket's highly-automated and virtualized environment. Read about Cricket's impressive hard and soft ROI.

SilkPerformer is a cost-effective, enterprise-class performance testing solution for optimizing the performance of business apps. SilkPerformer enables performance tests that accurately simulate peak demand loads and isolate performance bottlenecks.

This paper explores the question: what could your organization do with faster, better answers, and provides possible use case scenarios that illustrate the value this technology brings to a variety of industries.

This paper defines predictive analytics, then details ways this type of analytics can be applied to marketing, risk, operations and more. It also includes information relevant to a wide variety of industries - from manufacturing to hospitals.

This paper shows the results of the survey, as well as trends and expert opinions focusing on why some top organizations are able to successfully extract insight from "big data."

Michael Lock of the Aberdeen Group focuses on the effect of end user adoption, pervasiveness, and engagement of business intelligence on business performance. Learn the necessary steps to establishing self-service business analytics.

How does an organization make the best use of data, and what is the proper role of IT? This paper describes how organizations can foster a culture of data analytics that promotes cooperation and collaboration between IT and business.

Learn what criteria distinguished certain companies as top performers within the SMB sector, the factors to consider when assessing your organization's BI competency and the required actions to achieve best-in-class performance.

This white paper reveals the results of a Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services survey of 930 respondents globally on the current state of business analytics within organizations. You'll discover how and why the use of analytics is growing!

This Aberdeen Research Brief draws on three discrete data sets in order to understand the tangible business impact of effective analytics in the SMB market.

Learn about the emerging best practices for mobile BI usage and the framework by which you can assess your own management capabilities for enterprise mobile BI adoption.

The traditional managed reporting approach to BI is challenged to keep up with changing demand for business information. This research finds that providing business users with highly visual/interactive tools can help ensure they get what they need.

This paper provides an intro to managers and marketing professionals applying analytics to marketing to significantly improve outcomes. It explains not only why you need to make this shift, but also how you get started and what tools you'll need.