Business Process Automation

This white paper describes how Winshuttle data management applications enable finance, accounts payable/receivable, purchasing, human resources and production planning teams to easily automate the incorporation of Excel data into an SAP solution. Critical business decisions must be based upon timely, accurate information. Manual entry of Microsoft Office Excel data into the SAP Business Suite is not a reasonable option because it is time intensive and prone to errors. To...

In this Expert Podcast, learn how to effectively implement a workflow management project in your ERP environment. Workflow management has evolved over many decades. Today, there are many options for workflow management, especially in ERP environments, and the benefits can be compelling. Companies can find notable improvements in efficiency and profitability when they truly understand cross-functional business processes -- and have a method to link and manage these...

Learn how you can benefit from a solution to simplify the process of integrating business processes no matter what integration technology, industry standards, or communication protocols are being used. Companies have been working to implement a consolidated integration strategy that will achieve shorter production times, faster order fulfillment, reduced inventory on hand, and tighter control over financial processes. Over the past decade, companies were...

This paper focuses on the automation of accounts payable processes - a task that used to be largely paper-based and cumbersome. While many business processes have become automated, accounts payable processes remain largely paper-based and cumbersome. At the same time, streamlining these processes offers great opportunities for companies to realize a wide range of benefits, from reduced payment cycles and better cash flow to enhanced auditability and reporting.

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ITIL is emerging as the standard way of managing IT service delivery; the latest Version 3 has extended this, aligning service design, development, and delivery more closely with business goals. ITIL is emerging as the standard way of managing IT service delivery; the latest Version 3 has extended this, aligning service design, development, and delivery more closely with business goals. Organizations implementing ITIL usually get good results, in terms of...

Building ebox using Microsoft technologies helped Prowell to deliver its new enterprise-ready solution in only six months-and at one-tenth of the cost of another well-known portal and integration platform. To drive revenue growth, paper product manufacturer Prowell GmbH built a full-featured e-business portal and integration platform that connects with the company's internal systems and the systems of trading partners to automate supply chain...

BPA solutions provide the tools, technologies, and infrastructure to automate complex business processes end to end in order to help increase competitive advantage and deliver tremendous value and visibility to business. Microsoft delivers agile and adaptive solutions for business process automation (BPA). BPA solutions provide the tools, technologies, and infrastructure to automate complex business processes end to end in order to help increase competitive...

Solutions are available from Microsoft and partners to accelerate the development of standards-based, integrated healthcare solutions for both providers and insurance plans. Solutions are available from Microsoft and partners to accelerate the development of standards-based, integrated healthcare solutions for both providers and insurance plans. They provide an extensible foundation for both internal sharing of information and the exchange of...

BPA solutions provide the tools, technologies, and infrastructure to automate complex business processes end to end in order to help increase competitive advantage and deliver tremendous value and visibility to your business. BPA solutions provide the tools, technologies, and infrastructure to automate complex business processes end to end in order to help increase competitive advantage and deliver tremendous value and visibility to your business,...

This white paper presents the Microsoft Corporation vision for service orientation and service-oriented architecture in enterprise computing. Service-orientation is a means for building distributed systems. At its most abstract, service-orientation views everything from the mainframe application to the printer to the shipping dock clerk to the overnight delivery company as a service provider. Service providers expose capabilities through interfaces...

Read how BI delivers information that, when linked with BPM, gives people the input they require to improve business processes. Business Process Management (BPM) is a methodology to ensure that all the processes support a common set of goals and objectives. It involves automating and/or improving the effectiveness of process activities, tasks and outcomes to accomplish particular business purposes. Its goals include not only efficiency and productivity but, beyond them...

Service-orientation, with the advent of Web services, is the latest technology solution put forward to automate business activities. Service-orientation, with the advent of Web services, is the latest technology solution put forward to automate business activities. (For a good overview of SOA and related concepts in Microsoft's connected systems strategy, please refer to Service Orientation and its role in Your Connected Systems Strategy.) The concepts...

Read this white paper and learn to leverage your investments in advanced content management systems and meet your enterprise content management objectives. A recent report by the Aberdeen Group stated that businesses of all sizes seek technology to better manage the implosion of data and other digital assets created in the course of doing business. These conditions necessitate that enterprise organizations improve the manner by which they collect and store knowledge...

Learn how with Premiere Global Services' Enterprise Document Solutions, key document delivery processes are automated, so your valuable resources can stay focused on your core business. Streamlining your back office administration can lower costs and increase productivity, resulting in a significant improvement to your bottom line. With Premiere Global Services' Enterprise Document Solutions, key document delivery processes are automated, so your valuable...

Telelogic® Dashboard™, a decision-making dashboard for project management, gives project managers quick insight into project risk, status, and trends by automating the collection, analysis, and reporting of measurement data from Telelogic® Change™ and Telelogic DOORS®. Today's organizations must meet the demands of their customers with high quality products, developed in less time than ever before. Managers do their best to meet deadlines by deciphering overwhelming and often...

Telelogic® Tau® provides standards-based Model-Driven Development for complex systems and software including distributed applications and Service Oriented Architectures. Telelogic® Tau® is a Model Driven Development™ (MDD) environment for systems and applications analysis, design, development, and testing using industry standards including Unified Modeling Language™ (UML 2.0™), SysML, and Model-Driven Architecture® (MDA®). Organizations face significant challenges describing...

Telelogic® System Architect® the industry's leading application for visualizing, analyzing and communicating your organization's enterprise architecture and business process analysis, increases your competitive edge by improving your real-time decision-making... Do you need a better way to respond to a changing environment? Are you looking for a scalable solution that provides you with the ability to ensure business processes and IT systems help achieve business...

Telelogic® DOORS®, the market and technology leader in Requirements Management, increases the quality of systems engineering, business-critical IT and software development projects by improving requirements communication and collaboration. Telelogic® DOORS®, the world's leading requirements management tool, helps you deliver quality by optimizing requirements communication, collaboration, and verification across the enterprise. Telelogic® DOORS® is a multi-platform...

Telelogic® Synergy™ is the award-winning tool suite for task-based Change Management and Configuration Management. Synergy provides lifecycle control for your company's digital assets, enabling you to assess and authorize change requests, from both internal and external sources, using a change control workflow customized to your needs. Synergy Suite’s Change and Configuration Management capabilities enable you to: - Improve development, build management, and quality...

FAMIS Occupancy Management provides true enterprise level space management by consolidating facility related data usually scattered over diverse departments of an enterprise. FAMIS Occupancy Management provides true enterprise level space management by consolidating facility related data usually scattered over diverse departments of an enterprise. Thus FAMIS becomes the hub of spatial data for enterprise resource planning. FAMIS Occupancy Management was...

Explore business process pain points with which many organizations struggle and how you can combat them with a system that provides end to end automation, greatly reducing the need for internal IT support. Insurance carriers have been paying commission and bonus dollars to internal and external distribution channels since day one of operation. Market pressures and increased competition have placed stress and strains on older systems which puts many companies in the...

This white paper will examine how to significantly improve your ROI and describe how UC4 Workload Automation Suite enhances and extends the Oracle E-Business Suite. The Oracle E-Business Suite is an extensive set of business applications for managing important business processes across your organization. UC4 Software provides an advanced solution for the Oracle E-Business Suite that reduces implementation time, accelerates business processes, and provides...

This whitepaper describes how UC4 Workload Automation Suite can be used to help meet Sarbanes-Oxley compliance based on the COBIT Control Objectives, a widely adopted set of control objectives. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has become a permanent part of the corporate landscape. Companies are now investigating how they can meet SOX compliance most efficiently. Through full automation of business processes, UC4 Workload Automation Suite can significantly reduce...

With the increasing popularity of workflow software, many IT departments are wrestling with the distinction between workflow programs and application automation tools. This paper sheds some light on their distinction. With the increasing popularity of workflow software, many IT departments are wrestling with the distinction between workflow programs and application automation tools. Both claim to automate business processes.

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