Business Process Management (BPM)

Winshuttle streamlined Under Armour's seasonal product creation process, reducing manual data entry by 80% while empowering end-users to run data transfers without excessive IT intervention. Twice a year, the company undergoes a seasonal product creation process that requires a massive data transfer from the company's product development system into SAP. While a single team member oversaw this material creation process, an additional 10 production planners...

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...

This white paper describes how SAP® Business Suite customers can use Winshuttle software to automate the Order-to-Cash business process through the user-enabled loading of Excel data. This white paper describes how SAP® Business Suite customers can use Winshuttle software to automate the Order-to-Cash business process through the user-enabled loading of Excel data. It describes how Winshuttle software can speed data integration and improve...

View this Webcast to hear a discussion about the process, project requirements and available technology needed for an effective operational improvement support system. Delivering timely and relevant metrics to decision makers helps to improve operational effectiveness. This is typically referred to as Enterprise Performance Management, Corporate Performance Management or Operational Intelligence.

In this Webcast, you will gain an understanding of the process...

Attend this webcast to learn how with Inbound and Outbound Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solutions, Angel.com combines the power of the telephone, your data and the web to generate information-driven communications and transactions. With Inbound and Outbound IVR solutions, Angel.com combines the power of the telephone, your data and the web to generate information-driven communications and transactions - whether they are inbound callers, or outbound dialing...

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...

Systel required an ERP system to manage growing demands of back-office transaction and production data. Exact provided a scalable ERP solution that helped Systel transition from a small service-based consulting firm to a growing product-based business. Exact MAX and Exact Synergy provided the structure, integration, and automation Systel needed to deliver its innovative solutions to its customers. MAX provided the company with a back-office business management tool that...

This white paper will explore the use of technology today to help manage the ISO certification process, and the associated pitfalls that exist along the way. Today's consumers have become less tolerant of sub-standard quality products and services. As these consumers demand more, there is almost an exponential increase in the activity supporting the efforts to produce or deliver products and services. Throughout the world, various standards bodies have been...

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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SEEBURGER's B2B Gateway handles business integration for SEGA, due to which SEGA has reduced time to load orders less than 4 minutes, reduced administrative personnel training from three months to three weeks. SEGA of America needed to comply with Wal-Mart customer mandates, streamline its order process and create greater visibility into inventory. Uploading new orders via modem to its 10-year old B2B/EDI system took hours.

With SEEBURGER performing B2B/EDI...

Read how with the introduction of SAP NetWeaver XI/SAP NetWeaver PI, SAP has brought internal (EAI) and external (B2B/EDI) integration and collaboration into its core functionality. With the introduction of SAP NetWeaver® XI/SAP NetWeaver® PI, SAP has brought internal (EAI) and external (B2B/EDI) integration and collaboration into its core functionality. SEEBURGER has partnered with SAP to provide both B2B/EDI solutions and industry expertise.

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SEEBURGER, a world leader in B2B integration technology, offers powerful and complementary tools for global collaboration and seamless integration: the B2B Gateway and the B2B Portal. The tools and technologies built into SEEBURGER's B2B Gateway and B2B Portal enable enterprises to achieve information-driven supply chains. Operating seamlessly as components of a single, internally developed platform, SEEBURGER solutions address the critical aspects of...

B2B integration technology, offers powerful and complementary tools and services for seamless business integration and meeting the challenges of global collaboration. A vital B2B process, purchase to pay involves numerous steps: purchase orders arrive, triggering a series of interconnected events and processes that conclude with the shipment of goods, the generation of an invoice, and the receipt of payment on that invoice. The speed and accuracy of the entire...

This session of Get Schooled features Mike O'Malley, Director, External Marketing and he covers everything from the basic building blocks of QoS to its importance in high bandwidth applications. This session of Get Schooled features Mike O'Malley, Director, External Marketing and covers everything from the basic building blocks of QoS to its importance in high bandwidth applications such as IPTV, Video on Demand (VoD) and Business Ethernet services...

This white paper is targeted to those wanting to eliminate email downtime and keep employees productive with access to email during any circumstances. This white paper is targeted to those wanting to eliminate email downtime and keep employees productive with access to email during any circumstances.

Learn why the human side of email continuity planning is just as important as the technical planning when disaster strikes. Uncover the common practices to achieving zero...

Email has become a critical business tool, but it is also the easiest way for information to escape from the confines of a business. Learn why email Data Leak Prevention is critical to safeguard the information that is inside your network. Email has become a critical business tool, but it is also the easiest way for information to escape from the confines of a business. Email is where a significant amount of the knowledge, expertise and relationships within businesses is stored.

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Siemens IT Operations, had the challenge of connecting a myriad of dissimilar systems to overcome this problem they deployed Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2004 to integrate and manage a range of applications and business processes. Siemens is one of the world's leading electrical engineering and electronics companies. Siemens IT Operations, responsible for delivering IT services companywide, had the challenge of connecting a myriad of dissimilar systems. In...

Countrywide Financial migrated its tax applications to Microsoft® Windows Server System™, including the Microsoft .NET Framework. The Tax Services subsidiary of Countrywide Financial Corporation was adding more than 100,000 new mortgage-customer tax records to its database every month-and stressing its AS/400 system capacity. A new AS/400 would be a prohibitive expense and still leave the unit without the flexibility and reliability it wanted. The company...

Virgin wanted to analyze its daily operations data more quickly, and in greater depth so they used Microsoft® Windows Server System™ integrated server software and the Microsoft .NET Framework to build a business intelligence solution. Virgin Entertainment Group operates Virgin Megastores, one of the largest entertainment media retail specialty chains in the United States. Virgin wanted to increase the effectiveness of its store managers and product buyers by...

McGraw-Hill Construction transformed its information service business by connecting isolated data assets, and developing new products and services on a Microsoft® .NET-connected Web service architecture. McGraw-Hill Construction transformed its information service business by connecting isolated data assets, repurposing existing information products, and developing new products and services on a Microsoft® .NET-connected Web service...

Clalit turned to Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2002 and ContentMaster from Itemfield® to consolidate data from more than 20 disparate systems. As Israel's largest healthcare provider, with 3.75 million members, Clalit Health Services faces the same business pressures that confront health plans across the globe: rising costs and growing consumer demand to play a greater role in financial and clinical decisions. Clalit recognized that to make the most effective...

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 paper presents a big-picture view of the area, looking at both Microsoft offerings and complementary partner products, the intent is to provide a technology overview of BPM in the Microsoft world. BPM has gone mainstream. As its technologies continue to spread, more and more organizations will use them to make business processes faster, less error-prone, and more reliable. Even in companies whose business leaders haven't embraced a process-oriented...