Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
- Enterprise Business Architecture
- The Enterprise Business Architecture EBA provides that common reference model by defining the business strategy, governance, organization, and business functions of Virginia state government, and establishes a baseline that defines, which organizations perform those functions. This paper represents the initial enterprise business architecture for state government in Virginia and will...
- Tags: State Government, Virginia, Enterprise Business Architecture, Networking
- White papers 2005-04-13
- Yes! I Can Run My Business Runtime Edition (exe)
- Accounting software for small businesses. Includes standard business functions like invoices, sales orders, inventory, check writer, banking, bills, purchase orders, customers, A/P, A/R, general ledger, and over 150 reports. Based on our award-winning accounting software, Yes! I Can Run My Business, this runtime version offers the functions you need to...
- Tags: Accounting, Database, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Financial Services, Finance, Sales
- Software downloads 2005-08-03
- Big Business (dmg)
- Big Business is a business management program that integrates four critical business functions: sales, purchasing, inventory, and accounting. Big Business eliminates the need for separate company databases, contact management, inventory, and accounting programs. It automates workflow and increases productivity by centralizing important data in a single system that can grow...
- Tags: Accounting, Big Business, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- Software downloads 2005-06-24
- Business Functions (exe)
- This Excel add-in has 500+ high-performance functions and is a comprehensive toolkit for business planning and analysis. It is designed to make financial models such as business plans and budgets faster to build, less error-prone, and easier to understand and maintain. It does this through integrated families of functions, in...
- Tags: High-performance, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Office Suites, Software, Management
- Software downloads 2007-11-14
- Streamline to Success: The Real Mid-Market Experience: Wholesale/Distribution
- "Legacy" core systems, or Business Management Systems, are the lifeblood that supports the financial functions, and track inventory and sales information. In many cases, the legacy core systems represent 20 to 30 years of business rules and logic, customer and supplier data, and extensive internal and external interfaces, which...
- Tags: Financial, Streamline, Supplier, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Marketing, Finance
- Webcasts
- Continuity of Business
- Continuity Of Business COB refers to an organization's plans and procedures aimed at protecting its key assets and continuing its critical business functions in the event of threats such as natural disasters, pandemics, power outages, computer viruses, or terrorist attacks. COB has joined corporate governance and information security as factors...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Continuity Of Business, Corporate Governance, Corporate Insurance, Homeland Security, Business Security, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government
- White papers 2007-01-01
- SolutionBase: Ease Vista deployments with the Business Desktop Deployment Workbench
- It needs it!Vista needs a lot of help to be a productivity improvement for most business functions. A smart rollout would instruct users on how to use it to their benefit -- otherwise the rollout is a waste of IT's precious time.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), S.Howard-Sarin, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-07-26
- Businessware (exe)
- Businessware is the perfect answer for smaller businesses. Businessware provides you with all the fundamentals required to organize your finances and get a grip on key business functions. However Businessware goes much further than standard accounts software, it aims to be an integral part of the management of your business.
- Tags: BusinessWare, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Management
- Software downloads 2006-06-16
- Metastorm BPM - Bringing Business Value to SOAs
- SOA technology and methods provide a foundation for service enablement in an orderly fashion and allow an organization to avoid the pitfalls of deploying an uncontrolled maze of services. But from the outset, organizations face the challenge of where to start: what services are going to add immediate value, and...
- Tags: Metastorm, BPM, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Strategy, Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management
- White papers 2006-02-21
- IT's Responsibility for Business Continuity
- Business functions are as important to survivability as the company data. In today's environment, there are multiple sites that will take a company's data and restore it for them. However, data alone is not enough to keep a company afloat. The people and processes are necessary to manipulate the data...
- Tags: Information Technology, Jupitermedia Corp., Business Continuity, It Services
- White papers 2005-11-28
- Winning in the SMB Market: How Managed Service Providers Can Profitably Grow Their Business
- Local and regional service providers are benefiting from the fact that SMBs small and medium businesses are looking to outsource non-essential IT functions. Personal computers have grown to significant numbers in businesses of all sizes, and these systems are used for essential business functions. SMBs cannot afford the productivity loss...
- Tags: Service Provider, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Business Services, Remote Administration
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Auto Group Improves Sales, Reduces Cost to Open New Dealership
- Grindstaff Automotive Group wanted to enable information sharing among dealerships and reduce voice costs. The challenge was to increase sales. The group subscribed to managed Ethernet and managed LAN services, centralized applications and support functions and they adopted voice over IP. As a result it streamlined operations by centralizing business...
- Tags: Dealership, Cisco Systems Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Ethernet, Networking, Sales
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Oracle Forms and SOA: An Executive Summary
- More and more businesses are looking to the principles of Service Oriented Architecture SOA to align their business and I.T. needs. The ability to build services modeled on business functions, reuse and orchestration of common, loosely coupled services and the agility associated with working with modular services, built on recognized...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Forms, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Snapshot on Aligning Strategy, Analysis and Execution
- Setting strategic objectives, putting processes in place to achieve them, and realizing the results you desire seems simple, yet in reality organizations of all sizes struggle with making this happen.This snapshot, featuring research from Gartner, explains how to maximize business results and close the gaps that exist across business functions.
- Tags: Metastorm, Snapshot, Analysis, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-09-10
- Increase Business Agility Through BRM Systems and SOA: Best Bets to Increase ROI on Your Enterprise Applications
- The widespread acceptance of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA proves that enterprises have realized the promise of this technology. That promise of increased agility comes from a basic software design principle: loose coupling. SOA allows for business functions to be exposed as independent services. Web services, which is one way to implement...
- Tags: ROI, SOA, Agility, Enterprise Application, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-05-27
- A Manager's Guide to User Acceptance Testing: Its Role and Importance to Business
- For most businesses and organisations, if IT stops, the business stops. Whenever a company turns on a new production line, opens a new retail store, launches a new product or provides a new service, there is invariably a new or modified IT system behind it. A Problem-free IT system is...
- Tags: Information Technology, Manager, Problem-free IT System, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-11-08
- Architecting on Demand Solutions, Part 12: Use DB2 Alphablox to Generate Reports for Your Business Processes - Use Historical Data to Provide Insight
- This paper explains how to use IBM DB2 Alphablox to generate reports showing historical data about the Business Process Execution Language BPEL-based business processes running on IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1.1. DB2 Alphablox is a development platform that can help to quickly build and deploy Web-based reports. By...
- Tags: Business Process, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., DB2 Alphablox, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Databases, Business Operations, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-08-30
- Network Documentation - A Cornerstone for Disaster Recovery
- For many small and medium businesses, that have limited IT support, it is a challenge to keep up with the seemingly never-ending influx of new technology that supports the critical business functions that keep them growing. As the business adds on new hardware and updates their technology, who is keeping...
- Tags: Network, Documentation, Disaster Recovery, Networking
- White papers 2005-05-03
- Finance and Performance Management Mastery and the High Business Performance
- High-performance businesses have sophisticated capabilities in one or more of several strategically important business functions. This paper explains why finance is one of the areas. The results of recent study on the relationship between finance and high performance shows a tangible link and strong correlation between a high-performance business and...
- Tags: Performance, High-performance, Financial Accounting, Leadership, Performance Management, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2005-02-03
- Use Service-Oriented Decomposition to Meet Your Architectural Goals: Defining Services That Are Aligned With Your Business Model
- In this paper, design a set of services that defines an enterprise architecture blueprint to support business goals. Discover how hierarchical decomposition can help the user align services to support both current and future business functions. One also learns how to define interfaces for services as part of the Service-Oriented...
- Tags: Decomposition, Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- White papers 2007-10-16
