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The Case for Business Process Management: Driving Efficiencies and Mission Advancement

Overview This white paper defines BPM (Business Process Management) and distinguishes it from its technological predecessors. This paper also gives guidelines on typical BPM features and classifications, as well as technical details on implementations. Business Process Management (BPM) technology is a new approach to efficiency and competitiveness. BPM is designed to extend the capabilities of past business process solutions and overcome their shortcomings for process automation.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Metastorm	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2001	Downloads	6
Format	White Papers
Topics	Business Strategies, Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing

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Strategic Vision: Giga Information Group on CRM

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Comment & Analysis

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IT Director

The Bloor Perspective: BPM, software industry consolidation and Google’s monopoly?

Enterprise content management (ECM), web content and portal vendors are all rapidly converging their products to deliver BPM solutions. BPM is too important an idea to be ignored for long. Today, the focus is on information worker productivity and...

Tibco snaps up Staffware for £123m in "logical fit"

It's done well with BPM and I've been following it for years but £40m a year doesn't make it a very big player. Tibco had similar problems and it's started to do well out of BPM but it's original products are now being offered by competitors as...

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Applications

Takeover will help "maintain lead" says Staffware chief

Tibco could reasonably be called the original middleware company but until its recent move into the BPM market it had been suffering in competition with the software majors. John O'Connell, Staffware's chairman and CEO, told silicon that the...

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Applications

Virtualisation: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria

In the past several years, server virtualisation technology has moved quickly and firmly into the IT mainstream. Of the many approaches to system virtualisation available in the market today, VMware's hypervisor architecture has gained the greatest market acceptance. This paper examines the architectural issues, solution support, and enterprise readiness required when deploying such a virtualisation solution.

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EMC

Getting Started with Master Data Management

Master data management forms part of an overall enterprise governance program that aims to establish trusted data throughout the enterprise. This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines master data, examines why it is needed, and explores methodologies for implementing master data management.

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DataFlux

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EMC

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