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Automation: the self-controlling operation of machinery that reduces or dispenses with human communication or control when used in normal conditions. Automation was first introduced in the...; Automation definition on BNET »

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Unicorn Financial: Automation Helps Patient Financer Cut Monthly Closing Cycle by 33 Percent: Tallahassee, Florida-based Unicorn Financial provides financing for elective medical procedures. It needed to reduce the time and effort it took to close its books. Old processes were labor intensive, involving the manipulation and updating of large spreadsheets by hand. The company's new solution uses a Microsoft SQL Server database to...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Databases, financing, patient, spreadsheet, income, Microsoft Corp., database; Case studies
EthicsPoint Extends Salesforce With AppExchange for Contract Management, Client Implementations, and Customer Lifecycle Automation: EthicsPoint, a rapidly growing startup that provides ethical compliance and governance services, found its Microsoft Excel-based sales tracking unwieldy as the company evolved. With a small IT team, the company wanted a solution that was easy to install, had out-of-the-box functionality, and required minimal training. Baseline CRM functionality and workflow...; Tags: Sales force management, Sales strategy, Customer relationship management (CRM), Salesforce.com Inc., contract management, SFA, sales, CRM, compliance, training; Case studies
Organichem Lays a Foundation for Growth: A Building Management System (BMS) is essential to facility operations. Besides enabling effective control of all facility-related processes and equipment - particularly those involving Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) - a BMS can also: help ensure adequate monitoring and control of GMP and non-GMP work areas; provide real-time visibility...; Tags: automation, HVAC, regulatory compliance, cost savings, monitoring; White papers
Health Care System: Automation of Business Processes, ERP Implementation: This health care system consists of 19 acute care hospitals, nearly 5,000 affiliated physicians, and approximately 20,000 employees. The challenges were: existing financial and materials management information systems were outdated, legacy systems consisted of several disparate applications that did not allow the accessing of real-time information, and administrative processes needed...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, BearingPoint Inc., health care, ERP, legacy system, physician, business case, information system, business process, team, financial; Case studies
Time to Automate: From Labor Savings to Just-in-Time Inventory, Automation Is the Wave of Warehousing's Future: Space has always been at a premium in most dairy processing plants. With necessary machinery taking up a huge part of a facility's overall footprint, processors need to make the most of the space they do have for warehousing ? all the while attempting to cut down the time products...; Tags: Stagnito Communications, warehousing, robotics, JIT, processor, supplier, storage, benefit; White papers

Making the Most of Work Management Through Automation: The concept of work management has been around for years. The majority of insurers, however, are still just getting marginal benefits from work management systems. Most insurers have taken a very document-focused approach to work management but have missed the true Holy Grail, which is automating manual processing tasks using...; Tags: Insurance, Operational planning, Computer Sciences Corp., insurance company, automation, business process, Holy Grail, data entry, BPM, environment, benefit; White papers
Japan Telecom: Salesforce Automation: To build on its momentum in the highly competitive telecommunications sector, Japan Telecom, one of the top three telecommunications companies in Japan, recognized that it needed to revisit and improve its marketing strategy. To help Japan Telecom in its quest to become a high-performance business, Accenture helped it refocus its...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Accenture Ltd., sales force, Siebel Systems Inc., channel management, marketing strategy, telecommunications, sales, customer satisfaction, high-performance, marketing, team; Case studies
Automation's Double-Edged Sword: The same drive toward automation and digital control that has transformed modern manufacturing is reshaping the pharmaceutical production world. At one level, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) addresses this by requiring validation of control and information systems that interact with production, the same as it does for reactors or tableting...; Tags: Federal government, FDA, information system, manufacturing, industry, software; White papers
Energy Company Uses Power of Automation: PSI (Public Service Indiana) Energy, Inc. in Plainfield, Indiana is a public electric power company serving 69 of 93 counties in Indiana. PSI Energy decided that it could save time and financial resources by automating all of its current and future documents to avoid hiring additional personnel in the future....; Tags: Indiana, hiring, financial; Case studies
5 Trends in Business Process Management: The importance of Business Process Management (BPM) for the future growth of organizations has been escalating due to greater levels of awareness. Initially, companies had used Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) initiatives to optimize operations management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) initiatives for service excellence. Later on however, the need for...; Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Enterprise software, BPM, automation, process reengineering, business process, ERP, CRM; White papers
SCORE Helps Automation Entrepreneur Learn The Process Of Launching A Successful Business In Canonsburg, PA: Rich had established his credentials as an expert in process automation, and was being groomed for bigger things. He began thinking about starting his own business providing process automation services. Rich knew the risks, but he believed that being an entrepreneur was at least worth looking into. He began learning...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, process automation, entrepreneur, market research, finance, small business; Case studies
Duke University Health System: Automation of Business Process, Sap Implementation: Duke University Health System (Duke) is a world-class health care network dedicated to providing a complete continuum of health services, from primary care to hospice. Shortly after creating its centralized health system, Duke realized it needed to increase efficiency and effectiveness by developing a single, automated business system across the...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Duke University, BearingPoint Inc., health care, SAP AG, business process, knowledge, benefit; Case studies
Focus on Automation: Where focus starts freeing up time normally spent doing other things, software knowledge brings you massive productivity gains. It's like magically pulling hours out of a hat. For example, take the time to get to know your MS Office software, no matter how busy you are. You'll...; Tags: Knowledge, Automation, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Strategy, Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Debbie Mayo-Smith; Blog posts 2008-03-11
Web Seminar Series: Quote to Contract Automation for Salesforce: Today, manually creating quotes and contracts inside your Salesforce.com system can slow down your sales cycle if you rely on nothing more than copying and pasting contact information, pricing, opportunity data and product information for every deal. Learn how to save time in your sales cycle and generate more revenue...; Tags: Sales force management, Sales tools, Sales strategy, sales cycle, Salesforce.com Inc., webinar, sales, pricing strategy, Web; Webcasts 2007-12-05
Empowering Business Performance with Contract Signature Automation: In 2005, EchoSign came to market with a revolutionary Web 2.0 contract signature automation service that manages the business process of getting contracts, signed, tracked and filed. EchoSign's application has made using e-signatures as easy to use as written, paper-based signatures. EchoSign drastically improves the customer's...; Tags: Web 2.0, business process, performance, Web; White papers 2007-08-29
Intelligent Document Automation to Increase Purchasing Process Efficiency with ERP Systems: For many organizations running packaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and other vendors, purchasing processes still involve conventional mail or fax delivery of purchase orders and accompanying documents such as RFQs, terms and conditions, and quotes. These manual processes limit the potential to achieve...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Supply chain management (SCM), Enterprise software, Purchasing & Procurement, Esker S.A., ERP, inventory control, ERP system, sourcing, SCM, procurement, fax, supply chain; White papers 2007-10-26
How to simplify the IT infrastructure with end-to-end Automation of document processes: Businesses continue to face rising pressure to cut costs and increase profitability while also improving customer satisfaction and partner relations through efficient communication. To accomplish this, leading companies are automating document-based business processes to improve communication with partners, customers and suppliers -- and they're looking to their CIOs to make...; Tags: Strategy, Esker S.A., enterprise application, customer satisfaction, IT infrastructure, information technology, supplier, business process, industry; White papers 2007-10-01
Automation And Accountability In Decision Support System Interface Design: When the human element is introduced into decision support system design, entirely new layers of social and ethical issues emerge but are not always recognized as such. This paper discusses those ethical and social impact issues specific to decision support systems and highlights areas that interface designers should consider during...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Databases, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, decision support system, accountability, decision support, agency, computer; White papers 2006-10-04
Realizing Benefits By Automating Customer Account Opening In Financial Services Institutions: Financial services institutions face unprecedented pressures, competitively and internally, to improve. An often-neglected area that is ripe for significant improvement and benefits is the account opening process. There are numerous opportunities to introduce or increase automation within account opening, using a targeted, manageable, iterative approach. Automation can offer wide-ranging improvements...; Tags: Benefits, Virtusa, automation, benefit, financial, compliance; White papers 2006-08-31
Designing Usable Decision Support Systems For HVM: In High Volume Manufacturing (HVM), system control is shared between automation and human workers. The social organisation of workers plays an important role in supporting human decisions. Advances in the application of automation to a system, may change the social organisation associated with its operation. It establishes new work roles...; Tags: Decision Support System, Worker, Automation, Cognitive Work Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2006-05-12