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Optimization of a Global Energy Major's Processes
The client is a global energy major that needs to harmonize and leverage on the multiple IT divisions of the acquired companies. The client's requirement was an efficient translation of this process knowledge into proper process maps was a very critical challenge and business processes needed to comply with regulations...
Tags: Regulations, Wipro Technologies, modeling, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, business process, compliance, knowledge, information technology, tool
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CIO insights from IBM: IT optimization to meet business goals
The need for IT optimization is nothing new. But as CIOs are increasingly called upon to drive business strategy, they need to take a new look at their IT optimization goals. They still need to boost efficiency and cut costs—but those efforts must be balanced with the organization's need for...
Tags: Strategy, IBM Corp., CIO, information technology, business strategy
White papers 2006-09-01
Colgate drives innovation through strategic focus on IT optimization
In order to respond more quickly and cost effectively to new opportunities, Colgate-Palmolive needed to grow its service offerings without a corresponding escalation in IT infrastructure and costs. Major fast moving consumer goods enterprises such as Colgate operate in complex, dynamic markets, competing against both local and global rivals. Recognizing...
Tags: Strategy, IBM Corp., IT infrastructure, innovation, information technology, provisioning, IT environment, competitive advantage, virtualization
Case studies 2006-06-01
Business Optimization: Critical To BPM Success
The key advance of optimization over traditional BPM Business Process Management technologies is the ability to address both the real time optimization of individual processes "In flight" as well as the ability to identify strategic changes to business processes to drive long term value and cost savings. This dual mission...
Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, Global 360 Inc., BPM, optimization, business process, competitive advantage, cost savings, performance, server
White papers 2005-10-12
Getting Started on the Path to Process-Driven Enterprise Optimization
Many companies are discovering the possibilities for enhanced performance based on a movement toward a process-driven approach to business. However, many of those same companies struggle to identify a transition strategy that is appropriate for their organization, a strategy that can effectively yield tangible results in a relatively short amount...
Tags: strategy, performance
White papers 2005-02-01
Automotive Component Product Development Enhancement Through Multi-Attribute System Design Optimization In an Integrated Concurrent Engineering Framework
Automotive industry is facing a tough period. Production overcapacity and high fixed costs constrain companies' profits and challenge the very same existence of some corporations. Strangulated by the reduced cash availability and petrified by the organizational and products' complexity, companies find themselves more and more inadequate to stay in synch...
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, cost reduction, sales
White papers 2005-02-01
Enhancing Business Process Management With Simulation Optimization
This article presents two examples of simulation optimization using OptQuest to illustrate how to optimize simulation models to enhance business process management. The first case, this paper constructs a discrete event simulation model of a hospital emergency room to determine a configuration of resources that results in the shortest average...
Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, BPM, business process, staffing, patient, insurance
White papers 2005-01-01
Sector Exposure Models for Risk Management of Security Portfolio
Portfolio optimization requires the minimal risk with certain expected return. The portfolio optimization, or risk management, cannot be done by simply minimizing the exposure of the portfolio to each single risk factor independently. In this context the paper explains that the objectives of developing sector exposure models are two-fold: helping...
Tags: Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial services, risk management, risk, security
White papers 2004-05-12
Sourcing Optimization
This paper explains i2 capabilities for sourcing optimization that are designed to automatically analyze complex sourcing problems with thousands, or even millions, of alternatives with high speed. Optimal scenarios can be determined by taking into account business objectives, such as "Allocate 30 percent of spend to low-cost foreign suppliers" as...
Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, sourcing, i2 Technologies Inc., supplier, manufacturing
White papers 2004-03-01
Integrated Production Assurance for Subsea - A Strategy for Subsea Process Control Optimization
The platform network-based process control systems are likewise undergoing transformation, but the subsea interface, with inappropriate/incompatible communications architecture and conspicuously non-standardized devices remains mostly anomalous. The conceptual shift, which is to be recognized, is that future growth in the controls business area depends on a 'top-down' approach to data systems.
Tags: Business Briefings, strategy
White papers 2003-11-21
The New IT Value Proposition - Focus on Business Process Optimization, Not Cost Cutting
Information technology IT matters more than ever before. Chief Financial officers CFOs and other senior executives now view IT as a strategic resource for the entire enterprise. Computers, software, and networks are deemed as providing the essential foundation for business sustainability and growth. This research report summarizes how chief...
Tags: Strategy, Novell Inc., CFO, information technology, sustainability, business strategy, business process, compliance, network, computer, software
White papers 2003-11-01
Optimization Model of Measuring Strategy on CMM
An attempt to formal description of the procedure of optimization of measuring strategy on CMM was made and is being discussed briefly in this paper. A set of feasible solutions, constrains and objective function were defined. Chosen steps of optimization were described. An example of documenting of measuring strategy was...
Tags: Capability maturity model (CMM), Slovak Academy of Sciences, Capability Maturity Model, optimization, strategy
White papers 2003-08-26
Bsiness Process Optimization
Companies across all industries have recognized that implementing Business Process Management BPM software can provide a true competitive edge by automating, integrating and optimizing business processes to speed critical business decision-making, increase operational efficiency, lower the cost of doing business, and improve customer service. Processes can be tuned to their...
Tags: Operational planning, Strategy, FileNet Corp., business process, BPM, customer service, industry, software
White papers 2003-07-01
How to Benefit from Optimization, without Losing your Shirt
The technology is now available to design and try complete sets of test strategies simultaneously. This approach allows creditors to determine the optimal combination of test strategies in one experiment, dramatically shortening the learning curve and outperforming the competition. At least, that is the theory. This article addresses the overall...
Tags: strategy, theory, benefit, industry
White papers 2003-04-01
Service Process Optimization Through Services: Automation and Global Strategic Sourcing
CIO's and the departments they manage are challenged by a new working reality that includes tighter budgets and growing demand for demonstrable return on investments. Even as the resources available to them become increasingly constrained, IT departments also face greater pressure from executives and board members to align their activities...
Tags: Lawson Software Inc., strategic sourcing, CIO, sourcing, QoS, ROI, board, strategy, environment
White papers 2003-01-10
Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization
The optimal deployment of inventory is a vital business function for an enterprise. As Forrester Research pointed out in a recent report, the ability to increase inventory turns is a key differentiator between highly successful and more poorly performing companies. Managing inventory in a multi-echelon network vs. a single-echelon network...
Tags: echelon, demand chain, strategy, Inventory Management, transportation, customer service, network
White papers 2003-01-01
Sourcing Process Optimization
HP Consulting offers a unique set of services for clients which improve the sourcing process by applying HP's own internal experiences, knowledge, and tools that have enabled HP to reduce the time and costs associated with sourcing goods and services. Effective Sourcing requires the enterprise to continually leverage the knowledge...
Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, sourcing, knowledge, Hewlett-Packard Co., procurement, tool
White papers 2001-07-25

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Jacada Signs Material Contract with Global Retailer
ATLANTA -- Jacada Ltd. (Nasdaq: JCDA), a leading provider of unified desktop and process optimization solutions for customer service operations, today announced that it has entered into a material agreement with a new customer, a global retailer headquartered in the United States. Revenue from the contract will be recognized across...
Articles 2008-07-16
Metastorm Releases Enhanced Version of Process Discovery Software
BALTIMORE, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management BPM, Business Process Analysis BPA, and Enterprise Architecture EA software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced the release of version 6.4 of Metastorm DiscoveryTM -- an interactive process discovery tool designed to enable faster and...
Articles 2008-07-15
Omniture Appoints Chief Human Resources Officer
Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR), a leading providerof online business optimization software, today announced the appointmentof Eric A. McAllister as Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer.With more than 20 years of human resources management in globalenterprises, McAllister will lead the company's talent, organization andculture initiatives focused on accelerating the company's...
Articles 2008-07-15
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