Integrating Business Process Management & Complex Event Processing

Read this white paper for an explanation of how business process management melds with complex event processing. The combination nets intelligent business processes that react to changing business conditions in real time, providing continuous visibility-in short, an instantly responsive enterprise.
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SOA Best Practices & Design Patterns: Key to Successful Service Oriented Architecture Implementa

White paper exploring best practices for SOA. There is no question that the successful implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) relies on a careful and holistic approach to business planning. One of the most important tools in the evaluation, purchase, and ongoing use of SOA is the body of best practices that vendors, consultants, and customers have compiled. The promise of business agility, improved customer service, and competitive advantage with SOA is real. What varies most is the time, cost, and ease of SOA implementation. By learning from the experiences of those organizations that have been through the process and looking at the standard best practices of large-scale technology implementations, success can come earlier and more dramatically.
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Selecting ERP for Your EPCI Contracting Business

How Engineer, Procure, Construct, Install (EPCI, EPC) can identify technology designed to manage risk across design, fabrication and construction activities. In this whitepaper, we'll examine the unique demands that an EPCI contractor places on an enterprise application. We'll also offer a few suggestions for how to evaluate potential vendors and enterprise software products to make sure they completely address the needs of the EPCI contracting discipline.
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Is Construction Ready For Project-Based ERP Yet?

Examining the construction industry's move from point solutions towards project-based ERP.
For years, enterprise resources planning (ERP) software was to be found primarily within the manufacturing sector. Other forms of enterprise application were employed in other industries, and an increasing number of businesses have been enjoying the efficiencies that come from using a common technology platform and database. The construction industry, however, seemed reluctant to embrace the enterprise application concept and tended to stick with the 'point solutions' that had been developed over the years for each of the various stages of the construction processes.
In this paper we'll look at some of the factors and drivers behind the trend toward construction ERP and examine the types of functionality and other requirements contractors need to look for when selecting what is often their first-ever enterprise-wide application.
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Escaping The Mainframe Trap

Remaining constrained by the mainframe threatens to hold back a company's commercial progress. Growing business needs demand more productivity and performance from IT, while economic pressures put the focus on reducing costs. As the costs associated with maintaining and enhancing the mainframe grow, and it becomes more difficult to retain a workforce with mainframe skills, CIOs are, understandably, looking for ways to escape the mainframe trap.
This white paper explores the different strategies available to CIOs: From rewriting and replacing applications with a package, to the low-cost, low-risk approach of reusing the same, valuable applications on alternative platforms.
The white paper highlights the cost-effective steps available to address core challenges. Illustrated by real-world scenarios, it identifies the value of: Application migration - releasing applications from mainframe constraints - Rehosting mainframe development - to increase productivity by as much as 40% - Rehosting mainframe testing - to improve product quality and reduce rework
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IT Guide to Customer Experience Management

Regardless of the size of your organization or the depth of your CEM needs, Adobe can help you achieve your CEM goals with the industry's most comprehensive and versatile design tools and runtime support for realizing state-of-the-art CEM solutions. Download this white paper to learn more. Tools and systems that allow you to provide exceptional customer experiences white also fostering ease of development, compositionality, and reuse while adhering to industry standards, offer the best assurance in achieving CEM goals in a cost-effective manner. Learn more in this white paper from Adobe.
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Drupal Powered Enterprise: Three ways to Capitalize on Drupal as a Platform

Today, digitally savvy companies manage a growing set of web experiences. But the willy-nilly addition of standalone sites within the enterprise - typically built on an array of technologies by disparate groups - leads to wasted efforts, unnecessary expenses, and problems sharing content and capabilities. The solution is a consistent yet flexible and extensible platform for content delivery, based on Drupal. The Drupal-powered enterprise relies on a scalable content infrastructure while also reducing development and operating costs. There are three ways to capitalize on Drupal for web experience management.
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Assembling a Next Generation Enterprise Web Infrastructure with Drupal and Acquia

Learn how Drupal - the open source social publishing platform - together with Acquia, gives you the tools you need to assemble a rich, interactive experience with your website. Once thought of as a content distribution channel, the web is now about social content experiences: the rich, interactive experiences that can be created from a blend of media types shared by diverse groups of individuals and delivered to all kinds of devices. With this sweeping change has come a new set of challenges. In this paper we describe how the open-source social publishing platform Drupal, together with Acquia, gives you the tools you need to regain control of your web content infrastructure and web applications -- and deliver the service you require.
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Business Analytics in Retail for Dummies -E-book

This book offers principles and tools you can use to discover how your customers behave - and how to put that knowledge into action to drive more sales. Business analytics isn’t a new concept, but new technologies are emerging that make it possible for average business users to analyze and understand the data. This book offers principles and tools you can use to discover how your customers behave — and how to put that knowledge into action to drive more sales. In this book, you'll learn how to:
- Understand the basic concepts of business analytics - Dispel business intelligence myths - Set up scorecards and dashboards - Measure consumer sentiment through social media
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Parsons Corporation Realizes a Decade of Success with Primavera Contract Management

Read how Parsons accelerated project completion and enhanced cost control to save clients' money, enabling the opening the first phase of the Cleveland runway expansion in five years, compared to the industry average of seven to nine years. Parsons also established proper controls and workflows to manage costs, improve project cash management, and ensure they can receive and make payments accurately and on time.
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