Business Process Management (BPM)

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Ex-Microsoft architect's startup focuses on SaaS integration

A former Microsoft architect has founded a startup called Azuqua aimed at tackling the problem of joining together and automating business processes from multiple SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications.

Reality CheckBy Robert L. Mitchell

Will software robots give offshore workers the boot?

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines a robot as "a real or imaginary machine that is controlled by a computer and is often made to look like a human or animal." So when Alastair Bathgate stopped by Computerworld's offices the...

IDG Answers

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10 Best Practices for Cloud Business Intelligence: Enabling the Business

Business driven Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics represent a shift in the enterprise that is perfectly aligned with the value proposition of cloud-based analytic solutions.

Clouds, Flash and Big DataBy Larry Freeman

Software robots are taking over the data center!

Image: Jeff Sandquist (cc:by) By now, you’re probably familiar with IT’s new business mindset: that of a highly efficient service provider. Cloud services, consumerization and BYOD are just a few of the business-driven topics...

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Business Process Management Provides Agility in Lean Times

When financial times are tough, the capability to streamline business processes, improve efficiency and achieve agility would appeal to any company. That's why firms today are increasingly finding new and sometimes unique ways to use...

Opinion

3 Ways CRM Improves Your Business Processes

Everybody knows that the use case for CRM. It's in its name, after all: Customer relationship management. But how does that really improve the way your company does business?

IDG Answers

Can a company start from scratch, throwing away all their current processes?

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Forecast 2014: How to master disruptive technologies

These three organizations are taking steps into the unknown, changing business processes, even strategies, with social networking, cloud and more. Insider (registration required)

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10 Best Practices for Integrating Data

Data integration is often underestimated and poorly implemented, taking time and resources. Yet it continues to grow in strategic importance as customer data and touch points grow with the emergence of cloud, social and mobile

Opinion

Top CIOs Become Business Process Czars

CIOs use their unique position--which allows them to see the broad array of interactions among employees, customers and business partners--a(c)to streamline business processes and make their companies more competitive

Reality CheckBy Robert L. Mitchell

CIO of the future: Innovator or ERP baby sitter?

As infrastructure and applications continue to migrate to outsourcers and into the cloud, IT should be taking the lead in business process innovation. CIOs should be playing a key role in identifying opportunities and figuring...

Reality CheckBy Robert L. Mitchell

Vanilla never wins: The case against business process standardization

Go to any IT conference these days and you're likely to hear a CIO or two speaking about the need to simplify and standardize business processes as much as possible, particularly as enterprise software moves into the...

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How Tata Power Trading Achieved a Sustainable Business Model Using the Cloud

To meet the requirements of working in a unique environment such as those that existed in the power trading business and to accommodate its future business needs, the Tata Power Trading Company chose to streamline its business...

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10 Common Problems APM Helps You Solve

Practical advice for you to take full advantage of the benefits of APM and keep your IT environment performing at its peak at all times.

Salesforce.com is moving quickly to enhance the new mobile application it unveiled at November's Dreamforce conference, with some 30 new features aimed at helping customers work through complex business processes in a single...

Thanks to its 2012 acquisition of Polymita, Red Hat has added major functionality to its software suite for managing business processes, making the package an appealing choice in the enterprise market for BPM (business process...

A former Microsoft architect has founded a startup called Azuqua aimed at tackling the problem of joining together and automating business processes from multiple SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications.

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines a robot as "a real or imaginary machine that is controlled by a computer and is often made to look like a human or animal." So when Alastair Bathgate stopped by Computerworld's offices the...

Business driven Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics represent a shift in the enterprise that is perfectly aligned with the value proposition of cloud-based analytic solutions.

Image: Jeff Sandquist (cc:by) By now, you’re probably familiar with IT’s new business mindset: that of a highly efficient service provider. Cloud services, consumerization and BYOD are just a few of the business-driven topics...

When financial times are tough, the capability to streamline business processes, improve efficiency and achieve agility would appeal to any company. That's why firms today are increasingly finding new and sometimes unique ways to use...

Everybody knows that the use case for CRM. It's in its name, after all: Customer relationship management. But how does that really improve the way your company does business?

These three organizations are taking steps into the unknown, changing business processes, even strategies, with social networking, cloud and more. Insider (registration required)

Data integration is often underestimated and poorly implemented, taking time and resources. Yet it continues to grow in strategic importance as customer data and touch points grow with the emergence of cloud, social and mobile

CIOs use their unique position--which allows them to see the broad array of interactions among employees, customers and business partners--a(c)to streamline business processes and make their companies more competitive

As infrastructure and applications continue to migrate to outsourcers and into the cloud, IT should be taking the lead in business process innovation. CIOs should be playing a key role in identifying opportunities and figuring...

Go to any IT conference these days and you're likely to hear a CIO or two speaking about the need to simplify and standardize business processes as much as possible, particularly as enterprise software moves into the...

To meet the requirements of working in a unique environment such as those that existed in the power trading business and to accommodate its future business needs, the Tata Power Trading Company chose to streamline its business...

Practical advice for you to take full advantage of the benefits of APM and keep your IT environment performing at its peak at all times.