It's All About Process
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(Source: MKS) Are you struggling with too much process - trying to implement several different methodologies? - Or too little process, re-inventing the wheel with each new business development?  This white paper describes how to implement and bridge process methodologies such as CMMI and ITIL, delivering them as one process under one application management framework. It looks at MKS's process management platform, MKS Integrity, as an example of superior technology for integrated IT process management.
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This scenario is all too familiar to office workers who collaborate electronically on projects: E-mails get passed around with differing versions of documents-in-progress attached. Instant messages whizz by. Web sites are cited, then lost. It's often a jumbled mess, with no central online location for shared data. There must be a better way.
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Over the past few years, the concept of Business Process Management has come into vogue as a method for tying together the processes and software programs used throughout an enterprise. There are now a number of companies offering BPM software, including some smaller developers that offer BPM-specific programs, as well as a few power-players of the software industry who have recently stepped into the ring.
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Opinion Stepping in and taking charge
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(Source: Epicor)  The supply chain is, of course, the primary processing mechanism of every manufacturing company. But today, it is a multifaceted, multi-company, multinational structure that makes it the most complex management challenge found in any enterprise. Supply chain management (SCM), a critical part of any enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, no longer means just making sure that the right materials and resources move to the right place at the right time. It also means ensuring that the sequences of events involved in producing goods and distributing them to customers are tuned optimally.  This white paper will discuss how ERP can optimize your supply chain to satisfy customers, minimize costs and maximize profit.
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Performance management is the strategy and sets of methodologies and processes that an organization uses to direct its employees, partners, suppliers and customers to achieve a common set of goals and objectives. Ventana Research believes all performance management initiatives must address an interrelated set of people, process, information and technology issues. This paper focuses on the latter two, but people and process are critically important in shaping decisions about what information is needed and the technology for managing it.
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Fulfillment leads to achievement, not the other way around.
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Managing software from conception to death âThere have not been good ways to manage (applications) change across the enterprise. It is still usually managed within individual silos and individual changes are usually made using different tools, which means that changes can clash with each other.â So said Serena president and CEO, Mark Woodward, while in London last week.â¦
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Project management processes can be used to manage crises.
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Part 2 in our series on business process execution In the last column in this series, we looked at the general concept of business process management with respect to SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) based systems. In particular, we reviewed BPEL (the Business Process Execution Language) and what it offers and at some of the extensions for BPEL.â¦
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To truly measure the performance of a decision, you have to evaluate the input and the outcome.
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Why change, when what you're doing works so remarkably well? Right -- that strategy is change.
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A fast PC doesnât mean just a fast processor. Hard-drive speeds, memory and other considerations all affect a systemâs performance.
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Here's one way to sort a real growth story from a flash in the pan.
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This mainframe database pilot fish knows all about his IT shop's software development life cycle of development, validation, integration, training and production. At least he thinks he does.
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Sometimes, the process is the product. Employing a blueprint drawn from 26 years of IT experience â along with best practices outlined in the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) â Carl Snyder already has reaped success during his brief tenure as director of global IT infrastructure and operations at Tellabs.
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(Source: Tripwire) Although security often gets the spotlight, the much greater risks to an IT organization are system reliability and availability.  This white paper details a review of the three internal process controls that are relevant to change management, how high performing IT organizations handle change management, and why IT controls are crucial to successful regulatory compliance efforts.Download this paper to see how Tripwire can offer immediate value in gaining control over change management practices.