White Paper Yankee Group: Software as a Service Dramatically Improves CRM Success See how to buck the CRM failure rate with a clear understanding of how new on-demand services and technologies can help overcome user reluctance and...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Software, Sales Strategy

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Date: February 2008
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Webcast Forrester Best Practices: Improve IT Service Delivery and Support Most IT managers are stumped when it comes to capturing the right IT metrics and then effectively conveying their relevance to management. Decision makers tend...

Tags: Best Practice, Forrester Research Inc., Information Technology, IT Help Desk, Management

Sponsored by: Citrix Online
Date: May 2008
Citrix Online
Webcast Accelerate results by aligning Lean Six Sigma, BPM and SOA There has never been a more important time to uncover process waste, reduce non-value adding activity, and increase productivity. Lean Six Sigma (LSS) produces real...

Tags: BPM, Strategy, Software, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Sponsored by: IBM
Date: July 2009
IBM
Case Study Online Travel Company Empowers Remote Workers With Messaging Solution Expedia is the world's leading online travel company, providing business and leisure travelers with tools and information to easily research, plan, book, and experience travel....

Tags: E-mail Servers, Travel Company, Software, Operating Systems, Online Travel Company

Company: Microsoft
Date: November 2006
Microsoft
Webcast Online Demo of Esker Fax featuring MS Exchange integration Esker has been a leader in automating high-volume fax delivery for over 20 years because we provide reliable and secure solutions that speed the delivery...

Tags: Esker S.A., Fax, Integration, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server

Company: Esker
Esker
White Paper Replicate Sales Success: Clone Your Star Salespeople If you could clone your top sales rep, would you? Find out how, in this short brief from Oracle that outlines the surefire steps and...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy

Company: Oracle
Date: September 2006
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Resource Center Get Sales Contracts Signed in Under an Hour Hammering out the details of a business contract is seldom done in person anymore, as buyers and sellers can now connect from across the globe....

Tags: Contract, E-mail, EchoSign, Online Communications, Sales

Company: EchoSign
Date: June 2007
EchoSign
White Paper Defining Customer: Facing Process Improvements In A Commoditized Marketplace In retaining and increasing an organization's customer base in the current competitive scenario, enhanced level of customer service is the key. The paper outlines our...

Tags: Business Operations, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), It Operations, Process Improvement, Quality

Company: Tata Consultancy Services
Date: April 2005
Tata Consultancy Services
White Paper Measurement For Maturity And Process Improvement Using DataDrill EXPRESS The practice of measurement has been experiencing a well-deserved elevation in priority in last few years. Demand is high across a wide range of industries...

Tags: Asset Management, Business Operations, Management, Measurement, Operational Planning

Company: PMFORUM
Date: November 2006
PMFORUM
White Paper Vizability: A Tool For Usability Engineering Process Improvement The authors present Vizability, a usability engineering tool that is motivated by the variability of analysis processes and facilitates the analysis of existing problem data...

Tags: Analysis, Business Operations, Process Improvement, Productivity, Quality

Company: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date: March 2006
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
White Paper Measuring And Improving Data Quality To improve quality for data customers, data managers need to be able to measure each "Quality attribute." Because measuring quality usually involves comparing recorded data...

Tags: Benefits, Software, Quality, Human Resources, Healthcare

Company: Clemson University
Date: June 2005
Clemson University
White Paper WebMethods Fabric 7.0: Accelerating Business Process Improvement webMethods Fabric 7.0 is the latest iteration of webMethods' business process integration platform. With its industry-leading speed and ease-of-use, webMethods Fabric is uniquely able to...

Tags: Business Operations, Business Process, Enterprise Software, Operational Planning, Software

Company: webMethods
Date: February 2007
webMethods
Case Study When It's About Lasting Change?Process Improvement Is Almost Always The Last Option! A deregulated Midwestern utility knew it was in trouble. The organization was profitable, but its stock had flat lined in the low $20s per share...

Tags: American Society For Quality, Business Operations, Human Resources, Performance Management, Process Improvement

Company: American Society for Quality
Date: October 2005
American Society for Quality
White Paper A3 Reports: Tool For Process Improvement The A3 report is a tool that Toyota Motor Corporation uses to propose solutions to problems, give status reports on ongoing projects, and report results...

Tags: Healthcare, Hospital, Montana State University, Process Improvement, Productivity

Company: Montana State University
Date: June 2004
Montana State University
White Paper An Integrated Framework For Simulation-Based Software Process Improvement This paper presents an integrated framework for software process improvement according to CMM. The framework is double-integrated. First, it is based on the systematic integration...

Tags: Business Operations, Software Development, Software, Quality, Process Improvement

Company: Universidad de Sevilla
Date: February 2005
Universidad de Sevilla
White Paper TPI - A Model For Test Process Improvement Testing is often considered as an expensive and uncontrollable process. Testing takes too much time, costs more than planned, and offers insufficient insight of the...

Tags: Business Operations, Process Improvement, Quality, University Of Helsinki

Company: University of Helsinki
Date: October 2004
University of Helsinki
White Paper Initiating Software Process Improvement In Small Enterprises For many years, industry and the research community have studied software process improvement in an organization. However, that research applied mainly to large organizations. In...

Tags: Business Operations, Process Improvement, Quality, Software, University Of Namur

Company: University of Namur
Date: April 2005
University of Namur
White Paper Adoption-Centric Software Maintenance Process Improvement Via Information Integration Software process improvement is an iterative activity, normally involving measurement, analysis, and change. For most organizations, the existing software process has substantial momentum and is...

Tags: Business Operations, Information Integration, Management, Process Improvement, Quality

Company: Florida Atlantic University
Date: December 2006
Florida Atlantic University
White Paper The Value Of Setup Cost Reduction And Process Improvement For The Economic Production Quantity Model With Defects This paper investigates the effect of imperfect yield on economic production quantity decisions. The production system is assumed to produce some time-varying proportion of defective...

Tags: Business Operations, Cost Reduction, Elsevier, Process Improvement, Production System

Company: Elsevier
Date: November 2004
Elsevier
White Paper Why Is Process Improvement So Hard? The author has never met anyone who could truthfully say, "I am building software today as well as software can ever be built;" the author...

Tags: Business Operations, Management, Process Impact, Process Improvement, Quality

Company: Process Impact
Date: July 2003
Process Impact
White Paper Managing Experience For Process Improvement In Manufacturing Process changes in manufacturing are often done by trial and error, even when experienced domain personnel are involved. This is mainly due to the fact...

Tags: Diagnosis, Indian Institute Of Technology, Manufacturing, Process Improvement, Therapy

Company: Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
White Paper A Teaching Quality Improvement Process: Implementing Change Using An Holistic Approach An holistic approach to improve the quality of teaching and students' learning in the Division of Engineering, Science and Computing has been adopted at the...

Tags: Accountability, Finance, Financial Accounting

Company: Curtin University of Technology
Date: June 2004
Curtin University of Technology
White Paper Applied Data Analysis For Process Improvement When the author first came up with the idea of intuitive statistics, he had no idea others had already written on the subject. However, as...

Tags: American Society For Quality, Software, Quality, Process Improvement, Enterprise Software

Company: American Society for Quality
Date: February 2005
American Society for Quality
White Paper Ten Steps To Successful Software Process Improvement Many organizations wish to improve the quality of software they develop, the predict-ability of developing it, and the productivity of the people developing it. One...

Tags: California Institute Of Technology, Development Tools, Management, Software, Software Development

Company: California Institute of Technology
Date: July 2004
California Institute of Technology
White Paper Process Analysis And Product Quality Estimation By Self-Organizing Maps With An Application To Polyethylene Production The huge amount of data recorded by modern production systems definitely has the potential to provide information for product and process design, monitoring and control....

Tags: Analysis, Monitoring, Product Quality, University Of Veszprem

Company: University of Veszprem
Date: January 2003
University of Veszprem
White Paper Quality Process And Improvement Variation occurs in all processes. Common cause variation is a natural part of the process. Another type of variation, called special causes, comes from outside...

Tags: Cause Variation, MINITAB, Variation

Company: MINITAB
Date: April 2005
MINITAB
White Paper A Formal Model For Evaluation Of The Software Development Process Based On Quality Indexes The focus of the paper is evaluation of the software development process regardless of the underlying software development approach. The process of evaluation is scrutinized...

Tags: Development Tools, Evaluation, Management, Software, Software Development

Company: University of Jyvaskyla
Date: July 2005
University of Jyvaskyla
White Paper Formal Specification Techniques In The Commercial Development Process This paper describes the lessons learned from an application of formal specification techniques in the development of a security-critical system within a UK company. The...

Tags: Productivity, Specification, Technique

Company: Newcastle University
Date: December 2003
Newcastle University
White Paper Software Quality Attributes And Trade-Offs The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview to different quality models. It will also discuss what quality is by presenting a number...

Tags: Management, Quality, Software, Tools & Techniques

Company: Blekinge Institute of Technology
Date: June 2005
Blekinge Institute of Technology
White Paper A Fault Classification Approach To Software Process Improvement The research presented in this paper is motivated by the demand for process improvement for companies active within software development. High demands on software quality...

Tags: Business Operations, Classification, Process Improvement, Quality, Software

Company: Blekinge Institute of Technology
Date: February 2006
Blekinge Institute of Technology
White Paper Using ABC Model For Software Process Improvement: A Balanced Perspective Many related researches focus on using mathematical approaches or artificial techniques to efficiently improve Software Development Process (SDP). This paper provides a managerial viewpoint to...

Tags: ABC Inc., Software/Web Development, Software Development, Software, Perspective

Company: National Sun Yat-Sen University
Date: December 2005
National Sun Yat-Sen University
Case Study Implementing Business Process Improvement Image Integration Systems (IIS) provides comprehensive solutions for business process improvement. BE&K approached Image Integration Systems (IIS) as the company evaluated enterprise resource planning (ERP)...

Tags: Billing, Business Operations, Business Process, Hardware, Image Integration Systems

Company: Image Integration Systems
Date: April 2006
Image Integration Systems
White Paper Process Improvement Through Evaluation Of Operational Feasibility Of Strategic Release Planning Improvements in software processes can improve software quality, cost, and on-time delivery. Supplementing strategic software release planning with fine grain operational planning provides project managers...

Tags: Management, Process Improvement, Software, Software Release, Tools & Techniques

Company: University of Calgary
Date: June 2005
University of Calgary
White Paper Case Study: IRS Business System Modernization Process Improvement This paper provides an overview of applying the SA-CMM (Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model) to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) modernization effort to establish and...

Tags: Business Operations, Finance, Internal Revenue Service, Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions

Company: Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
Date: March 2004
Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
White Paper Process Components For Quality Evaluation And Quality Improvement Processes and methods used for software construction have a high influence on the quality of the resulting software product. Therefore, the research in the field...

Tags: Component, Management, Quality Improvement, Software, Tools & Techniques

Company: University of Queensland
Date: September 2004
University of Queensland
White Paper Supplier Led NPD Process Improvement In The UK FMCG Industry: Need And Method This paper makes recommendations on how product success can be improved and development time reduced with an adapted product development process. One of the biggest...

Tags: Business Operations, Strategy, Research & Development, Product Marketing, Product Development Process

Company: Cardiff University
Date: July 2006
Cardiff University
White Paper Less Is More In Software Process Improvement Many Software Process Improvement (SPI) programs fail to deliver the benefits they promise. This is usually due not to bad new processes being created, but...

Tags: Adoption, Benefits, Human Resources, Software, Vrije Universiteit

Company: Vrije Universiteit
Date: January 2006
Vrije Universiteit
White Paper Building Process Improvement Capacity: Structuring Problem Solving As Skill-Building Exercises Research that linked experience, improvement, and competition has shown that learning - both in the form of practice with existing processes and in the form...

Tags: Business Operations, Process Improvement, Quality

Company: Harvard Business School
Date: February 2003
Harvard Business School
White Paper Test Of A Boundary Object For Process Improvement One of the primary ways organizations respond to dynamic environments is by solving internal problems related to sources of competitive advantage such as developing new...

Tags: Business Operations, Department, Management, Montana State University, Process Improvement

Company: Montana State University
Date: October 2006
Montana State University
White Paper Integrating Benchmarking And Poor Quality: Cost Measurement For Assisting The Quality Management Work The two quality management concepts of benchmarking and poor quality cost measurement have been developed completely separate from each other and without any interaction between...

Tags: Benchmarking, Business Operations, Quality, Quality Management

Company: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Date: February 2004
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
White Paper Development Of Case Tools For Software Process Improvement In this paper issues of creating case tools, implementing capability maturity models, for software process improvement are analyzed. A range of aspects of using the...

Tags: Business Operations, Software/Web Development, Software Development, Software, Quality

Company: Kaunas University Technology
Date: July 2005
Kaunas University Technology

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