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5 Pillars of API Management

Across industry sectors, the boundaries of the traditional enterprise are blurring, as organizations open up their on-premise data and application functionality to partner organizations, the Web, mobile apps, smart devices and the cloud. APIs (application programming interfaces) form the foundation of this new open enterprise, allowing enterprises to reuse their existing information assets across organizational boundaries.

What is a Process-Based Application?

Companies today need to move from a functional model to a process‐oriented model, allowing them to be more flexible and proactive to changes in their environment. Current information systems and processes rarely correspond to a transparent, cross border organization. On the contrary, these information systems replicate and reinforce the classical and functional organizational structure, where each business unit has its own applications and data silos. This of course leads to inefficiencies due to redundancy of data in different systems.

Develop a 1st Business Process Application with Bonita BPM 6

Whether you are wondering how BPMN can significantly improve the efficiency of your daily operations or whether you are wondering how to turn an existing process into an optimized dynamic application, this paper addresses these challenges through a concrete business example: the modeling and the automation of an employee leave management procedure. We have put ourselves in the shoes of a project team engaged in the development of its first BPMN implementation.

The example application is developed with Bonita BPM 6 Teamwork Subscription Edition. This paper also gives some pointers to develop it with Bonita BPM 6 Community Edition.

The Ultimate Guide to BPMN2

We realize that many people and organizations who could benefit from BPMN have yet to give it a try. It may be that you’ve been putting it off under the mistaken assumption that you need to be an expert to use BPMN. Or it may be because the standard itself, and many of the things written about BPMN, are bit unwieldy and hard to dissect.

It’s All About the App: Mobile Security That Helps Enable the Business

Mobility is taking today’s world by storm. By 2017, mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times, generating revenue of more than $77 billion — making apps one of the most popular computing tools for users across the globe. Understandably, the pressure to deliver diverse apps to external and internal audiences is felt universally across every enterprise.

A Winning API Strategy: Developing Secure Mobile Apps with a UX that Delights Customers

The mobile app has become “the” strategic initiative for all digital organizations attempting to drive business forward. “By 2017, mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times, generating revenue of more than $77 billion — making apps one of the most popular computing tools for users across the globe.”1 The app has become more than a simple method of communication. It is the new critical point of engagement, the face of the organization, and quite possibly the difference maker in customers staying or leaving. Getting the “user experience” (or UX) right in the eyes of the consumer is no longer a nice to have but fundamental to achieving success.

Managing Spreadsheets: Reducing Risk and Gaining Confidence

Nine out of 10 spreadsheets have errors. Critical business decisions are made every day based on data in Excel. With the whitepaper “Managing Spreadsheets: Reducing Risk and Gaining Confidence” Incisive outlines 6 ways to manage spreadsheet risk to save time and gain confidence in your data.

Click here to download the whitepaper.

How to Gain Visibility into Spreadsheet Usage and Manage Risk

Spreadsheets aren’t the enemy, but errors and mistakes within them can be. In spite of efforts to eradicate them, spreadsheet usage is growing. Organizations need to minimize risk. Incisive Software’s whitepaper outlines “How to Gain Visibility into Spreadsheet Usage and Manage Risk.

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Why You Need Business Process Management

This white paper is aimed at those interested in enhancing the efficiency of their business by the use of BPM technology. It will demonstrate how BPM can make a positive impact on the all-important bottom line by the use of business rules and process management, and show how the features and capabilities of JBoss BPM Suite provide the ideal platform for your business.

Taming Mobile App Chaos for Businesses & End Users: The Next Generation of Mobile Application Management

Though smartphones, tablets and other devices continue to dominate the spotlight, the real stars of the next phase of the enterprise mobility evolution will be mobile apps. The introduction of innovative mobile apps and the mobilization of business processes will play leading roles in assisting enterprises of all sizes in realizing their enterprise mobility ambitions. To keep those plans on track, though, enterprises will need to adopt a mobile application management (MAM) strategy that gives IT the oversight to safeguard corporate data and end users the freedom and flexibility to ascend to new levels of productivity.

A next-generation MAM strategy, tightly integrated into an overall Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution, is a core requirement of organizations focused on maximizing the business-transforming benefits of enterprise mobility.

Secure DNS Prevents Attacks Video

You’ve probably been hearing plenty about the threat of DDoS attacks—and how more and more attackers are targeting DNS. Watch this short video and hear Neustar’s Rodney Joffe explain how hardened DNS can keep your business safe.

4 Ways DNS Can Accelerate Business Growth

This DNS ebook describes how DNS has developed over the years to support business growth as new needs have emerged, for example, advanced traffic management and protection from cyber threats.

Acquia Lift: Personalization in Drupal

The days of “one-size-fits-all” marketing are over, and hyper-personalization is the new norm. Digital marketers and site owners are being asked to do more with less to engage customers, segment their audience, and offer highly tailored content. Acquia Lift provides the right content, at the right time through automation that serves the most relevant content to the site visitor.

SWOT Assessment: Flexera Software, FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises 2014

In today's economic climate, there is significant pressure on CIOs to control costs and reduce risks while finding ways to fund new business initiatives. Software is a strategic asset that is typically under-managed in most organizations. It should therefore be a priority for CIOs to find ways to automate and optimize software asset management in order to uncover cost savings and minimize license liability risk.

Four Steps to Protect Businesses from the Effects of Downtime

Downtime happens and often at the worst time possible. Organizations experiencing downtime face direct and indirect costs from the loss of critical systems. This whitepaper discusses a Globalscape survey of 283 IT professionals and end users revealing the frequency of unplanned downtime, the effects on organizations, including average costs, and what IT administrators can do to minimize core system failure.

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