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Production Management QuickStart from Aprimo, Incorporated is the combination of Aprimo's marketing resource management software products, expert implementation and consulting services. This solution helps companies define workflow for the initiation of marketing projects, reduce execution cycle time through the establishment of best practice workflows and establish auditable online review processes. It is a modular and flexible solution that simultaneously initiates and keeps track of myriad marketing projects as well as a comprehensive online review process to eliminate repetition and increase efficiency.
MAINVIEW for IP version 2.2 from BMC Software, Inc. offers exclusive IP pacing technology to ensure that mission-critical Internet (TCP/IP) applications receive priority access to IP bandwidth. The company is also shipping new versions of MAINVIEW for CICS and the industry's only dynamic CICS optimization tool, Energizer for CICS. Together, these solutions enable companies to get more out of their mission-critical IP and CICS environments by reducing downtime and improving availability and IT service delivery.
Business Activity Monitoring Framework from InterSystems Corporation provides prebuilt components for automating real-time activity monitoring and reporting for integration projects. Using Ensemble Business Metric Services, developers specify time intervals for calculating one or more metric values in a variety of ways, including calls to external applications, aggregating and analyzing data from multiple external databases and querying the message warehouse and business processes status information stored within Ensemble. The framework also features executive dashboards, each of which is a specialized Web page that provides a real-time, graphical display of the current value of a metric.
CarePlanner Web 3.0 from MEDecision Inc. integrates case, disease and utilization management to deliver a higher degree of usability. CarePlanner Web responds to the demands of the healthcare industry to increase operational efficiencies while delivering higher quality patient outcomes. By refining its automated workflow and detection tools and incorporating a Web interface, MEDecision delivers a care management system that helps managed care organizations (MCOs) achieve better ease of use and quicker adoption of IMM to slash administrative costs and cut medical loss ratios while enabling provision of the highest quality of care.
Merant Collage 4.5 from Merant is a Web content management (WCM) solution which features automatic workflow generation, incremental content deployment and broader support for Web Services and Windows Server 2003 and the AIX operating system. Merant Collage adapts to existing infrastructure, giving organizations secure, process-driven control over Web content, including existing Internet, intranet and extranet sites, within hours of implementation. Merant Collage makes it easy for authorized users to directly contribute and update Web site content and supports a wide variety of IT environments including .NET and J2EE.
BizTalk Server 2004 from Microsoft Corp. provides application integration and delivers new capabilities to enable enterprises to more effectively manage and apply rules to business processes, connect to trading partners and analyze the health of their business processes. The new functionality includes a highly scalable messaging and orchestration engine with enterprise-class business process management capabilities; integration with Visual Studio .NET 2003; health-activity tracking; enterprise single sign on; highly scalable business rule engine; business activity monitoring provides real-time monitoring of business processes.
Snapbridge XStudio 2.5 from Snapbridge Software is a drag-and-drop development environment for building information processing solutions based on extensible markup language (XML) technologies. XStudio 2.5 introduces a level of ease of use to the development of information processing solutions based on FDX technology. XStudio 2.5 can be downloaded at www.snapbridge.com/downloads.
SPSS Data Entry 4.0 from SPSS Inc. is a comprehensive system for data collection and survey management with full integration with SPSS 12.0 for Windows and enhanced security functionality. SPSS Data Entry enables occasional surveyors, data entry departments, small businesses and medium-size organizations to create surveys and efficient online forms. SPSS Data Entry also allows for the collection of more accurate data for analysis.
Financial Services Frameworks from webMethods, Inc. address key financial services business initiatives. Each separate solution framework consists of a road map that highlights the products and services necessary to achieve overall "excellence" in operations, risk management and regulatory compliance, product and services delivery, and customer service initiatives.The four new solution frameworks that specifically address each of these business initiatives: Operational Excellence, Risk Excellence, Customer Excellence and Product Excellence.
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