Business Development Research
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The Best Way to Deliver IT Support to Businesses as an MSP
Sponsored by: GFI SoftwareThis paper examines the best ways to deliver IT support to businesses as a managed services provider.
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Optimization Applications in the Energy and Power Industries - IBM ILOG Optimization White Paper
Sponsored by: IBMThis white paper shows how mathematical optimization enables the rapid development and deployment of applications that address the energy and power industries’ most pressing issues, including climate change, grid utilization, market restructuring and Enterprise IT.
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An ERP Guide to Driving Efficiency
Sponsored by: Sage North AmericaImproving business efficiency is a perennial concern for any company that hopes to achieve “best-in-class” operations. Businesses that successfully improve efficiency stand to reduce operating costs while improving the effectiveness and profitability of their operations. Read this white paper to learn more.
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E-Book: Hosting Applications in the Cloud
Sponsored by: SAVVISWhether it's public cloud, private cloud or a hybrid of the two, IT can be delivered as a service to today’s businesses faster, cheaper and more efficiently than ever before. Read this E-Book to learn more.
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The Evolving Role of the Business Analyst
Sponsored by: IBMWith the advent of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the business analyst now has to think about issues such as IT services and how to define business logic as rules for easier and faster change cycles. Thus, a new position called the business rules analyst has emerged. This article will examine the role of this new star in the business world.
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Building a Robust Business Case for High Quality Master Data
Sponsored by: MelissaThis white paper explains the key elements for building a proper, quantified business case. It presents the measures that are favored by corporate finance departments, and helps develop a strong business case for data quality and MDM projects. A number of real-life examples with quantifiable benefits are also included.
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EMA Analyst Report: Enabling Real-World Business Transformation through IBM Service Management
Sponsored by: IBMVisit this information center and find out how smarter technology can result in gains in efficiency, business alignment and risk management strategies.
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Lotus Symphony Demo
Sponsored by: IBMWork smarter with Lotus Sympony document software from IBM.
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Try LotusLive
Sponsored by: IBMSign up for a no charge 30-day trial of LotusLive Engage from IBM.
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BPM and SOA: Better Together
Sponsored by: IBMSOA standards, such as Web Services, make information resources and task automation applications available yet loosely integrated for process designers to use and reuse at will. Thus processes modeled with BPM tools can be rapidly implemented in production via SOA infrastructure.
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Business Case Development Best Practices for Data Center and IT Projects: Speed Up Your Project Approval and Start with Confidence
Sponsored by: HP & Intel®How do companies create winning business cases to justify key data center and IT initiatives and speed-up the budget approval process? Read this paper for tips and best practices for how to succeed in the budget approval process and business case development.
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Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart but Timely
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis paper gives you an overview of how Ovum has helped penetrate the upper-midmarket. Even when the slowing growth of the market hasn't.
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Executive Paper: Oracle Crystal Ball
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationIncrease revenue. Decrease costs. Reduce development time. Every day you strive to meet these goals. And each business decision you make either enables you to advance toward them - or impedes your progress. Read this paper to learn more.
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Triumphing Over the Information Maze
Sponsored by: MicrosoftThis article focuses on the need for transparent collaboration, and clearly demonstrates the value of collaborative systems that work: they save money and they boost revenue.
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The Need for Profitability and Cost Management
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationAs indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.
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Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationSpreadsheet models for financial reporting can be cumbersome. With Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance, your finance experts will be able to focus on testing alternative strategies, building contingency plans, and understanding the impact of those strategies and plans on your company's long-term performance.
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Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationWith Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning your capital asset plans are an integral part of Oracle Hyperion Planning, allowing you to accurately assess the impact of capital decisions on overall expense plans. Read on to learn more.
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The Business Case for Information Management
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationIn this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model.
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Rational Requirements Composer
Sponsored by: IBMDownload a free trial of IBM Rational Requirements Composer V1.0.0.1, a requirements definition tool for organizations seeking easy to use elicitation and definition tools that enhance their ability to create the right requirements for their projects and drive improved quality, speed, and alignment across the IT lifecycle.
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Agile Development eKit
Sponsored by: IBMLearn how agile development can lead to improved team efficiency, shorter development cycles, and higher quality software that is better suited to the customer's needs.
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Actionable Enterprise Architecture
Sponsored by: IBMThis white paper provides an overview of the enterprise architecture concept and highlights how an actionable enterprise architecture approach from IBM can help organizations manage complexity and align IT projects and solutions with business objectives.
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Better Decision Making Through Faster Analytics
Sponsored by: Intel CorporationThis paper describes performance gains achieved by upgrading to the latest version of SAS v9.2 on Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) platform. SAS Forecast Server workload is utilized. Paper also describes usage of Intel compiler and Intel software tools.
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Painting the CPG Supply Chain GREEN
Sponsored by: WiproThis paper offers a solution for businesses to achieve balance between profitability and sustainability by leveraging the platform of packaged implementations.
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HP Trade-In Program
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard Company and IntelUpgrade to new HP products and get cash back for the current value of your aging technology. Take advantage of this offer in 4 easy steps.
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Total Financing for Small and Midsized Businesses
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard Company and IntelLearn about HP's 0% financing for your company or project. Lease and lease to own options are available.