Business IT Alignment Research
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From Batch Processing to Workload Automation
Sponsored by: BMC Software, Inc.Download this podcast to find out how IT workload automation can help you improve the efficiency of your overall operations and help your business deliver new applications more quickly.
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SOA Centers of Excellence: Preserving Order Amid Change
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThere is only one good way to approach the adoption and facilitation of SOA and Web services, and that is to establish, right from the beginning, a corporate Center of Excellence to guide the revolution from making a compelling business case to putting in place a long-term solution for measuring and improving on every success.
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Ten Steps to Better Requirements Management White Paper
Sponsored by: IBMThis white paper explains the characteristics of a good requirement and presents ten steps to better requirements management.
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Service Management Virtual Simulation (tool)
Sponsored by: IBMCheck out this virtual forum to access papers and podcasts pertaining to dynamic infrastructure solutions from IBM.
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Presentation Transcript: Future-Proofing Your HP Business Critical Infrastructure
Sponsored by: ForsytheIn this presentation transcript, get a firsthand look into a virtual platform that is designed to meet your current and future IT demands. Learn how to right-size system capacity and improve workload scalability. Discover industry best practices to increase agility of applications and systems.
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IBM Service Management: Visibility. Control. Automation
Sponsored by: IBMThis brochure shows how IBM Service Management combines industry-leading software, hardware and services to deliver solutions that help today's organizations transform assets and infrastructure into smarter services and products that deliver greater business value.
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Enhancing Your Infrastructure in an Uncertain Economy to Support Your SOA Business Initiatives
Sponsored by: IBMThis white paper defines the challenges facing today's IT executives and steps you can take now to support your organization’s SOA-based initiatives by cutting costs, leveraging your existing IT infrastructure and improving productivity.
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Whitepaper-- IBM InfoSphere Software: Trusted Information
Sponsored by: IBMRead this paper to learn how you can use IBM's InfoSphere software, and integrated platform for trusted information, to align business and IT, accelerate your projects for faster time to value, leverage your existing infrastructire, and adapt to the changing needs of your business.
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Whitepaper: The Journey Along an Information-Led Transformation
Sponsored by: IBMOrganizations that plan an information strategy, make realtime business analytics available to all levels of the organization, and architect an extensible information platform can generate more revenue, lower costs, reduce risk, and predict future outcomes with greater confidence. Read this white paper to learn more.
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CIO Decisions eZine: ITSM Managing for Efficiency and Effectiveness
Sponsored by: SkillSoft CorporationIT Service Management frameworks are helping CIOs leverage best practices to lead change, improve response time and better manage the IT/business relationship. In this CIO Decisions eZine, experts offer insights into how to roll out your ITSM implementation.
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E-Book: Best Practices for Implementing BI in ERP Centric Environments
Sponsored by: IBMAn original SearchDataManagement.com E-book offering advice and best practices specifically for IT professionals charged with creating or updating BI programs in ERP environments.
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Making Enterprise Architecture (EA) Strategic with Business & Information Architecture
Sponsored by: Infosys Technologies LimitedEA, a key IT governance tool, plays an active role in strategic business planning. Effective EA requires managing standards and promoting best practices in architecture.
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Online Trial: Rational System Architect
Sponsored by: IBMTry IBM® Rational® System Architect® V11.3, which enables business managers and IT professionals to plan, model, and execute changes to improve their business strategy and process as well as the IT systems and infrastructure that support them, enabling successful enterprise planning and transformation.
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eBook: HP IT Service Management - Optimizing Service Lifecycle Delivery and Cost
Sponsored by: HP IncMany IT professionals are looking to IT Service Management (ITSM) to deliver quality IT services that meet the needs of the business under these tough conditions. Regardless of the size of your business, you can deliver superior service quality to your business with the HP approach to ITSM and the HP software and services that support it.
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Take a Holistic Approach to Business-Driven Security
Sponsored by: IBMThis paper introduces actions that organizations can take to drive security efforts from a business and operational perspective and discusses how security leadership from IBM can help enable their success.
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Securing a Dynamic Infrastructure
Sponsored by: IBMThis white paper describes how security that is built into a dynamic infrastructure can mitigate risks, enabling agility, secure collaboration, and business transformation. The IBM Security Framework and lifecycle approach can help address changing business requirements.
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Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance
Sponsored by: SAP AGThis report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.
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Agosto Takes Managed Services to a New Level with Google Apps
Sponsored by: Google Apps Authorized Reseller ProgramRead this case study to learn how Agosto used Google Apps to help their client, Dunn Bros', communicate and collaborate between its many store and office locations.
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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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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Sponsored by: MicrosoftMicrosoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information sharing across boundaries for better business insight.
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Presentation Transcript: Governance in Project Portfolio Management
Sponsored by: AtTaskThis is a transcript of a presentation by Brian Turner, Chief Service Delivery Officer at Point consulting firm. He discusses how to keep governance relevant and effective in today’s tough times, what factors drive effective governance structures and what strategies make those governance structures in your organization more effective.
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Practical Steps to Achieve and Maintain NERC Compliance
Sponsored by: Tripwire, Inc.This paper describes seven practical steps information security professionals can take to integrate controls into IT production operations, to simultaneously achieve NERC compliance goals, and also IT operational and security goals.
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Presentation Transcript: The Economics of Endpoint Security
Sponsored by: Sophos UKCheck out this presentation transcript to learn about a great endpoint security solution while balancing budgetary requirements.
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HP ProCurve Lifecycle Solutions
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseCheck out this brief video to see how HP Network Solutions based on an industry standard ProCurve infrastructure can help assure return on IT investments by developing best-in-class solutions for your business.
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Ten Ways SMBs Can Get More from Their IT Budgets
Sponsored by: Dell and VMwareVirtualization technology presents a number of opportunities for driving capital and operational efficiency for SMBs. Read this brief paper to learn ten cost-saving strategies.