Business IT Alignment Research
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Creating and Managing Value with IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z
Sponsored by: IBMRead this white paper to learn how IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z can help you reduce the overall cost of IT by transforming your data centre from a reactive, resource focus to a business-driven, proactive service.
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Five Myths of Agile Development
Sponsored by: VersionOne Inc.In this white paper, you will gain insight into five myths commonly associated with agile development. Explore what agile development is in reality, what it is not, and the true benefits of transitioning to agile methods in your organization.
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Four Starting Points for Effective Project and Portfolio Management
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseMany IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes.
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IBM WebSphere Application Server family: Flexible infrastructure for today's business world
Sponsored by: IBMThis white paper discusses how to create a flexible infrastructure through the implementation of an SOA and alignment of business processes with strategic goals to overcome the challenges associated with the rapidly changing business world.
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The Alignment-Focused Organization: Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.Take a look at how organizations are taking strides to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities - in short, to close the gap between strategy and execution.
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The New CIO: Change Partner and Business Leader
Sponsored by: IBMWhile all CIOs understand the importance leveraging technology, most of the organizations they serve do not fully use technology to drive growth and innovation. Learn how to become more of a business leader and change partner in your organization.
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The New Language of Business: SOA and Web 2.0. Download a complimentary chapter
Sponsored by: IBMSandy Carter, Vice President of SOA and WebSphere Strategy, IBM Corporation, takes readers through a specific roadmap on how, where, when, and why to embrace a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy in her new book.
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Exploring IBM SOA Technology & Practice: How to Plan, Build, and Manage a Service Oriented Architecture in the Real World
Sponsored by: IBMThis eBook is intended for readers who are already familiar with service oriented architecture (SOA) and who want to learn about IBM's advice on how to be successful with SOA. It is intended for IT and business professionals involved with adopting ...
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The New CIO: Change Partner and Business Leader
Sponsored by: The IBM CIO Interaction ChannelIn this study, find out what 765 global CEOs and 170 CIOs have to say about the importance of closing this "business-technology integration gap."
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IBM SOA Business Value Assessment
Sponsored by: IBM Software GroupThe IBM Online SOA Business Value Analyzer will help you better understand your specific IT and business related goals, the priority of each goal, IBM entry point projects designed to reach your specific goals and the benefits of these projects.
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Best Practices for Resolving Business-Critical Application Problems
Sponsored by: BMC Software, Extending Value with Identify SoftwareThis white paper details the challenges of application problem resolution, highlighting the best practices necessary to automate and accelerate the process as a means to optimize development.
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SOA Solutions Using WebSphere on IBM System p5 Servers
Sponsored by: IBM Software GroupThis white paper explains how, by deploying SOA on top of a System p platform, you can enable innovation across your company, simplifying the complexity of the IT environment and helping reduce uncertainty around systems security and availa...
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DaimlerChrysler Builds a Proactive Infrastructure
Sponsored by: IBM Software GroupThis case study reveals how DaimlerChrysler saw significant reduction in overall application lifecycle costs.
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IONA Artix Registry/Repository
Sponsored by: IONA TechnologiesSOA is distributed by nature and enterprise SOA initiatives require a level of governance to succeed long-term. Read this white paper and learn how Artix Registry/Repository effectively addresses the challenges of deploying and managing a distribut...
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SOA Platforms - Evolving to Meet Stringent Market Realities
Sponsored by: Fiorano Software, Inc.This white paper details the evolution of SOA platforms from point products to second-generation architectures such as the enterprise service grid.
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The SOA Competitive Landscape Redefined: A Manager's Guide to SOA Platforms
Sponsored by: Fiorano Software, Inc.This white paper describes an approach to evaluating an SOA platform, that is aimed at creating a system based upon a service-oriented application composition and a peer-to-peer distributed infrastructure architecture.
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Scaling Enterprise SOA Deployments: Benefits of a Service-Grid Architecture Powering Next-Generation SOA Deployments
Sponsored by: Fiorano Software, Inc.This white paper reviews modern enterprise service grids and how their brokered peer-to-peer architecture offer ease of use for a wide array of distributed computing projects including the SOA market.
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Better Decision-Making: How Smart Companies Win with Cognos Management
Sponsored by: IBM CognosLearn how to utilize performance management solutions to prepare for the unknown future. Answer your fundamental business questions and gain deeper insight into your business to enable for better decision-making.
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Cognos 8 BI
Sponsored by: IBM CognosCognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers the complete range of BI capabilities: reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, business event management as well as data integration, on a single, proven architecture.
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SOA: The Missing Link between Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture
Sponsored by: Infosys Technologies LimitedService-oriented architecture (SOA) and enterprise architecture (EA) strive to tighten the business and IT alignment. Learn about the dependencies between an EA framework and an SOA strategy and how services impact the way applications are developed.
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A Guide to SOA Implementation
Sponsored by: Torry Harris Business SolutionsThere is an information overload on SOA's merits, principles and products. This document will help to separate the hype from reality, distill the essential from the desirable, and explicitly address the how-to, nuts and bolts of an SOA implementation.
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Managing Applications with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis white paper discusses how to address the challenges of managing mission-critical applications. Read this white paper to learn about benefits of adopting an application management solution like Oracle Enterprise Manager.
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New SOA Maturity Model
Sponsored by: ProgressHow can organizations understand SOA and manage the migration to SOA? The New SOA Maturity Model provides a visionary framework that aligns IT action with business benefit. Read this paper to assess your organization's SOA readiness.
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Modernizing Insurance Legacy Systems for a Leading Provider of Annuity Products
Sponsored by: Infosys Technologies LimitedProject management processes that are not standardized can extend project timelines and lead to product poor quality and unsatisfied customers. Discover how system knowledge management can improve availability by reducing manual dependence.
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Insurance Modernization - New Demands, New Approaches
Sponsored by: Infosys Technologies LimitedExisting legacy systems contribute to costs, lack of business and IT alignment and a low recognized value of investments. Read this paper to learn how focusing on integrating business and IT architectures can help organizations realize business value.