Strategic Planning Research
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Expert Tips: Making ITSM Part of Your IT Strategy
Sponsored by: TechTarget CIOIn this e-guide learn how to protect your organization’s overall value by utilizing ITSM. Discover why it is important that your IT strategy and service desk operations go hand-in-hand, which three ITIL service operations to use to ensure value throughout the service lifecycle, and learn how service desk can prepare to support these activities.
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Encouraging Greater SharePoint Adoption
Sponsored by: AvePoint, Inc.This paper discusses the progression of SharePoint usage, features available to encourage SharePoint adoption, focusing on the technology components required, scalability of the platform to accommodate growth, migration strategies, and how AvePoint’s DocAve Software Platform help ensure a scalable, reliable platform for bolstered adoption.
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How To Get Started With Business Intelligence in Manufacturing
Sponsored by: TechTarget ERPFacing increasing pressures from globalization and a sagging economy, manufacturers are between a rock and a hard spot. And many of them see Business Intelligence as an escape route. But does BI hold the answers for every manufacturer? How does BI differ from manufacturing intelligence? This eBook will answer these questions and more.
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FlexNet Manager for SAP Business Suite Product Overview
Sponsored by: Flexera SoftwareFlexNet Manager for SAP Business Suite optimizes the SAP system measurement and checks for potential license savings. By checking the usage of each individual license, it determines whether the correct license type was purchased for a given user and whether enough licenses are available. This removes the guess work and optimizes license allocation.
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Mobile Business Intelligence: When Mobility Matters
Sponsored by: MicroStrategyMobile business intelligence is a process, not a project, and a journey rather than a destination. The case studies included represent two forms that mobile BI can take to empower the mobile worker and port existing applications. This paper discusses two different companies, their environments, reasons for going mobile and key success factors.
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A Roadmap To Driving Top-Down Alignment Between Business & IT Strategy
Sponsored by: InnotasIT Governance solutions enable CXOs to align their business strategy with their IT strategy. However,in order for these solutions to realize their maximum impact, they require business stakeholders to be engaged in the transformation process.
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E-Book: Mobilizing enterprise applications: Trends, best practices and strategy advice
Sponsored by: Sybase, an SAP companyThe evolution of smartphones and mobile networks enable new possibilities for enterprise applications and new challenges for IT. The benefits span organizations. But delivering this requires a sound strategy and close collaboration between business and IT. Learn about key mobile trends and how to develop a mobile enterprise application strategy.
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Business Intelligence Strategies for 4G Operators
Sponsored by: Sybase, an SAP companyThis paper explores the opportunities and challenges presented by the introduction of services on 4G networks, and examines how a strategic BI implementation can help to transform the services a company provides while managing costs of providing them. It also considers the variety of practical applications of a BI system.
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Transitioning to LTE: Business and Technical Considerations
Sponsored by: Alcatel-LucentLTE evolution is more than a move to a new technology. It encompasses a shift in the service provider’s business model to a more sustainable and profitable one. Read this presentation transcript to learn more!Trackback URL
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E-Book: New trends and best practices for data governance success
Sponsored by: TalendThis eBook examines data governance trends and methodologies for managing governance programs. It covers issues such as new ways of organizing data governance teams and emerging best practices to help organizations succeed with enterprise data governance initiatives. It also provides expert advice on how to design and implement governance programs.
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Consider the User Experience and Operational Efficiency
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.Cisco Services presents a series of four white papers to provide a framework for discovering compelling business cases and identifying the necessary services needed to deliver the desired experience. The second white paper in the series covers critical knowledge areas in the successful planning and design of a medianet or media-optimized network.
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Zen and the Art of the Balanced Scorecard
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationAs much an art as a science, the balanced scorecard is a living process that must be adaptive to constantly changing external forces and internal course corrections. You learn as you go. This paper contains a few guiding principles that will help you along the way.
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Enterprise Performance Management - Management Excellence Metrics Reloaded
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationIn this exclusive white paper from Oracle, read how Oracle’s Strategy-to-Success management framework provides that critical framework context.
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Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis data sheet details how Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management extends the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) with capabilities that enable strategic goals to be communicated across the organization and monitoring progress over time. Read on to learn about the features and benefits of this innovative solution.
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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus 11G
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationRead this data sheet to learn about all of the key features and benefits of this dynamic solution.
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BPM Quarterly E-Zine: Business Process Management and Real-Time Analysis: Let the Real-Times Roll!
Sponsored by: MetastormThe world must optimize its use of water to avert conflict. Hectic Heathrow airport needs to streamline processes to continue to grow. Meanwhile, software architects must effectively enable BAM systems that take newly enabled BPM feeds. Data analytics are becoming part of the mix for more BPM scenarios. Find out more in our BPM quarterly.
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Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationRead this data sheet for an explanation of how the Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management solution enables organizations to provide a framework that organizes strategic thinking and performance management.
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E-Book: Best Practices for Selecting Midmarket ERP Software
Sponsored by: itelligence, Inc.Navigating the ERP software market can be a big challenge. Experts say there are over 80 different ERP packages available today. Choosing an ERP package means answering challenging questions about requirements, vendor services and deployment style. In this eBook, get advice and best practices for the ERP software selection process.
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6 Tips to Get Started with Automated Testing
Sponsored by: SmartBear SoftwareAutomated testing will shorten your development cycles, avoid cumbersome repetitive tasks and help improve software quality but how do you get started? The best practices discussed in this white paper help ensure results and a successful foundation for improving your software quality.
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E-Book: Taking Mobile CRM Beyond the Sales Force
Sponsored by: Sybase, an SAP companyMobility was going to be "the next big thing" in CRM but didn’t pan out, with "road warriors" frustrated with user interfaces meant for a PC. But the success of smart phones has changed the game. This e-book helps enterprises understand the marketplace for devices, applications and managing it all in order to create a mobile CRM program.
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Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
Sponsored by: SDL Web Content Management Solutions DivisionThis Magic Quadrant will help CIOs and business and IT leaders that are analyzing their Web strategies to assess whether they have the right Web Content Management offering to support them. Use this Magic Quadrant to understand the fresh vitality in the WCM market and how Gartner rates the leading vendors and their packaged products.
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IBM Global CIO Study - Implications for IT Managers
Sponsored by: IBMRecognizing that successful IT innovation requires deep involvement with the business overall, CIOs increasingly help set business strategy, use IT to enable business flexibility, and help corporations meet enterprise-wide goals. Learn what this means to IT managers, operations managers, development managers, strategy and architecture leaders.
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Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture for Better Business Outcomes
Sponsored by: IBMThis webcast explores how WebSphere and IBM Rational work together to help businesses achieve strategic objectives with reduced risk and cost and also for translating business vision and strategy into architectural change.
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A BI Agenda for Midsize Organizations: Six Strategies for Success
Sponsored by: IBMMake informed decisions at a lower cost with the right BI strategy.
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CFD for Mechanical Design Engineers: “A Paradigm Shift for Better Design”
Sponsored by: Mentor GraphicsThis paper provides CIMdata’s perspective on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis, including its motivation for use, value and future. It also describes Mentor Graphics’ FloEFD CFD analysis solution that is designed to provide product designers and engineers with direct access to CFD techniques directly in their design (CAD) environment.