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Driving Effective Software Quality to Address Application Complexity

Hewlett-Packard Company — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

Join Melinda Ballou as she answers how organizations can be successful and maintain high-performing business-critical software with fewer resources and strategies for successful quality adoption.

How to Achieve 100% Electronic AR Invoicing Realistic Steps to Quit Paper

Esker Inc. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper illustrates that solutions exist today with a proven track record of success in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing while satisfying their customers' needs.

Application Integration Using the SID: A Practical Approach for Project Scoping and Design ...

Progress Software — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper focuses on the creation of an information "exchange" between applications or services in the context of the business process ticketing systems in an enterprise eBonding example. In this paper you will learn about application integration using the SID; Read on to learn a practical approach for project scoping and design in five steps.

Improving Business by Improving Fax

Esker Inc. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

The paper will discuss key factors to consider with regard to fax technology, the impact of your faxing system on business processes, product selection and project execution. This paper advises an approach centered around choosing a vendor who is still paying close attention to fax communication as it relates to business processes.

7 Ways to Deal with Data Growth from a Cost Standpoint

i365, A Seagate Company — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Is data growth causing higher costs for data storage and backup in your organization? If the answer is yes, then you'll want to read this white paper that features seven ways to deal with data growth from a cost perspective.

Xiotech TCO Calculator

Xiotech Corporation — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

The Xiotech Total Cost of Ownership Calculator is designed to provide insight into the true costs of a storage area network (SAN). With Xiotech storage solutions, organizations can realize savings in five target areas. Read about them here.

Techfocus SQL Server 2008 Migration: Evaluate the Value of a SQL Server Upgrade

SHI — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

SQL Server 2008 has many compelling features, but not all of them are necessary. See what's a good fit for your enterprise and what can wait.

A Unified Approach to Managing the Virtual Infrastructure

Forsythe Technology Solution — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Managing the virtual infrastructure end-to-end is becoming more challenging as virtual environments continue to grow and more data center elements meld into the "cloud". This whitepaper will discuss the push for continued virtualization and the "cloud", and present you with questions that will help you create the best organizational strategy.

CA Virtualization Management Solution Brief

CA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

CA Virtualization Management solutions provide integrated end-to-end management, business-driven automation and security. As such, CA facilitates virtualization's promise of cost reduction and efficiency gains through consolidation, standardization and lower energy consumption, which drive better business outcomes.

Gartner Videocast-- Lean IT: Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality

CA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Effective management is critical to addressing IT challenges. In this program, leading experts David Williams of Gartner and Roger Pills of CA break down IT's three key challenges to managing IT complexity: aligning IT to the business, managing costs, and IT maturity.

CA Spectrum Service Assurance Product Brief

CA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Read this brief paper for specifics about the CA Spectrum Service Assurance product's features and benefits.

CA Service Assurance Webcast: Transforming IT in Lean Times

CA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Many companies face IT challenges related to visualization, integration, discovery and mapping, prioritization, predictive strategies, and reporting accuracy. This webcast addresses these challenges and explains how CA's approach to service quality is both effective and cost-conscious in lean times.

Virtualization Flash Demo

CA — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

View this Flash demo on virtualization to understand how CA can help you accelerate your time to market, achieve operational excellence across physical and virtual environments and reduce risk associated with virtualization.

Seven Proven Strategies to Succeed in Reverse Logistics

TAKE Supply Chain — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

In this webcast you'll learn about the seven best practice strategies that your company needs to transform your reverse logistics into a value-added process. You will also gain a fresh perspective on developing the practices and methods needed to recapture value from returned items, protecting your brand’s integrity, and more!

Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line: Americas

Hewlett-Packard Company — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.

Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line

Hewlett-Packard Company — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line: Asia Pacific and Japan

Hewlett-Packard Company — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Next Generation Customer Focus: Strategies and Business Activities Necessary for World- ...

Infor CRM — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper focuses on consumer products manufacturers and the strategy of customer-focused innovation, exploring NGM study questions and examines business areas where customer-focused innovation has potential to influence performance outcomes. Read on to learn how ways to effectively identify and satisfy customer demand.

CA eHealth Performance Manager Demo

CA — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Download this demo to learn how you can proactively monitor performance of data and voice networks, physical and virtual systems, environmentals, databases and client/server applications across IT, all from one interface, before your business is negatively impacted.

EMA Impact Brief: CA Spectrum Service Assurance Bridges Service Management Gap

CA — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this brief paper to learn how the new CA integrated service management product offers real hope for beleaguered IT organizations that are trying to bring together the pieces to build an integrated service management story.

Unified Approach to Managing the Virtual Environment

Forsythe Technology Solution — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this webcast, learn about a unified approach to IT management. Discover how to decrease complexity introduced by virtualization and cloud computing to ensure optimal performance of your virtual and physical environments.

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Lower IT Costs Now - Roadmap for Developing a Thin-Client Strategy

PC Connection in partnership with HP ThinClient — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This presentation transcript explores how thin client deployments can enable businesses to achieve efficiency and high-performance benefits in your infrastructure. Receive recommendations for developing your own thin-client strategies.

Webcast: Winning Strategies for the Evolving Legal Marketplace

BlackBerry — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this webinar, you'll learn about the rapidly changing state of law firms, how law firms must pay closer heed to business management issues to remain competitive. You'll hear the voice of the client and what law firms must do to succeed in the face of change.

Winning Strategies for the Evolving Legal Marketplace

BlackBerry — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Law firms have had to develop new strategies to compete and win in a legal market that contains greater uncertainty than any that has come before it. This paper will briefly outline strategies for success in the evolving legal marketplace.

Developing a strategy around client manageability

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Businesses today struggle to effectively manage clients due to the increase in options available. This podcast explores the top challenges of client manageability. Learn key considerations when developing a strategy around manageability.

Developing a Strategy Around Client Manageability

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Businesses today struggle to effectively manage clients due to the increase in options available. This videocast explores the top challenges of client manageability. Learn key considerations when developing a strategy around manageability.

Simplifying Log Collection, Storage and Analysis

ArcSight, Inc. — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

ArcSight Logger is a turnkey appliance for collection, efficient storage, and high-performance search and reporting of all enterprise log data. Read this paper to learn more details.

PODCAST: Lower IT Costs Now - Roadmap for Developing a Thin-Client Strategy

PC Connection in partnership with HP ThinClient — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This podcast explores how thin client deployments can enable businesses to achieve efficiency and high-performance benefits in your infrastructure. Receive recommendations for developing your own thin-client strategies.

Lower IT Costs Now - Roadmap for Developing a Thin-Client Strategy

PC Connection in partnership with HP ThinClient — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webcast explores how thin client deployments can enable businesses to achieve efficiency and high-performance benefits in your infrastructure. Receive recommendations for developing your own thin-client strategies.

Developing a Unique Unified Communications Strategy

Hewlett-Packard Company — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This E-Guide explains how companies can leverage communications, collaboration and business applications to build a UC solution that produces short- and long-term ROI.

Understanding the Components of Business Confidence

IBM — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be.

Get More from Business Intelligence (BI) by Understanding Your Analysis Needs

IBM — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

A companywide business intelligence deployment that adapts to the analysis needs and styles of key sets of users within the organization is the key to unlocking the true potential of BI. This whitepaper outlines four styles of analysis and explains how to build deployment plans around these key pillars to get the most return on your BI investment.

CA VPM Webcast - On Demand: Unleashing the Potential of Virtualization Management

CA — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

View this presentation for the latest information on virtualization management in the enterprise.

Three Tactics for Winning the LTE Game

Alcatel-Lucent — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This research brief provides an overview of the current LTE market and addresses the technical and business challenges that operators will face as they migrate to all-IP networks. It provides insight into operators' common questions and helps address planning and implementation concerns including migrating away from existing legacy systems.

Improving Confidence by Increasing Understanding in Information

IBM — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Building greater confidence in your underlying data is easier said than done. The typical organization is home to a wide variety of fragmented data sources. Organizations with a baseline of data management maturity will get better value from their BI investments. They are also more likely to outperform organizations less mature in data management.

BI for Business Users: How IT Can Make Business Intelligence Easy for Everyone

IBM — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Today, the latest BI solutions put the power of advanced business intelligence into the hands of more people throughout the organization - improving the speed and accuracy of decision-making from top to bottom. Knowing your business, market, customers, and competition is critical for any organization. Read this for more...

IT Impact on Telecommunications Order Fallout - A Survey of Large Global Businesses

Progress Software, Inc. — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

As the following pages will demonstrate, the evidence is that improving Business Transaction Assurance presents a real bottom-line opportunity and is moving high up the business agenda. However, companies' current systems are not equipped with the necessary tools to manage and control such transactions.

Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality: Managing Service Quality and Risk to Service ...

CA — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

With the economy down it is important for IT organizations to be as efficient as possible. This means that IT operations, those responsible for the product and health of the enterprise, must have full visibility and control over their resources - and of course, the technology to do so.

Performance Management for a Challenging Economy

IBM — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In a challenging economy, the price paid for bad decisions can be dire. Even average decisions can cost your organization dearly. See how information sweet spots and performance management can help you not only weather the storm, but be better prepared to steer your way with greater agility into the upturn.

Dynamic Infrastructure - Helping Build a Smarter Planet: Delivering Superior Business and ...

IBM — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

IBM has developed a strategy for a dynamic infrastructure that will help organizations address higher service expectations, rising cost pressures and new risks and threats.

The Business Justification for Data Security

McAfee, Inc. — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Read this report to learn about the business side of data security as we build a justification model to help you determine where, and how much, to invest in protecting your information assets.

Using enterprise architecture to develop a blueprint for improving your energy efficiency ...

IBM — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns?

Addressing the challenges of implementing a customer-centric strategy

Infor CRM — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

The need for customer insight and responsiveness to that insight is the foundation and driving rationale for the emerging CRM concept of continuous customer dialogue through multi-channel touchpoints.

Building Blocks for Enterprise Business Architecture

Infosys Technologies Limited — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

We evaluate the established meta-models and frameworks of enterprise business architecture, and extract the key ingredients to build an innovative meta-model.

Building a Best-Run Finance Organization

SAP America Inc — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.

The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance

IBM — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Download this white paper for an extensive summary of The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions.

The Business Value of Business Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This document provides you with the knowledge to gain a complete understanding of all the issues you'll face when implementing a BI solution. In this paper, you'll find numerous examples of current Business Objects customers who are using BI in a variety of creative ways to make their organizations more responsive, productive, and profitable.

Reduce the Pain of ERP Upgrades with Better Planning

SAP America Inc — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This Report offers guidance on developing an overall corporate strategy for maintaining an ERP system by providing practical advice for planning and managing an ERP upgrade project.

Controlling Microsoft Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence

Information Builders Inc. — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Enterprises can take control of the burgeoning number of unsanctioned spreadsheets by adopting a policy of centralized master spreadsheet generation. Learn how WebFOCUS creates fully summarized, organized, and styled Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas already in place, lowering the potential for keystroke and logic error.

Strategies for Distributing Your Online Content: Why, Where and How

KnowledgeStorm Webinars — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

In this one hour Webcast, presented by Jeff Ramminger, EVP KnowledgeStorm, learn how you can develop more effective content, make it available more efficiently and influence the most important decision makers at the right stages of the buying process.