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Video Whitepaper: Managing Risk and Uncertainty - An Executive ' s Guide to Integrated ...

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

A time of unprecedented market volatility and competition calls for a new business strategy. View this video white paper to learn how integrated business planning can help your company align strategic, operational, and financial plans.

Webcast - Turn Your IT Plan into a Competitive Advantage in an Uncertain Market: Harnessing ...

IBM — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Join this webcast to learn how Enterprise Architecture integrated with Portfolio Management is empowered to integrate your strategic goals into your organization's capital planning, business planning and technology architecture activities. In this way, your strategic planning outputs become actionable.

How to expand enterprise reporting and capitalize on the benefits of BI

Sybase, Inc. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Is your organization making the most of BI and reporting projects? Find out how to improve your enterprise reporting with best practices advice and tips from BI expert Kimberly Nevala of Baseline Consulting.

Finding a Route to Recovery: Four Strategies

Cisco Systems, Inc. — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Some small businesses are proactively finding roads to recovery, using network technology to reposition themselves. Their rules: Rethink the way business has been done, and accelerate recovery by investing in 21st-century technology that raises revenues, controls costs, and/or improves cash flow.

4 Simple Steps for Preventing Downtime

Marathon Technologies — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this webcast, gain insight into IT processes and procedures that can ensure continuous business operations in your organization. Discover how to prevent downtime by conducting a gap analysis, identifying weaknesses and simplifying IT processes.

Best Practices for SAP Upgrades & amp; Migrations with HP and Novell

Hewlett-Packard Company — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Join experts from HP and Novell in this webcast as they discuss how to empower your SAP solutions, deliver the right information to the right people at the right time, and execute upgrades and migrations successfully.

Next steps for business intelligence

IBM — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

To find out more about how organizations can take the next steps with their BI initiatives, SearchDataManagement.com turned to Boris Evelson of Forrester Research. In this videocast, Boris will reveal some of the most important emerging trends in BI today and how organizations should start planning to take advantage of next-generation BI.

PCI DSS Compliance Survey Results

Imperva — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The findings of this survey suggest that despite PCI DSS regulation companies are still struggling with data security. However, it also suggests that companies that take a strategic approach to PCI compliance go through fewer data breaches. Learn more about leveraging PCI to get a broader, more effective, and more cost efficient security program.

MS SQL Server 2008

Fusion-IO — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Solid state drives (SSD) are going to play everywhere in the enterprise—at the storage array level, at the server level and in users’ notebook computers. This webcast discusses the issues involved in integrating SSDs at these three junctions in enterprise storage environments.

PODCAST: MS SQL Server 2008

Fusion-IO — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Solid state drives (SSD) are going to play everywhere in the enterprise—at the storage array level, at the server level and in users’ notebook computers. This podcast discusses the issues involved in integrating SSDs at these three junctions in enterprise storage environments.

Managing the Cost and Complexity of Compliance Through Governance

McAfee, Inc. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

With the changing regulations affecting organizations today, regulatory compliance is never really done. Organizations that have met compliance soon find they need a more strategic approach to uphold it. Watch this videocast for tips on using a risk-governance model to establish an enterprise-wide program and a common framework.

Sun HPC Virtual Tradeshow

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Performance Computing (HPC) is business ready. HPC can give your organization a competitive advantage through shorter development cycles, better decision making and lower costs. Download this webcast to discuss new technologies, accomplishments, and collaborations in HPC, networking, storage, software, and data management.

Presentation Transcript: Governance in Project Portfolio Management

AtTask — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This 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.

Presentation Transcript: Network Attached Storage

Dell, Inc. — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Because network attached storage (NAS) is file-based (rather than block-based) storage, it is particularly suited for storing the types of unstructured, file-based data that is a challenge for many storage pros today. This FAQ Presentation Transcript answers key questions about NAS advantages and implementations.

Getting There From Here: Delivering Unified Communications to Your Organization - Part 3

IBM — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webcast outlines how to research and implement unified communications, including knowing your enterprise's strategic initiatives. Learn ways to optimize processes and discover which applications to use by determining your organization's communication "hot spots." Justify your investment with a positive return on investment.

Achieving an Optimized Security Architecture

McAfee, Inc. — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Empower your organization with strategic security. By understanding the fundamentals of building a security architecture, you will be able to respond to business demands while safeguarding your organization. View this video to learn about optimizing your security architecture and addressing current security challenges.

Podcast: File Virtualization FAQ with Jeff Boles

F5 Networks UK — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this FAQ with Jeff Boles, Jeff discusses the ins and outs of file virtualization. He tells users the benefits and drawbacks of file virtualization, which file virtualization products are on the market and how they might work in specific IT shops, as well as how file virtualization affects replication or migration of files.

File Virtualization FAQ Podcast with Jeff Boles

F5 Networks, Inc. — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Virtual server backup options today

Quantum Corporation — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the various options available today for backing up virtual machines including VMware's VCB, third-party products, and the ways that backup software products are evolving to ease virtual machine backups.

The Role of IT Governance in PPM Success

AtTask — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

During this webcast, our speaker will discuss ways to ensure IT governance is instituted at the enterprise for PPM success.

Portfolio Resource Management

AtTask — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This podcast will review the steps CIOs can take to select top projects with the most value to the business, map resources and finally fill in the gaps.

Rethinking Business Continuity and High Availability in Storage

Hewlett-Packard Company — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This comprehensive Webcast explores new methods for business continuity and walks you through how to approach and manage the various aspects of creating a continuity strategy with snapshot assisted backup and virtualisation tools. View this Webcast to learn more.

Winning the Future: The Business Case for Rapid Transformation

Progress Software — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Transformation has become an overused buzzword, but its real meaning remains important. Under the microscope, operations transformation is about integrating operations silos and processes, merging disparate units in the wake of acquisitions, and reducing operational expenses.

Is Security Driving How You Run Your Business? Empower Your Organization with Strategic ...

McAfee, Inc. — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Reading this paper will help you understand the fundamentals of building a security architecture that helps you respond to business demands while safeguarding your organization.

Replication options for virtualized environments

Quantum Corporation — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the options currently available for performing replication as part of a backup strategy for virtual machines, benefits and drawbacks of using replication in a virtualized environment.

Consolidate Management Software and Reduce Cost

IBM — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webcast explores a phased approach to consolidating application management solutions, aligning IT infrastructure with business needs and reducing costs.

Getting Virtualization Right: Five Virtualization Rules Every Organization Must Know

Hewlett-Packard Company — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

HP has a long and proud tradition of partnering with technology leaders to help ensure success in both good economies and bad. This paper provides practical advice and insight into the rules these leaders followed to realize the full potential of virtualization.

Best Practices for Backup - Videocast

Hewlett-Packard Company — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

There are more and better tools to protect data than ever, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. In this expert videocast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help you build a better backup system.

Best Practices for Backup - Podcast

Hewlett-Packard Company — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

There are more and better tools to protect data than ever, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. In this expert podcast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help you build a better backup system.

Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games - Part 3

Intel — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this 3rd part of the Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games series, you'll learn how to give your agents higher orders of intelligence. The agents can already deal with the immediate situation they find themselves in; now you are working toward artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with broader goals and the bigger picture.

How the Fastest Growing Companies Use Business Intelligence

Information Builders — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper investigates various levels of business intelligence, discusses the challenges organizations face with today's typical BI deployments, and highlights how many high-growth companies have implemented strategic, analytical, and operational initiatives to work seamlessly together to enhance performance and boost competitive advantage.

Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT

SAP America Inc — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

A 2007 report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that nine out of ten corporate executives admit to making important decisions on the basis of inadequate information. This whitepaper will discuss what information visibility can do for your organization as well as the three critical strategic areas of business decision making.

How Outsourcing Drives Business Process Improvements

CompuCom Systems, Inc. — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

More than ever, business and IT must collaborate to meet current business realities. Significantly, CIOs must map out long-term strategies that address business plans over the next three to five years, with the delivery of high-quality IT services as a key element of strategic planning. Read this white paper to learn more.

Unlocking Hidden Value from Investments in SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse

IBM — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The purpose of this paper is to outline how IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management software and solutions are best suited to drive maximum value from investments in the SAP Business Warehouse. This topic is of interest to Business and IT Executives as well as SAP Solution Managers and Project Managers.

Garnering Executive Support: Building Your Business Plan for Strategic Meetings Management

StarCite — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this white paper, brought to you by StarCite, corporate travel and meetings professionals will learn why executive support is vital to a strategic meetings management effort and how to garner that support - even if it requires investment and resources from upper management.

Integrating Corporate Travel, Procurement and Meetings Management: A Best Practices Roadmap ...

StarCite — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this white paper, StarCite presents its latest industry research about where corporations stand when it comes to travel and meetings integration - and a roadmap for companies ready to reap the rewards of an integrated approach.

CRM: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE - Five Principles for CRM Success

Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper explains how, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is first and foremost a strategy. This guide provides insight to help you take a more customer-centric view of your business.

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function

SAP America Inc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.

Implementing a Data Quality Strategy

DataFlux Corporation — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

In this program Gartner Research Vice President Ted Fredman and DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher discuss the data quality issues facing business today as well as the solutions that can solve these problems.

Operational Excellence: The New Lever of Profitability and Competitive Advantage

SAP America Inc — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

The paper provides valuable evidence about the benefits of achieving aligned operational excellence. In it you'll discover why companies that build and align their operational capabilities for strategic advantage earn a distinct execution premium in their business performance.

CIO Decisions Ezine Volume 4: Disaster Recovery and Unified Communications

CIO Decisions — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This eguide explains how Midmarket companies are embracing server virtualization and updating their disaster recovery strategies to ensure they minimize risk-affordably.

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.

CIO Decisions Ezine Vol. 2

CIO Decisions — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Outsourcing is the quest to offload either commodity or very specialized activities, so that staff can focus on work that truly adds value to the business.

Mid & #45;market Meetings Management

StarCite — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Aberdeen research has found that although both the mid-market and large sectors have similar performance results and organizational structures for meetings management, large organizations are better positioned for long-term success.

Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements - Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities

Information Builders — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper will explain what to look for in a complete integration platform and how to use BI technology in conjunction with BAM tools to achieve zero information latency and self-correcting processes.

Maximizing Customer Value with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

Oracle Corporation — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.

Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs

Information Builders Inc. — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power.

Sales and Operations Planning: The Key to Continuous Demand Satisfaction

SAP America Inc — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

Find out how leading companies are designing their sales and operations planning (S&OP) processes to continuously monitor and meet customer demand.

Aberdeen Report: The Advanced Sourcing & #38; Negotiation Benchmark Report

SAP America Inc — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Enterprises that employ advanced sourcing strategies are positively impacting product development cycles and building stronger supplier relationships by making better, more informed decisions. Get the details in the results of this Aberdeen Group survey.

How to Use the Six Laws of Persuasion during a Negotiation

Global Knowledge — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Discover the Six Laws of Persuasion and learn how to use them to conduct more effective negotiations.