WHITE PAPER - IT executives are under intense pressure to cut costs, and that pressure is significantly increased by the current grim economic outlook. So, how can your organization weather this economic storm? Surprisingly, a variety of opportunities for IT are hidden within today's financial challenges. Learn how with the right approach, processes, and...
Posted: June 18, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Business Process Reengineering | IT Auditing | IT Service Management | IT Workforce | ITIL | Sales Force Automation | Workflow Software | Workforce Management Software | Workforce Planning

WHITE PAPER - Working harder simply won't get you there. No matter how many people you allocate, sinking more labor into old IT practices cannot concurrently meet rising demands on IT and cut costs. Read about cost-effective, automated ways to meet this challenge head-on in our latest article, “Strategies for Modernizing IT, Reducing Costs, and..”
Posted: June 17, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Reengineering | Business Service Management | Data Collection | Help Desk Management | IT Best Practices | IT Service Management | IT Services | ITIL | Service Level Management | SOA | SOA Governance

WHITE PAPER - IT executives and their teams need a comprehensive and accurate view of IT services. A service catalog includes all relevant details about your services, including which service level agreements (SLAs) are associated with it, who is able to request it, how much it costs, and how to fulfill it. This paper describes the IT Infrastructure...
Posted: June 17, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business Process Automation | Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Service Management | IT Services | ITIL | Portfolio Management (IT Management) | Service Level Management | SLA | SLA Management Services | SOA | SOA Governance

WHITE PAPER - IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) best practices promote a well-functioning, collaborative IT environment that can enable the business and your IT organization to cope with the effects of economic stress. ITIL can help you to deliver higher-performing technology services that help your business to be both more competitive today and...
Posted: June 15, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Customer Satisfaction | Downtime | IT Best Practices | IT Governance | IT Infrastructure | IT Service Management | ITIL | Knowledge Management | Operational Metrics (Systems)

WHITE PAPER - IT organizations can significantly improve efficiency and reduce operational costs by creating environments with shared access to common data to support Operations and the Service Desk, and evolving and automating key processes between the two groups.
Posted: June 15, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Help Desk Management | IT Best Practices | IT Spending | ITIL | Service Level Management

WHITE PAPER - Discusses end-to-end APM as a process focusing on the key areas that impact overall service delivery: design, implementation and operations.
Posted: June 9, 2009 | Published: June 9, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Best Practices | IT Managers | ITIL | Service Level Management | SLA | WAN

WHITE PAPER - In today's fast-paced, highly competitive world, change is inevitable. This white paper addresses five of the most important change management challenges that CIOs have to meet and how organizations can turn these challenges into a business advantage.
Posted: May 29, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Compliance Best Practices | ITIL | Lotus Notes | Reporting Software | Six Sigma | SLA | SOA | TCO | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - As IT commoditization continues to increase audit and control activities, IT gets better at identifying and documenting the causes of significant outages. In an increasing number of cases, these ITIL efforts show the source of the outage to be action from the security department, and the BSM processes show the impact to be devastating.
Posted: May 27, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Service Management | IT Auditing | IT Departments | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | ITIL | Security Best Practices | Security Managers

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses how reduced budgets and growing demands on IT departments have forced organizations to find ways to cut costs, increase IT resource productivity, and optimize existing investments. Find out more about on this topic and how the new Dell Management Console can assist you.
Posted: May 19, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Data Migration | Infrastructure Management | ITIL | Management of Change | Portfolio Management (IT Management) | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - With spending on cost-saving technologies such as virtualization rising, and the maintenance of networking and enterprise Microsoft software keeping IT professionals constantly in demand, here's our top 10 hot skills that will take us from a down economy and beyond.
Posted: May 1, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | ITIL | Outsourcing | Programming Languages | Project Management | Server Virtualization | Telecommunications Systems

WHITE PAPER - This white paper is intended to help support center managers self-assess their center's primary functions and maturity level in order to choose an incident management system that best fits their needs without wasting money on features that will not be used.
Posted: April 21, 2009 | Published: March 5, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Customer Service | Customer Support Software | Help Desk Management Services | Help Desks | IT Infrastructure | ITIL | Operational Support Systems

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses why Dell chose BMC's CONTROL-M when they embarked on a broad initiative to integrate and upgrade its IT services to better satisfy business needs.
Posted: April 18, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Customer Service | Enterprise Architectures | IT Service Management | IT Services | ITIL | Job Scheduling Software | ROI | Systems Management | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization provides powerful, tangible ways to streamline many traditionally time-consuming processes and minimize the resources needed to deploy and manage IT resources. This white paper examines how Microsoft® customers are using virtualization technology to simplify their IT infrastructure, IT processes, and save money.
Posted: March 19, 2009 | Published: November 3, 2008


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | IT Asset Management | IT Auditing | IT Best Practices | IT Governance | IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Spending | IT Systems | ITIL | Operating Systems

WHITE PAPER - This white paper details the Cast Iron Integration Solution, which dramatically simplifies application integration today. As a purpose-built solution designed exclusively for application integration, it eliminates complexity from an integration problem and enables companies to implement projects in days, rather than weeks or months.
Posted: February 23, 2009 | Published: February 23, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business Intelligence | Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Service Management | ITIL

ANALYST BRIEF - ITIL is quickly becoming the global standard in IT service delivery, and for good reason - it offers IT leaders a robust, flexible, and transparent way to manage technology services and align with the business. Read this brief for advice on it's proper implementation.
Posted: February 19, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | IT Service Management | ITIL