WEBCAST - During the Webcast, we'll show you how adopting a proactive quality management approach to systems and software development can help minimize risk and assist in improving predictability across your development lifecycle.
Posted: August 5, 2009 | Premiered: August 5, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Environment | Business Management | CEOs | CFOs | CIOs | Cost Benefit Analysis | Economic Environment | Risk Management | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This report serves as a roadmap to small to midsize businesses (SMBs) for realizing the maximum Return on Investment (ROI) from ERP implementations.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: March 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | CIOs | ERP | ERP Software | ROI | SMBs

ANALYST BRIEF - Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: July 21, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Encryption Standards | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

WHITE PAPER - Despite the significant progress made with open standards in the industry, most SOA platforms are delivered with many proprietary, closed extensions that focus on customer lock-in more than automation of the value chain. Red Hat believes there is a better way. We redefine SOA to be simple, open, and affordable.
Posted: July 20, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | CIOs | ERP | Middleware | SOA | SOA Governance | Value Chain Integration | Value Chain Management | Value Chains

WHITE PAPER - This paper is designed to assist CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, Accounts Payable managers and ERP system administrators in learning, planning and evaluating automation of accounts payable processes to gain added efficiency in today's competitive business environment.
Posted: July 13, 2009 | Published: July 13, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | CEOs | CFOs | CIOs | Document Management | ERP | ERP Software | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This paper presents a solution that leverages comprehensive document process automation to deliver the advantages of paperless invoice processing as an on-demand service. It highlights the opportunity to shift ROI from the project level to the document level (capital versus operational expense) and realize automation benefits immediately.
Posted: July 10, 2009 | Published: July 10, 2009


Topics:  Accounting | Accounting Software | CEOs | CFOs | CIOs | Operational Support Systems | Payment Processing | ROI

WHITE PAPER - This white paper will focus on the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP and the pain points caused by the uncertainty of SAP's product roadmaps and the difficulty of integrating their products. It will then outline some effective business intelligence strategies.
Posted: July 8, 2009 | Published: July 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Development | Business Intelligence | CIOs | Enterprise Architectures | Product Life Cycles | SAP (Product) | Surveys | TCO

WHITE PAPER - With the current economic state the way it is CIOs must rethink how they manage IT costs and operations. This white paper will take a closer look at how virtualization can help cut down the costs as well as improve efficiency of the data center.
Posted: July 2, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | CIOs | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Economic Environment | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | TCO

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: June 22, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Management | CIOs | Economic Environment | IT Asset Management | IT Governance | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Outsourcing Services | IT Services | IT Spending | IT Systems

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: June 22, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | CIOs | Customer Satisfaction | Dashboards | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - Open source is recognized for its ease of use, high performance, and affordability, especially amidst turbulent economic conditions. The high value of open source, coupled with economic and organizational pressure, represents a "perfect storm" for CIOs, giving them the opportunity to deploy high-performing, cost-effective open source solutions.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | IT Governance | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | Linux | Open Source | Open Source Software | Operating Systems | UNIX

EGUIDE - In today's dynamic economy it is important for CIOs to be thinking about how to strengthen their organization and position themselves for success for a future economic upturn and growth. Read this guide to learn how a company can make changes to IT that generate real business value.
Posted: June 18, 2009 | Published: June 18, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Intelligence | CIOs | Economic Environment | Infrastructure Management | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - In these tough economic times, how do you address the challenge of reducing costs without diminishing your service quality? Companies can lower costs significantly and meet the growing demand for services by taking a more holistic approach. This paper discusses the importance of taking a unified approach to service support management and...
Posted: June 18, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | CIOs | Configuration Management | Help Desks | IT Service Management | IT Services | ITIL | Service Level Management | Service Process Optimization Software | Workforce Planning

WHITE PAPER - Many IT organizations still perform a majority of Data Center administration tasks manually. Today, manual techniques are obsolete as Information Technology is required to manage complex multivendor infrastructures cost-effectively. There is one way to meet this challenge and that is Automation.
Posted: June 12, 2009 | Published: June 12, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | CIOs | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | IT Service Management | ROI | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper analyzes the impact of the cloud on the IT Ecosystem and provides answers to what an organization needs to do in embracing a right cloud strategy.
Posted: June 12, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Continuity Planning | CIOs | Cloud Computing | Competition | Data Center Management | Economic Environment | IT Managers | IT Services | Regulatory Compliance | Web Services