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- Selecting an ERP Solution: A Guide
This paper provides guidance on how to develop a good, simple strategy to evaluate and choose the right ERP software package for your company. Published by: Infor - Enabling Real World SOA through the Microsoft Platform
This paper describes the business context out of which grew the need for a service oriented approach, and the Microsoft approach to achieving successful SOA implementations. Published by: Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd - Advanced Market Place SM7 Demo
Looking to improve service quality? HP has the most comprehensive ITSM solution in the industry. By aligning services, software, education, and hardware around service management, HP is able to deliver a complete and comprehensive I... Published by: Hewlett-Packard Company - Changing the SQL Landscape through Consolidation Podcast
Discover an IT consolidation platform that effectively runs applications such as Oracle and SAP. Published by: Hewlett-Packard Company - Application Performance Management Report (Aberdeen Group)
Aberdeen surveyed 206 organizations to examine best practices for managing application performance. These findings serve as a guideline to organizations looking to improve the performance of their business critical applications. Published by: Shunra Software - Driving Improved Performance with Business Intelligence
View this Videocast to discover what key points your organization needs to consider when selecting a business intelligence (BI) solution. Published by: Cognos, an IBM Company - Mitel Corporation: Realizing Maximum Benefits from SAP NetWeaver?
Learn how you can benefit from a solution to simplify the process of integrating business processes no matter what integration technology, industry standards, or communication protocols are being used. Published by: SEEBURGER, Inc. - Enabling Enterprise Business Process Management
Read this paper to learn how enterprise process modeling; analysis, architecture and implementation are at the core of business process management and optimization. Published by: Telelogic, An IBM Company - 10 Simple Steps to ITIL Network Compliance
ITIL is emerging as the standard way of managing IT service delivery; the latest Version 3 has extended this, aligning service design, development, and delivery more closely with business goals. Published by: Netcordia - Five Myths of Agile Development
In this white paper, you will gain insight into five myths commonly associated with agile development. Explore what agile development is in reality, what it is not, and the true benefits of transitioning to agile methods in your organization. Published by: VersionOne Inc. - A Model-Driven Approach to Aligning Business and IT
This web seminar from the experts at Sybase explores how to achieve alignment between business and IT by examining the intersection between business models and data models. Published by: Sybase, Inc. - Figuring Out Which Virtualization is Best For You: Server, Desktop, Application, Storage
All technologies start out as unproven, but some quickly make the leap to demonstrating real business value. Virtualization is one of those technologies. This white paper offers simple advice for realizing the promise of virtualization. Published by: Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions - The Time for Performance Management Is Now, Not Later
Read this paper to learn why Ventana Research believes that organizations must act to deploy performance management in order to avoid failure and to deliver the results they expect. Published by: Cognos, an IBM Company - Ventana Research - Aligning Business and IT to Improve Performance on SAP
Read this paper to learn how enterprise planning must be built on the ability to operate across an organization, to collaborate across business lines and to access large volumes of enterprise data. Published by: Cognos, an IBM Company - Planning for effective BI and performance management program success
Whether you're planning a project now, or will in the future, get expert advice and methods to make BI-PM projects run smoothly. From requirements gathering to deployment, find out how to scope, plan and deliver a BI-PM project successfully. Published by: Cognos, an IBM Company - Podcast: The Evolution of Data Integration and Quality Software
In this podcast, learn about the evolution of data integration and data quality and the trends that can affect your future data processes. Explore ways you can automate data management and the benefits of moving toward a single data services architecture. Published by: Business Objects - Power of a Single Application for Data Integration and Data Quality
This podcast explores the requirements you need to look for in a single application that unifies data integration and quality. Learn how to address the needs of both business and IT to increase efficiency and alignment while eliminating redundancies. Published by: Business Objects - Reducing Total Cost of Ownership with Data Quality Applications
In this podcast, learn how you can best utilize your IT resources and lower costs when it comes to data management - from centralizing the deployment with a single application to leveraging or re-using workflows. Published by: Business Objects - Operational Business Intelligence: A Benefit to Your Customer and Your Business
An operational BI system should be focused on influencing the interaction with your customer to provide benefit to both the customer and your business. It also lends itself to a fairly direct ROI. Published by: Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software - SOA Business Case Best Practices
This Videocast discusses how to develop a business case for an SOA. Discover the role SOA plays in business process management. Published by: IBM - How Does Your IT Help Desk Measure Up?
Effective and efficient IT operations are the "table stakes" for IT-business groups' relationships -- they're taken for granted by user groups but are glaring when absent. Published by: Citrix Online - GotoAssist - The Strategic Role of IT Culture in Business Performance
In this webcast hear an expert panel discuss the challenges that IT faces integrating itself into company culture and attracting, retaining and developing top-flight IT professionals. Published by: Citrix Online - GotoAssist - Modernize and Manage Your SAP environment
Modernizing SAP environment results on faster return on SAP investments while lowering costs, reducing complexity, and minimizing risk. Published by: Hewlett-Packard Company - IBM WebSphere Application Server family: Flexible infrastructure for today's business world
This white paper discusses how to create a flexible infrastructure through the implementation of an SOA and alignment of business processes with strategic goals to overcome the challenges associated with the rapidly changing business world. Published by: IBM - Aligning Business and IT through C