WHITE PAPER - This white paper details how Web 2.0 technologies support business strategies by improving efficiency and productivity as well as harnessing knowledge through collaboration.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 21, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Collaboration | Databases | ERP | ERP Software | Productivity | SOA | Social Computing | Social Networking

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how IT organizations can successfully automate the management of an increasingly complex IT environment.
Posted: November 19, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | IT Infrastructure | ITIL | NAS | QOS | SAN | Server Virtualization | VLAN | WLAN

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn how the Network Integrator is responsible for managing subprojects within the context of multivendor agreements with the appropriate third parties and service providers.
Posted: November 17, 2008 | Published: November 17, 2008


Topics:  Billing Systems | Business IT Alignment | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Operating Systems | Operational Support Systems | Research and Development | Supplier Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides guidance on how to develop a good, simple strategy to evaluate and choose the right ERP software package for your company.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: November 14, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Enterprise Systems | ERP | IT Managers | SMBs | Software | Strategic Planning | Vendor Selection

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: November 7, 2008 | Published: November 6, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Business Processes | Intellectual Property | IT Infrastructure | Productivity | SOA | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how enterprise process modeling; analysis, architecture and implementation are at the core of business process management and optimization.
Posted: October 21, 2008 | Published: October 21, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | CRM | Enterprise Systems | ERP | SOA

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: October 20, 2008 | Published: October 17, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | IT Service Management | ITIL | Network Best Practices | Network Configuration Management | Network Configuration Management Software | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Performance Management Software | Regulatory Compliance

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: October 15, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Productivity | Project Management | Software Best Practices | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Engineering Institute | Software Quality Assurance | Testing

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: September 29, 2008 | Published: September 29, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Data Center Management | IT Service Management | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | TCO | VMware

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: September 25, 2008 | Published: September 25, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | ERP | ERP Software | Operational Support Systems | SOA

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: September 25, 2008 | Published: September 25, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Systems | CRM | Data Warehouses | ERP | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: September 17, 2008 | Published: September 17, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | Customer Service | Dashboards | OLAP

WHITE PAPER - Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes.
Posted: August 1, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | IT Best Practices | Project Management | Project Management Software | Project Portfolio Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: July 2, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2006


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Change Management | CRM | IT Service Management

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: June 10, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Business Processes | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Explore the benefits of ITIL and IT service management (ITSM) and how ITSM will give IT administrators the tools they need to get a handle on the costs, the value and increase the efficiencies of their operations.
Posted: June 4, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Change Management | Configuration Management | Inventory Management | IT Service Management | ITIL | Security Management

WHITE PAPER - This Oracle customer resource center is designed to help you learn about best practices and cost-effective ways to simplify the upgrade process for Oracle Database. Simplify your upgrade challenges, no matter what stage you're at in the upgrade process.
Posted: April 22, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Change Management | Database Administrators | Database Performance Management | IT Consulting Services | IT Service Management | ITIL | Oracle (Product) | Software Migration | Software Upgrades

WHITE PAPER - ITIL Service Delivery provides the processes for identifying, planning and provisioning IT services, while Service Support addresses the day-to-day support and maintenance of these services.
Posted: April 21, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Portfolio Management | Applications Management Services | Business IT Alignment | Capacity Management | CMDB | Financial Management | IT Service Management | ITIL | Quality of Service | SLA

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the relationship between business and IT groups within the typical enterprise and explores how the implementation of a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) allows both groups find common ground.
Posted: April 10, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2006


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Enterprise Resource Management | Policy-Based Network Management | SOA | Software Developers | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - Take a look at how organizations are taking strides to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities - in short, to close the gap between strategy and execution.
Posted: March 24, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | IT Best Practices | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - Green sustainability is becoming a highly visible part of the corporate strategy. Read this paper to learn how your organization can generate significant cost savings by integrating a green project into an overall change management initiative.
Posted: February 21, 2008 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Change Management | Corporate Governance | Environmental Compliance | IT Spending | Server Virtualization | Telecommuting | Training | Training Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the importance of business and IT objectives for an enterprise architecture initiative. Discover the benefits of enterprise architecture and explore a step-by-step guide for implementing this infrastructure.
Posted: February 19, 2008 | Published: July 16, 2007


Topics:  Business Architectures | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Business Process Automation Software | Business Process Management | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | IT Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - Investigating the tangible business results using ITSM, this Aberdeen Research Brief highlights Oracle's Upgrade Management Service as a solution enabling organizations to unify business and IT with the shared goal of delivering value to the customer.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | Customer Service | Enterprise | IT Governance | IT Management Services | IT Service Management | ITIL | ITSM | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - The ability to measure the results of a process and identify weak points is a measure of success with IT. Learn how to recognize and track problems appearing in production to their real root cause so that real process improvement can take place.
Posted: December 6, 2007 | Published: April 2, 2007


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management Software | CMDB | Data Center Management | IT Service Management | ITIL | Network Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper highlights a set of guidelines for implementing a Smart SOA approach. Smart SOA benefits both business and IT by extending the business value of deployment to achieve the desired level of agility and IT alignment within an organization.
Posted: November 27, 2007 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Models | Business Process Management | Change Management | Metadata | Model Driven Architecture | ROI | SOA