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: December 2, 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 - 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