Business IT Alignment

BOOK: This article will explains how servers consume power, how to estimate power usage and the mechanics of cooling. It also discusses the major components impacting power consumption and where the inefficiencies lie.

Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Jun 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Check out this presentation transcript to learn about a great endpoint security solution while balancing budgetary requirements.

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

PODCAST: This Podcast can help you put your business intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) needs into perspective with application strategy tips offered by Ray Wang at Forrester Research.

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 25 Jun 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: This brief paper highlights RSA's data loss prevention and security information and event management solutions, discussing how they simplify compliance, enhance security, and optimize IT and network operations.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

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: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: The journey to ITIL is challenging and requires clarity of vision and a disciplined execution to achieve that vision. By following ITIL practices, your IT organization will become more closely integrated with the business. BMC recommends making the journey to ITIL in a sequence of six incremental steps, the phases of which are driven through...

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: Business intelligence is more important now than ever, largely because it can help identify business inefficiencies and drive business results and new revenue - all critical in an economic downturn. Read this guide to learn about the latest trends in business intelligence, and the strategies and tools that will lead to a successful BI project.

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009

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: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Automating your data center can improve operational efficiency and give you control over service quality, security, and business agility, while simultaneously reducing risk and costs. Learn how five simple steps can help you chart your course to automation and show you how to develop a deliberate and well-planned incremental approach.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

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: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

VIDEO: Check out this brief video to see how HP Network Solutions based on an industry standard ProCurve infrastructure can help assure return on IT investments by developing best-in-class solutions for your business.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 15 Jun 2009

ANALYST REPORT: In June 2008, CFO Research Services conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The research looked at what kinds of alliances companies are forming and how finance sees itself working with internal and external partners to establish and assess successful alliances.

Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

WHITE PAPER: Business process management provides a new management discipline, a new suite of software technologies and tools, and a new IT implementation style based on concrete links between strategy and execution. This white paper explains SAP's place in the BPM landscape and describes its new offering in that arena, NetWeaver BPM.

Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organisation, enabling management by facts.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: The results of this survey show that the highest priorities are focused not on technology but on the ability of IT to deliver services that provide value for customers and end users.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Evolve to Thrive: From Operational to Management Excellence, successful companies are connecting disparate management strategies to align performance networks, not just transactional activities. Read how Oracle's Strategy-to-Success framework can guide you on your evolutionary journey to Management Excellence.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper demonstrates how an enterprise performance management (EPM) system connects people and processes, metrics, businesses, and systems. It introduces important criteria for successful design and implementation while also exploring the far-reaching benefits of EPM: improved decision-making and greater competitive advantage.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 11 Oct 2007

WHITE PAPER: Based on feedback from almost 650 end-user organizations, this report serves as a roadmap for SMBs looking to improve their analytical capability and achieve Best-in-Class performace through the deployment of BI.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: A 2007 report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that nine out of ten corporate executives admit to making important decisions on the basis of inadequate information. This whitepaper will discuss what information visibility can do for your organization as well as the three critical strategic areas of business decision making.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

PODCAST: This Expert Podcast explores strategies and best practices for planning an MES and ERP integration project.

Posted: 03 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 05 May 2009

WEBCAST: This Webcast can help you put your business intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) needs into perspective with application strategy tips offered by Ray Wang at Forrester Research.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

VIDEO: Watch this expert videocast and how to overcome common mistakes in establishing an ITIL culture. Also learn why direct, engaging two-way communication is vital in your ITIL plan.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 01 Jun 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: Virtualization technology presents a number of opportunities for driving capital and operational efficiency for SMBs. Read this brief paper to learn ten cost-saving strategies.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2008

VIDEO: In 1997, Intel IT made a strategic decision to move to laptops based on not only facts, but also a gut instinct. Hear Diane Bryant and John Mahvi explain how that decision helped Intel lower costs, raise productivity, reduce energy and even provide some unexpected benefits.

Posted: 27 May 2009 | Premiered: 23 Mar 2009

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: 27 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009