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Take a Holistic Approach to Business-Driven Security
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper introduces actions that organizations can take to drive security efforts from a business and operational perspective and discusses how security leadership from IBM can help enable their success.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Mar 2008

IBM

How to Transform Your Business: A Strategic Roadmap for Delivering Value
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the key strategic issues and best practices involved in transforming your business to enable growth. Discover the steps you must take to innovate, translate business strategy into IT strategy, develop a roadmap for strategic business transformation, and obtain maximum benefit from your SAP investment.
Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

SAP America, Inc.

Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER: This report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Dec 2007

SAP AG

Metrics-Based Sales Productivity – Delivering Dividends for Forward Thinking Sales Organizations
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: New Sales Performance Management solutions enable sales leaders to align technology to business need and strategy. Read this paper for a series of discussions related to the metrics-based sales productivity solutions that forward thinking sales organizations are employing to harness the power of the pipeline and take advantage of sales analytics.
Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 05 Mar 2010

IBM

Practical Steps to Achieve and Maintain NERC Compliance
sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes seven practical steps information security professionals can take to integrate controls into IT production operations, to simultaneously achieve NERC compliance goals, and also IT operational and security goals.
Posted: 31 Jul 2009 | Published: 08 Dec 2008

Tripwire, Inc.

Aligning Business and IT through Connected Requirements: Unifying the Development Process
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn how the connected-requirements approach serves as the framework for the use of products and technologies that are designed to allow you to optimize team performance, align the development process with your organization's business goals and meet auditing and regulatory compliance requirements.
Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008

IBM

Scaling Enterprise SOA Deployments: Benefits of a Service-Grid Architecture Powering Next-Generation SOA Deployments
sponsored by Fiorano Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews modern enterprise service grids and how their brokered peer-to-peer architecture offer ease of use for a wide array of distributed computing projects including the SOA market.
Posted: 13 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Jun 2007

Fiorano Software, Inc.

SOA Governance: Framework and Best Practices
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines a framework and best practices for governance as it specifically relates to Service Orientated Architecture (SOA). It also introduces a Six Steps to Successful SOA Governance model.
Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 May 2007

Oracle Corporation

IBM’s Three Server Approach to Workload Optimization vs. Oracle’s Exadata Single Server Approach
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to  learn about IBM vs. Oracle’s different methods of workload optimization. Review the differences between IBM’s three server approach and Oracle’s one-size-fits-all approach to deep analytics, operational analytics, and transaction processing, and decide which technology best suits your organization.
Posted: 07 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2012

IBM

Leadership Makes the Difference during Times of Global Financial Crisis: Optimizing Business Cycles through Technology Investment
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Investing in the right IT platform and end-to-end business processes enables companies to simplify the IT landscape and reduce total it cost.
Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009

SAP America, Inc.