Business IT Alignment White Papers

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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how security that is built into a dynamic infrastructure can mitigate risks, enabling agility, secure collaboration, and business transformation. The IBM Security Framework and lifecycle approach can help address changing business requirements.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2009

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

WHITE PAPER: How do companies create winning business cases to justify key data center and IT initiatives and speed-up the budget approval process? Read this paper for tips and best practices for how to succeed in the budget approval process and business case development.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009

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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how reduced budgets and growing demands on IT departments have forced organizations to find ways to cut costs, increase IT resource productivity, and optimize existing investments. Find out more about on this topic and how the new Dell Management Console can assist you.

Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of the problem of Web sprawl, and an account of the rationalization strategies organizations are adopting to gain the upper hand on sprawl. Adopting a service-oriented architecture based on integrated application platform infrastructure emerges as the key to rationalizing sprawl.

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Check out this paper to learn how to enhance PC performance and overall IT efficiency by utilizing Intel's unique new platform performance benchmarking process.

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how assessment, alignment, achievability, accessibility, agility and accountability, the six key concepts of value-driven product management, can be applied to create a repeatable process for developing successful products.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2009

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

WHITE PAPER: Success in business intelligence is all about facilitating sound, data-driven decisions at every level of the business. Read this white paper to learn six strategies for BI success, drawn from the experiences of actual IBM Cognos customers.

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 | Published: 02 Mar 2009

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

WHITE PAPER: Harvey Koeppel, executive director of the Center for CIO Leadership, talks about the challenges facing CIOs today and the emerging role of the CIO as a business leader helping to drive change and innovation.

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at the growing alignment between the financial and technical disciplines. It examines the results of the Global CFO Study 2008 in the context of IT, identifying the critical implications for CIOs, and the need for a strategic partnership with CFOs and more ongoing collaboration between Finance and IT.

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how CIOs can use governance best practices to mitigate the depth and duration of performance declines that often accompany periods of change and innovation. It will clarify what governance is - and isn't - and articulate how CIOs can begin to improve governance within their organizations.

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the changing face of collaboration and the ways in which the new collaboration can benefit business. It points out that smart businesses already are looking for ways to connect communities so they can tap into both internal and external knowledge and use that knowledge to accelerate innovation.

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn about the five best practices for deploying successful SOA and see rapid return on your investment.

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reveals how WebSphere® adapter nodes within IBM® WebSphere Message Broker V6.1 speed and simplify the tasks of creating integrated processes, resulting in greater productivity and lower cost.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 11 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Understanding how IT can drive value and competitive advantage for your company is important for executives in all industries. This SAP Executive Insight paper explores the relationship between IT investment and performance and productivity gains.

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 | Published: 18 Oct 2008

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

WHITE PAPER: In this study, IDC analyst Michael Rose discusses how VMware ThinApp, an agentless virtualization solution, addresses the challenges of desktop computing. Read this paper to learn about the pros and cons of virtualized client computing.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z can help you reduce the overall cost of IT by transforming your data centre from a reactive, resource focus to a business-driven, proactive service.

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Published: 27 Oct 2008

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: 15 Oct 2008 | Published: 26 Sep 2008

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: 01 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008