Collaboration White Papers

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The Power of Collaboration within Unified Communications
sponsored by Polycom, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper shares practical perspectives on preparing a business case for collaboration tools within Unified Communications, as well as offering best practice approaches for ensuring the successful adoption - and maximum contribution - of collaboration applications in your enterprise.
Posted: 05 Dec 2008 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

Polycom, Inc.

The Social Enterprise: Using Social Enterprise Applications to Enable the Next Wave of Knowledge Worker Productivity
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Enterprise social applications are the next generation of collaboration and productivity tools, capturing the interpersonal knowledge of workers and the implicit connections among people, systems, and data.
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 | Published: 16 Oct 2008

Oracle Corporation

Five Reasons to Go Wireless
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Wireless networks are a powerful tool for boosting productivity and encouraging information sharing in a small company. With access to network resources, employees can roam where they need to and have constant access to the tools required to do their jobs
Posted: 10 Oct 2008 | Published: 10 Oct 2008

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Sales 2.0: How Businesses Are Using Online Collaboration to Spark Sales
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines research that reveals how sales and marketing professionals who use collaboration and Sales 2.0 tools gain a competitive advantage over their peers who do not use them.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008

Oracle Corporation

Monitoring and Managing Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server
sponsored by Azaleos Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper identifies key best practices with respect to the monitoring and management of SharePoint and will identify gaps and market needs that the proven set of Azaleos remote monitoring and management services can effectively bridge.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008

Azaleos Corporation

It's All about the Salesperson: Taking Advantage of Web 2.0
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the challenges salespeople face, the growing Web 2.0 trend in the enterprise, and the drivers for a new breed of social applications that complement traditional CRM systems to help sales users close more deals quickly.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008

Oracle Corporation

Getting Value from Industry Best Practices the High-Tech Supply Chain Challenge
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER: Supply chain operations play a vital role in the success of any consumer or high-tech original equipment manufacturer (OEM). This SAP Executive Insight examines how the adoption of industry best practices can add value to your organization.
Posted: 18 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008

SAP AG

Driving Your Channel Business: Leverage Information Technology to Improve Partner Relationships and Boost Channel Performance
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses key channel business trends, highlights the complexities and challenges of different channel models.
Posted: 17 Sep 2008 | Published: 17 Sep 2008

SAP AG

It's 2008: Do You Know Where Your Talent Is? - Connecting People to What Matters
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Demand for knowledge workers is rising even as their skills and abilities are falling into short supply. This research report about acquisition and retention strategies questions the "war for talent" approach to these emerging trends.
Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 09 Sep 2008

SAP America, Inc.

Principles of Agile Architecture
sponsored by Rally Software
WHITE PAPER: The benefits of Agile methods are becoming more obvious and compelling. While the most popular practices were developed and proven in small team environments, the interest and need for using Agile in the enterprise is growing rapidly...
Posted: 14 Aug 2008 | Published: 14 Aug 2008

Rally Software

Enterprises Reap the Rewards of Modernizing Their ERP Systems - IDC Research
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines strategies for organizations considering upgrading or replacing their enterprise resource planning systems in order to handle business growth, streamline internal processes, and leverage technology innovation.
Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

SAP America, Inc.

Driving Business Success with Software Reuse
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how Software Reuse and its underlying fundamentals have evolved dramatically. It also discusses the benefits of constructing critical enterprise software applications through reusable parts.
Posted: 30 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

IBM

Welcome to Your Internet Future - Mobile Broadband Brought to You by WiMAX
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: WiMAX is a new way of subscribing to mobile Internet access through a wireless connection, direct to your service provider, it gives you reliable, convenient broadband access on the go, for real-time information and entertainment.
Posted: 24 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

Intel Corporation

Increasing Data Center Density While Driving down Power and Cooling Costs
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses various technologies that can help IT managers plan and implement a more comprehensive and effective strategy for expanding data center capabilities while reducing power consumption.
Posted: 24 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2006

Intel Corporation

Avaya Unified Communications Can Reduce Cell Phone Expenses
sponsored by Avaya Inc.
WHITE PAPER: By converging real-time, near-real-time, and non-real-time business communication applications, Avaya Intelligent Communications can dramatically reduce cell phone expenses, taking Unified Communications to the next level.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

Avaya Inc.

How Should an Enterprise Move towards Unified Communications?
sponsored by Avaya Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Avaya moves customers toward Unified Communications to support complex and flexible work environments. The consultative process begins with a business assessment to understand the communication patterns, and to see where business processes slow down.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

Avaya Inc.

Collaborative and Comprehensive: A Bold New Look for Global Sourcing
sponsored by Accenture
WHITE PAPER: This paper explores challenges and opportunities inherent in the global sourcing movement and provides at least five capabilities to be mastered if an organization is to achieve world-class status in the sourcing approaches and management techniques.
Posted: 26 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

Accenture

The Agile CFO: Enabling the Innovation Path to Growth
sponsored by IBM Line of Business
WHITE PAPER: This paper proposed several actions financial executives can take to become agile CFOs.
Posted: 12 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2006

IBM Line of Business

5 Styles of Business Intelligence
sponsored by MicroStrategy
WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at the historical development of BI applications and BI technology, and concludes that five common Styles of BI have evolved during the past decade - each style representing a certain characteristic usage.
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2002

MicroStrategy

RADVISION: Recipient of the 2008 North American Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Product Differentiation Innovation Award
sponsored by RADVISION
WHITE PAPER: Frost & Sullivan presents the 2008 Product Differentiation Innovation Award in the videoconferencing infrastructure systems market to RADVISION.
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

RADVISION

15 Minute Guide to Collaborative Case Management for the Public Sector
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This guide focuses on an innovative approach to case management in public sector--collaborative case management (CCM).
Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

EMC Corporation

REACH Compliance: How the Business Process Expert Community Helps The Chemicals Industry
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Learn compliance challenges posed by new legislation and how to break down its complexity into actionable requirements at the business process level. Access and share compliance best practices, tools and methodologies using a collaborative platform.
Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

SAP America, Inc.

Remote Data Protection
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Thanks to IBM's Remote Data Protection Service you can efficiently back up your data so that it can be more easily recovered in the event of a disaster. This pay-as-you-use subscription service includes hardware, software and operational support.
Posted: 29 May 2008 | Published: 29 May 2008

IBM

Telecom Switches Emphasis: Preliminary Analysis of the 2007 Telecom Industry Survey
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: As revenues from traditional telecom services decline, the continual erosion of technology barriers to adjacent industries offers the prospect of new markets for telecom providers.
Posted: 14 May 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

IBM

A Day in a Low Carbon Life: What Might It Be like to Lead a Business in 2012?
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This entertaining paper describes a day in the life of a fictional Chief Executive Officer, preparing to face market analysts in 2012.
Posted: 14 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008

IBM