IT Governance White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents eighteen best practices for leaner, more agile software development project governance.

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper gives an overview of the IT service management (ITSM) market and provides criteria for for successful vendor assessment and product implementation.

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 | Published: 31 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Despite the many benefits, cloud computing also introduces new security risks and compromises the traditional control of IT, hindering many business from adoption. This paper offers insight into cloud governance, that helps tackle cloud security concerns and provides a path that will guide businesses to the cloud in a controlled and secured manner.

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 | Published: 18 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses taking a pro-active approach to business agility. Learn how this strategy can create "operational dexterity" to deal with changing conditions and business complexity, as well as drive innovation by encouraging growth and flexibility.

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 | Published: 07 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details why building in business process management, information management and SOA governance across the enterprise is critical to SOA success. It also presents real-world examples of IBM customers that have done so and are now reaping the benefits of SOA, including service reuse, business agility and business transformation.

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper is about the critical role that integrated requirements management can play in helping to ensure that your business goals and IT investment are continuously aligned.

Posted: 24 May 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

WHITE PAPER: In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model.

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: The Dell™ Management Console Powered by Altiris™ from Symantec™ provides a comprehensive management platform based on standardized IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes—facilitating the adoption of industry best practices and helping streamline and simplify IT management in enterprise data centers.

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: As SOA becomes a new way of implementing applications, organizations need a way to manage the assets (especially reusable services) developed as part of their SOA activities, to permit the use of these assets to be maximized and insure the results the enterprise envisions. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Open source is recognized for its ease of use, high performance, and affordability, especially amidst turbulent economic conditions. The high value of open source, coupled with economic and organizational pressure, represents a "perfect storm" for CIOs, giving them the opportunity to deploy high-performing, cost-effective open source solutions.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: CIOs and IT departments are under tremendous pressure to implement better processes over how software is deployed, managed, and used by their employees on their company computers. This document will outline a nine-step methodology that can make or break your transition to a well-managed and controlled Windows environment.

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

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: This paper outlines the rules, looks at the main threats to security compliance and highlights how a well-defined strategy, backed up by powerful technology, can provide the solution.

Posted: 22 Dec 2008 | Published: 22 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: While most leading companies' IT organizations are well on the way to adopting service-oriented architecture capabilities, many find their progress slowed by questions about who owns business services.

Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a guide to a successful SOA governance. Explore the integral role governance plays in realizing optimal ROI from an SOA implementation.

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 | Published: 24 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: Consistent access management and identity management protect data integrity and facilitate compliance. IBM identity and access management solutions help you cost-effectively provide authorized users with access while protecting applications and data.

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 | Published: 09 Jan 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper details a comprehensive, standards-based approach that integrates access control and identity management and enables you to cost-effectively provide users with access to applications and data while protecting assets from unauthor...

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

WHITE PAPER: SOA initiatives have gathered momentum in the past year with more enterprises either implementing or considering implementing SOA in the near future.

Posted: 13 Nov 2006 | Published: 01 Sep 2006

WHITE PAPER: Technology Portfolio Management is an essential component of any complete Technology Governance strategy. Understand the Technology Portfolio Management process and introduce Portfolio Management into your organization.

Posted: 24 May 2006 | Published: 01 Apr 2006

WHITE PAPER: This white paper shows how governing the business process of software and systems development - also known as "business driven development" - will allow your organization to achieve this necessary balance between responsiveness and cont...

Posted: 14 May 2006 | Published: 01 Mar 2006