IT Management White Papers

FREE MEMBERSHIP - Create your personalized Bitpipe Service!

Feb 10, 2012

IT Management
ALSO CALLED: IT Strategy, MIS, Management Information Systems, IT Management Leadership, Information Technology Management, Information Technology Strategy DEFINITION: MIS (management information systems) is a general term for the computer systems in an enterprise that provide information about its business operations. It's also used to refer to the people who manage these systems. Typically, in a large corporation, "MIS" or the "MIS department" refers to a central or centrally-coordinated system of computer expertise and management, often including mainframe systems … Definition continues below.
IT Management White Papers (View All Report Types)
1 - 25 of 154 Matches Previous Page \| Next Page

IT Management as a service (ITMaaS) 451 Research, November 2011 sponsored by Nimsoft, Inc. WHITE PAPER: IT management as a Service (ITMaaS) can help admins increase visibility into their environment, monitor and evaluate performance, and improve the functionality of environments through a cloud delivery model. Discover how ITMaaS delivers essential management tools necessary for optimizing your resources. Posted: 09 Feb 2012 \| Published: 09 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Server Virtualization \| Software as a Service \| Systems Management

Finding a Smart Alternative for Enterprise Scheduling sponsored by ORSYP WHITE PAPER: This resource presents many of the challenges and opportunities organizations face when setting up a job scheduling or workload automation process to manage their IT operations. Posted: 06 Feb 2012 \| Published: 06 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| IT Asset Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Job Scheduling Software

Business Analytics – Pushing Toward Relevance sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Learn how IT can improve its overall contribution to business innovation with an action-oriented business intelligence (BI) and analytics strategy. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Information Management \| IT Best Practices \| IT Governance \| IT Management

How to Choose an Enterprise-Class Job Scheduling Solution Evaluation Guide sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Depending on the size of an enterprise, a job scheduler may manage thousands of individual mission-critical business processes every day. Access this resource for a brief history of the job scheduling marketplace and to learn what to look for in job scheduling software, including a checklist with which to evaluate your options. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Enterprise Systems \| IT Management \| Job Scheduling Software \| Workload Automation

Driving Situational Awareness: Optimizing informational visualization to facilitate decisions at the executive level sponsored by CA Technologies. WHITE PAPER: Learn how IT leaders can foster visibility across their organization that arms the executive community with the knowledge needed to make proactive decisions — and identify and mitigate emerging risks and issues before they negatively affect the bottom line, customer satisfaction, and brand reputation. Posted: 20 Jan 2012 \| Published: 20 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Performance Management Software \| Applications Management \| Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Process Management \| IT Management \| IT Managers

Ensuring Service Assurance in the New Normal sponsored by CA Technologies. WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn about service assurance, the modern IT management solution designed to meet the requirements of a cloud-connected enterprise, whether it is leveraging infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), or a combination of the three. Posted: 20 Jan 2012 \| Published: 20 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Performance Management Software \| Applications Management \| Business Service Management \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) \| IT Management \| Platform as a service \| Software as a Service

Cloud Quick Start Guide sponsored by Channel Transformation Alliance WHITE PAPER: Access this essential quick start guide to the cloud to learn about the top 3 things resellers should know about the cloud, how to define your cloud business model, 8 steps required to build a successful cloud practice, and much more! Posted: 19 Jan 2012 \| Published: 19 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Channel Management \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| IT Management \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Services

Managing a Remote Workforce: Proven Practices from Successful Leaders sponsored by Citrix Online Go To Meeting WHITE PAPER: Access this report from research and advisory firm Work Design Collaborative, LLC (WDC) to learn about the business benefits of a remote workforce and the best practices and technologies IT can implement to leverage them. Posted: 16 Jan 2012 \| Published: 16 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Instant Messaging \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Workers \| Remote Users \| Smart Phones \| Teleconferences \| Web Conferences

The Future of Business Collaboration sponsored by Citrix Online Go To Meeting WHITE PAPER: We know that the future of work will require significantly more collaboration, and it will be dramatically more distributed. This white paper explores how IT is at the forefront of making this future successful, overseeing the use of such technologies as smart phones, webcasting, screen sharing, and more. Posted: 16 Jan 2012 \| Published: 16 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Collaboration \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Workers \| Smart Phones \| Telecommuting \| Teleconferences \| Webcasts

The Right Availability and Performance Management Model: Your Recipe for Value Maturity sponsored by BMC-Accenture WHITE PAPER: This resource explains the challenges of traditional IT maturity models for guiding the evaluation of IT monitoring capabilities, the purchase of monitoring tools, and the creation of effective monitoring strategies. Learn how to meet the challenges of new technologies and management requirements. Posted: 13 Jan 2012 \| Published: 13 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Process Management \| IT Management \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Services

How a Center of Excellence Can Boost Automation Benefits sponsored by BMC-Accenture WHITE PAPER: Today’s organizations are looking towards automation as a way to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Automation can help reduce capital expenditures by enabling businesses to retire administrative applications. It also minimizes risks and lowers labor costs. Access this resource to learn more about what automation can do for your company. Posted: 13 Jan 2012 \| Published: 13 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| IT Management \| IT Management Services \| Systems Management

Whitepaper: Monitoring End User Experience in Virtual / VDI Environments sponsored by Aternity WHITE PAPER: This essential resource presents best practices for monitoring end user experience in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. Discover the three primary components that can dynamically impact how end users experience the IT services they consume in real-time and learn more about user-centric proactive IT management. Posted: 11 Jan 2012 \| Published: 11 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Desktop Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| Desktop Virtualization Software \| IT Management \| IT Management Services \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure \| Virtual Machine

Optimised Time Management: How to Communicate More Effectively at Work sponsored by Citrix Online Go To Meeting WHITE PAPER: New forms of media and communication have revolutionized how we work — and greatly accelerated our day-to-day activities. In this essay, you will learn how to master the daily flood of emails, make telephone conversations more productive, run more effective, efficient meetings, and utilize web conferencing. Posted: 11 Jan 2012 \| Published: 11 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Email \| Email Management \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| Management Training \| Teleconferences \| Web Conferences

Take Complete Control with the Private Cloud sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd WHITE PAPER: This exclusive white paper offers a quick checklist that you can use to take the next step to managing and controlling IT across the IT ecosystem to the private cloud. Discover how the private cloud offers many of the same benefits as the public cloud, including self-service, scalability, and elasticity, along with additional security features. Posted: 10 Jan 2012 \| Published: 10 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Cloud Security \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Private Cloud \| Virtual Machine

A Comparative Study on Functionality, Benefits and Economics of Private Cloud Solutions sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd WHITE PAPER: This white paper compares private cloud solutions from Microsoft and VMware by using private cloud industry standard concepts and defining the technology benefits of Microsoft private cloud solutions. Posted: 10 Jan 2012 \| Published: 10 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| IT Management \| IT Service Management \| Licensing \| Private Cloud \| ROI

Flying in the Private Cloud: Setting IT on Auto-Pilot sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd WHITE PAPER: IT today can power multiple areas of the business, but security concerns often result in IT managers spending most of their time on administration and troubleshooting. This white paper discusses how you can put IT on auto-pilot with the private cloud to transform your IT services. Posted: 10 Jan 2012 \| Published: 10 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Service Management \| Private Cloud \| Security Management

Refactoring sensitive data access: the benefits of desktop virtualization for security sponsored by Citrix WHITE PAPER: This resource explores a secure-by-design IT strategy based on desktop virtualization to regain control over data and applications. Inside, dscover the benefits of desktop virtualization for security, and more. Posted: 10 Jan 2012 \| Published: 10 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Desktop Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| Desktop Virtualization Software \| IT Management \| IT Management Services \| Security \| Security Management

The Case for Infrastructure Convergence sponsored by HPM Networks WHITE PAPER: This resource presents key questions every IT pro should ask before employing converged infrastructure solutions in their IT environment. Posted: 10 Jan 2012 \| Published: 10 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| IT Management \| IT Management Services \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

Quote, Propose and Close: 5 Steps To Building Winning Sales Proposals sponsored by ConnectWise WHITE PAPER: This paper details a five step process for building winning sales proposals, to help you increase your proposal success rate and maximize business profits. Posted: 06 Jan 2012 \| Published: 06 Jan 2012 TOPICS: IT Management \| IT Management Services \| Marketing \| Sales \| Sales Force Automation

Winning with Managed Services: How to Facilitate Rapid, Lean Growth, with Professional Services Automation sponsored by ConnectWise WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how professional services automation (PSA) software enables managed service providers to manage their businesses more proactively, standardize and automate processes to save time, deliver effective customer service, and much more. Posted: 06 Jan 2012 \| Published: 06 Jan 2012 TOPICS: IT Management \| IT Management Services \| Outsourcing \| Professional Services Automation Software \| Professional Services Industries

‘Service-centric’ Server Monitoring sponsored by Nimsoft, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how to identify server monitoring solutions that can easily adapt availability and service quality measures for a myriad of server configurations. Posted: 05 Jan 2012 \| Published: 05 Jan 2012 TOPICS: IT Management \| IT Management Services \| IT Managers \| IT Service Centers \| IT Service Management \| IT Services \| Server Management \| Server Software \| Service Level Management

Making the Cloud Work: Monitoring Requirements for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS sponsored by Nimsoft, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how you can monitor and manage public cloud investments including Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), and Software as a service (SaaS), to validate and optimize service quality. Posted: 05 Jan 2012 \| Published: 05 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Spending \| Platform as a service \| Software as a Service

SaaS-based Service Management: Tailor to the Business with Ease sponsored by Nimsoft, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Learn how SaaS-based service management can help you eliminate the cost and distraction of platform maintenance, minimize upgrade costs and disruptions, tailor to the business without complex coding, and more. Posted: 04 Jan 2012 \| Published: 04 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Cloud Computing \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Service Management \| IT Services \| IT Spending \| Software as a Service

Selling Solutions: How to Use the Pain Chain to Sell Technical Solutions sponsored by ConnectWise WHITE PAPER: This resource explores selling solutions for IT service providers. Learn about what a Pain Chain is, how it works, and how to use it as a successful sales strategy. When used correctly, the Pain Chain becomes a useful tool that can help strengthen your relationship with your clients. Posted: 03 Jan 2012 \| Published: 03 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Channel Management \| CRM \| IT Management \| IT Services \| Sales \| Sales Channels

Consumerization and Social Media: Where is the Business Return? sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers analysis of IDC surveys conducted in autumn 2011 of top IT leaders in Europe on the proliferation of social media and new access devices and their implications for business and government organizations. Posted: 27 Dec 2011 \| Published: 27 Dec 2011 TOPICS: IT Management \| Mobile CRM \| Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Workers \| Security \| Security Management \| Security Policies \| Security Threats \| Social Computing \| Social Networking

1 - 25 of 154 Matches Previous Page 1 2 3 4 Next Page

IT MANAGEMENT DEFINITION (continued): … but also including by extension the corporation's entire network of computer resources. In the beginning, business computers were used for the practical business of computing the payroll and keeping track of accounts payable and receivable. As applications were developed that provided managers with information about sales, inventories, and other data that would help in managing the enterprise, the term "MIS" arose to describe these kinds of applications. Today, the term is used broadly in a number of contexts and includes (but is not limited to): decision support systems, resource and people …
IT Management definition sponsored by SearchDataCenter.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary

Browse by Report Type:
IT Management White Papers | IT Management Multimedia | IT Management IT Downloads

TechTarget provides enterprise IT professionals with the information they need to perform their jobs - from developing strategy, to making cost-effective IT purchase decisions and managing their organizations' IT projects - with its network of technology-specific Web sites, events and magazines


Definitions: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other
TechTarget Corporate Web Site \| Media Kits All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2000 - 2012, TechTarget \| Read our Privacy Statement