Business - IT Alignment

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This paper from Kurt Salmon identifies the common inhibitors to innovation and how to overcome them, and sets out some important principles that can help organizations establish innovation more firmly within their normal operations.

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 | Published: 16 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this essential resource to discover five crucial steps to jump-start business and IT agility by becoming an instant-on enterprise, including planning, standardizing, virtualizing, and more.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this new release of SOA Suite, Oracle continues to emphasize the development, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission-critical environments.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: When automating decisions, choosing the right business rules management system is not enough. In this white paper, FICO offers 11 steps to help insurers make the most of business rules, from understanding where to apply the technology in your business to strategies to operationalize analytics and continuously improve decisions.

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 | Published: 23 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: When today's modern, extended enterprises make the move to standardize on a single business software solution, they often find that very few vendors offer products with the necessary scope and flexibility. Read this paper to discover the required elements of successful, unified business software for the extended enterprise.

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 | Published: 02 Jan 2012

IT BRIEFING: This report from Deloitte argues businesses are again investing in IT to provide the differentiation and innovation critical from their competitors despite the downturn.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to use automation to cut costs and optimize your service desk, software budget, and software management.

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 | Published: 21 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: With customer centricity the rallying cry for today’s retailers, retail organizations must create systems that support highly personalized and targeted decisions across multiple channels. Learn how successful retail organizations are using business rules management for marketing and merchandising operations programs to achieve customer centricity.

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 | Published: 23 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: As IT commoditization continues to increase audit and control activities, IT gets better at identifying and documenting the causes of significant outages. In an increasing number of cases, these ITIL efforts show the source of the outage to be action from the security department, and the BSM processes show the impact to be devastating.

Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 27 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how to build a better business case for BI, by understanding the level of ambition organizations can have and the layers in the business case that should contribute to that level of ambition.

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 | Published: 16 Dec 2010