Business IT Alignment

RESOURCE CENTER: Check out this page of links to learn what ILOG has to offer as it is now part of IBM. Read on for more information about IBM WebSphere ILOG BRMS, optimization, and visualization products.

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft collaboration technologies can help companies provide workers with integrated communications, collaborative workspaces, access to information and people, and people-driven processes. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this report to learn about the business side of data security as we build a justification model to help you determine where, and how much, to invest in protecting your information assets.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn how truly future-proofing your environment involves a comprehensive approach and engagement with newer technologies and methods, aligning them with overall best practices —and strengthening your ability to innovate.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009

CASE STUDY: This case study looks at the typical experience of a Fortune 1000 company. A company turns to server and desktop virtualization in an effort to reduce the cost of distributed centralized operations centers.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will discuss how the push for continued virtualization and the "cloud"- along with a consolidated view that manages the infrastructure - is quickly becoming a reality due to market and end-user demand. You'll also learn what questions to ask yourself to assist in creating an organizational strategy for the best management approach.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

VIDEOCAST: Effective management is critical to addressing IT challenges. In this program, leading experts David Williams of Gartner and Roger Pills of CA break down IT's three key challenges to managing IT complexity: aligning IT to the business, managing costs, and IT maturity.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 20 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this brief paper to learn how the new CA integrated service management product offers real hope for beleaguered IT organizations that are trying to bring together the pieces to build an integrated service management story.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the key infrastructure management challenges facing IT managers today. It then discusses how IT teams can improve the economics of infrastructure management by taking advantage of integrated, automated performance analysis and fault isolation technologies.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this technical brief, John Weathington, President and CEO of Excellent Management Systems, Inc.,explores Toad® Development Suite and Oracle's SQL Developer. He provides an honest look at both solutions, and helps you see how a simple side-by-side comparison isn't enough when choosing the right tool.

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper proposes an approach for IT to manage virtualized environments and shows how HP Business Service Management software enables IT operations to link specialists and specialized tools into day-to-day operations while keeping promises to business users.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 13 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: In this webcast, discover how to achieve greater virtualization maturity, from clearer visibility to higher service levels in your VMware environment. Learn how to identify where your company fits in the virtualization maturity model and find virtualization tools that enable optimal IT performance.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 13 Nov 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This executive brief reviews the benefits of integrated asset management between development and operations and provides a concrete example of the impact analysis benefits of having a unified catalog of services and assets.

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

BROCHURE: This brochure shows how IBM Service Management combines industry-leading software, hardware and services to deliver solutions that help today's organizations transform assets and infrastructure into smarter services and products that deliver greater business value.

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: Quebec organizations, compared to others in Canada, display much higher satisfaction with their IT effectiveness. They continually place a high priority on IT process improvement and the establishment of procedures for management and oversight of IT operations.

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Premieres: 12 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: View this webcast to learn how green IT is successfully being implemented in enterprises today and to gain understanding of green IT from cost, compliance, investment, and customer perspectives.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 11 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about IBM's business process management solution, WebSphere Business Monitor software, which enables your organization to measure, monitor, and report on business process performance as well as identify and correct problems.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper defines the challenges facing today's IT executives and steps you can take now to support your organization’s SOA-based initiatives by cutting costs, leveraging your existing IT infrastructure and improving productivity.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

CASE STUDY: Ingersoll Rand is a global diversified industrial firm. Ingersoll Rand contracted with Microsoft to standardize desktops, improve infrastructure, and optimize the IT platform resulting in lower IT costs, better agility and increased service levels.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: With all these great products available at such incredible rates, it's easy to see why Low Rate Financing is the best way to get the IT solutions your organization needs. Read this brief paper to learn more.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how you can use IBM's InfoSphere software, and integrated platform for trusted information, to align business and IT, accelerate your projects for faster time to value, leverage your existing infrastructire, and adapt to the changing needs of your business.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Organizations that plan an information strategy, make realtime business analytics available to all levels of the organization, and architect an extensible information platform can generate more revenue, lower costs, reduce risk, and predict future outcomes with greater confidence. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

EZINE: IT Service Management frameworks are helping CIOs leverage best practices to lead change, improve response time and better manage the IT/business relationship. In this CIO Decisions eZine, experts offer insights into how to roll out your ITSM implementation.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This independent study by the International Technology group found IBM PowerVM more cost-competitive over time, compared to VMware, in terms of IT costs and the costs of downtime.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009

ANALYST REPORT: How can today's CIO make the biggest impact on their organization? Learn more here.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009