Business IT Alignment Reports

PODCAST: Download this podcast to find out how IT workload automation can help you improve the efficiency of your overall operations and help your business deliver new applications more quickly.

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 | Premiered: Jan 26, 2010

WHITE PAPER: There is only one good way to approach the adoption and facilitation of SOA and Web services, and that is to establish, right from the beginning, a corporate Center of Excellence to guide the revolution from making a compelling business case to putting in place a long-term solution for measuring and improving on every success.

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 | Published: 21 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the characteristics of a good requirement and presents ten steps to better requirements management.

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008

RESOURCE CENTER: Check out this virtual forum to access papers and podcasts pertaining to dynamic infrastructure solutions from IBM.

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 | Published: 07 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, get a firsthand look into a virtual platform that is designed to meet your current and future IT demands. Learn how to right-size system capacity and improve workload scalability. Discover industry best practices to increase agility of applications and systems.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 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: 25 Jun 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: 15 Jan 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: 25 Sep 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

EBOOK: An original SearchDataManagement.com E-book offering advice and best practices specifically for IT professionals charged with creating or updating BI programs in ERP environments.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

PRESENTATION: EA, a key IT governance tool, plays an active role in strategic business planning. Effective EA requires managing standards and promoting best practices in architecture.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2008

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Try IBM® Rational® System Architect® V11.3, which enables business managers and IT professionals to plan, model, and execute changes to improve their business strategy and process as well as the IT systems and infrastructure that support them, enabling successful enterprise planning and transformation.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 04 Nov 2009

EBOOK: Many IT professionals are looking to IT Service Management (ITSM) to deliver quality IT services that meet the needs of the business under these tough conditions. Regardless of the size of your business, you can deliver superior service quality to your business with the HP approach to ITSM and the HP software and services that support it.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper introduces actions that organizations can take to drive security efforts from a business and operational perspective and discusses how security leadership from IBM can help enable their success.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how security that is built into a dynamic infrastructure can mitigate risks, enabling agility, secure collaboration, and business transformation. The IBM Security Framework and lifecycle approach can help address changing business requirements.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Dec 2007

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how Agosto used Google Apps to help their client, Dunn Bros', communicate and collaborate between its many store and office locations.

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: How do companies create winning business cases to justify key data center and IT initiatives and speed-up the budget approval process? Read this paper for tips and best practices for how to succeed in the budget approval process and business case development.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This is a transcript of a presentation by Brian Turner, Chief Service Delivery Officer at Point consulting firm. He discusses how to keep governance relevant and effective in today’s tough times, what factors drive effective governance structures and what strategies make those governance structures in your organization more effective.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes seven practical steps information security professionals can take to integrate controls into IT production operations, to simultaneously achieve NERC compliance goals, and also IT operational and security goals.

Posted: 31 Jul 2009 | Published: 08 Dec 2008

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Check out this presentation transcript to learn about a great endpoint security solution while balancing budgetary requirements.

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

VIDEO: Check out this brief video to see how HP Network Solutions based on an industry standard ProCurve infrastructure can help assure return on IT investments by developing best-in-class solutions for your business.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 15 Jun 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: Virtualization technology presents a number of opportunities for driving capital and operational efficiency for SMBs. Read this brief paper to learn ten cost-saving strategies.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2008