Business IT Alignment Reports

VIDEO: This collection of videos provides critical insight into the process success of many leaders within their specific industries. Watch now to learn about the tools and strategies they used and how you can use these same strategies for success in your own organization.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Premiered: 01 Aug 2011

EBOOK: This eBook explains the performance management and governance software and methodologies that can align technology with business goals and bring IT costs under control.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 28 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Inside this white paper, learn about the top priorities for executives and the challenges for achieving them. Then, discover the information platform that is allowing organizations to consolidate their business and IT goals to encourage an environment of innovation and growth.

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 | Published: 28 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the inherent challenges of dealing with "big data": overwhelming information that seems to come from everywhere and everything. Continue reading to discover strategies for overcoming these challenges by processing "big data" and providing impressive, real-time decision making.

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 | Published: 12 Jul 2011

PRODUCT DEMO: See what's new in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1 that makes it possible to connect everyone in your organization with the insight, analytics and information they need to make better, faster, smarter decisions.

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Premiered: 07 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss how organizations using an Information Agenda can greatly improve their organizations' ability to identify and manage risk, meet regulatory requirements, speed new products and services to market and enhance customer service.

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 | Published: 13 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the key strategic issues and best practices involved in transforming your business to enable growth. Discover the steps you must take to innovate, translate business strategy into IT strategy, develop a roadmap for strategic business transformation, and obtain maximum benefit from your SAP investment.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Using the information contained within an EA, stakeholders can identify innovation initiatives – freeing funds through optimization initiatives, or developing new opportunities. This white paper provides an overview of EA and highlights how an actionable EA approach from IBM can maximize organizational agility, and more. 

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 | Published: 12 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a summary of the 2nd webcast in a series sponsored by IBM that is designed to empower IT and Business Unit managers to develop a strong business case for the return on investment (ROI) of their business intelligence initiatives.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 07 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This executive brief will illustrate the progression of service management since the 1990s, illuminate the hidden service life cycles and discuss how, once they are visible, we can start to make them work — to improve services and better align IT with business objectives.

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 | Published: 22 Jul 2010

PRODUCT DEMO: Embark on this interactive journey with the Innovators agents. They clearly show you how to think differently, act differently, communicate and collaborate in new ways - even while on the move - making you and your team more productive and connected.

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 | Premiered: 17 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Recognizing that successful IT innovation requires deep involvement with the business overall, CIOs increasingly help set business strategy, use IT to enable business flexibility, and help corporations meet enterprise-wide goals. Learn what this means to IT managers, operations managers, development managers, strategy and architecture leaders.

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

WEBCAST: This webcast explores how WebSphere and IBM Rational work together to help businesses achieve strategic objectives with reduced risk and cost and also for translating business vision and strategy into architectural change.

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 | Premiered: Jun 24, 2010, 12:00 EDT (16:00 GMT)

WHITE PAPER: Make informed decisions at a lower cost with the right BI strategy.

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 | Published: 15 Jan 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: With the advent of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the business analyst now has to think about issues such as IT services and how to define business logic as rules for easier and faster change cycles. Thus, a new position called the business rules analyst has emerged. This article will examine the role of this new star in the business world.

Posted: 24 May 2010 | Published: 03 Jun 2008

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Business users sometimes try to control and manage business rules without directly having to deal with IT, which isn’t always successful. Using an example from the insurance industry, this article provides an introduction to business rules and the importance of Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) in bridging the gap between business and IT.

Posted: 24 May 2010 | Published: 05 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: Uncertainty makes strategic planning complex. Removing uncertainty can create unlimited business value. There are solutions to help organizations overcome uncertainty and achieve results. Read this white paper to learn how to drive strategic planning with predictive modeling.

Posted: 18 May 2010 | Published: 18 Jul 2008

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Find out how implementing user service alignment in your organization allows IT to become a revenue driver, lowers resource costs, maximizes infrastructure utilization, and achieves true BSM.

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 | Published: 06 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Many data centers are using the cloud to host applications and data storage but typically aren’t using the cloud to process effective batch computing workloads. Enterprise workload automation tools can give businesses a chance to take a much greater advantage of cloud computing. Read this whitepaper to learn how.

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 | Published: 06 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Working with Dell will ensure that your virtualization projects achieve fast time to value and return on investment (ROI). Read this paper to learn about how Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services, backed by a close partnership with Microsoft, offers flexible, high-impact consulting services for comprehensive solution design and much more.

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Published: 05 Apr 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores how IT pros can better align their departments with the scope of the business. Learn how business service management can enhance customer service, improve service availability, and optimise performance of critical systems.

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 | Published: 31 Mar 2010

PODCAST: Find out how implementing user service alignment in your organization allows IT to become a revenue driver, lowers resource costs, maximizes infrastructure utilization, and achieves true BSM.

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 | Premiered: Mar 25, 2010

ANALYST BRIEF: Read this report to learn what Aberdeen Group found when analyzing the results of 65 IBM/Cognos BI users who participated in a larger study about best practices for business intelligence during a recession.

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

PRODUCT DEMO: This demonstration shows all the capabilities of the IBM Cognos 8 BI product. Demos are presented for all roles including employees, managers, BI professionals, business analysts, and system administrators.

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Premiered: 17 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: New Sales Performance Management solutions enable sales leaders to align technology to business need and strategy. Read this paper for a series of discussions related to the metrics-based sales productivity solutions that forward thinking sales organizations are employing to harness the power of the pipeline and take advantage of sales analytics.

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 05 Mar 2010