Business Management

WHITE PAPER: The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) was developed to solve the problems caused by loops in a bridged, or switched, topology. Read this paper for useful knowledge of the Spanning Tree Protocol - knowledge that will be useful for the CCNA exam.

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides practical advice for knocking down the barriers to AP automation. It also discusses six levels of AP automation.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents 10 common and devastating mistakes that project teams make in defining and managing requirements. More importantly, it discusses how to avoid these traps so you can get your requirements right and develop the right product on time and within budget.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: Learn how the new IBM Performance management and measurement solution automatically provides real-time information from across the entire development lifecycle for complete visibility into progress.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 03 Nov 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: It is often said that desperate times call for desperate measures. In recent months, this is certainly the case for some ERP vendors. The good news, however, is that there are ways to manage ERP software vendors to ensure a fair, consistent, and unbiased selection process for your organization. Read on to learn what they are.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

ANALYST REPORT: This part of Panorama’s ERP Report outlines the use of ERP software at companies in the hospitality and entertainment industry, including a comparison of ERP results to other industries. This study includes ERP implementation results surrounding average budget, duration, actual costs, and implementation variables.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: BMC helped the Dell IT group to consolidate job scheduling and job monitoring within a single dashboard, reduce by 75 percent the number of IT administrators needed for patch management, and accelerate trouble-ticket resolution with automation. Watch the customer video.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 03 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: To meet business demands for higher levels of performance and availability – all while adding services and reducing costs – IT has to modernize. A strong service assurance capability enabled by available Business Service Management (BSM) solutions can help you modernize IT and deliver compelling business benefits.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

EBOOK: This interactive guide presents an overview of several SAP business solutions specifically designed to help small businesses and midsize companies improve operational efficiency and grow profitability.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

VIDEO: As your company grows, you have the opportunity to benefit from economies of scale; but growth can be fraught with challenge. Production disruptions and operational inefficiencies can quickly negate the advantages you hope to achieve. Watch this informative video to learn about SAP solutions for small businesses and midsize companies.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT management in small and medium companies can and must understand the information needs and language of their business colleagues within the organization. IT managers must show business managers how IT can enable them to meet and exceed their departmental goals.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how an integrated information technology solution can help you take advantage of economies of scale to boost manufacturing utilization, enhance service levels, and improve the efficiency of your sales and administrative activities.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Efficient operations help you better control costs and enable you to offer more competitive pricing and terms to your customers. SAP Business One, a single, affordable application designed for small businesses, lets you streamline operations, access accurate information quickly, and get a 360-degree view of key business areas.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Your company's growing fast. Your days are consumed with the flurry of activities it takes to manage that expansion. With the right business management software, you can integrate your business, improve customer service, make more informed business decisions, and move into online sales.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: This webcast shows the potential roles of both general and complex event processing within your SOA initiative, and how these two approaches can be applied in a complementary fashion to meet a variety of business objectives.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper details non-disruptive strategies for eliminating performance problems in existing data integration environments.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at ways in which an integrated information technology solution can help you keep on top of your chosen markets and sustain growth.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Streamlining your business means reducing costs and increasing the amount of time you can spend focusing on outperforming the competition and growing sales –without increasing your head count. The right business management software can help you do just that, and you'll see results that directly affect your bottom line.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: To succeed, you need to optimally manage the entire scope of your supply chain network. The SAP® Business ByDesign™ solution helps you ensure efficient and effective supply chain operations and increase transparency and visibility throughout – and control over – your entire supply chain network.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: IBM has created a pair of complementary views to bridge the communication gap between the business and the technical perspectives of security to enable convergence in thought and process. The IBM Security Framework addresses the business view, and the IBM Security Blueprint addresses the technical view.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how IBM identity and access management solutions help organizations realize business value through a centralized, automated identity and access management infrastructure.

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: 28 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 28 Oct 2009

EBOOK: A combination of technologies and practices can serve to protect assets and maintain operational efficiencies. Read this chapter for an examination of asset protection with a look at basic requirements for protecting business operations.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

ANALYST REPORT: Never has operational responsiveness, the pursuit of how continually and quickly to deliver maximum value to customers while deriving maximum profitability, been nearer the top of the business agenda. As this paper will demonstrate, harnessing business events, smart interpretation & fast response are definite objectives, and the need is immediate.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009