Business Management

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn why the Monte Carlo modeling method provides a beacon of financial sanity and reliability at a time when consumer confidence is at an all-time low and managers face new levels of accountability and keen public scrutiny in their decision-making.

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 | Published: 03 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines a strategy-to-success framework that consists of six interrelated management processes that each results in a key business output. These outputs provide the intelligence and information needed to manage a company for excellence and lead organizations to become smarter, more agile, and better aligned.

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 | Published: 03 Feb 2010

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how one company implemented an EDI system that harmonizes with their chosen business management software application to more efficiently fulfill trading partner requirements and business growth initiatives.

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how organizations can meet the challenges of a down economy by extending capital asset performance, reducing maintenance costs and providing decision support guidelines around capital allocation.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

ANALYST REPORT: One big area organizations often find easy ways to improve is in its facilities/real estate management. Cutting consumption translates into cost savings and helps the environment. Reducing your overall square footage reduces your electrical consumption and your carbon emissions. Read this analyst insight to learn how to get started.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses thermal management considerations associated with deploying a Vertical Exhaust System in the data center, and its impact on the data center physical infrastructure. An example scenario is presented to demonstrate the cost savings that may be achieved by deploying a VES in a typical data center environment.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

EZINE: Business process management may mean transformation at the enterprise level, but for midsized companies it means automating and streamlining workflows and business processes. Learn how midmarket companies are taking control with BPM.

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 | Published: 26 Jan 2010

WEBCAST: Recovering from the current conditions that are facing your organization is dependant on your ability to protect your current business interests as well as position yourself for growth when capital flows return to normal.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Premiered: 25 Jan 2010

VIDEO: This video whitepaper explains how midsized businesses can use their size and agility to their advantage by streamlining processes that support business continuity.

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 | Premiered: 22 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: The economy has taken center stage in businesses' strategic thinking. This IDC Workbook discusses the issues enterprises are facing in terms of the resource squeeze and provides a checklist designed to help enterprises determine needs and plan accordingly.

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 | Published: 15 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this paper Matt Healey, research manager of IDC's Software and Hardware Support Services program, shares his thoughts on the economy, its prospects for recovery, and how it relates to support services and driving IT and business efficiency.

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 | Published: 15 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: To help companies form their 'down economy' contingency plans, IDC performed an analysis of past recoveries from economic recessions to find out the type of impact these recoveries had on companies and what the implications are on IT operations and ongoing support. This paper gives the details.

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 | Published: 15 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: In today's rapidly changing business environment, organizations of all types face one common and persistent challenge: how to become—and remain—agile enough to satisfy ever-increasing customer expectations and accommodate new compliance mandates, all while staying ahead of the competition. The solution is building business based on SOA principles.

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 | Published: 23 Dec 2009

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how Kroll Factual Data evaluated Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager and is using it to manage Microsoft Virtual Server–based virtual machines, accelerate and improve virtual machine provisioning, and streamline disaster recovery.

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 | Published: 22 Dec 2009

PODCAST: 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: 22 Dec 2009 | Premiered: 22 Dec 2009

VIDEO: In this video, we'll meet small business owners that are considering moving to their first server-based network. We'll hear their concerns, discover what their growth needs are, and how a server can aid their growth as well as help with the efficiency, productivity and profitability of their businesses.

Posted: 16 Dec 2009 | Premiered: 16 Dec 2009

VIDEO: Watch this video and learn how three small businesses experienced implementing their First Server. Learn how server-based networks helped these small businesses keep customer information protected, share communications, as well as re-alter their company website.

Posted: 16 Dec 2009 | Premiered: 16 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Today's server technology is surprisingly affordable and user-friendly and well worth your attention. Read this paper to learn about key benefits a server-based network can bring to your business.

Posted: 16 Dec 2009 | Published: 16 Dec 2009

WEBCAST: This webcast shows you how you can accelerate the discovery, documentation, and organization of business rules hidden deep within enterprise applications and gain better understanding business logic, organizations can increase the adaptability of their enterprise applications and respond quicker to the need for change.

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 | Premiered: 10 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores how contextualization and insight into existing applications accelerates the discovery and transformation of logic into refined, true business rules. It also includes a discussion of best practices around this semantic capture of technical rules and their abstraction into business rules.

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 | Published: 07 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how businesses can quickly respond to new challenges by harnessing existing business logic and reusing business rules.

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 | Published: 07 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the results of a recent survey of marketers using different types of events in the marketing mix, offers quantitative formulae for calculating your own event marketing ROI, and offers guidance for marketers and organizations to create and optimum event marketing strategy.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 2009

WEBCAST: This webcast explores the benefits of migrating SAP workloads from SPARC to an integrated platform. Discover how this transition can enable your organization to increase their flexibility, scalability and reliability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2009 | Premiered: 02 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Driven by mounting compliance, security, globalization and competition issues, IT Professionals in midsize businesses are under heavy pressure to increase efficiencies and work within tighter budgets. Services automation is a proven way for addressing these challenges.

Posted: 02 Dec 2009 | Published: 02 Dec 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 | Premiered: 12 Nov 2009