Enterprise Architectures

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: 04 Nov 2009

JOURNAL ARTICLE: We evaluate the established meta-models and frameworks of enterprise business architecture, and extract the key ingredients to build an innovative meta-model.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: A robust governance framework is imperative for effective Enterprise Architecture (EA). Our framework helps you assess performance and chart a continuous improvement course that deepens the impact of your EA program.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Our experience suggests that Enterprise Architecture (EA) governance determines the impact of the architecture team to a great degree. We describe and manage EA governance along six dimensions.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

ANALYST REPORT: Infosys' Enterprise Architecture (EA) Survey 2008-09 reveals that EA enables business transformation, its practices continue to mature, and increased outsourcing of EA functions is a strong future possibility.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: Join this webcast to learn how Enterprise Architecture integrated with Portfolio Management is empowered to integrate your strategic goals into your organization's capital planning, business planning and technology architecture activities. In this way, your strategic planning outputs become actionable.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 03 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: This webcast explores the business benefits of migrating from expensive, proprietary server architectures to cost-effective, industry-standard architectures. Gain insight into how this transition can enable your organization to increase reliability, availability and serviceability.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper, you will learn about the current shift in focus from network availability to application performance and how a new management model, what NetQoS calls Performance First™, will empower you to advance to the next level in managing your network for application performance.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

VIDEO: This session is designed to help you capture the best architecture/technical solutions and ensure that they are repeated by all developers.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 21 Oct 2009

ANALYST REPORT: This report introduces the reader to Unified Communications and to SIP trunking and how it can play a key role in accelerating the deployment of UC. It also provides recommendations on how to evaluate SIP trunking providers and some thoughts for initial deployment.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper offers a thorough checklist that should enable potential ESSO implementers to deploy the right ESSO solution which should help eliminate sign-on problems, reduce helpdesk costs, maximize user productivity, strengthen security, simplify administration and accelerate regulatory compliance.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper gives you an overview of how Ovum has helped penetrate the upper-midmarket. Even when the slowing growth of the market hasn't.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009

PODCAST: Join Tim Scannell, editor of SearchEnterpriseWAN.com, and Bojan Simic, expert in application performance management, WAN optimization, network management, and application delivery, as they discuss how to effectively manage and balance WAN performance with security safeguards on local and wide area networks.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Take a look at this important survey, which sought managers’ and professionals’ perspectives, both as external customers of e-business sites, as well as caretakers of their own online operations.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: Download a free trial version of IBM® Rational® Team Concert Standard Edition, a member of the Rational Team Concert family of products built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 11 Sep 2009

VIDEOCAST: Watch this videocast to see why Trend Micro's OfficeScan 10 is a valuable endpoint protection solution that provides immediate, high quality protection using cloud-client architecture.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 27 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will focus on the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP and the pain points caused by the uncertainty of SAP's product roadmaps and the difficulty of integrating their products. It will then outline some effective business intelligence strategies.

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Published: 08 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization introduces fundamental changes to IT, and adds significant management challenges. Read this informative white paper written by Enterprise Management Associates to learn what these challenges are as well as some of the solutions and strategies used to deal with them.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss the importance of an enterprise-class storage infrastructure as you migrate to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization.

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper proposes several sample virtualization architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture.

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper is intended primarily for senior IT managers responsible for enterprise architecture, application development, and application operations. Managers evaluating middleware solutions will gain a deeper understanding of how JBoss Enterprise Middleware products are developed and why they offer an ideal platform for the development...

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about how Dell is providing answers to key virtualization questions for the enterprise. Topics include; how to migrate to a fully virtualized environment as well as how the IT infrastructure should be configured for maximum benefit.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Join Glenn Weadock, Global Knowledge Instructor, MCITP, MCSE, MCT, A+, for this Windows 7 Review Guide. This white paper introduces the key areas in which Windows 7 differs from Vista - areas you'll need to focus on if you're thinking of moving to Windows 7, either from Vista or from XP.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: As the number of projects grow, so does the risk of failure as resources get stretched & oversight lags. It becomes increasingly important to define project management processes & develop metrics & best practices for keeping projects on time and within budget. Read this paper to find out if a Project Management Office (PMO) could be your solution.

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 05 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss the impact of Tier 1 systems on IT departments in terms of ongoing maintenance, demonstrating that Tier 1 systems make many IT tasks easier, ranging from new-report generation to user training to upgrade management.

Posted: 04 May 2009 | Published: 04 May 2009