IT Best Practices

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper lays out vital information that IT professionals need in order to implement effective infrastructure management. Read now to discover the key challenges involved, how to unify the infrastructure management framework, the tools available to help you, and more.

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2012

WEBCAST: Watch this expert webcast to learn how businesses can take advantage of these new technologies, smoothing former processes and reducing the total cost of ownership along the way.

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 | Premiered: Nov 28, 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript addresses the key challenges new CIOs face, their priorities in the role, how they can balance legacy systems with the need to drive change, and more.

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 | Published: 28 Nov 2012

EBRIEF: This expert briefing presents sage advice from Derek Lonsdale, service management leader and Lean IT expert from PA Consulting Group. Inside, discover how you can optimize and speed up the change management process to ensure that IT stays in sync with business demands.

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 | Published: 26 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: Top IT leaders and CIOs from around the globe gathered to discuss technology advances and increased business demands. Topics also discussed: selecting new technologies for today's needs, the CIO's strategic role, people's role in IT today and the social enterprise.

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 | Published: 20 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: A well-designed MAM solution allows employees to access corporate apps while ensuring IT remains in control. In this resource, learn the six principles that make up such a MAM strategy and discover how it can help keep your corporate information secure.

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 | Published: 31 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: Find out how next-gen IT solutions are flexible, intuitive, social and powerful – and how IT in the cloud will help your organization not only keep up with today's complex IT ecosystem, but manage it more efficiently than ever before.

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 | Published: 20 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: Without high levels of automation, virtual machines and cloud services will quickly grow out of control. An evolved approach to automation erases the barriers between people, process and technology and drives more efficiency into the business.

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 | Published: 20 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: "Many CIOs are being pressured to demonstrate IT value. A service catalog can help you promote your services in a way the business can easily understand. It will become your service management foundation that can boost IT visibility and constantly demonstrate IT value to the business."

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 | Published: 20 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to learn about a leading IT Asset Management solution that enables IT departments to consolidate legacy systems and automate asset lifecycles easily with a single system.

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 | Published: 20 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: When IT organizations utilize social media, it can efficiently help more people inside and outside the data center quickly access more services and knowledge. Combine people's knowledge and good will and the essence of information technology service management (ITSM) can be more fully realized.

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 | Published: 20 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: This exclusive paper explores the complex world of data quality and provides insight on the consequences of inaccurate data, the top motivators for improving data quality, common data quality improvement challenges, and more. Read on to find out how improving data accuracy can help you reclaim 15-18% of your IT budget.

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Innovation is what drives your business forward and sets you apart from the competition – but many organizations have lost sight of what an innovative idea actually is. SAP is here to help by providing users with next-generation technologies and support to help transform your business processes. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 | Published: 01 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: Download this paper to learn how to significantly simplify the cloud infrastructure deployment process that speeds implementation and reduces possible risks. Read on to gain recommendations and best practices for optimising virtualised infrastructure by utilising this next-generation tool.

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Businesses have been using data to improve decision-making for decades, but practicing legacy business intelligence strategies today can put you at a disadvantage. Read on to learn how the 5 hottest IT trends help you extract more sophisticated intelligence from your data, including: mobile computing, social media, cloud services, and more.

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 | Published: 19 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this informative resource to discover how to build a certification lab environment to deliver hands-on experience to the workers you're training.

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 | Published: 08 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: As the adoption rate of cloud services continues to rise, the question on every IT executive's mind is which IT workloads benefit the most from cloud computing? Review this informative resource to uncover 6 IT workloads that significantly benefit from cloud computing and learn which 3 are considered to deliver the greatest business value.

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 | Published: 02 Oct 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Access this exclusive source to learn why and how IT convergence can benefit your business.

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 | Published: 01 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: Enterprise IT is drastically evolving, and in order to remain competitive your business's IT policies and systems must keep pace. Review this informative resource to gain insight into the future of enterprise IT and uncover the role that content management will play in IT's evolution.

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 | Published: 01 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper takes and in-depth look at the importance of User Experience Management (UEM) as it relates to driving IT/business alignment. Learn how CIOs can gain a clearer understanding of their users' needs in the face of technologies like cloud computing.

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 | Published: 10 Sep 2012

WEBCAST: This brief webcast demonstrates how with connected intelligence, IT leaders will be able to proactively manage information related risk, enhance customer experiences, optimize business performance, and discover new market opportunities.

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 | Premiered: Sep 7, 2012

EGUIDE: This SearchCIO.com e-guide explores 3 private cloud pitfalls to avoid. In addition, hear from virtualization and cloud computing expert, Mark Bowker of The Enterprise Strategy Group, as he discusses CIO IT management issues with the private cloud.

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 | Published: 16 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: This case study explores NYSE Euronext's web content management (WCM) optimization journey. Read now to learn how they transformed their cumbersome, inefficient WCM into a cutting-edge system that simplified the content publishing process, reduced costs, and more.

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 | Published: 01 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: As the mobility trend continues to take over the business world, CIOs are left with the difficult task of figuring out the best way to manage the drastic increase in mobile users. Discover how mobile device management (MDM) strategies can enable you to improve mobile security, increase productivity, reduce TCO, and more.

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 | Published: 13 Sep 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study examines how LG Electronics deployed a new helpdesk solution that allowed them to manage, monitor, and prioritize all of their IT tasks on one powerful platform.

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 | Published: 06 Sep 2012