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Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality: Managing Service Quality and Risk to Service Delivery in a Lean Economy
| sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER:
With the economy down it is important for IT organizations to be as efficient as possible. This means that IT operations, those responsible for the product and health of the enterprise, must have full visibility and control over their resources - and of course, the technology to do so.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009
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Collateral Damage: What the Crisis in the Credit Markets Means for Everyone Else
| sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
Given the dramatic events in the capital markets, everyone is wondering what will happen next - and what the implications are for the wider economy. This paper will discuss challenges facing companies and how to respond.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008
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Maximizing the Value of Economic Stimulus Funds
| sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was a dramatic action designed to quickly stimulate an economic recovery in the United States. This SAP Executive Insight examines some of the major challenges agencies face with respect to this stimulus plan. It describes how governments can transform their organization to devote more resources..
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009
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Executive Brief: The Rules of the Road to Manufacturing Operational Excellence
| sponsored by Apriso Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Read this brief to learn the "Rules of the Road" that can help you cut costs, increase cash flow and become more responsive to changing market conditions. Each of these "rules" can be accomplished with the implementation of an IT system for manufacturing operations excellence, also known as a Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) system.
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | Published: 24 Apr 2009
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Q4 2008 Hedge Fund Administrator Survey
| sponsored by Advent Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER:
The survey results confirm the hedge fund industry is in the midst of a major contraction primarily brought about by the reaction of global markets to a financial crisis beyond the expectation of most industry participants. The Q4 HFN Administrator Survey provides an accurate representation of how severe the damage on the industry has been.
Posted: 13 Apr 2009 | Published: 13 Apr 2009
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Research Management Solutions: Bringing the Benefits of Automation to the Front Office
| sponsored by Advent Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER:
How does a firm or fund manager assess his/her research management
needs and choose the best solution? This document helps by identifying pain points in the research workflow that RMS must address, describing how RMS supports investment process and decision making, and highlighting key features to consider when evaluating RMS solutions.
Posted: 13 Apr 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2008
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Data Conversion in a System Migration: Best Practices for Compliance and Continuity
| sponsored by Advent Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER:
This document is designed to help firms understand their data conversion options. It outlines what data is critical and must be converted for compliance purposes and business continuity, what data is not critical, the relationship between data conversion and reporting, and what to look for in a new technology provider relative to data conversion.
Posted: 13 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2009
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ROI Case Study SPSS American Airlines
| sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters
CASE STUDY:
To overcome the challenges of increased customer data, American Airlines deployed SPSS for Windows to replace its mainframe based analytics system, increasing productivity of its customer research team and improving decision making while reducing ongoing costs.
Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009
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Essentials of CRM for Wealth Management Empower Advisors with Client-centric Tools
| sponsored by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution
WHITE PAPER:
In this white paper, learn how wealth management firms can use client relationship management (CRM) strategies and technology to build relationships as trusted advisors, maximize share of wallet, and increase productivity.
Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009
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Green IT: beyond the data center -- How IT can contribute to the environmental agenda across and beyond the business
| sponsored by Accenture
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This whitepaper looks at the ecological impact of a business's entire IT infrastructure and provides the CIO with a holistic prospective to a business's carbon footprint.
Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009
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Accelerate Value Creation: The Virtuous Cycle of Using Technology to Maximize Business Value
| sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
Understanding how IT can drive value and competitive advantage for your company is important for executives in all industries. This SAP Executive Insight paper explores the relationship between IT investment and performance and productivity gains.
Posted: 30 Jan 2009 | Published: 18 Oct 2008
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A New Mandate for IT
| sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
Learn more about the changing role of IT in business. This report includes research targeted towards senior executives responsible for managing and deploying information technology in pursuit of business objectives.
Posted: 29 Jan 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2007
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eBook: Gartner CRM Strategy Tips: 7 Key Ways to Improve the Customer Experience
| sponsored by Oracle Corporation
EBOOK:
Read this E-Book and explore Gartner's 7 key initiatives for enhancing the customer experience as well as 7 steps for adjusting your customer-facing business processes and establishing a more customer-centric strategy.
Posted: 14 Jan 2009 | Published: 14 Jan 2009
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Maximize ROI with Email Security in the Cloud
| sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc.
WEBCAST:
Watch this webinar replay and hear SaaS expert Paul LaPorte discuss how in-the-cloud and new hybrid email security solutions can deliver more value than on-premises solutions.
Posted: 09 Jan 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Morningstar Invests in ExaGrid, Gains Better Backups
| sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
CASE STUDY:
Morningstar had been backing up its data to tape, but with nightly incremental backups of nearly 6TB and weekly full backups of up to 18TB, its backup windows had grown out of control to overcome it they use ExaGrid solution.
Posted: 05 Jan 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2008
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Information Drives Operational Excellence
| sponsored by Oracle Corporation
PRODUCT LITERATURE:
Oracle Advanced Customer Services provides several different service offerings to help companies strike the right balance between performance, value, and cost.
Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008
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Operational Excellence Is Key to Maximizing IT Investments
| sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Investigating the critical need of operational excellence in challenging economic times, this CIO2CIO research brief provides an analysis of how IT leaders can play a critical role in delivering value to an organization by committing to excellence.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008
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Manufacturing 2008 North America
| sponsored by Infor
WHITE PAPER:
The Manufacturing 2008 Executive Summary provides a concise view of North American manufacturing production metrics and best practices to help manufacturers benchmark their operations and better understand how to improve.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 14 Nov 2008
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Lean Across the Enterprise: Using Lean Manufacturing Techniques to Leverage ERP Investments
| sponsored by Exact Software
WHITE PAPER:
What is Lean Technology? In these economic times, people look at the belt-tightening exercises they've performed to reduce expenses across their enterprises and declare, "We're already lean! How can we get any leaner?" In truth, Lean Manufacturing goes far beyond cost reduction and is actually grounded upon the elimination of waste.
Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Published: 27 Oct 2008
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Back Office Outsourcing and Investment Reporting - A Guide for Investment Advisors
| sponsored by Advent Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER:
In investment reporting, customers expect detailed reports of irreproachable accuracy, delivered with no delay or excuses. This whitepaper will serve as as a guide for Investment Advisors.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006
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Forrester: The Total Economic Cost of Application and Device Control
| sponsored by Lumension
CASE STUDY:
This study illustrates the financial impact of moving from a difficult-to-enforce, "voluntary" compliance solution to an IT-driven solution that automatically enforces endpoint security policies.
Posted: 07 Feb 2008 | Published: 10 Sep 2007
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Measuring The Business Value of IT
| sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
Discover how to efficiently measure projected business value, increase the ROI of your SAP investments, and improve the overall worth of your IT initiative with a consistent methodology for both business and IT users.
Posted: 31 Jan 2008 | Published: 25 Sep 2006
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