Metals and Natural Resources Industry

WHITE PAPER: This resource presents how IT solution providers can grow through a targeted approach to marketing and sales by focusing on specific industries or types of businesses.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: By helping your data center more accurately visualize and control energy use, you'll reclaim facility capacity and optimize energy use en route to reducing costs for your organization. Read this white paper for the details.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Published: 10 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This exclusive research reveals what IT professionals really think about technology, their employers, and their careers

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Whether it is an inappropriate ‘tweet’, an internetsecurity scandal or a story of the fastest growingcompany in the world, technology, be it for theright or wrong reasons, has become regular frontpagenews.This survey aims to give a snapshot of thetechnology industry from the inside.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses HR challenges and metrics solutions for improving operations.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: HP has long been a trailblazer in using technology to reduce total cost of ownership and improve energy efficiency for data center IT systems. Check out this resource and learn the details.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

ANALYST BRIEF: This resource presents a newer and better way to monitor and manage application environments with leading-edge automation.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

ANALYST REPORT: IT managers typically spend a substantial part of their budget on storage, usually more than they'd like to. Therefore, rethinking the approach to storage is one of the areas where there are huge savings and efficiencies to be had — particularly in data protection and disaster recovery. Read this analyst report to learn more.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

CASE STUDY: By simplifying its networking infrastructure through such techniques as virtualization to create centralized pools of PCs and workstations, Lifetime Brands was able to improve the performance of its networking infrastructure and reduce data center costs.

Posted: 26 May 2011 | Published: 26 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Over the past 18 months we have seen the irresistible rise of a new phenomenon, cloud computing. This term is given by the IT industry to a new business model for computing, one where capacity for computer, storage and networking can be dynamically acquired, on demand,and paid for according to usage.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are designed specifically as general-purpose application, database, data warehousing, and consolidation servers. They are especially suited to address the needs of enterprise datacenters, with a goal of increasing performance and flexibility while consolidating systems to reduce datacenter costs and complexity.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores a scalable, high performance, easily managed WLAN solution that intelligently and effectively manages all network resources to deliver optimized performance and scalability.

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This third annual study examines how successful firms are managing international transportation and emerging trends in the industry.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides insight into the sources of IT complexity and reveals the limitations of many existing tools designed to break down data center silos. Discover an infrastructure management technology that overcomes these limitations by simplifying server provisioning, reclaiming overprovisioned resources, and more.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 14 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: HP is out of the gate quickly once again with the formulation of virtual resource pools by combining the power of mission-critical systems, blade systems and scaleout systems throughout the portfolios of Integrity, Integrity NonStop, HP Proliant, Networking and StorageWorks.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to uncover five perks of selecting a software as a service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 | Published: 25 Jan 2012

IT BRIEFING: This global benchmarking study from ESI international identifies the key challenges and successes experienced by project and programme management offices (PMO) and draws recommendations for the future.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study highlights how one company used cutting-edge software tools and training to help streamline service management and turn it from a bottleneck into a smoothly running operation that was more responsive to users' needs but without bloating costs or stretching precious IT staff resources.

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn why enterprise resouce planning (ERP) systems are emerging as an alternative to project-based solutions (PBSs).

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Manufacturers are burdened with costly, cumbersome ERP software nobody wants to use. This paper can help by explaining six game-changing aspects delivered by Plex Online SaaS ERP. Continue reading to learn how in each case, the benefit is an improved and optimized manufacturing process to help the enterprise thrive in a challenging market.

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 | Published: 20 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how ERP systems based on the SaaS model meet manufacturers’ financial goals: low initial capital expense, reduced ongoing operating costs, and a short time to value. Continue reading to learn the five advantages of on-demand ERP systems, commonly referred to as SaaS.

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 | Published: 07 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines that while the global economic recession of recent years has largely been replaced by a lethargic recovery, many workers continue to be impacted by job loss, reduction insalary and benefits, or job change.

Posted: 20 Mar 2011 | Published: 20 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, Brian Madden explores the value of bare-metal client hypervisors in the context of PC lifecycle management.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 15 Feb 2011

IT BRIEFING: This benchmarking study from ESI International identifies the trends impacting the project management function in IT industry in three areas: PMO maturity, measuring and reporting on PMO effectiveness, as well as training involvement.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: The manufacturing enterprise is driven by tight profit margins; a tough economy; escalating energy, material, labor, and operations costs. This paper describes the next wave of supply chain solutions. Read on to learn how technology plays a key role in a company’s ability to build and manage an effective supply chain.

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 | Published: 20 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Universities and other higher education establishments increasingly have to address the need for savings across the board. One area of focus has to be expenses from faculty members and others associated with the faculty.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011