University Programs

WHITE PAPER: Organizations that want to enter the market for a new human capital management (HCM) solution are faced with the challenge of making an informed decision about new vendors. This white paper provides advice on how to uncover an efficient, cost-effective HCM solutionswith the top 10 questions organizations should be asking.

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Published: 07 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: What IT skills are fast becoming obsolete and useless? Find out 12 skills you can expect to shelve soon in this resource, including email, computer hardware support, COBOL and more.

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to IT certifications, not all certifications are equally valued by companies. Find out the top 15 certifications most in demand for 2012 and what their corresponding salaries are on average. Discover which certifications will net you a 6-figure salary.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: A new approach to Business Process Management (BPM) is the use of BPM and SOA together in a layering strategy. This white paper explores the BPM layered concept and offers a case study of how ABN AMRO, one of the world's largest financial institutions, has benefited from its deployment.

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This 2012 IT skills and salary report analyzes the responses of over 9,500 IT pros to explore the relationship between training, salary, and an employee’s sense of professional satisfaction. Find out which jobs pay the most and which employees are the most satisfied.

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

EZINE: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the British Library about the enormous storage challenges of digitising its printed archive; we examine the state of the UK IT jobs market and the skills that are most in demand by employers; and we look at case studies of the best virtualisation projects. Download the new issue now.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to reveal eight critical mistakes that organizations make when they lay off employees. Learn how to avoid these errors and ensure that workforce reductions do not negatively impact your business.

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 | Published: 27 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Your talent management strategy can make or break the success of your organization, but this can be a challenging task if you’re a SMB that still collects documentation manually. Read this white paper to learn how to automate your paper-based procedures to improve your talent management life cycle.

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 | Published: 24 Apr 2012

IT BRIEFING: This research from management consultants, Xantus, shows that while there is still a lack of clarity and a reluctance to fully commit to the cloud, there is a general acceptance from CIOs of the benefits and a growing commitment to develop those benefits.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WEBCAST: Are you considering updating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 but are not sure of the best way to do so? In this webcast, review recommended processes for upgrading from Exchange 2003 to Exchange Server 2010. Discover common pitfalls you may experience during the upgrade process.

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 | Premiered: 13 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This resource presents a data center infrastructure transformation and modernization solution using a patent-pending, detailed approach to help you draw up an effective plan to create a standardized, highly automated hosting environment, able to support your organization’s business goals.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

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

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Just as the U.S. space program could not have put a man on the moon using conventional aviation technology, IT leaders and business executives cannot use yesterday’s approaches to realize tomorrow’s objectives.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Whether you are trying to reduce costs, manage risks, decrease capital expenditures, or expand your business, you must make sure to select the right service that offers the experience and expertise to help you achieve your goals. Access this resource to learn how to leverage your vital strategic resources while transforming your credit services.

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 09 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: Read this brief case study to learn how Aetna, one of the largest health insurers,  provided a development opportunity to employees seeking to strengthen individual and organizational skills in areas of strategic business goals.

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 | Published: 27 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the challenges of trying to deliver quick time-to -value for IT projects and achieve the status of ‘agile enterprise’. It illustrates how IBM® WebSphere® ILOG BRMS can facilitate the alignment of IT with business and support the implementation of an ADS to provide business value within months of project adoption.

Posted: 12 Dec 2010 | Published: 12 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Alpha ImageWorks 9000 centralizes patient records into a single, secure repository, providing easy access, accelerated processing time and billing, and significant time saving in reviewing patient records.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft patterns and practices provides .NET developers with guidance, tools, libraries, and frameworks to help them build better applications.  Development teams adopting patterns and practices achieved greater developer productivity and improved ongoing application management and application performance.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: After implementing Foglight, a major telecommunications company gained the ability to monitor and control its entire IT applications infrastructure in greater depth avoiding downtime and extra support staff, while boosting efficiencies of business-critical applications and staff productivity.

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 | Published: 26 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Senior managers who have balked at the cost and complexity of adopting technology such as business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) should consider IBM Cognos Express as a way to adopt these technologies while minimizing time to benefit, deployment costs, and support costs.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: SAP users preparing to invest in functionality such as business intelligence (BI) or performance management (PM) should consider an IBM Cognos application.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: IBM’s SPSS acquisition gives SPSS users a broader support network, IBM Cognos users a predictive analytics platform, and more enterprise users one-stop shopping.  Looking to the future, that could mean analytics ― and better predictive decision making ― on every desktop.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Independent software vendors (ISVs) that embed DataDirect drivers can leverage DataDirect’s expertise to improve data connectivity.  Using DataDirect helps them reduce cost and risk so they can focus on innovation and competitive advantage.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Life Sciences is one of the fastest moving and most dynamic global industry sectors.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Companies should consider investments in time and attendance applications as a low-risk, low-cost way to reduce payroll costs and improve productivity.  Companies that already have time and attendance applications should consider maximizing the breadth of their deployment or extending it to other workforce-related functions.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011