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Top 5 Best Practices for Creating Effective Campaign Dashboards
sponsored by Tableau Software
WHITE PAPER: We can define an effective marketing dashboard as one that enables marketers to visually display relevant and current campaign, customer, advertising and/or branding information needed to achieve marketing objectives.
Posted: 04 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

Tableau Software

Veritas NetBackup™ 6.5 for VMware 3.x: Best Practices
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper covers best practices for designing solutions for--and protecting--VMware virtual machines.
Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

Symantec Corporation

REACH Compliance: How the Business Process Expert Community Helps The Chemicals Industry
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Learn compliance challenges posed by new legislation and how to break down its complexity into actionable requirements at the business process level. Access and share compliance best practices, tools and methodologies using a collaborative platform.
Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

SAP America, Inc.

Best Practices for Home Agents
sponsored by Avaya Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Employing home agents allows you to expand and improve your call center team. And they can be a form of insurance to keep your business running if disaster strikes. This white paper contains best practices for developing a Home Agents program.
Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

Avaya Inc.

IBM Information Management Software - The New Information Agenda
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper defines what an information agenda is, describes key considerations and best practices in creating and implementing an information agenda, and explains how IBM can help you to deliver trusted information enterprise wide.
Posted: 29 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

IBM

A Comprehensive Best Practice Approach to Business Resilience and Risk Mitigation
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper serves as a comprehensive, best-practices approach to business resilience and risk mitigation. Common types of risk and the steps organizations must take to develop an effective risk mitigation strategy are discussed.
Posted: 29 May 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

IBM

PeopleSoft Testing
sponsored by Hexaware Technologies
WHITE PAPER: The PeopleSoft Testing Accelerator Kit reduces the overhead of traceability and brings in the concept of reusability.
Posted: 20 May 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

Hexaware Technologies

Practical Considerations When Instrumenting Applications with JMX
sponsored by SL Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses practical issues regarding data content and design of MBeans for optimal use in such systems. Some commonly overlooked requirements are explored and recommendations made for minimizing client-side development efforts.
Posted: 19 May 2008 | Published: 18 Mar 2008

SL Corporation

Managing 21st Century Business and Technology Innovation: Core Banking Transformation with System z
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides practical insights into global best practices and the strategic benefits of core banking transformation through the lens of the CEO, COO and CIO.
Posted: 14 May 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

IBM

SAP GRC Access Control Solution
sponsored by HCL Software
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Access Control allow organizations to collaboratively define and oversee SoD enforcement, role management and compliant provisioning.
Posted: 09 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

HCL Software

Best Practices in Contract Management: How to Shrink Your Sales Cycle through Smart Contract Management
sponsored by SpringCM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the seven best practices in contract management. It's time for you to think about how to manage your contracts more effectively, close more deals, and get more cash. Learn how in this paper.
Posted: 16 Apr 2008 | Published: 11 Oct 2010

SpringCM

Surviving the Perfect Storm in the Food Industry
sponsored by CDC Software - Ross Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This paper presents an executive perspective on the underlying challenges in the food industry.
Posted: 14 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008

CDC Software - Ross Enterprise

Seven IT Strategies to Help Survive the Downturn
sponsored by CompuCom Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The document describes the seven IT strategies worth taking a closer look at that can make a difference and have an impact.
Posted: 09 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008

CompuCom Systems, Inc.

Best Practices for NT to Active Directory Migration
sponsored by Dell Software
WHITE PAPER: This document provides best practices for migration from NT to Active Directory. Note that it is not a substitute for Aelita Domain Migration Wizard's User's Guide and on-line help, which contain detailed information on the tool and its options.
Posted: 01 Apr 2008 | Published: 22 Nov 2005

Dell Software

The Alignment-Focused Organization: Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Take a look at how organizations are taking strides to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities - in short, to close the gap between strategy and execution.
Posted: 24 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

SAP America, Inc.

Enterprise Information Integration - Deployment Best Practices for Low Cost Implementation
sponsored by IBM Software Group
WHITE PAPER: The IBM Information Server platform is a revolutionary new software platform that helps organizations derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across their systems.
Posted: 13 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

IBM Software Group

A Guide to Accelerating Business Value for Microsoft Environments
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: In this guide we'll learn how EMC can accelerate the business value of Microsoft environments of any size and scope.
Posted: 10 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

EMC Corporation

Best Practices in Data Management
sponsored by SAS
WHITE PAPER: The key enterprise risk management (ERM) issue for many financial institutions is to get enriched data in a single place in order to report on it. Learn best practices for data management that are critical for ERM.
Posted: 06 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

SAS

5 Best Practices for Telling Great Stories with Data
sponsored by Tableau Software
WHITE PAPER: Data doesn't have to be only fact driven and metric. Learn these five best practices to help you make sense and order out of a disparate collection of facts.
Posted: 20 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

Tableau Software

Smart SOA: Best Practices for Agile Innovation and Optimization
sponsored by IBM Software Group
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines IBM's approach to SOA, garnered from best practices and lessons learned from experiences with clients to help extend the value of SOA deployments in a set of guiding principles.
Posted: 15 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

IBM Software Group

HP Services for Data Center Transformation
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: HP Services for Data Center Transformation, part of the HP Adaptive Infrastructure portfolio, help you to simplify, standardize, optimize, consolidate, integrate, virtualize, and transform existing and new facilities.
Posted: 14 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Network Appliance and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices
sponsored by Arrow Electronics, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware Virtual Infrastructures on Network Appliance fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems.
Posted: 29 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

Arrow Electronics, Inc.

The New Language of Business: SOA and Web 2.0. Download a complimentary chapter
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Sandy Carter, Vice President of SOA and WebSphere Strategy, IBM Corporation, takes readers through a specific roadmap on how, where, when, and why to embrace a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy in her new book.
Posted: 22 Oct 2007 | Published: 22 Oct 2007

IBM

The Third Stakeholder: The End-User's Impact on CRM ROI
sponsored by Knoa Software
WHITE PAPER: CRM solutions, like Siebel, automate complex business processes where high levels of application performance are crucial. Read this whitepaper to learn best practices in Siebel CRM Performance Management.
Posted: 07 Sep 2007 | Published: 07 Sep 2007

Knoa Software

Forget Speeds And Feeds - Outsourcing Today Is All About Your Business
sponsored by OneNeck IT
WHITE PAPER: Enterprise Resource Planning has numerous deployment options that involve varying levels of company involvement, efficiency, completeness and cost. Read this white paper that details successful outsourcing models for ERP.
Posted: 24 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

OneNeck IT