Business IT Alignment White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how to create a flexible infrastructure through the implementation of an SOA and alignment of business processes with strategic goals to overcome the challenges associated with the rapidly changing business world.

Posted: 10 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

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

WHITE PAPER: While all CIOs understand the importance leveraging technology, most of the organizations they serve do not fully use technology to drive growth and innovation. Learn how to become more of a business leader and change partner in your organization.

Posted: 15 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 May 2007

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

WHITE PAPER: In this study, find out what 765 global CEOs and 170 CIOs have to say about the importance of closing this "business-technology integration gap."

Posted: 16 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 May 2007

WHITE PAPER: The IBM Online SOA Business Value Analyzer will help you better understand your specific IT and business related goals, the priority of each goal, IBM entry point projects designed to reach your specific goals and the benefits of these projects.

Posted: 03 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the challenges of application problem resolution, highlighting the best practices necessary to automate and accelerate the process as a means to optimize development.

Posted: 30 Jul 2007 | Published: 12 Mar 2007

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how, by deploying SOA on top of a System p platform, you can enable innovation across your company, simplifying the complexity of the IT environment and helping reduce uncertainty around systems security and availa...

Posted: 20 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Jul 2006

WHITE PAPER: SOA is distributed by nature and enterprise SOA initiatives require a level of governance to succeed long-term. Read this white paper and learn how Artix Registry/Repository effectively addresses the challenges of deploying and managing a distribut...

Posted: 19 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Jun 2007

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the evolution of SOA platforms from point products to second-generation architectures such as the enterprise service grid.

Posted: 13 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Jun 2007

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes an approach to evaluating an SOA platform, that is aimed at creating a system based upon a service-oriented application composition and a peer-to-peer distributed infrastructure architecture.

Posted: 13 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Jun 2007

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews modern enterprise service grids and how their brokered peer-to-peer architecture offer ease of use for a wide array of distributed computing projects including the SOA market.

Posted: 13 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Jun 2007

WHITE PAPER: Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers the complete range of BI capabilities: reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, business event management as well as data integration, on a single, proven architecture.

Posted: 29 May 2007 | Published: 01 Feb 2007

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to utilize performance management solutions to prepare for the unknown future. Answer your fundamental business questions and gain deeper insight into your business to enable for better decision-making.

Posted: 29 May 2007 | Published: 01 Feb 2007

WHITE PAPER: Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and enterprise architecture (EA) strive to tighten the business and IT alignment. Learn about the dependencies between an EA framework and an SOA strategy and how services impact the way applications are developed.

Posted: 14 May 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

WHITE PAPER: There is an information overload on SOA's merits, principles and products. This document will help to separate the hype from reality, distill the essential from the desirable, and explicitly address the how-to, nuts and bolts of an SOA implementation.

Posted: 02 Apr 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2006

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how to address the challenges of managing mission-critical applications. Read this white paper to learn about benefits of adopting an application management solution like Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Posted: 07 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Oct 2006

WHITE PAPER: How can organizations understand SOA and manage the migration to SOA? The New SOA Maturity Model provides a visionary framework that aligns IT action with business benefit. Read this paper to assess your organization's SOA readiness.

Posted: 02 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2006

WHITE PAPER: Existing legacy systems contribute to costs, lack of business and IT alignment and a low recognized value of investments. Read this paper to learn how focusing on integrating business and IT architectures can help organizations realize business value.

Posted: 08 Feb 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2006

WHITE PAPER: Customer relationship management (CRM) deployments can be complex and difficult. This white paper provides a checklist of the ten critical success factors for organizations to follow to avoid common pitfalls as they design and deploy their CRM system.

Posted: 16 Jan 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2006

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the differences between SOA and BPM, and explores the benefits of combining the two for organizational initiatives.

Posted: 02 Jan 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2006

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the importance of collaborative management of software development and testing processes in order to achieve an integrated view of distributed development while meeting internal and external compliance requirements.

Posted: 21 Nov 2006 | Published: 01 Oct 2006

WHITE PAPER: The paper goes on to present more details of EGL as it pertains to building applications. Finally, it provides some insight into the architecture behind an EGL-based application. After reading this article, you should have a good understand...

Posted: 17 Nov 2006 | Published: 01 Mar 2006

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the benefits of On Demand Business, standards-based development and SOA as a part of product offerings and how SOA has shifted from concept to a viable approach to managing disparate IT resources.

Posted: 16 Nov 2006 | Published: 01 Jun 2006

WHITE PAPER: IBM WebSphere Application Server, Version 6.1 is the foundation of the IBM WebSphere software platform and is the key building block for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Posted: 16 Nov 2006 | Published: 01 Nov 2006