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Reducing Total Cost of Ownership: Delivering Cost Effective Enterprise Business Intelligence sponsored by MicroStrategy WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how MicroStrategy's enterprise strength, scalable platform and self-service technology enable organizations to achieve pervasive BI at the lowest industry ownership costs. Posted: 09 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jun 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence Software \| Data Warehouses \| Downtime \| IT Infrastructure \| Reporting Software \| ROI \| Staffing \| TCO \| Training

Aligning IT and Business with Demand Management sponsored by SERENA Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Demand Management (DM) is a component of a full-featured Project Portfolio Management (PPM) practice. Demand comes from many sources and all phases of the project lifecycle. Capacity management must consider all of these. Posted: 05 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 May 2008 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Project Management \| Project Portfolio Management \| ROI

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 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Dashboards \| Marketing \| ROI \| Sales and Marketing Software \| Security

3 Key Components of a Risk-Based Security Plan sponsored by Foundstone, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper takes a look at the different components of an effective security plan, and provides a perspective on how enterprises that are serious about their information security budgets should rethink their security plan. Posted: 02 Jun 2008 \| Published: 02 Jun 2008 TOPICS: Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Information Security \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management \| ROI \| Security Spending \| Training \| Vulnerability Assessments

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 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Business Processes \| Customers \| ROI \| TCO \| Testing

A Guide to SOA Governance sponsored by Torry Harris Business Solutions WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a guide to a successful SOA governance. Explore the integral role governance plays in realizing optimal ROI from an SOA implementation. Posted: 24 Apr 2008 \| Published: 24 Apr 2008 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| IT Governance \| Portfolio Management \| Project Management \| ROI \| SOA

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 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Contract Management \| Contract Management Software \| CRM \| Customer Service \| ROI \| SMB \| Software

Strategies for Profitable Growth: Sap for Professional Services sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: With customer demands rising and prices falling, service excellence alone is no longer enough to ensure future growth and profitability. Read this white paper to explore strategies, practices, and tools that can help your business achieve p... Posted: 24 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Apr 2005 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Customer Satisfaction \| Financial Management \| IT Services \| Knowledge Management \| Market Trends \| Project Management \| ROI \| SAP (Product)

Ten Tips for Effective Lead Management sponsored by Marketo WHITE PAPER: Learn 10 tips for effective lead management that will enable you to create more educated buyers, help you better understand their needs and ultimately increase revenue. Posted: 20 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Mar 2008 TOPICS: B2B \| Campaign Management \| Data Quality \| Lead Generation \| Marketing Information Systems \| Online Marketing \| ROI \| Sales and Marketing Software \| Search Engines \| Web Content Management \| Wireless Marketing

Usability as an ERP Selection Criteria sponsored by IFS WHITE PAPER: ERP software is often criticized for being complex and difficult to use. Read this paper to learn how to evaluate ERP software for usability. Posted: 04 Feb 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2008 TOPICS: Enterprise Resource Planning \| ERP \| ERP Software \| ERP System \| ROI \| Service Oriented Architecture \| Software Selection \| User Interfaces

Protecting Your Business: Services and Time Critical Applications in and Cost-effective Way sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent WHITE PAPER: Ensuring that business operations continue regardless of any circumstance is big business. Whether disruptions come as a result of natural disasters; sabotage (malware); technical failures in data storage or networking components. Posted: 10 Jan 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| IP Networks \| QOS \| ROI \| TDM

Choosing a Remote DBA instead of a Full-time Consultant? sponsored by Ntirety WHITE PAPER: Relational databases like Oracle grow 3x to 5x in size every three years, but most are not backed up properly. Learn about one of the newest trends in the industry: to outsource or out-task to your database administration needs. Posted: 30 Nov 2007 \| Published: 30 Nov 2007 TOPICS: Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Market Trends \| Oracle (Product) \| Outsourcing \| Relational Database Management Systems \| ROI \| Software Upgrades \| Vendor Selection

Taking On-Demand CRM Integration to the Next Level sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses customer data integration challenges facing businesses with mixed deployments and presents Oracle's vision and solution for comprehensive integration with Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand. Posted: 08 Nov 2007 \| Published: 01 Sep 2007 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Business Process Management \| CRM \| CRM Software \| Customer Satisfaction \| Marketing \| Oracle (Product) \| Productivity \| ROI \| Sales \| Software as a Service \| User Experience

Network-aware, End-to-End Service Management sponsored by Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This paper details an end to end service management solution that spans the entire infrastructure. Posted: 19 Oct 2007 \| Published: 01 Oct 2007 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Applications Management Software \| IT Service Management \| IT Services \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| ROI \| TCO

How to Detect Requirement Errors - A Guide to Slashing Software Costs and Shortening Development Time sponsored by Ravenflow, created by SearchSoftwareQuality.com WHITE PAPER: This expert e-Guide details the current state of the requirements development process, exploring how to detect requirements errors in the critical specification and validation steps. Posted: 04 Oct 2007 \| Published: 04 Oct 2007 TOPICS: Functional Requirements \| Project Management Software \| ROI \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools \| Software Project Management

Integrate Automated Order Processing with SAP Applications sponsored by Esker Inc. WHITE PAPER: Inefficient sales order processing can cause companies to miss tremendous opportunities for improved profitability. Learn how automating the sales order process can eliminate the inefficiencies and limitations of manual order processing. Posted: 04 Oct 2007 \| Published: 04 Oct 2007 TOPICS: Business Performance Management \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Customer Satisfaction \| Order Management Systems \| ROI \| Sales Order Management \| Vendor Selection \| Workflow Software

Intelligence at the Physical Layer: Smart Cabling - Better Security sponsored by Siemon Company WHITE PAPER: This white paper details new intelligent infrastructure management system choices for secure data centers and network infrastructures. Posted: 20 Sep 2007 \| Published: 01 Sep 2007 TOPICS: Cable \| Documentation \| Firewall Management \| IP Address Management \| IP Addresses \| Network Security \| ROI \| Routers \| TCO \| Workstations

Maximizing Data Quality to Build Profitable Customer Relationships sponsored by Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software WHITE PAPER: This white paper will help you understand the role of data quality in developing profitable customer relationships. Gain insight into the strategies and technologies that can help you get the most from your customer-facing systems. Posted: 18 Sep 2007 \| Published: 01 Jan 2003 TOPICS: CRM \| Customer Data Integration \| Customer Data Management \| Customer Profiles \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouse Software \| ROI \| Software Selection \| TCO

Service Providers' Competitive Response: The Why and How of Network, Services and Business Transformation sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent WHITE PAPER: The telecom market will transform into an IP-based world, where the strategy for growth has to take into account media and Internet convergence. This paper presents a strategy to succeed in today's environment and anticipate tomorrow... Posted: 10 Sep 2007 \| Published: 01 Sep 2007 TOPICS: Integrated Development Environments \| IP Networks \| IPTV \| Network Convergence \| ROI \| Software Development Tools \| Telecommunications Industry \| Telecommunications Service Providers

Trends: Driving the Adoption Curve sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent WHITE PAPER: To implement successful competitive transformation programs, operators need to understand user trends. Read this paper to find out more about the current trends and how you can be more competitive. Posted: 10 Sep 2007 \| Published: 01 Sep 2007 TOPICS: Integrated Development Environments \| ROI \| TCO \| Telecommunications Industry \| Telecommunications Service Providers \| Telecommunications Services

ALM in Geographically Distributed Development Environments sponsored by SERENA Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: A formal Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and change management infrastructure significantly increases the chances of project success for geographically distributed software development teams. This whitepaper explains why. Posted: 16 Aug 2007 \| Published: 01 Aug 2007 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Business Process Automation \| Change Management \| Offshore Outsourcing \| Regulatory Compliance \| ROI \| Software Project Management

IBM SOA Business Value Assessment sponsored by IBM Software Group 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 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Business Performance Management \| ROI \| SOA \| Software Implementation

Best Practices for Resolving Business-Critical Application Problems sponsored by BMC Software, Extending Value with Identify Software 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 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Performance Management Software \| Best Practices \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Automation \| Help Desk Software \| IT Management Services \| ROI

Service Oriented Architecture: A Practical Guide to Measuring Return on Investment sponsored by IBM Software Group WHITE PAPER: This investment analysis helps establish a benefits framework specific to SOA that focuses on limited choices and ways to depict the costs incurred. Posted: 20 Jun 2007 \| Published: 01 Oct 2006 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| ROI \| SOA \| Web Development \| Web Development Tools \| Web Services \| Web Services Management

The SOA Competitive Landscape Redefined: A Manager's Guide to SOA Platforms sponsored by Fiorano Software, Inc. 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 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Application Performance Management \| Business IT Alignment \| CIOs \| Distributed Computing \| ROI \| SOA \| Strategic Planning