Business IT Alignment Reports

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z can help you reduce the overall cost of IT by transforming your data centre from a reactive, resource focus to a business-driven, proactive service.

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Published: 27 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will gain insight into five myths commonly associated with agile development. Explore what agile development is in reality, what it is not, and the true benefits of transitioning to agile methods in your organization.

Posted: 15 Oct 2008 | Published: 26 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes.

Posted: 01 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008

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

BOOK: This eBook is intended for readers who are already familiar with service oriented architecture (SOA) and who want to learn about IBM's advice on how to be successful with SOA. It is intended for IT and business professionals involved with adopting ...

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 | Published: 22 Oct 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

CASE STUDY: This case study reveals how DaimlerChrysler saw significant reduction in overall application lifecycle costs.

Posted: 20 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2005

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 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 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 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

CASE STUDY: Project management processes that are not standardized can extend project timelines and lead to product poor quality and unsatisfied customers. Discover how system knowledge management can improve availability by reducing manual dependence.

Posted: 08 Feb 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

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