Business Performance Management Reports

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Many organizations have achieved dramatic performance improvements by sustaining a focus on strategy implementation. We have captured and codified a body of knowledge from these successful organizations that provides the foundation for an emerging professional function focused on the management of strategy.

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 | Published: 01 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN. It typically involves assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and traffic prioritization to improve application performance.

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: BI users need a positive and unified experience with their information applications to help them make critical, data-driven business decisions. In this webcast transcript, Shaku Atre, founder and managing partner of the Atre Group, discusses strategies to encourage BI user engagement with customizable dashboards and analytics.

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 | Published: 30 Mar 2011

EZINE: Tracking and identifying virtual machines on physical hosts or sorting out the source of I/O bottlenecks requires administrators to do investigative work. Software management tools can help, but business processes are also important for handling virtual system management. Learn some tips to make managing virtual environments a little bit easier.

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 | Published: 25 Mar 2011

EGUIDE: While many VARs, integrators and solution providers are offering “services,” there remains a substantial portion that either have only a small amount of revenue coming from managed services or no managed services practices at all. This guide will walk you through the 6 best practices you need to know about being a managed service provider.

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 | Published: 25 Mar 2011

EGUIDE: In this e-guide from SearchVMware.com, gain expert insight into the existing performance monitoring tools in vSphere for optimal virtual environment management. And discover five VMware administration and management tips that will help you better manage your VMs and avoid common mistakes.

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 | Published: 25 Mar 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Businesses need to upgrade and launch new applications all the time. In order to reap the full benefits of these applications you need to be able to test them almost immediately.However, traditional application testing makes this nearly impossible. Find out more about a solution that helps take the complexities out of application testing.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

PODCAST: In this podcast, you'll hear from Matt Bedin, Director for BI Product Management for Oracle, about the many new features and enhancements in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE 11g) that will excite both end-users and IT managers.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Premiered: Mar 23, 2011

JOURNAL ARTICLE: This collection of journal articles focuses on the many facets of business transformation, including innovation, performance management, cultural transformation, and much more.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: According to the report, "WAN optimization is about improving the performance of business applications over WAN connections. Most networks carry a variety of traffic types of differing characteristics and importance."

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 21 Mar 2011

JOURNAL ARTICLE: This collection of journal articles is focused on the concept of creating value and its importance as the key element for enterprise performance management (EPM).

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes a set of six management processes that lead organizations to become smarter, more agile, and better aligned—the key attributes of management excellence.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 03 Nov 2008

EGUIDE: In this SearchITChannel.com e-guide you will learn how channel business automation software is taking the time and guesswork out of employee management and how a technological partnership can work for you.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how organizations are turning to Microsoft SharePoint to connect their knowledge workers, business processes, and enterprise-wide content. New features in SharePoint Server 2010 are aimed at improving the platform’s scalability and usability, inherently driving the SharePoint deployment to evolve and grow as business dictates.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Agile techniques and SOA principles are necessary elements to successfully delivering business software in this environment but by themselves they’re not sufficient. This report highlights key features of tools that you should consider if you’re interested in delivering IT capabilities that integrate people, processes and systems in flexible ways.

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 | Published: 16 Feb 2011

EBOOK: Business intelligence (BI) programs face new performance challenges as they scale out to reach more and more end users. Find out in this e-book, featuring expert advice, tips and techniques for improving BI performance. Learn strategies you can employ now – and things to think about as you plan for the future.

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu Interstage Business Process Manager (Interstage BPM) is a leading solution for Agile BPM - the next generation of BPM. Agile BPM is designed to flexibly address the requirements of all types of processes used to conduct a business: structured, unstructured, and hybrid process types, giving support to all forms of work.

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 | Published: 03 Jan 2011

WEBCAST: Think Agile BPM is not for you because you don't have simple processes that follow the same path every time? Think again. This webcast illustrates how Agile BPM allows you to get results by striking the right balance between structure and flexibility in processes how Fujitsu's Agile BPM solution can help you to achieve that goal.

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 | Premiered: Jan 3, 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript brought to you by Network Automation, Inc. outlines a conversation between Aleksey Lazaryev and Martin Gadzinowski which discusses scripting issues in the business world and what types of solutions can be implemented to solve these issues. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: HP Insight Software is integrated management software to manage infrastructures including HP ProLiant, HP Integrity, and HP BladeSystem. A core element of the HP Converged Infrastructure and Matrix Operating Environment, HP Insight Software is designed to provide customers with deeper insight into their systems to make more informed decisions.

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 | Published: 15 Dec 2010

EBOOK: Enterprises are intrigued with the idea of passing the burden of business continuity to a service provider, but such an undertaking is more thanmost are willing to risk. Read this e-book now for topics ranging from the benefits and drawbacks of BC on-demand to BC in the cloud.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: It’s easy to understand why business leaders regard their experience and intuition as inadequate tools for optimizing their enterprises.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: To succeed in today’s competitive marketplace, consumer goods manufacturers need to pay attention to several areas including operational excellence, compliance, and supply chain synchronization. Learn how today’s powerful and cost-effective solutions, such as Apriso’s MOM offering, can provide companies with benefits in each of these areas.

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 | Published: 13 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The current utilities environment requires companies to decrease costs while increasing the ability to control utility assets. One key challenge is how to take advantage of new technologies to better manage the delivery of service to customers today and into the future. IBM Service Management for the IUN provides a blueprint for getting started.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010