September 10, 2009 - (Free Research) This Wainhouse Research application brief explores the results of a groundbreaking survey on the next generation of audio conferencing. Get acquainted with Web-controlled audio conferencing, including business benefits, real-world impact and recommended best practices.
January 23, 2009 - (Free Research) Business intelligence (BI) can be considered critical to the very existence of most organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore whether and how companies are using BI to improve their businesses; to identify the obstacles they encounter in its use; and predict how BI will evolve in the next ten years.
May 14, 2009 - (Free Research) Skype usage is continuing to gain ground in enterprises with over 250 million downloads worldwide. Management therefore needs to decide whether the benefits overcome the drawbacks and set appropriate policies within the organization. Read this paper for more details.
December 02, 2008 - (Free Research) Enterprises everywhere want to quickly prepare their IT infrastructure to take full advantage of convergence. Is your company one of them? If so, you need a strategy that helps you quickly achieve benefits, with minimal investment and impact to your business processes. This white paper is a great place to start.
December 01, 2008 - (Free Research) This ExecBlueprint discusses the evolving role for the technology executive and what now constitutes "effective IT governance." The authors share effective strategies for building a good relationship with the CEO, planning projects, and managing the technology staff.
December 01, 2007 - (Free Research) HP QAInspect delivers automated security information that QA professionals and software testers can access at any point in the application development process to identify and remediate potential security defects.
September 01, 2008 - (Free Research) EA, a key IT governance tool, plays an active role in strategic business planning. Effective EA requires managing standards and promoting best practices in architecture.
October 19, 2009 - (Free Research) This whitepaper discusses best practices options and a solid approach to implementing solutions for automating and optimizing Accounts Payable in the SAP
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October 05, 2009 - (Free Research) This document provides recommendations and best practices for moving a user’s data from their physical corporate workstations into the virtual Citrix XenDesktop environment.
April 03, 2009 - (Free Research) Several issues intersect in a broad set of choices and outcomes involving an IT organization's storage requirements. This research highlights some of the most important questions driving Gartner's 2009 research agenda in the storage space.
January 2006 - (Free Research) This white paper provides an overview of the PMBOK® and the key process areas and functions within the IT Infrastructure Library.
January 2006 - (Free Research) This paper details how professional services firms can grow and thrive in a difficult market by enhancing project visibility, maximizing resource utilization, improving operational efficiency, and successfully acquiring more customers.
August 2009 - (Free Research) Best practices, people, processes, and procedures combine with technology tools, hardware, software, networks, services, and facilities to enable a virtual data center. The importance of this chapter is to understand how all these elements coupled with existing and emerging technologies can be applied to improve IT service delivery.
October 2008 - (Free Research) This comprehensive, 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. This guide covers the fundamentals of how applications work, how applications flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems.
August 2009 - (Free Research) Get an overview of security best practices from the McAfee Expert Cybersecurity Council, and read how IT organizations around the world are protecting their intellectual property.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Authored by Ron Ben Natan, Ph.D., author of "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, March 2009), this white paper describes 8 essential best practices that provide a holistic approach to safeguarding databases and achieving compliance.
February 2008 - (Free Research) Companies worldwide are affirming the value of database archiving as a best practice for managing application data growth. The basic principles for managing an archiving project presented in this paper can help you initiate and plan an archiving strategy that meets your organization’s requirements.
June 2009 - (Free Research) In this expert podcast, learn how new capacity planning and performance management tools utilize automation and an intuitive interface to increase resource utilization and reduce capital expenditures for your virtualized data center.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Implementing the newest blade servers will enable you to decrease power consumption and optimize performance in your virtualized data center. Listen to this expert podcast to learn more about how you can consume less power and cut cooling costs.
November 2009 - (Free Research) IT Service Management frameworks are helping CIOs leverage best practices to lead change, improve response time and better manage the IT/business relationship. In this CIO Decisions eZine, experts offer insights into how to roll out your ITSM implementation.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Virtualization introduces an array of new security risk challenges including compliance, separation, data leakage, forensics, and much more. If your organization has already deployed a virtualized environment, read this paper for advice on how to review your infrastructure and establish best practices going forward.
September 2009 - (Free Research) This webcasts examines the trends, best practices, and competitive advantages of the customer-centric enterprise. Following the discussion with Martha Rogers, we find out how the Portland Trail Blazers have taken advantage of Microsoft Dynamics CRM to improve sales and grow their customer base.
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