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The Alignment-Focused Organization: Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
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

SAP America, Inc.

Business Intelligence Strategies for 4G Operators
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the opportunities and challenges presented by the introduction of services on 4G networks, and examines how a strategic BI implementation can help to transform the services a company provides while managing costs of providing them. It also considers the variety of practical applications of a BI system.
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

Sybase, an SAP company

Transforming Storage Operations from Entrepreneurial to Predictive
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Some organizations continue to operate without documented processes, procedures and polices. Learn how to avoid risks to services levels, business continuity - and a new approach to IT - one that moves from a reactive to a more predictive model.
Posted: 13 Dec 2004 | Published: 01 Dec 2004

EMC Corporation

How To Align Corporate Strategy with Project Execution
sponsored by AtTask
WHITE PAPER: The biggest challenge for IT leaders today is making sure that projects are aligned with the strategic and financial goals of their organizations. Learn why implementing a project and portfolio management (PPM) approach could help simplify your objectives. Gain insight on PPM topics such as allocating resources, capacity planning and more.
Posted: 12 Aug 2011 | Published: 12 Aug 2011

AtTask

Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
sponsored by SDL Web Content Management Solutions Division
WHITE PAPER: This Magic Quadrant will help CIOs and business and IT leaders that are analyzing their Web strategies to assess whether they have the right Web Content Management offering to support them. Use this Magic Quadrant to understand the fresh vitality in the WCM market and how Gartner rates the leading vendors and their packaged products.
Posted: 08 Sep 2010 | Published: 07 Sep 2010

SDL Web Content Management Solutions Division

What CFOs Should Ask their Software Development Leaders
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates a new way of thinking about the funding of IT software projects, one that considers funding in terms of investment, and value as an expansive, longitudinal variable.
Posted: 20 Sep 2011 | Published: 20 Sep 2011

IBM

Capacity Management Is Crucial in Virtualized Environments: Without the Right Tools, IT Service Optimization Is Tricky
sponsored by TeamQuest Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization offers a more flexible solution where resources can be redistributed in accordance with shifting demands. However, virtualization resources add a new abstraction layer to the infrastructure stack, which can complicate IT service optimization. Read on to learn best practices for optimizing IT services in complex virtual environments.
Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

TeamQuest Corporation

Consider the User Experience and Operational Efficiency
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Cisco Services presents a series of four white papers to provide a framework for discovering compelling business cases and identifying the necessary services needed to deliver the desired experience. The second white paper in the series covers critical knowledge areas in the successful planning and design of a medianet or media-optimized network.
Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Getting Started: A Manager's Guide to Implementing Capacity Management
sponsored by TeamQuest Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Many IT departments have chosen to throw hardware at performance and capacity problems. In the past, that approach has worked, however times and management challenges have changed; demanding a different approach – capacity management. This guide is designed to help those IT leaders who are now looking to assemble a capacity management approach.
Posted: 12 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

TeamQuest Corporation

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

Fiorano Software, Inc.