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Five Steps to Gaining Control and Managing Complexity in the Data Center through Service Automation sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 15 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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Automating your data center can improve operational efficiency and give you control over service quality, security, and business agility, while simultaneously reducing risk and costs. Learn how five simple steps can help you chart your course to automation and show you how to develop a deliberate and well-planned incremental approach.
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Crossing the Chasm Between the Service Desk and Operations sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 15 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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IT organizations can significantly improve efficiency and reduce operational costs by creating environments with shared access to common data to support Operations and the Service Desk, and evolving and automating key processes between the two groups.
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Sustained Growth Through Operational Excellence sponsored by SAP America Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 05 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 02 Jun 2009 | |
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Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organisation, enabling management by facts.
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Business Intelligence for the Small to Medium Sized Business (SMB) sponsored by SAP America Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 04 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 02 Jun 2009 | |
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Based on feedback from almost 650 end-user organizations, this report serves as a roadmap for SMBs looking to improve their analytical capability and achieve Best-in-Class performace through the deployment of BI.
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Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT sponsored by SAP America Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 04 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 02 Jun 2009 | |
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A 2007 report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that nine out of ten corporate executives admit to making important decisions on the basis of inadequate information. This whitepaper will discuss what information visibility can do for your organization as well as the three critical strategic areas of business decision making.
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Tough Love: When IT Security Hurts Your Business sponsored by Global Knowledge
 | White Paper: | Posted: 27 May 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2009 | |
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As IT commoditization continues to increase audit and control activities, IT gets better at identifying and documenting the causes of significant outages. In an increasing number of cases, these ITIL efforts show the source of the outage to be action from the security department, and the BSM processes show the impact to be devastating.
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Implementing Best Practices: The Dell Management Console and ITIL sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
 | White Paper: | Posted: 19 May 2009
| | Published: | 01 Mar 2009 | |
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This white paper discusses how reduced budgets and growing demands on IT departments have forced organizations to find ways to cut costs, increase IT resource productivity, and optimize existing investments. Find out more about on this topic and how the new Dell Management Console can assist you.
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Integrating and Automating Composite Applications sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 18 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 14 Nov 2008 | |
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This Enterprise Management Associates white paper will describe how new technologies are being used by IT to develop new applications to give a new competitive edge to their enterprises; provide an overview of the new challenges involved; investigate solutions to overcome these challenges; and show how these solutions drive business value.
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Dell's SMART Approach to Workload Automation sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 18 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 17 Apr 2009 | |
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This white paper discusses why Dell chose BMC's CONTROL-M when they embarked on a broad initiative to integrate and upgrade its IT services to better satisfy business needs.
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SMART, Modular, Cost-Effective Steps to Workload Automation sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 17 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 17 Apr 2009 | |
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This paper proposes a high-level methodology for implementation of Workload Automation (WLA) - a mature evolution of job scheduling that automates complex IT processing and includes support for event-driven workloads, multiple platforms, Web services, composite applications, SOAs, virtual systems, system and application integration, and more.
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Accelerating Enterprise Application ROI sponsored by Oracle Corporation
 | White Paper: | Posted: 07 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 01 Dec 2008 | |
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Through interviews with service providers, this white paper identifies the most important capabilities of an effective training platform as well as examines the pressures companies and their project managers confront when tackling enterprise application implementations and upgrades.
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Services Access and Onboarding: The New Game for Network Providers sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
 | White Paper: | Posted: 26 Mar 2009
| | Published: | 26 Mar 2009 | |
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This paper examines issues that are driving industry interest in services access and onboarding; factors that impact successful implementation; key business model considerations and how they impact the business, technical, operational, and partnership dimensions; and steps that Network Operators can take to ensure they maximize benifits.
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Value-driven product management: Six keys to product success sponsored by IBM
 | White Paper: | Posted: 19 Mar 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jan 2009 | |
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This paper explains how assessment, alignment, achievability, accessibility, agility and accountability, the six key concepts of value-driven product management, can be applied to create a repeatable process for developing successful products.
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Oracle Grid Computing Achieved: Service-oriented HP Adaptive Infrastructure offerings for Oracle Grid Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
 | White Paper: | Posted: 16 Mar 2009
| | Published: | 07 Nov 2007 | |
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Oracle's vision of the next-generation data center is the Oracle Grid Computing architecture, which provides the software building blocks for creating a service-oriented, shared-resource environment. Read this paper to discover more of what Oracle has to offer.
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HP Virtual Server Environment Reference Architecture: Shared Infrastructure for Databases sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
 | White Paper: | Posted: 16 Mar 2009
| | Published: | 01 Mar 2007 | |
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The core concept behind the Shared Infrastructure for Databases involves simple building blocks, comprised of computing elements, connected together to create a powerful, yet elegant shared database environment. This white paper describes the shared infrastructure, its benefits and HP
offerings to help you implement this solution.
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