Application Integration

To be successful, operations requires integrated business management methodologies and systems that assist in making better, faster decisions and provide visibility into key performance drivers, such as employee productivity, asset utilization, and project profitability.

This paper examines how an integrated information technology solution can help you take advantage of economies of scale to boost manufacturing utilization, enhance service levels, and improve the efficiency of your sales and administrative activities.

You'll learn about the best storage configurations for Hyper-V, NetApp's virtualization "sweet spot," and Avanade's firsthand experience with two much-anticipated R2 features: Cluster Shared Volumes and Live Migration.

Review Windows consolidation best practices and architecture.

SME Clear Value Interactive Guided Tour (ITour) explains the value of the SAP SME portfolio through three value scenarios: Insight, Efficiency and Flexibility

Discover what you need to know about application performance management in this compilation of whitepapers, analyst reports and articles from IDG.

APM and resource performance management best practices are shown to enable true end-to-end application service for heterogeneous environments, including distributed and mainframe. Increase the performance of your datacenter with this white paper now.

In this part of the APM series, application performance management is explored in a network-dependent application delivery model. Learn about setting appropriate goals, establishing baselines and improving overall application performance through network management.

The City of Miami's Fire Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, which was state-of-the-art when it was installed more than 20 years ago, has been strained by the demands of an increasing population and was no longer able to integrate smoothly with new systems and functionality.

Benefits and ROI from modernizing business-critical technology and infrastructure.

This paper is for IT development executives looking to gain control of open source software as part of a multi-source development process. You can gain significant management control over open source software use in your development organization. Today, many IT executives, enterprise architects, and development managers in leading companies have gained management control over the externally-sourced software used by their application development groups. Download this free paper to discover how.

Ten chapters of practical insight and industry best practices for managing your critical applications from an end-to-end perspective across your IT infrastructure.

As applications become more collaborative and are accessed globally, businesses will need to ensure they are well-equipped to manage user performance and eliminate outages in order to compete. To learn more about gaining visibility into critical application performance, download this white paper.

In this final part of the APM series, learn about Java and .NET application performance management, performance management instrumentation and effective APM methodologies in Java and .NET environments.

This whitepaper takes a detailed look at the ins and outs of converting from Lotus Notes to Google Apps. Offering a helpful 10-step process for evaluating and implementing Google Apps, the document also covers issues such as cost savings and how to present a solid case to Senior Management.

The information presented in this white paper discusses various approaches to cryptography and key management, and can be used as a starting point for developing an effective policy-based key management solution.

To add extra protection for confidential data while reducing the time and cost for achieving regulatory compliance, many organizations will benefit from integrating tokenization into their SafeNet solution.

To better understand how integrated, automated management tools can improve IT productivity, Kaseya recently posed the following questions to Mary Johnston Turner, research director for IDC's System Management Software service, on behalf of Kaseya's corporate IT customers.

In today's competitive global marketplace, Application Management Services (AMS) have become increasingly important for international companies to comply with country-specific markets and regulations, and ensure high-quality operations of SAP solutions in a sustainable, cost-effective manner.

There's a smarter, more secure, and more collaborative way to work. Cloud-based messaging and collaborative apps help businesses increase productivity while simplifying IT and reducing costs.

Download this Definitive Guide and learn how application performance management techniques are evolving to accommodate hybrid IT. Find out about emerging technologies and develop a "shopping list" of capabilities that your IT environment will need in order to survive in the Hybrid Age.

User experience is essential for effective e-commerce and applications that create the shopping experience, from interactive catalogs and shopping carts to payment systems, must always operate at peak efficiency.

Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster.

For modern applications, particularly those built for the Java platform, there are proven approaches and solutions that can help an organization achieve predictable, scalable performance for their applications. And although these approaches may be most valuable for extreme-scale applications, they can save time and money in almost any server-based application.

Find out how mainframe rehosting lets IT professionals spend more time and money on development rather than on maintaining aging systems. This free whitepaper explains how you can unlock the value of key business logic for integration and reuse.