Maturity Model

The August 2010 report 'Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management' has positioned SDL as a leader in Web Content Management (WCM). See how Web Content Management vendors were rated based on "Completeness of vision" and "Ability to Execute".

Requirements excellence cannot be achieved without first understanding the critical capabilities of requirements maturity, and recognizing your organizations strengths and weaknesses. In order to develop a focused plan of attack, it is necessary to assess your requirements practice in each of six areas: process, technology, staff competency, organization, techniques, and deliverables. You will then be armed with the information you need to identify key improvement opportunities, recognize organizational strengths, and form concrete goals for action.

Requirements quality is tangible. This hard-hitting 10 minute video microcast presents the concrete rules that will allow you to quickly assess a requirements document and determine if it will likely lead to an effective implementation.

Data modeling has evolved from an arcane technique for database designers into an entire family of interrelated techniques that serves many constituencies, including techno-phobic business stakeholders and users. The new maturity of modeling tools and techniques arrives in the nick of time, because new technical and regulatory realities demand that enterprises maintain scrupulous awareness of their data and how it is used. Data modeling is no longer for databases only, no longer for technologists only, and no longer optional.

One of the pillars of the Virtual Data Center is virtual platform infrastructure, or the virtual machine; however virtual platforms are dependent on many other, oft forgotten components of both the physical and virtual data center.

Defining the baseline and process of virtualization maturity for the data center.

To successfully adopt SOA, a company must create a plan that addresses the full extent of the changes required for SOA. For the past five years Oracle has been working with a wide variety of companies that are in various stages of SOA adoption. This experience has been captured in the Oracle SOA Maturity Model such that this collective experience can be used to measure the progress of an SOA initiative and, more importantly, can identify specific capabilities that are lacking or lagging and are therefore inhibiting the SOA initiative. This paper outlines the Oracle SOA Maturity Model and explains how the model is used to accelerate SOA adoption by identifying specific capabilities that are either completely lacking or which are lagging with respect to the other capabilities necessary for successful SOA adoption.

There is only one good way to approach the adoption and facilitation of SOA and Web services, and that is to establish, right from the beginning, a corporate Center of Excellence to guide the revolution from making a compelling business case to putting in place a long-term solution for measuring and improving on every success.

A proven framework for delivering business alignment and implementing best practices for IT service management.

The purpose of this paper is to present a method for reducing risk and increasing IT contribution during uncertain times and to assist readers with measuring the value and building a business case for IT Service Management (ITSM).

Service management solutions have the potential to return very significant hard-currency ROI. Successful implementations dramatically improve decision accuracy, enhance productivity, increase operating efficiency and reduce operational risk by providing comprehensive context for a wide range of management decisions.

Companies that successfully introduce a new requirements-engineering process not only change their process and technology but also change their thinking. While improving your requirements management and analysis practices, this step-by-step guide can help you accelerate change and process acceptance across your organization. Learn more today!

More and more enterprises are being affected by poor economic conditions, and budgets are starting to get slashed. If the CFO walks into your office and asks you to cut IT spending, look to these eight tactics to slash network costs.

IT managers that are unhappy with the often excessive money they are paying for software Maintenance and Support (M&S) can replace their apps vendor with a third-party provider. When third-party M&S is the right fit for the enterprise, it can lead to savings of 50% or more.

Current economic conditions are requiring many IT departments to trim their budgets. Take a closer look at Microsoft licensing agreements to eliminate any excess spend on Microsoft products next year.

VMware continues to be the market leader for x86 server virtualization. However, the license costs for VMware virtualization can be a deterrent for small enterprises. Small budget implementers who want to stay with VMware should start with its free VMware Server product. They may not have to go any further.

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Organizations with data-sharing environments, complex information and systems hinder business responsiveness and decision makers’ ability to make informed decisions. This white paper will describe how engaging in a master data management (MDM) project enables effective governance of data - specifically master data - and achieves maturity in key categories of the IBM Data Governance Maturity Model.

Organizations are transforming traditional supply chains into outside-in, demand-driven value networks that coordinate customer demand (outside) back into the organization (in) to maximize customer value. But the journey is not the same for everyone. Each industry faces its own Moment of Truth challenges, dictated by what drives the industry, the industry-specific characteristics of demand, and the organization's state of readiness.

Marketing operations is in the midst of a major revolution. While the tools of marketing have changed dramatically over the past 25 years, the operational systems and processes have remained relatively stagnant. Most organizations use desktop productivity tools and e-mail to plan, deliver and ultimately execute their marketing activities.

For a limited time, we're offering you complimentary access to the entire Project Portfolio Management Maturity Model. This practical resource shows you how to assess the maturity of your organization's PPM portfolio and guide it to a higher level of performance.

This white paper examines the fresh techniques for assessing the effectiveness of QA organizations.