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Communicate to line-of-business managers how they can deliver the right information at the right time to support better, faster decisions, and thus ensure long-term company success.

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.

This paper raises real challenges for IT managers who have to protect the business against malware, keep internet bandwidth available for legitimate business needs and enforce acceptable use policies for the human resource department.

With 75% of business intellectual property contained in email, efficiently managing this data can pose a major challenge. Learn how hosted email archiving reduces legal risks while improving employee productivity.

From dealing with rogue "IT hobbyists" to naive bosses, Kaseya presents common IT systems management pain points and our solutions.

Customer Satisfaction: Deliver More Revenue, Sirius Decisions: This short video explores the issues and the data required to drive better sales enablement, performance and productivity.

This report examines how top performing companies are implementing sales intelligence initiatives to increase pipeline quality and contextualize opportunities with relevant information.

This IDG Research Services study demonstrates that CIOs and IT leaders recognize the business impact of application performance. It's all about end-user and customer satisfaction, increasing productivity, and lowering costs.

This white paper describes an approach that provides these performance metrics for specific IT stakeholders, all drawn from data collection and analytics that support a holistic, integrated approach to optimizing IT service delivery.

Based on in-depth interviews with Web conferencing users, this new Wainhouse Research white paper explores the value of Web conferencing for catalyzing team interaction and collaboration.

Organizations have to be agile to compete globally and adapt to changes in technology. Most organizations run middleware applications based on disparate systems and technologies. However, use of these disparate technologies poses many challenges and complexities to the administrators, including over-inflated management costs.

The later in the system development life-cycle that major errors are discovered the more expensive it is to fix them. But the earliest stages of the systems development lifecycle (SDLC) are most often the least consistently executed. This paper describes a methodology that brings the early stages of the SDLC up to a high level of maturity: consistent, proven, and optimized for success. 

This white paper is structured so that each page is its own "mini-white-paper" but each is also part of a total look at better structuring requirements documents, processes and content completeness. At the end of this paper is a one page "tear-out" summary which is both a shortened distillation of the content, and a diagnostic tool to start a peer discussion on your organization's performance.

Find out what business analytics can do for you - and how to get started. Get started with business analytics by taking these eight essential actions.

This use case introduces Red Hat solutions that you can use to build a world-class web application infrastructure. Learn best practices that will scale as your company grows and find out how to increase your productivity while reducing costs.

Windows 7 adoption is one of IT's top priorities for 2010. A solid adoption strategy requires 12 to 18 months for thorough planning and testing before actual Windows 7 deployment can begin. But nearly two-thirds of companies don't yet have a Windows 7 adoption plan in place. In this White Paper LANDesk have identified seven pitfalls that IT organizations must avoid as they embark on Windows 7 adoption.

Find out how Crowdcast Collective Intelligence Platform helps companies align decision-making and understand and reduce risks associated with developing and launching new products and on-going operations.

Thin provisioning is now recognized as a critical approach to simplifying storage management while drastically improving capacity utilization. Download this white paper to learn how.

In this brief 23-minute on-demand Webinar, opinion leaders from Pillar Data Systems and industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., break down the challenges that today's organizations face and help them to select a flexible storage platform that will adapt to changing business and application requirements while minimizing risks and reducing management complexity.

As global employment prospects lag behind a slow economic recovery, customers in many parts of the world are more cautious and better informed than ever. They have access to a wealth of information about the products and services they seek, much of it obtained from trusted sources almost immediately. Yet businesses have moved slowly to exploit emerging technologies and information sources like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. As a result, customers often seem better informed about the products and services they buy than companies are about their customers. This imbalance presents a big challenge to companies struggling to avoid commoditisation and it could grow into a competitive disadvantage as customers demand more personalized service.

IDC research shows that standardized IT operations processes and workflows supported by automated, integrated tools consistently save time and money while improving service levels.

This white paper details how Web 2.0 technologies support business strategies by improving efficiency, productivity, and collaboration.

This paper outlines how the five lean principles are all supported and enhanced by comprehensive information control and the management tools that an end-to-end enterprise software suite delivers.