Project Management

Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful.

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.

Leadership is an important element of organizational success. So, it is not surprising that many companies look for ways to extend the benefits of leadership development to more employees. Technology-based learning approaches such as online courses, books and video programs can be used effectively to develop employees at all levels.

Before your company launches its next package selection, implementation or upgrade, make sure you don’t cripple the project from the start by failing to identify your requirements – the number one reason that projects spin out of control. This white paper summarizes some of the key lessons we have learned through our industry-leading requirements definition practice.

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. 

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.

Quantum developed the Scalar tape libraries with integrated iLayer management software that gives our tape libraries disk-like management features to boost backup reliability, reduce service calls, speed up issue resolution, and lower users' operating expenses.

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.

Read this topical and informative white paper from EMA Research and see how you can attain peace of mind that your end user's application performance will exceed expectations.

Don't clutter your new SFA with useless data! Learn how to properly migrate to your new system with this free checklist. You're ready to move your company's data onto your brand new SFA system. You may think this is a simple matter of exporting the old system's data into the new one, and to some extent you would be right. But your new system is only as good as the information you give it. This transition is the perfect opportunity to organize your old data and ensure that you're only including what's valuable on your new SFA. In this free checklist you'll get tips from industry experts that will help you review what data is vital to include on your new system and what you can do without.

This informative buyer's guide will help you understand what you need to know about Web conferencing in great detail. This is a must-read guide prior to purchasing a solution. Web conferencing has emerged as a powerful tool for businesses to cut costs, boost productivity and increase efficiency. But finding the right product for your company can be difficult without understanding the basics of the market. Learn what you need to know about Web conferencing in this comprehensive buyer's guide.

This indepth guide compares 15 of the top CRM vendors' features and costs. Preview to ensure that you are making the right decision for your company. If your business is in the market for a CRM solution, then you must download this comprehensive comparison guide. Download this side-by-side comparison guide that breaks down the industry's top 15 CRM players (including Salesforce.com, RightNow Technologies, NetSuite, Microsoft, SugarCRM and Oracle) so you can quickly and easily compare the features and costs of each.

Customer serivce is the backbone of every successful sale. Personalizing the customer experience is critical to retaining clients, and in today's competitive marketplace it's absolutely vital to keep customers coming back. In this comprehensive Buyers Guide, Focus analysts have compiled a complete overview of what CRM can offer your company.

This document is intended to aid IT administrators and other stakeholders responsible for managing Microsoft SharePoint deployments, in planning and implementing a comprehensive, reliable and efficient governance strategy appropriate to their organizational needs.

Learn about SharePoint Native Backup Pros and Cons, Evaluation Standards and Best Practices.

For most organizations, driving profitable growth in today's business climate isn't easy. To meet these challenges, you must be able to respond and transform your business?quickly, cost-effectively, and without sacrificing profitability, transparency, or internal control. Learn how SAP ERP systems can help meet these challenges with this free white paper.

Leverage the tacit knowledge in your organization to identify, understand, and proactively reduce risk.

The ability to deliver and assure optimum availability to clinical systems and data is critical to the success of healthcare organizations. As providers become increasingly dependent on electronic medical records and medical delivery technologies, they must keep those applications, databases and networks available and accessible-no matter what. This white paper shows how information availability solutions ensure the availability and accessibility of data and applications, regardless of planned or unplanned interruptions.

This paper proposes a high-level methodology for implementation of Workload Automation (WLA) - a mature evolution of job scheduling that automates complex IT processing. WLA delivers benefits including decreased staffing costs, increased efficiency, improved customer service, better resource utilization, fewer outage minutes, and improved business service delivery.

In enterprises around the world, stale job scheduling software lingers for fear of the costs and risks of conversion. Dell's experience yields the following lessons in the successful conversion and exploitation of workload automation software: 1. Choose software with a proven track record for rapid and uneventful conversions. 2. Choose a vendor with a proven track record for superior customer service. 3. Choose a solution supporting enterprise-wide frameworks that align IT services with business needs - the primary tenet of IT Service Management (ITSM). 4. Choose products that permit a modular approach so that the company can selectively target automation areas while also controlling the duration, ROI, and scope of projects.

Your information can be one of your greatest assets - helping you stay on top of regulatory requirements, close to customers, and ahead of the competition. Organizations that pay attention to their data will be the ones to survive and thrive. So how do you obtain a complete view of your information when it is scattered across silos? Or integrate data from structured and unstructured data sources? Or help reduce the risk of inaccurate reporting? And how do you manage your information more effectively to help keep costs from spiraling out of control?

Varonis DatAdvantage automates these 10 IT must do's. DatAdvantage delivers the visibility and automated auditing you need to determine who can access your unstructured data, who is accessing it and who should have access.

In this white paper, authored by Numara Software and Pink Elephant, we examine the critical role of having effective processes in driving down service costs. In particular, the paper demonstrates the importance of process and automation in helping IT executives stretch their IT budget further.

From planning, to proving, to production, there are a lot of intricate details to think about when you are considering a Linux implementation. In this webcast, Marianne Eggett summarizes industry best practices for project management of your IBM System z Linux (POC).

Learn how to control your rising business costs by choosing a midmarket ERP solution. Download your Research Briefing now.