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WHITE PAPER - This white paper defines the challenges facing today's IT executives and steps you can take now to support your organization’s SOA-based initiatives by cutting costs, leveraging your existing IT infrastructure and improving productivity.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Published: January 15, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Systems | CIOs | Databases | IT Infrastructure | ROI | SOA

ANALYST REPORT - How can today's CIO make the biggest impact on their organization? Learn more here.
Posted: November 10, 2009 | Published: November 10, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Business Models | Business Process Management | Business Processes | CIOs | ROI | Virtualization Security

WEBCAST - In this economic downturn, organizations are looking to cut costs. Agile teams produce higher quality work, are quick to deliver and provide greater ROI. What can these teams do now to cut costs? Join us as Scott Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, provides his expertise and guidance on this pressing topic for today.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Premiered: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Economic Environment | ROI | Software Best Practices | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

EGUIDE - Today’s businesses are being pushed to consolidate their data centers, address power consumption and implement virtualization in an effort to reduce operating costs and go green. But what are the best routes to achieving these objectives?
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Configuration Management | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Energy Efficiency | Environmental Compliance | Environmental Standards | Green Data Center | Green Storage | IT Infrastructure | Network Management | Power Consumption Monitoring | Regulatory Compliance | ROI | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | Systems Management | TCO

RESOURCE CENTER - This e-Kit is for anyone who wants to deliver effective software, while reducing costs and risks in this challenging economic environment. Our white papers, videos, webcasts, and customer success stories provide guidance and best practices while showing you how Rational solutions help you gain both short- and long-term value.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Agile Manufacturing | ROI | Software | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Implementation | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

ASSESSMENT TOOL - Check out these three ROI calculators for estimates on your return on investment using one or more IBM solutions.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Management | Business Processes | Investments | ROI | Software | Software Best Practices | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance

WEBCAST - Discover how investing in software development brings back returns with reduced cost and risk, improved time-to-market, and enhanced productivity by following the simple best practices discussed in this webcast.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Premiered: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Investments | ROI | Software | Software Best Practices | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - Compliance with PCI DSS has become a global requirement for any business or entity that processes credit card transactions as payment for goods and services. This paper explores the ROI implications and opportunities of PCI.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: June 10, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Credit Cards | Payment Card Industry | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance | ROI

SOFTWARE DEMO - The IBM DB2 ROI tool has been designed for developers, database administrators and senior IT management personnel alike, to help them perform a clinical analysis of the cost savings gained from the Storage Optimization feature of DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Published: October 19, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Linux | ROI | UNIX

PRODUCT DEMO - Organizations moving towards Service-Oriented Architecture must manage their services from development to deployment. This demo shows how Rational Team Concert, Rational Asset Manager, and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository provide a comprehensive, integrated solution for organizations looking to realize SOA.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business IT Alignment | ROI | SOA | SOA Governance | Software | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - To thrive in today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, top businesses of all sizes and in all industries are looking for better ways to achieve operational excellence that enables them to run their companies more efficiently and cost-effectively and drive innovation that matters to recognize market needs and respond to them quickly and decisively.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Cost Benefit Analysis | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Operational Support Systems | ROI | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This white paper is a study on the business value of service-oriented architecture (SOA). What they found was that those companies moving to what we would call the flex-pon-sive* world were seeing the results in flexibility from SOA.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Management | CIOs | IT Management | ROI | SOA | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability. These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: May 5, 2009


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Business Integration Software | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Reporting Software | ROI

PODCAST - Companies with a flexible IT infrastructure credit their success to an ability to adapt to change. Listen to find new ways to lower IT complexity and improve operating efficiency in your company.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Premiered: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Asset Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | ROI | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Organizations face a tremendous challenge in meeting the many different regulatory compliance issues driven by legislation, auditors and litigation.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Process Management | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Enterprise Content Management | Record Management | Regulatory Compliance | Reporting Software | ROI