Business Intelligence Network - The Vision for BI and Beyond

WHITE PAPER - The key to achieving an agile enterprise, capable of responding to the day to day market dynamics, is true collaboration between the business and IT functions.
Posted: December 8, 2008 | Published: December 8, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Enterprise Resource Management | IT Systems | Risk Management | Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes steps IT executives must take to manage an IT service management (ITSM) implementation to maximize its value and ensure that it achieves the full transformational effect it is capable of delivering.
Posted: December 1, 2008 | Published: November 26, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Service Management | IT Systems | ITIL | ROI | Strategic Planning

CASE STUDY - CBA deployed CommSee, a customer relationship management platform built on the Microsoft® .NET Framework and the integrated system automates workflow and provides a complete view of a customer.
Posted: December 1, 2008 | Published: November 27, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | CRM | Customer Service | IT Service Management | IT Systems | SOA | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - Monitoring servers and proactively managing capacity helps companies maintain service level agreements, meet contractual obligations, improve customer and partner satisfaction, and move forward into new markets.
Posted: November 18, 2008 | Published: July 28, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Business Intelligence | Capacity Planning | IT Service Management | IT Systems | Performance Testing

WHITE PAPER - To optimize your data center infrastructure, consider these four practical best practice steps that Upsite's engineers have devised for solving cooling inefficiencies through proper airflow management.
Posted: October 14, 2008 | Published: October 9, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Energy Industries | Environmental Compliance | IT Infrastructure | IT Systems | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper examines the management issues of Big 4 NSM mega-suites and discusses how a 21st century NSM solution can make your Operations team more productive.
Posted: September 23, 2008 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  IT Asset Management | IT Systems | Network Architectures | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Operational Support Systems

WHITE PAPER - With service-oriented architecture (SOA), once-siloed business functions, IT processes and data are exposed as services that can be reused--across departments, lines of business (LOBs) and even entire organizations.
Posted: August 20, 2008 | Published: August 20, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Life-Cycle Management Software | Business Process Management | Change Management | Collaboration | IT Systems | Portfolio Management (IT Management) | SOA | SOA Governance | Testing

PODCAST - This podcast looks closely at a unique data recovery solution for IBM AIX Environments called EchoStream for AIX.
Posted: May 9, 2008 | Premiered: May 9, 2008


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery | IT Managers | IT Systems | ITIL | Replication

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains how data center efficiency can be measured, evaluated, and modeled, including a comparison of the benefits of periodic assessment vs. continuous monitoring.
Posted: February 4, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Benchmarks | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Electricity | Equipment Maintenance Management Software | IT Asset Management | IT Consulting Services | IT Systems | Power Supplies

JOURNAL ARTICLE - How an island-based hotelier caught up with the industry, drove out cost and continues to expand globally with IT.
Posted: September 5, 2007 | Published: September 1, 2007


Topics:  CIOs | IT Infrastructure | IT Spending | IT Systems | Lodging Industry

JOURNAL ARTICLE - "Organization" is a great word. On the one hand, it stands for the practice of being organized -- that is, having processes by which you get things done and places to put the things you create.
Posted: April 3, 2007 | Published: April 1, 2007


Topics:  IT Management | IT Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - A housekeeping services provider called MasterCorp morphs into an information technology company with a homegrown workforce management application.
Posted: December 6, 2006 | Published: December 1, 2006


Topics:  IT Systems | Lodging Industry | Travel Industry

JOURNAL ARTICLE - The gym called 24 Hour Fitness Lakeshore Towers in Irvine, Calif., looks more like a resort than the dank, dark facilities of yesteryear.
Posted: December 6, 2006 | Published: December 1, 2006


Topics:  Churn | Customer Interaction Services | Customer Loyalty | IT Spending | IT Systems | Sports Industry

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Vancouver International Airport Authority fires up technology and transforms itself from a sluggish government-run airport to an international hub.
Posted: November 13, 2006 | Published: November 1, 2006


Topics:  Airline Industry | Customer Self-Service | IT Infrastructure | IT Systems | Kiosks