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WHITE PAPER - This paper explains how SOA can deliver enormous business benefits, flexibility and agility and also explains SOA as a catalyst for IT transformation.
Posted: August 1, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Customer Satisfaction | Data Management | Security | SOA | SOA Governance

WHITE PAPER - Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes.
Posted: August 1, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | IT Best Practices | Project Management | Project Management Software | Project Portfolio Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - Effective and efficient IT operations are the "table stakes" for IT-business groups' relationships -- they're taken for granted by user groups but are glaring when absent.
Posted: July 2, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2006


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Change Management | CRM | IT Service Management

WHITE PAPER - Explore the benefits of ITIL and IT service management (ITSM) and how ITSM will give IT administrators the tools they need to get a handle on the costs, the value and increase the efficiencies of their operations.
Posted: June 4, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Change Management | Configuration Management | Inventory Management | IT Service Management | ITIL | Security Management

WHITE PAPER - Whether implementing new technologies, upgrading existing infrastructures or evaluating current needs, the use of consultants for a Technology Assessment offers an objective evaluation of what your business needs to effectively execute your strategy.
Posted: June 3, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Data Management | Network Infrastructure | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - A key challenge for those starting a CMDB project is how to define and document detailed requirements that are both appropriate and achievable. This white paper provides expert tips and a template for crafting detailed CMDB project requirements.
Posted: May 19, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Service Management | CIOs | CMDB | Configuration Management | Decision Support Systems | Enterprise Systems | IT Service Management | IT Services | Project Management | Risk Management | System Implementation

WHITE PAPER - Managing IT by service and not technology is the message of ITIL v3, but, most IT professionals really struggle with defining IT services. In this white paper, explore five steps to defining IT services.
Posted: May 19, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Business Service Management | CMDB | Configuration Management | CRM | Enterprise Systems | ERP | IT Service Management | Service Level Management

WHITE PAPER - ITIL Service Delivery provides the processes for identifying, planning and provisioning IT services, while Service Support addresses the day-to-day support and maintenance of these services.
Posted: April 21, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Portfolio Management | Applications Management Services | Business IT Alignment | Capacity Management | CMDB | Financial Management | IT Service Management | ITIL | Quality of Service | SLA

WHITE PAPER - Take a look at how organizations are taking strides to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities - in short, to close the gap between strategy and execution.
Posted: March 24, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | IT Best Practices | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - This report is fourth in a series of quarterly surveys to TechTarget's IT Research Panel. Respondents' preferences for media consumption and technology marketing solutions are compared to initial benchmarks and trends established in our pre...
Posted: March 6, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Blogs | Business IT Alignment | Information Technology Professionals | IT Spending | Market Trends | Newsletters | Podcasts | Search Engines | Surveys | Vendor Selection | Webcasts | White Papers | Wikis

WHITE PAPER - Green sustainability is becoming a highly visible part of the corporate strategy. Read this paper to learn how your organization can generate significant cost savings by integrating a green project into an overall change management initiative.
Posted: February 21, 2008 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Change Management | Corporate Governance | Environmental Compliance | IT Spending | Server Virtualization | Telecommuting | Training | Training Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the importance of business and IT objectives for an enterprise architecture initiative. Discover the benefits of enterprise architecture and explore a step-by-step guide for implementing this infrastructure.
Posted: February 19, 2008 | Published: July 16, 2007


Topics:  Business Architectures | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Business Process Automation Software | Business Process Management | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | IT Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - ITIL is the only comprehensive, non-proprietary framework available for the planning, provisioning and support of IT services.
Posted: February 13, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2007


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Change Management | CMDB | Configuration Management | Configuration Management Database | Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Service Management | ITIL | Load Balancing | Network Infrastructure | Productivity

WHITE PAPER - The ability to measure the results of a process and identify weak points is a measure of success with IT. Learn how to recognize and track problems appearing in production to their real root cause so that real process improvement can take place.
Posted: December 6, 2007 | Published: April 2, 2007


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management Software | CMDB | Data Center Management | IT Service Management | ITIL | Network Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper highlights a set of guidelines for implementing a Smart SOA approach. Smart SOA benefits both business and IT by extending the business value of deployment to achieve the desired level of agility and IT alignment within an organization.
Posted: November 27, 2007 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Models | Business Process Management | Change Management | Metadata | Model Driven Architecture | ROI | SOA