September 2008 - (Free Research) While there are many "how to" options to extending agile beyond a few teams, this white paper focuses on critical recommendations for organizations moving to full-scale agile development. Avoiding these pitfalls can mean the difference between...
August 2008 - (Free Research) The benefits of Agile methods are becoming more obvious and compelling. While the most popular practices were developed and proven in small team environments, the interest and need for using Agile in the enterprise is growing rapidly...
September 2009 - (Free Research) This interactive teleconference will answer your questions about combining social software (instant messaging, team wikis, blogs, and professional networks) with software delivery tools.
November 2009 - (Free Research) 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.
October 2009 - (Free Research) According to the 2009 COLLOQUY Loyalty Marketing Census, while the average household is enrolled in 14.1 loyalty programs, they're only active in 6.2 programs. In fact, poorly implemented loyalty strategies can actually diminish customer loyalty. So what do you do? Find out in this new complimentary white paper by Peppers & Rogers Group and Oracle.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper will expand on what Oracle defines as Complete CRM - how businesses can better engage customers and users, manage customer transactions, and analyze results to adapt and take advantage of changing business and economic circumstances to realize greater value from CRM.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn how investing in a new loyalty solution or improving your existing one will enable you to truly differentiate your business around the customer experience and drive lasting relationships.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Web 2.0. Collaborative computing. Social media. And now Social CRM. These terms are used interchangeably, and often, to describe the massive transformation taking place across organizations today. What strategies and tools do the newest CRM solutions provide to leverage this new reality? Read this white paper to learn more about Social CRM.
August 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses how Real Application Testing — with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 — allows businesses to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change.
February 2008 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn about the driving factors behind the increasing use of laptops in business activities, the data and information security issues associated with laptop systems, the overall benefits and challenges of encryption, the overall benefits of full disk encryption, and PGP Corporation's highly effective approach.
June 2009 - (Free Research) The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its
accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls
November 2008 - (Free Research) This Enterprise Management Associates white paper will describe how new technologies are being used by IT to develop new applications to give a new competitive edge to their enterprises; provide an overview of the new challenges involved; investigate solutions to overcome these challenges; and show how these solutions drive business value.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices.
August 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper will address data services implementation and the role of Oracle Data Service Integrator in that process. It will describe the technical benefits of a data services implementation within the context of initiatives to promote business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), portal projects, and BI.
April 2008 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn how adding Surgient VQMS to HP Quality Center
helps you centrally manage and allocate test lab resources from HP Quality Center across multiple and distributed teams according to business policies and quotas, and more.
June 2007 - (Free Research) This paper covers projects involving new construction or upgrades to the data center’s physical infrastructure - the power, cooling, and other physical systems that house and protect the data center’s IT equipment.
October 2008 - (Free Research) Requirements definition and management is an activity that has the potential to deliver a high, fast ROI. This white paper explains the characteristics of a good requirement and presents ten steps to better requirements management. Read on to learn how better requirements translate into easier, higher quality projects.
October 2009 - (Free Research) Download the Oracle CRM White Paper, "Winning in Today's Environment: Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer," to learn how you can deploy several best practices to achieve unparalleled sales success in your organization.
October 2008 - (Free Research) This IDC White Paper is based on research data collected at a dozen customer sites in the United States, Canada, and Europe, all with mixed server platforms, to find the technical and business outcomes from deploying cross-platform Linux solutions on IBM servers. This paper presents the key findings of a return on investment (ROI) analysis.
December 2006 - (Free Research) The objective of this paper is to present the buyside with a framework
in which to understand the changes in the U.S. trading market, to offer a vision for the trading platforms that will support this new world and to explain why the future belongs to independent broker-neutral systems supplied by software firms rather than sellside brokers.
November 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper documents the performance of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solutions deployed on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell PowerVault storage. Using the knowledge gained through joint development this white paper illustrates the cost-effective performance of Dell Solutions for SQL Server 2008.
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