January 2007 - (Free Research) Enterprises that employ advanced sourcing strategies are positively impacting product development cycles and building stronger supplier relationships by making better, more informed decisions. Get the details in the results of this Aberdeen Group survey.
May 2007 - (Free Research) Read this CFO Research study to understand how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.
January 2006 - (Free Research) This paper details how professional services firms can grow and thrive in a difficult market by enhancing project visibility, maximizing resource utilization, improving operational efficiency, and successfully acquiring more customers.
September 2008 - (Free Research) The importance of achieving service excellence is growing. Products are increasingly becoming commodities, and CEOs are recognizing that first-rate service is crucial to enhancing customer satisfaction. This paper explores the crucial links between customer service and customer satisfaction.
April 2009 - (Free Research) It sounds simple, but just try to figure out who accessed your confidential data yesterday. IT management standards insist on it, compliance standards require it, but can you deliver?
September 2006 - (Free Research) This white paper explores how to troubleshoot common application errors, including crashes and functionality failures, for greater application performance and an optimized end-user experience.
November 2008 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn how the Network Integrator is responsible for managing subprojects within the context of multivendor agreements with the appropriate third parties and service providers.
October 2008 - (Free Research) As businesses have instituted internal, industry, and government mandated regulatory compliance, the need for audit data to prove conformity has also become a necessity. Read this white paper to learn how configuration audit and control provides a single, independent source for enforcing and reporting on a change policy across an organization.
May 2008 - (Free Research) This paper is based on the results of an SAP Enterprise Services Community program project, in which a number of leading network and test solution vendors and SAP teamed up to build a production-like enterprise SOA-based application landscape.
January 2007 - (Free Research) A misunderstanding of the problem within your network can lead to unneeded and costly IT investments, not to mention downtime, data loss, and resource waste. This paper examines five common WAN misperceptions and how to better address them.
January 2006 - (Free Research) From desktop vulnerabilities to the impact open proxies, JavaScript, universal access to HTTP and the adoption of embedded HTML in email, this white paper presents the top ten scenarios hackers use the web to attack your infrastructure.
May 2009 - (Free Research) Vendor market share positions shuffled once again in 1Q09: With Cisco down 30%, Riverbed down 10%, and Blue Coat holding steady, Blue Coat is back on top with 30% revenue market share. This market has essentially become a 3-horse race, with the top 3 vendors capturing roughly 3/4 of the overall market.
May 2009 - (Free Research) To eliminate the gray area of what your employees should and should not trust, know your web defense. This short paper provides a Top 10 list of risks that your employees may assume they can trust but your web defense should not.
June 2008 - (Free Research) Too often, data governance teams rely on existing measurements as the metrics used to populate a data quality scorecard. But without a defined understanding of the relationship between specific measurement scores and the business's success criteria..
June 2008 - (Free Research) Read this whitepaper to learn more about data governance, and when it is appropriate to measure data efforts with ROI or other metrics. Learn about an ROI calculator of data governance and how to test assumptions about data.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This paper discusses how implementing a DQ SLA via formalized processes can transform data quality management from a constant "fire-fighting" mode to a more consistent, proactive approach.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This paper focuses on what is master data, why it is needed, how to get started in managing it, and methodologies for implementing master data management.
August 2008 - (Free Research) More and more organizations are looking to SOA as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate, hard to change, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems.
September 2008 - (Free Research) Read this white paper and learn how to make compliance work for your organization, rather than the other way around - with Oracle solutions for midsize organizations.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Hear this Podcast to discover how you can rapidly synchronize your sales and customer service data with a variety of on-premise and on-demand systems.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Desktop and server virtualization are not the same. This podcast, featuring virtual desktop experts, Brian Madden and Zeus Kerravala, explains how some methods and tools that work for servers disrupt desktops. Discover how to plan a successful virtual desktop project by addressing customization needs of users and meet your organization's goals.
August 2009 - (Free Research) Desktop and server virtualization are not the same. This podcast, featuring virtual desktop experts, Brian Madden and Zeus Kerravala, explains how some methods and tools that work for servers disrupt desktops. Discover how to plan a successful virtual desktop project by addressing customization needs of users and meet your organization's goals.
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