June 2009 - (Free Research) This directory is designed to be a valuable resource for those getting started with research or evaluating optimized data warehouses. Inside, you’ll find basic information about vendors and the platforms they sell.
September 2008 - (Free Research) Outsourcing is the quest to offload either commodity or very specialized activities, so that staff can focus on work that truly adds value to the business.
October 2009 - (Free Research) The idea of using a managed security services provider (MSSP) to stretch your security dollar may sound appealing. MSSPs bring enterprise-class security into the midmarket price range. However, there are several important security issues to consider before diving in head first. Read this E-Guide to learn more about these security issues.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Microsoft® Online Services provide businesses with subscription-based Microsoft-hosted online services that offer access to rich communication, collaboration, and productivity applications from anywhere. Read this white paper to learn more.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Buying Infrastructure as a Service is a mouth-watering prospect for CIOs and IT
departments eager to drive down costs and speed up provisioning. But once IT is outsourced, keeping control of it is a major challenge.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Bill Martorelli, principal analyst for Forrester Research, discusses trends in the SAP managed hosting arena, myths about SAP managed hosting, and gives advice on creating RFPs and negotiating SLAs.
June 2009 - (Free Research) In order to better understand the opportunities, challenges, risks and rewards companies have seen from these types of agreements, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey in March 2008, sponsored by SAP, which asked 516 senior executives how their business relationships are evolving.
October 2009 - (Free Research) Black Duck provides a framework that not only allows your software development organization to benefit from open source but also allows other enterprise stakeholders—including legal, IT, security, export and purchasing personnel—to access timely and relevant information to effectively manage business risks.
August 2007 - (Free Research) This case study examines the benefits Catalina Marketing began reaping once they signed up for Microsoft Exchange Hosting Services.
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 2009 - (Free Research) This webcasts examines the trends, best practices, and competitive advantages of the customer-centric enterprise. Following the discussion with Martha Rogers, we find out how the Portland Trail Blazers have taken advantage of Microsoft Dynamics CRM to improve sales and grow their customer base.
January 2008 - (Free Research) The ability to operate effectively in business networks, be they coordinated or collaborative, is critical to sustaining competitive advantage in a commoditizing global economy. By focusing on their unique core capabilities, business network participants spend less on duplication and more on innovation, resulting in higher degrees of..
December 2008 - (Free Research) This whitepaper will discuss these managed service trends and challenges, and will identify the steps to success to meet customers. Escalating application and security requirements.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Outsourcing an application means your organization relinquishes some control. In this article Heather Clancy will offer seven questions that you should resolve with your provider before investing in SaaS.
October 2009 - (Free Research) This webcast explores the business benefits of migrating from expensive, proprietary server architectures to cost-effective, industry-standard architectures. Gain insight into how this transition can enable your organization to increase reliability, availability and serviceability.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Paralleling the explosion in materiel sourcing over the past decade, corporate supply chains have grown strikingly more complex because of a greater amount of outsourcing, increased globalization and a more complex regulatory environment.
September 2009 - (Free Research) In this webcast, we show you how the productivity of your sales, customer service, and marketing teams can be dramatically increased by taking advantage of the enhancements in the newly released Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.
January 2009 - (Free Research) This paper explains how assessment, alignment, achievability, accessibility, agility and accountability, the six key concepts of value-driven product management, can be applied to create a repeatable process for developing successful products.
October 2009 - (Free Research) Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) is one of the top U.S. refining companies. Read this case study to learn how Valero worked with Micro Focus to reduce risk and costs while increasing competitive advantage in the complex delivery of energy services at both the retail and wholesale level.
October 2009 - (Free Research) For manufacturers today, achieving strategic goals requires not only intimately understanding technology and markets but also overcoming higher hurdles that have been exacerbated by trends toward globalization and outsourcing. Read on to learn more about how your company can achieve product and service leadership.
October 2009 - (Free Research) Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP and Novell to assess the financial merits of moving from a legacy Sun Solaris and SPARC environment to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on HP ProLiant DL 785 G6 x86 Servers versus upgrading to SUN Solaris 10 running on Sun SPARC T5440. Read this paper for the results.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Mobile network operators are not exploiting the full value of their most valuable asset—their subscriber information. While mobile network operators may be sitting on a gold mine of subscriber data, they do not have the tools they need to exploit it. This paper explains the avenues available to take advantage of their subscriber information.
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