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.
November 2009 - (Free Research) This paper examines performance metrics and focuses on the nature, identification and use of Key Performance Drivers to enhance business success. It illustrates how these KPD metrics can be visualized and logically related to the Key Performance Indicators that measure those outcomes.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Only when data is trusted can it be used in confidence in all insurance operational and analytical process activities. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on insurance companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in insurance and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.
August 2007 - (Free Research) This case study examines the benefits Catalina Marketing began reaping once they signed up for Microsoft Exchange Hosting Services.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Communications service providers are increasingly looking at vendors as partners to help them provide a new generation of managed services. This new trend has advantages for customers, service providers, and vendors that have the expertise on staff to handle increasingly complex network services. Read this eGuide to learn more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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) 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.
January 2006 - (Free Research) This paper explains business strategies, trends, and issues related to enterprise resource planning, financial management, operations management, and human capital management that drive the consideration of ESA.
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.
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.
March 2009 - (Free Research) This whitepaper will provide insight into: a- the communications requirements of three specific industry segments (transportation, energy and the public sector), b- best practices to deliver the services and manage the projects efficiently, and c- innovative solutions and strategies deployed by these industry segments.
September 2007 - (Free Research) Enterprise users and their data have never been further apart. Business pressures that keep employees out of headquarters and close to customers and partners have met head-on with other drivers that are bringing far flung servers back to the datacenter.
July 2009 - (Free Research) Currently over 600 Orange Business Services customers use their VPNs to transport voice and data. Some use a do-it-yourself model; others use a fully managed model. If you're looking for value, the fully managed approach is the less costly and higher quality alternative. Read this paper to find more details about pros and cons of each choice.
January 2009 - (Free Research) In this report, Gartner examines why PC and notebook backup services are making a comeback and compares offerings from four service providers targeting midsize and enterprise customers.
October 2008 - (Free Research) Virtualization is one of the hottest technologies in IT infrastructure today. Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization usage efficiently. Virtualization 2.0 focuses on increasing service efficiency through flexible resource management. In the near future, this usage model will become absolutely critical to data centers.
January 2009 - (Free Research) Compiled by SearchManufacturingERP.com editors, this directory includes ERP software products for process and discrete manufacturers of all sizes, as well as all verticals. It includes software that is meant to be deployed on-premise as well as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-demand software.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Read this E-Guide and explore how certifications can help SAP gauge market levels of training and experience to deliver a better and faster ROI. Discover how the Business Process Expert certification can enhance the skills needed to create and compose business processes as well as bridge the gap between IT and business.
September 2008 - (Free Research) Organizations are facing growing business challenges as a result of intensifying market trends. In response, THINKstrategies is finding a growing number of organizations of all sizes are investigating and adopting on-demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alternatives to traditional, on-premise systems to meet their changing business needs.
TechTarget provides enterprise IT professionals with the information they need to perform their jobs - from developing strategy, to making cost-effective IT purchase decisions and managing their organizations' IT projects - with its network of technology-specific Web sites, events and magazines.
