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IT Optimization as a Source of Sustainable Competitive Advantage sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the costs of IT asset proliferation and the advantages of the IBM view of IT optimization as a strategic, ongoing process. Posted: 14 May 2008 \| Published: 01 Oct 2007 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Development \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| Business Strategy \| Competition \| IT Infrastructure

Building a Robust Business Case for High Quality Master Data sponsored by Melissa WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the key elements for building a proper, quantified business case. It presents the measures that are favored by corporate finance departments, and helps develop a strong business case for data quality and MDM projects. A number of real-life examples with quantifiable benefits are also included. Posted: 19 Apr 2010 \| Published: 01 Feb 2010 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Development \| Business Environment \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Data Quality \| ERP \| IT Spending \| Master Data Management \| ROI \| SOA

The Need for Profitability and Cost Management sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment. Posted: 14 Sep 2009 \| Published: 01 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Business Development \| Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| IT Auditing \| IT Best Practices \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| Oracle (Product) \| ROI

BPM and SOA: Better Together sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: SOA standards, such as Web Services, make information resources and task automation applications available yet loosely integrated for process designers to use and reuse at will. Thus processes modeled with BPM tools can be rapidly implemented in production via SOA infrastructure. Posted: 05 Oct 2009 \| Published: 05 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Application Integration \| Business Development \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| Business Process Management \| SOA

Customer Stories: Plenty of Fish sponsored by Cogeco PEER 1 WHITE PAPER: The site has continued growing astronomically ever since and is now the No. 1 free online dating site in the world, averaging 8 million unique visitors per month. Posted: 10 Jan 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 TOPICS: Business Development \| Customer Service \| Data Centers \| Search Engine Optimization

Simplifying the Management of Tier 1 ERP Systems for Mid-Sized Companies sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss the impact of Tier 1 systems on IT departments in terms of ongoing maintenance, demonstrating that Tier 1 systems make many IT tasks easier, ranging from new-report generation to user training to upgrade management. Posted: 04 May 2009 \| Published: 04 May 2009 TOPICS: Business Development \| Business Intelligence \| CEOs \| CFOs \| CIOs \| Enterprise \| Enterprise Architectures \| Enterprise Content Management \| ERP \| Training

Define your cloud business model sponsored by Channel Transformation Alliance WHITE PAPER: This guide offers valuable tips and recommendations for those interested in adopting and defining a successful new cloud business model. Posted: 28 Dec 2011 \| Published: 28 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Architectures \| Business Consulting Services \| Business Development \| Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Models \| Business Process Modeling \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management

Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart but Timely sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper gives you an overview of how Ovum has helped penetrate the upper-midmarket. Even when the slowing growth of the market hasn't. Posted: 24 Sep 2009 \| Published: 01 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Business Activity Monitoring \| Business Development \| Business Environment \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Enterprise Architectures \| Enterprise Systems \| Global Economy \| Oracle (Product)

Better Decision Making Through Faster Analytics sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper describes performance gains achieved by upgrading to the latest version of SAS v9.2 on Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) platform. SAS Forecast Server workload is utilized. Paper also describes usage of Intel compiler and Intel software tools. Posted: 08 Sep 2009 \| Published: 01 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Business Development \| Business Intelligence \| Energy Efficiency \| Server Accelerators \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| TCO

Migrating SQL 2000 to SQL 2008- a Dell Deployment Guide sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This Deployment Guide reviews the approach that Dell and Principled Technologies recommend for a tested and validated migration of SQL Server 2000 databases to SQL Server 2008 on the Dell PowerEdge R900 server and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. Posted: 27 Apr 2009 \| Published: 27 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Business Development \| Business Intelligence \| Database Administration \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Management