ANALYST REPORT - Infosys' Enterprise Architecture (EA) Survey 2008-09 reveals that EA enables business transformation, its practices continue to mature, and increased outsourcing of EA functions is a strong future possibility.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | CIOs | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | IT Asset Management | IT Departments | IT Industry | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Spending | Strategic Planning | Surveys

WHITE PAPER - Enterprises that embrace SAP NetWeaver early will gain a tremendous competitive advantage. And by using the proven experience of Atos Origin, nothing is left to chance. Atos Origin will provide transparency regarding the costs and benefits and help turn your vision into results using our proven global SAP expertise and integration experience.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | ERP | J2EE | NetWeaver | SAP (Product) | TCO

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD - Try IBM® Rational® System Architect® V11.3, which enables business managers and IT professionals to plan, model, and execute changes to improve their business strategy and process as well as the IT systems and infrastructure that support them, enabling successful enterprise planning and transformation.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Processes | Enterprise Asset Management Software | Enterprise Resource Management | Enterprise Systems | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Spending | IT Systems

WHITE PAPER - This is a follow up to "Desperate Times Call for Strategic Measures" which argued that now is the time to consider an IT transformation project. This article will explore the viability and benefits of upgrading to SAP 6.0.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Process Modeling | Business Processes | ERP | SAP (Product)

WEBCAST - Learn how the new IBM Performance management and measurement solution automatically provides real-time information from across the entire development lifecycle for complete visibility into progress.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Premiered: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Performance Management | Business Processes | Performance Testing | Real-time Analytics

WEBCAST - High-performing organizations take a more practice-based and practical, approach to measuring, managing and enhancing IT performance. Adopt new, flexible solutions to support the way that your organization uses IT to drive operational excellence.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Premiered: July 22, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | IT Management | IT Systems | Operational Support Systems

WEBCAST - Join this webcast to learn how organizations can leverage process and technology analysis and planning; then design, execute and govern effectively and efficiently.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Premiered: November 5, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Business Systems | Enterprise Resource Management | Enterprise Systems

WEBCAST - Join this webcast to learn how Enterprise Architecture integrated with Portfolio Management is empowered to integrate your strategic goals into your organization's capital planning, business planning and technology architecture activities. In this way, your strategic planning outputs become actionable.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Premiered: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Systems | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Resource Management | IT Management | Portfolio Management (Finance) | Portfolio Management (IT Management)

WHITE PAPER - Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organization, enabling management by facts.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Metrics | Business Process Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Financial Reporting | Financial Systems | Financing | Marketing | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Sales Information Systems

WHITE PAPER - IBM has created a pair of complementary views to bridge the communication gap between the business and the technical perspectives of security to enable convergence in thought and process. The IBM Security Framework addresses the business view, and the IBM Security Blueprint addresses the technical view.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: July 22, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Processes | Business Systems | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Payment Card Industry | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance | Security Management | Security Policies

EBOOK - Many IT professionals are looking to IT Service Management (ITSM) to deliver quality IT services that meet the needs of the business under these tough conditions. Regardless of the size of your business, you can deliver superior service quality to your business with the HP approach to ITSM and the HP software and services that support it.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Asset Management (Finance) | Business IT Alignment | CFOs | Change Management | IT Service Management | IT Spending | ITIL | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - This paper introduces actions that organizations can take to drive security efforts from a business and operational perspective and discusses how security leadership from IBM can help enable their success.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: March 6, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Processes | CRM | Risk Management | Security Management | Security Threats | SOA | Vulnerability Management

WHITE PAPER - Organizations are being forced to move towards identity-based access lifecycle management tools in order to support IT agility and flexibility, safely empower staff, meet compliance requirements, and cope with the rapid evolution of data centers and core systems.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: December 15, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Data Governance | HIPAA Compliance | Identity Management | Security Management | Security Policies | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes how security that is built into a dynamic infrastructure can mitigate risks, enabling agility, secure collaboration, and business transformation. The IBM Security Framework and lifecycle approach can help address changing business requirements.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: June 12, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Processes | Business Systems | Collaboration | IT Infrastructure | Risk Management | Security Infrastructure | Security Management

EBOOK - A combination of technologies and practices can serve to protect assets and maintain operational efficiencies. Read this chapter for an examination of asset protection with a look at basic requirements for protecting business operations.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: March 6, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Process Management | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Security | Infrastructure Management | Security Management | Security Spending