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Five Mobile Application Challenges for IT
Without best practices to address the unique challenges they bring to IT teams, mobile apps can do more harm than good for today's enterprises. Read this white paper to learn how to approach development testing, systems performance, application and data security, and the end-user experience when introducing mobile apps into your IT architecture. Published by: Hewlett-Packard Company
It's Time for WAN Optimization to Evolve to Meet the Needs of File Collaboration
Discover why WAN optimization isn't the fix for network woes - at least, until it's modernized. Published by: Peer Software
DC Water Keeps Data Flowing Efficiently With HP VirtualSystem
This white paper discusses how one organization leveraged an advanced virtual solution to build a private cloud so that they could rapidly access data in a cost-effective manner. Learn how this platform helped them to meet the needs of their business and review the significant benefits they are now enjoying. Published by: HP & Intel
7 Expert Tips on Vmware Backup
Get 7 tips for maintaining a bulletproof VMware backup infrastructure from David Davis, VMware vExpert. Published by: Dell AppAssure
Enterprise Content Management Meets Enterprise Business Processes: SAP Extended ECM by Open Text
This paper discusses the relationship between enterprise content management and business processes and provides an overview of SAP's Extended ECM platform. Published by: SAP America, Inc.
Maximize Your Investment in Citrix XenDesktop With Sanbolic Melio
Discover how your organization can overcome many VDI storage-related challenges and maximize the return on your desktop virtualization project by leveraging shared storage. Explore the advantages this storage approach offers virtualized environments, and learn how you can easily enable shared storage. Published by: Sanbolic Inc.
Netherlands Railways uses optimization to grow ridership with minimum congestion and maximum efficiency
Access this exclusive case study to gain insight on how Netherlands Railways, the nation's largest and Europe's busiest, was able to save € 20 million annually by crafting an optimized operating plan that improves service quality, reduces costs, and provides guidance for future infrastructure investments. Published by: IBM
Sprint Complete Collaboration: Hosted, Fully Managed UC Solution
This video describes how to deliver unified communications (UC) quickly, easily, and to virtually any users in any location with a comprehensive, hosted, fully managed UC solution. Published by: Sprint
Sell. Smarter. Redefining commerce in the age of the customer
Discover innovative commerce technologies designed to enable businesses to sell smarter and transform buyers into loyal, returning customers. Uncover the 6 key selling areas these strategies target, including cross-channel selling, payments and settlements, store solutions, distributed order management, and more. Published by: IBM
Accelerate your move to the cloud
When migrating to a cloud environment, you must carefully plan your strategy to ensure you get the most from your investment. This video introduces new platforms and trusted services that can accelerate and streamline your cloud transition. In addition, discover the benefits of leveraging a converged infrastructure approach. Published by: HP & Intel
Improving Business by Improving Fax
Since faxing is at the core of most businesses, you need to ensure yours can rely on it at all times. Delayed or lost transmissions can send ripples through the supply chain. This paper will help you answer the pressing questions involved in evaluating your faxing system. Learn the impact it has on business processes, product selection and more. Published by: Esker Inc.
Automating Sales Order Management with SaaS
Automated order management software can be expensive and complex to implement. Read this white paper to learn how leveraging SaaS for order processing automation can save you time and money. Published by: Esker Inc.
See Everything with HP Enterprise Security
To protect against the thousands of new threats that emerge every day, organizations need to have a complete visibility into the activity across their IT infrastructure. Tune in to this short video to learn how HP ArcSight Security Intelligence platform can help you gain better visibility and enable you to rapidly identify, prioritize and respond. Published by: Hewlett-Packard Limited
Automating Fax and Email Orders into ERP
This white paper offers an overview of key considerations for implementing a strategy to automate fax and email orders (plus EDI, web and other order sources) into your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Published by: Esker Inc.
Finding the Cure for Order Processing Pain in the Life Sciences Industry
This white paper takes an exclusive look at how pharmaceutical and medical device companies are overcoming their order processes challenges by making smart use of their technology, understanding the true cost of manual transactions, and automating their processes. Published by: Esker Inc.
Fax Automation As a Cloud Service Integrated with ERP Solutions
Faxes are moving to the cloud. No longer do you need to worry about the cumbersome manual processes of printing, managing paper, maintaining equipment and more. This paper offers an overview of a specific solution that delivers faxing as a fully integrated, on-demand service within your ERP environment. Read this to discover its many benefits. Published by: Esker Inc.
Achieve environment optimization and higher density and solve onboarding challenges with AppSense Management Suite in conjunction with XenDesktop 5.6
6/6/2012 external link
In this session, Michael Kleef will talk about how you can increase user satisfaction and reduce costs with AppSense Management Suite for XenDesktop 5.6. Additionally he will talk about how you can further leverage your investments with System Center to reduce support costs and simplify your environment. Published by: Citrix and AppSense
Happiest Minds: Ensure Visibility and Simplicity with Identity Assure Live Webinar
24/5/2012 external link
Overwhelmed with increasing requests for access to cloud-based applications? Is user provisioning eating up your resources? Struggling with the complexity of IT governance? Join this webinar to learn how to overcome these issues and gain better visibility and operational simplicity, as well as increase the effectiveness of access governance. Published by: NetIQ
Inventory Optimization for the Consumer Products Industry
Access this resource to discover an inventory optimization strategy that improves service levels and reduces working capital costs through improved inventory planning, adjusts inventory levels through tested planning methods, and facilitates coordinated inventory planning for the entire consumer products supply chain. Published by: IBM
SEEBURGER Supply Chain Management (SCM) Monitor for SAP Achieving Real-Time Supply Chain Visibility with New SAP Best Practices
Read this white paper to learn how, centralizing and intelligently automating supply chain monitoring within SAP, you can extend real-time B2B supply chain insight and problem-solving beyond the IT department to your business departments. Published by: SEEBURGER
Unlock the Full Value of Your Workforce with the Oracle Optimized Solution for PeopleSoft Human Capital Management
Read this white paper to learn how  the Oracle Optimized Solution for PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, mitigates the risk of deploying HCM solutions while delivering lower total cost of ownership (TCO), increased return on investment (ROI), and improved workforce productivity and performance. Published by: Oracle Corporation
Five steps for increasing availability and reducing energy consumption and costs across cloud and virtual platforms
Discover the energy and environmental benefits of cloud computing, including 3 factors that help ensure an eco-friendly cloud environment, and 5 simple steps that lead to an improved and automated energy management strategy. In addition, read 3 case studies and discover the benefits your peers are witnessing with green cloud computing. Published by: CA Technologies.
Accelerate your cloud journey
14/5/2012 external link
View this timely resource to learn how a converged cloud infrastructure can help you maintain the flexibility and portability needed for the future of enterprise IT. Published by: HP & Intel
Connectria's IBM AIX Cloud Hosting
Learn how your organization can take full advantage of all the benefits of cloud computing. Inside, discover a cloud hosting solution that provides speed and agility to your business while allowing you to add workloads as it expands. Published by: Connectria Hosting
The Cost of Retaining Aging IT Infrastructure
14/5/2012 external link
This resource demonstrates how a buy-and-hold strategy can add data center costs that many of today’s enterprises simply can’t afford. Read on to learn more about server replacement cycles and the ongoing operational costs of holding on to legacy hardware platforms long past their recommended life-cycle. Published by: HP & Intel
PULSE® cuts average transaction process ing time by 75%
Access this case study to discover how the use of blade servers and converged infrastructure helped one organization expand their business. Discover how your company can achieve valuable benefits like reduced TCO, improved transaction time and more. Published by: HP & Intel
EMA- Making Your Investment in an Executive Dashboard Count: What to Look For and Why
The right Executive Dashboard can be one of the most catalytic investments an enterprise makes, if you chose the right one. Access this informative white paper to discover who is using Executive Dashboard and why, what design points every CIO should consider, the financial benefits those using Executive Dashboard are witnessing, and more. Published by: CA Technologies.
Global Brand Management: Why Managing Your Brand is More Important than Ever (by OpenText)
This white paper discusses the importance of brand management and provides tips for improving your branding strategy. Published by: OpenText
Fluid Routing Solutions Trims IT Costs 30 Percent,Improves Quality and Supply Chain Management
Read this case study to learn how automotive and industrial manufacturer Fluid Routing Systems was able to reduce its enterprise resource planning (ERP)-related operating costs by 30 percent while improving quality and supply chain management. Published by: Plex Systems
Customers speak about the value of HP Converged Infrastructure.
Access this video to discover how your organization can benefit from converged infrastructure. Discover strategies to reduce operational costs, deploy servers more quickly and provide more efficient services. Published by: HP & Intel
Risk Management: Safeguarding Against a World of Threats
Access this expert e-book to discover all the different components that make up a comprehensive risk management policy. Uncover the importance of accurate risk management metrics, why governance, risk, and compliance are a unified framework, 4 components your risk management strategy may be missing, and more. Published by: HP Enterprise Security
Cedar Fair Keeps Thrills Coming with HP Converged Infrastructure
Access this case study to learn how one organization implemented converged infrastructure and achieved benefits like increased uptime, reduction of administrative costs, scalability and much more. Published by: HP & Intel
BTS Consultant Thought Leadership Paper: Business Case for Value Realization Business Case for Value Realization During Implementation
Find out more about value management and building value realization practices into every IT project. Discover how using value realization best practices during the lifecycle of your implementation can help you achieve greater value from your IT investments. Learn about the value of ASAP methodology and SAP offerings. Published by: SAP America, Inc.
Real World Business Results: Oracle Corporation’s Mission Critical Systems Update
Oracle Corporation streamlines several business critical applications and enhances mission critical global single instance (GSI) database and enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment while lowering TCO and increasing performance. Published by: Oracle Corporation
NEWELL RUBBERMAID: SAP® Consulting Improves Inventory Allocation for Consumer Products Giant
Read this white paper to learn how Newell Rubbermaid Inc. improved its use of the available-to-promise (ATP) functionality of the SAP enterprise resource planning (ER) application to better allocate inventory and determine what goods were available to customers, and create even greater supply chain efficiencies. Published by: SAP America, Inc.
Expert tips to avoid high virtual desktop storage costs
This e-guide explores the hidden costs of VDI storage and provides tips for how you can leverage storage technologies to reduce costs, while also resolving oppressive bottlenecks. Find out how you can support VDI workloads without breaking the bank. Published by: Nexenta
Vodafone anticipates and remediates IT issues faster with HP Business Service Management
Get the power to anticipate IT issues - through proactive business insights that practically prevent issues, so that your organization can always perform better. During this video discussion, you'll hear the latest HP Business Service Management (BSM9.1) and how Vodafone realized 300% ROI within the first twelve months. Published by: Hewlett-Packard Limited
Micro Focus Helps iPass Achieve High Quality Standards to Thrive in a Complex Market
Read this case study to learn how iPass, a mobile application developer, implemented automated testing in their real and live network mobility scenarios and the benefits they achieved. Published by: Micro Focus
BTS Consultant White Paper: Managing the Total Cost of Ownership of Business
Take a close look at the factors that drive total cost of ownership (TCO) for business intelligence. Learn how your organization can position itself to deliver a cost-effective business intelligence solution that meets your user community’s thirst for information, addresses new data sources, and offers the lowest TCO. Published by: SAP America, Inc.
Continuous Quality Assurance
Read this white paper to learn how a continuous quality assurance provides organizations with a comprehensive  approach to delivering technical and business quality. Published by: Micro Focus
4 Keys to Aligning Your Business and IT Efforts
When embarking on any business effort — an IT project, for example — strategy and planning should go hand in hand. A comprehensive project plan lacks value unless you align it with a solid strategy. Published by: SAP America, Inc.
Hosted UC&C: A Powerful Tool for Enterprise Success
Hosted unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) helps organizations deploy collaboration tools to their workers more quickly and efficiently than premise-based solutions. This whitepaper explores the benefits of hosted UC&C, how to get started, what to look for in a solutions provider, and more. Published by: Sprint
Optimization applications in finance, securities, banking and insurance
Discover optimization technologies that assist companies in the financial industry in making better business decisions faster. Gain insight into one strategy that enables rapid development and deployment of applications that address the financial sectors’ crucial competitive differentiators, and the 3 common challenges it resolves. Published by: IBM
Securing the Cloud with Intel Trusted Execution Technology Usage Models
While the cloud introduces many opportunities, managing security in this dynamic environment can be a challenge. Watch this brief video to learn about new cloud-based technologies that can minimize risks and ensure your infrastructure and sensitive data remains protected. Published by: Intel
Gartner Magic Quadrant: Selecting a vendor
The demand for greater ecommerce capabilities is growing leading CIOs and IT professionals concerned with choosing the perfect vendor. Through this in-depth vendor analysis by Gartner, uncover the top 6 questions you should ask and the strengths and weaknesses of the top 20 e-commerce vendors. Published by: IBM
Harvey Nash CIO Survey 2012
CIOs are more confident of securing technology budget increases than at any time in the last five years, according to the CIO Technology Survey 2012. Published by: ComputerWeekly.com
Optimize Your IT Systems with Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite
With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle now provides Oracle Optimized Solutions: a complete applications to disk solution engineered, tested, and certified to work together as a single system. Read this white paper to learn more about Oracle Optimized Solutions and how they can be used to improve Oracle E-Business Suite operations. Published by: Oracle Corporation
The Global State of the PMO 2012
This 2012 benchmarking survey from ESI assesses the role of the Project/Programme Management Office (PMO), its development to full-blown maturity and value to the business.   Published by: ComputerWeekly.com
How Can Content-Aware Identity and Access Management Give Me the Control I Need to Confidently Move My Business forward?
Organization's today have their hands full trying to adhere to regulatory requirements and reduce IT risks, all while looking for innovative ways to grow their business. This paper uncovers how to gain continuous and sustainable control and compliance though IAM, while strengthening the trust and satisfaction of your customers and partners. Published by: CA Technologies.
Governance EIM Cost Calculator
Access this resource to calculate how much insufficient data governance could be costing your business. Published by: SAP America, Inc.