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- Partners help minority-owned firms win government contracts
- Minority-owned MMC Group is successfully navigating the world of large government contracting. Find out how it hooked up with "big brother" firm Accenture and what advice has been gleaned for other small firms hoping to secure government contracts.When the Texas Workforce Commission TWC decided to revamp its Web applications to...
- Tags: Business structures, Government, Sales force management, Beth Blakely, MMC Group, historically underutilized business, Mitchell, minority, partnership, government contract, Accenture Ltd.
- Technical articles 2002-04-26
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- IT service management: is it now too important to leave to the IT department alone?
- Historically, IT departments and the business have operated as separate entities with a common goal. In an emerging second wave of service management, this white paper examines how and why the IT function needs to change its relationship with the business.
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Service Management, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Symantec and McAfee should stop crying about Vista
- alternativesI've never been a fan of McAfee and have historically always used Norton, in a business and collegiate setting. I currently use AVG by Grisoft for my personal pc's at home. Do you have any input specifically for Grisoft's Antivirus prote
- Tags: damon417@..., McAfee Inc., mcaffee alternatives, Microsoft Windows Vista, norton alternatives, security, software, Symantec Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-11
- Aligning IT Processes with Business Goals
- This white paper from Ptak, Noel and Associates evaluates products within BMC Software's CONTROL-M/Business Process Integration Suite. It describes how BMC's solutions can integrate real-time processes with batch processes from any platform into a unified, centrally managed business process, bridging the alignment gap that's historically existed between IT processes and...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Information Technology, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2005-10-01
- HP Integrity Essentials Global Workload Manager Overview
- Nowadays, most servers are highly underutilized. Traditional IT environments have typically been configured as silos in which resources are aligned around an application or business function. Such environments are characterized by silos of IT resources - each dedicated to a specific application. Virtualization is an approach to IT that pools...
- Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Information Technology, Silo, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Application Portfolio Management: Building Strategic Business Value
- Do more with less: IBM Application Portfolio Management Services. Most companies have amassed an impressive array of applications, new and legacy alike. In many cases, the necessary ROI is not realized from the application portfolio, which can be complex and expensive to support and maintain. As new...
- Tags: Portfolio Management, IBM Corp., Roi/Tco, Benefits, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources
- White papers 2003-07-01
- French Distributor Enhances Decision Making With Business Intelligence Tools
- Leading French retail distributor and business-to-business telecommunications solutions provider SFD historically used Business Objects software to report on business performance. While this technology effectively analysed commercial data, it could not integrate information from operational areas such as human resources, IT, and financial accounting. To solve the problem, the company decided...
- Tags: Distributor, Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Marketing
- Case studies
- Server Consolidation and Virtualization: Issues and Actions
- Many IT organizations today have an abundance of servers, most of which are underutilized. According to various industry estimates, servers typically operate at five to 20 percent of full processing capacity. Underutilization is a major contributor to high data center costs, which include money spent on power, cooling, floor space,...
- Tags: Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Underutilization, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-08-30
- Application Performance Testing in VMware Environments: Identify and Control Performance and Capacity Risks
- VMware Infrastructure allows IT organizations to consolidate underutilized servers, reduce power consumption, improve agility in introducing new business services, and improve disaster recovery and business continuity planning. It does so by introducing a level of abstraction between the underlying hardware and the operating system that run the business applications. This...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Environment, VMware Inc., Hardware, Abstraction, VMware Infrastructure
- White papers 2007-10-01
- 64 Bit Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processors & VMware ESX Server: A Powerful Combination for Systems Consolidation
- Faced with growing power, environmental and hardware management costs, organizations are increasingly looking for solutions to consolidate their underutilized systems on fewer physical computers. Systems virtualization provided by VMware ESX Server enables organizations to consolidate these underutilized systems as virtual computers running on a smaller number of physical ESX server...
- Tags: Consolidation, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Computer, VMWare ESX, Foedus, Productivity, 64-Bit, Servers, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Implementing a Utility Computing Environment Based on Virtualization
- Many enterprises are saddled with cumbersome, yet highly underutilized, IT infrastructures that hamper their ability to adapt to changing business conditions. Virtualization technology can help these enterprises address the IT complexity and resource utilization issues. Creating a virtualized, utility computing environment is by no means a trivial undertaking. It requires...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Transition, Environment, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-09-18
- The final stroke for blades going commodity
- This week, HP decided to buy RLX, one of the pioneers of blade servers. RLX had actually been out of the blade hardware business for awhile -- now they make blade management software. Nevertheless, this move is the symbolic final stroke of blade servers going mainstream. I remember how cool...
- Tags: Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2005-10-05
- Oracle and Microsoft: Interoperability Pays Business Dividends
- While Oracle and Microsoft have been competitors historically and still compete in key areas such as the database, both companies recognize that their technologies must work together to drive business value. So rather than choosing one environment over the other—and ripping and replacing existing IT investments—savvy companies are using middleware...
- Tags: Interoperability, Oracle Corp., Dividend, Microsoft Corp., Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers
- Printer-Copier Giant Enhances Processes With New Business Management Tool
- Historically, the Danish sales division of Minolta supported its business management processes with SAP technology, while local Konica distributor Bodenhoff used a mix of Microsoft and UNIX systems. After Minolta merged with Konica, the Danish branch of the newly-consolidated enterprise had to decide which solution would best meet its business...
- Tags: Minolta, Konica, Printer/copier, Business Management, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- New Business Intelligence Solution Reduces Customer Churn by 25 to 30 Percent
- French heating and hot water system specialist e.l.m. leblanc historically managed its operational and customer data with a number of databases and analysis tools. This infrastructure could not effectively integrate data from across the entire business. As a result, it was difficult to understand the causes of lost business or...
- Tags: Business Intelligence Solution, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- Case studies
- Process Resource Manager
- Traditional IT environments are often silos where both technology and human resources are aligned around an application or business function. Capacity is fixed, resources are over-provisioned to meet peak demand, and systems are complex and difficult to change. Costs are based on owning and operating the entire vertical infrastructure-even when...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Capacity, Resource Optimization, HP Process Resource Manager, Utility Computing, Virtualization, It Management, Storage Management, Hardware, It service Management, Storage
- White papers 2006-03-20
- Major European Carrier Enhances Management Decision Making and IT Management
- OJSC Rostelecom is Russia's national long-distance telecommunications operator. Historically, the company supported its activities with a range of disparate information systems. These were developed over time to address specific business functions from general accounting to project management. Lack of integration between systems made it difficult to access current management information...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., Carrier, OJSC Rostelecom, Telephony, Strategy, Networking, Management
- Case studies
- Why Data Serving on a Mainframe
- Ever since computing started to be used commercially, data serving has been a key element in business use of information technology. Ensuring that applications and their users have access to the data they need is critical to supporting business processes. Historically, the mainframe has performed the role of a central...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Captaris RightFax Solutions With Konica Minolta
- Historically, fax machines, copy machines, printers and scanners have been the cornerstone of administrative functions and have represented essential technologies for improving productivity in the workplace. Today, however, organizations are re-evaluating their reliance on separate devices to develop, duplicate and distribute business documents. Instead, more and more companies are turning...
- Tags: Minolta, Konica, Captaris Inc., Captaris RightFAX, Roi/Tco, Fax, Scanners, Copiers, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Peripherals
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Requirements Management: The Proven Way to Accelerate Development
- Requirements management is an often underutilized discipline in software development. Yet the economic benefits - lowered development costs, faster development and better products that delight customers - have plainly been demonstrated in study after study. In this paper, renowned engineering process expert Karl Wiegers makes the case...
- Tags: Serena Software Inc., Requirements Management, Product Development, Product Marketing, Software Development, Development Tools, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2005-05-01
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