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Quocirca Insight Report: Data Centre Asset Planning -- Regaining control of the data centre
Inefficent power and space usage in data centres wastes both money and energy -- and it's a universal problem. Late last year, Quocirca conducted wide-ranging interviews about the issues contributing to the situation. This Quocirca Insight Report, made available by IBM, is based on the results of that research. ...
Tags: Quocirca, Asset, Data, IBM Corp., Asset Management, Real Estate, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2008-03-01
Information security for SMBs
Ensuring end-to-end care of data assets. Small and medium-sized businesses SMBs can benefit from the expansive use of information technology IT just as much as their larger counterparts.
Tags: Information Security, Quocirca, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme
White papers 2008-01-15
Operations Management in UK Financial Services
The extremely competitive nature of the financial services industry today and the changing landscape of customer expectations and their approach to investing in financial products, puts an onus on suppliers to consider how well they are dealing with new and existing customers' business transactions.This research investigates how technology is being...
Tags: Quocirca, Financial, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management
White papers 2008-01-14
Web enabled aplications and the internet
Businesses across Europe are becoming increasingly reliant on web-enabled applications that are accessed over the public internet. One of the key drivers for this is to open up communications with external organisations that are fundamental to core business processes.
Tags: Quocirca, Web, Internet, Channel Management, Operational Planning, Marketing, Business Operations
White papers 2007-11-23
Moving to a Blade World
How Blade Computing improves your business. This paper aims to explain those benefits to the business and IT manager, and show how blade computing can be implemented to save money and improve the way IT serves the business needs.
Tags: Quocirca, Blade, Blade Computing, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
White papers 2007-11-23
The Location Intelligent Enterprise
With enterprises having access to ever greater volumes of historic data, to get maximum value from it they need to make use of the location element in order to drive deeper business insights to improve competitiveness and business performance.
Tags: Quocirca
White papers 2007-10-09
A Short guide to a faster WAN
Wide areas networks WANs are essential to the majority of businesses, connecting remote locations and individuals back to centralised IT resources. But as the network is expected to handle more bandwidth intensive applications such as voice and video it is essential to ensure the WAN usage is well managed -...
Tags: Quocirca, WANs, Corporate Communications, Network Technology, Networking, Telecommunications, Marketing
White papers 2007-07-31
IT Management for Small Businesses
Using third parties to help take the strain - Small and medium sized businesses SMBs face many of the same challenges as large enterprises when it comes to IT management. They have increasingly complex systems that they rely on to drive their businesses and gain competitive advantage.
Tags: Quocirca, IT Administration, Information Technology, Small Business, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Strategy, Management
White papers 2007-07-31
People and SOA
SOA enables composite applications or collections of services that have been assembled to support a company's business processes. Portal and collaboration software delivers the essential people-focused capabilities of the SOA strategy to provide significant value to the organisation.
Tags: Quocirca, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2007-07-31
Another Year on the ILM Journey
Quocirca conducted two surveys separated by 12 months that looked at the data management infrastructure of UK and Irish businesses and how this was linked to their ability to respond to the whims of the regulators. In the year between the two surveys a lot had changed.
Tags: Quocirca, Data Management, Storage, Marketing Research, Databases, Hardware, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2007-05-21
Managing 21st Century Networks
Arguably IP is the most successful open standard ever, but as network communications converge under a single standard used for an increasing number of applications, we need to understand how effectively these critical assets are being managed.
Tags: Quocirca, Network, Asset Management, Networking, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2007-05-21
Visual Impact
Effective communications make use of many of our senses but what we see presents a huge amount of information - a picture is worth a thousand words - and can convey all sorts of meaning with a glance.
Tags: Quocirca
White papers 2007-05-17
On-premise to On-demand
The Software as a Service Opportunity for Independent Software Vendors Predictions of the death of software are over-stated and the reality is that all businesses are becoming ever more reliant on it
Tags: Quocirca, On-demand, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies
White papers 2007-05-17
Business Impact Management
Measuring the financial and business impact from process to packe. The need to understand how the performance and problems within the technical infrastructure impacts the capabilities of the business is massive.
Tags: Quocirca, Performance Management, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance
White papers 2007-05-17
Information and SOA
Gaining greater insights through Master Data Management. Information management, which includes both data and content management, is an essential building block for Service-Oriented Architecture SOA. By taking a service oriented approach to information, you can achieve much greater value from your information assets.
Tags: Quocirca, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2007-05-17
Value-Based SLAs
Due to the way that a grid virtualises the underlying platform, all resources are potentially available to all applications. The grid will make the best use of these resources depending on the type of application and the priority it has been given. For example, a low priority application which uses...
Tags: Quocirca, SLA, Resource, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
White papers 2006-08-11
Business Flexibility: Removing Dependencies Between Business Process and Technical Infrastructure With SOA
Organisations wanting to create a more flexible, responsive environment to support their business processes must look towards the evolution of an environment that removes the process dependencies from the underlying hardware and software infrastructure. This can only be done through the provision of suitable intermediary technologies such as a Service...
Tags: Quocirca, Business Process, Business Flexibility, SOA, Operational Planning, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Operations, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2005-12-01
Security Barometer Survey: The Psychology of Security
IT security is high on the agenda of most companies, and so it should be. There are a number of discrepancies however, largely driven by psychological factors. Of particular significance is that existing security policies are seemingly doing little to improve the security of organisations. They should not be seen...
Tags: Quocirca, IT Security, Survey, Security
White papers 2005-05-01
Intelligent Documents and Intellectual Property Value Chains
Companies need to create a strategy for the long term management of their intellectual property assets, and to meet the requirements of governance and audit. This paper looks at the issues and approaches required to take a consistent approach to deal with ad-hoc information across an organisation. A framework is...
Tags: Quocirca, Framework, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations
White papers 2004-08-01

Additional Resources

SOA - Something or Anything
Just how aware are businesses of Service Oriented Architectures, and how much benefit do people see from being able to have such an environment? Quocirca research shows that those companies that have gone down the SOA route are gaining real, tangible benefits.
Tags: Benefit, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2007-01-11
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