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Change Governance Series: Making Sense of Regulations and Best Practices
White Paper To gauge the return on its investment in IT, an organization needs to have measurements or performance indicators to assess its current situation, as well as to evaluate its progress toward defined objectives. [03 Jul 2008]
Magic Change and Configuration Management: Keeping Up With Changing Environments
White Paper By leveraging both ISO and ITIL standards with STI Knowledge industry's recognized best practices, this adaptable application enables business to assess the impact, risk, and resource requirements associated with changes, and then use the... [03 Jul 2008]
The Value of Systems Management: It's Not About the Features
White Paper As IT shops assess their goals and success definitions, benefits and ROI take precedence. IT executives have always faced enormous pressures to keep up with the increasing pace of technology change and deliver 100% uptime. [03 Jul 2008]
Technology-Enhanced Learning: Draft White Paper
White Paper Our purposes were to assess the gap in use between industry and higher education, and to determine the degree of technological literacy college graduates need to continue their life-long development in the work world. [03 Jul 2008]
Windows Consolidation 101: Reducing Storage TCO
White Paper Why should I and how do I assess storage utilization, and how long will it take to realize the lower total cost of ownership? When you think about getting leaner and optimizing your Windows file and print servers, many questions come to mind. [03 Jul 2008]
Evaluation of RRB E-Government Initiative: RUIA Contribution Internet Reporting and Payment
White Paper The objective of this review was to assess the implementation of the DC-1 project. This report presents the results of the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) review of the Railroad Retirement Board's (RRB) E-government initiative for the railroad... [03 Jul 2008]
Intermediation, Contracts and Micropayments in Electronic Commerce
White Paper A market where buyers and sellers trade goods electronically lacks many of the conventional ways to assess the quality of a product. Although it is well understood that the Internet presents an exciting opportunities to reduce transaction costs... [03 Jul 2008]
The Use of Response Surface Methods for the Analysis of System Architectures
White Paper An experiment was designed to assess the effects on performance by varying the numbers of clients, varying processor speeds, and varying the allocation of software layers to hardware components. This paper illustrates the use of RSM in evaluating... [03 Jul 2008]
More Efficient Processes and Technology Help KBC Go Global
White Paper KBC, the leading Belgian bank, would assess its options immediately. Being the leading bank in a European city as affluent as Brussels was impressive. Expanding into professional markets such as retail and insurance was even better. [03 Jul 2008]
Meeting the Remote Access Challenge
White Paper By monitoring network activity from remote desktops anywhere in the world, VitalSuite's ModemExpert tracks the complete end-to-end path between the user's desktop and the destination server to assess the health and performance of applications... [03 Jul 2008]
Project Management Maturity
White Paper The Project Management Maturity Benchmark survey asked organizations to self-assess their project management maturity using a model developed to enable them to measure their maturity in project management processes generally accepted as crucial to... [03 Jul 2008]
Software Configuration Management: Choosing a Client/Server and Internet Solution
White Paper The evaluation process should also assess how well the SCM solution can scale to future development needs and adapt to new technologies. Software configuration management (SCM) is imperative in any business that depends on software for its success. [03 Jul 2008]
De-Alerting Strategic Ballistic Missiles
White Paper The paper does not assess the desirability of pursuing a de-alerting program. This paper presents a framework for evaluating the technical merits of strategic ballistic missile de-alerting measures, and it uses the framework to evaluate a variety... [03 Jul 2008]
Can Firms Learn to Acquire? Do Markets Notice?
White Paper The empirical inquiries have in fact prioritized the efforts to locate the mean of the distribution of acquisition performance for both acquiring and target firms, in order to assess the average impact of acquisitions on financial wealth. [03 Jul 2008]
How Does Your IT Help Desk Measure Up?
White Paper This evaluation guide will help you assess the following areas: Today's IT help desks must respond to their companies' ever-growing service needs - without increasing their already strained staff and budgets. [03 Jul 2008]
