Better Management
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment What can businesses do to help CIOs do a better job? You need people in the CIO role who have both technical chops as well as general management talent and skills. Some of the things that we've talked... [18 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment To realise the full benefits of UCC requires a major change management effort spanning not only technology but people and processes. In addition, a confusing array of technologies, approaches and vendors, as well as a... [17 Nov 2009]
Microsoft Online Services Business Value
White Paper Better control of IT technology investments. Simplified software subscription license management for attractive pricing and a predictable cost.percent availability service-level agreement (SLA) and... [16 Nov 2009]
Stop Getting Strangled by Your Supply Chain: Enhancing Supply Chain Management Using RFID
White Paper Real time data creates an unprecedented level of visibility and leads to better decision making capabilities. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology goes beyond the traditional bar code identification,... [14 Nov 2009]
The Future of Risk Management and Internal Control
White Paper Risk management isn't just about protecting business - it's also about making it better. Risk management shouldn't be thought of as a stand-alone compliance or control activity, but as a... [13 Nov 2009]
Server Consolidation and Workload Optimization
White Paper Moving forward with server consolidation will be a necessity for reducing data center costs as well as providing better workload management, workload availability as well as provisioning and workload... [13 Nov 2009]
ITIL in a Recession
White Paper As organizations focus on surviving the recession, is this the time to consider adopting industry practices such as ITIL service management? ITIL certainly enables better investment analysis and decision... [13 Nov 2009]
Cross-Reference ITIL V3 and MOF 4.0
White Paper IT organizations are continuously being challenged to deliver better IT services at lower cost in a turbulent environment. Several management frameworks have been developed to cope with this challenge,... [13 Nov 2009]
Leveraging Compliance: Standardization and Simplification of Risk Adjusted Performance Reporting
White Paper Investors, board members, senior management, rating agencies, regulators and other stakeholders continue to seek ways to better evaluate and execute on financial services organization's activities,... [13 Nov 2009]
Leveraging IT Risk Management to Boost Competitive Advantage: Achieving Integrated Information Technology, Governance, Risk, and Compliance
White Paper Investors, board members, senior management, rating agencies, regulators and other stakeholders continue to seek ways to better evaluate and execute on financial services organization's activities,... [13 Nov 2009]
Effectively Securing Virtualized Data Centers: How an Identity-Aware Network Can Accelerate Server Virtualization Benefits
White Paper Server virtualization offers several benefits including better total cost of ownership, increased operational efficiencies and more flexible management capabilities. Virtual machines (VMs) themselves are... [13 Nov 2009]
Beyond System Center: Addressing Systems Management Needs Across the Entire IT Infrastructure
White Paper For many organizations, Microsoft's System Center suite provides a powerful automated systems management platform to address a significant portion of the needs inherent in today's dynamic IT environments. [13 Nov 2009]
Top 9 Network Security Threats in 2009
White Paper A company that has traditionally kept their security management and monitoring in-house may use this as an opportunity to look at the cost benefits of outsourcing this to a leading security firm. Some of the technology... [13 Nov 2009]
Better Together: How the Quest One Identity Solution Products Enhance Each Other
White Paper The Quest One Identity Solution includes products that address the challenges of identity and access management by enabling organizations to improve efficiency, enhance security, and achieve compliance. [13 Nov 2009]
Turning Risk Into Reward: Gearing Up for a New World Order in Financial Reporting, Risk Management, and Capital Management
White Paper While this change presents sizable implementation challenges, it also potentially provides insurance businesses an opportunity to move to a better informed more economic footing. Many analysts, investors, and other... [13 Nov 2009]