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Improve Quality in Your Application Delivery Process - A Success Story at Arizona Federal

whitepaper IT organizations today face the perennial challenge of staying within budget, meeting time-to-market demands, and increasing quality. View this presentation in which Kevin Bingham, Assistant Vice President of Arizona Federal, discusses how his...

Tags: software engineering

[20 May 2008]

Manage the Unmanageable: The Importance of Governance in the Project Life Cycle

whitepaper Why is it that when one sets out to develop a product - be it an operating system, a device driver, an internal application, or even just a Web page - one can't seem to get programmers to deliver on time, on budget, and with the level of quality...

Tags: software engineering

[20 May 2008]

Reduce Your IT Budget: Consolidate Data to One Platform - See How Quest Software Eases Data Migration to SharePoint

whitepaper It's costly to manage and maintain multiple data platforms. By reducing the amount of supported systems, you'll save money - but is there a single platform you can trust to consolidate and manage all of your information?

Tags: knowledge and data management, sharepoint, microsoft office sharepoint, microsoft office

[19 May 2008]

Combating the Increasing Cost of Email

whitepaper Businesses usually adopt a commonsense approach when it comes to spending the IT budget with cost being a major influencer in purchasing decisions. However, when it comes to choosing a mail server, many businesses seem to pay less attention to the...

Tags: email

[19 May 2008]

IT Optimisation: the low fat approach to IT

whitepaper A typical business spends 80% of its IT budget - managing and operating its IT infrastructure, rather than investing in it. This paper looks at ways you can optimise your IT and save money.

Tags: infrastructure management, investing, money, budget

[19 May 2008]

BMC Software IT Systems Management Express: Meeting Challenges in the Midsize Enterprise

whitepaper Certainly budget is a perennial challenge, but smaller IT shops may not be aware of the challenges coming in the next years that are associated with ensuring system stability, tying IT requirements to business unit requirements, and automating...

Tags: monitoring systems

[19 May 2008]

Requirements Process for SOA Projects, Part 1: Capturing Requirements for an SOA Application - Initial Requirements to Build Your SOA

whitepaper A significant number of projects go over budget and don't meet their timelines, due to missing, incorrect, or changed requirements. Compared to traditional Information Technology (IT) projects, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects face more...

Tags: web services

[19 May 2008]

Email Frequency: How Relevancy Tactics Changed the Rules

whitepaper Marketers are used to planning ahead as most media buys must be scheduled months in advance to accommodate external press time and availability, along with the careful orchestration needed to balance the print, radio, TV, and online advertising...

Tags: email, schedule, balance, advertising

[19 May 2008]

Why Buy HP Memory for HP Workstations?

whitepaper In the open market, there is a wide variety of available memory, much of it at budget prices. Why not get it cheaper from any one of the many memory manufacturers? What is the advantage of buying memory and memory upgrades from HP?

Tags: workstations

[18 May 2008]

Data De-Duplication and Backup: Stretching Your Windows Disk Storage Dollar

whitepaper With storage requirements for applications like Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server growing exponentially, IT administrators need more cost-effective ways to stretch their data storage budget without increasing backup and recovery windows or...

Tags: back-up

[18 May 2008]

Create the Ideal SOA Team: Redefining the Roles of Traditional Software Development Teams

whitepaper Almost every Information Technology (IT) shop, regardless of size and budget, is currently moving toward SOA. This paper describes the new set of roles and responsibilities that members of the IT team need to take on as the organization adopts SOA...

Tags: service-oriented architecture

[18 May 2008]

Architecture in Practice, Part 3: Top Ten Tips for Writing Great IT Project Proposals

whitepaper These all happen when a project is underway, and there has been a budget allocation by the customer to undertake an IT initiative. What one frequently forgets is the phase that precedes a software development project - the activities that can...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Power Struggle: How IT Managers Cope With Data Center Power Demands and the Raptor Solution

whitepaper The primary goals for data center operators are to save power costs and cool the systems to prevent heat-induced failures, expand data center space without straining the company budget every time an expansion occurs and plan a distributed data...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

Top 10 Reasons to Start Using Web Conferencing

whitepaper Although Web conferencing can't reduce the travel budget to zero, it can assist in bringing the costs down. Web conferencing has been around for years now, and yet it seems that organizations still have some resistance to getting on the bandwagon.

Tags: video conferencing

[12 May 2008]

Manufacturer Shifts 70 Percent of IT Budget to Proactive Support, Sees Reliability Soar

whitepaper Del Monte Foods wanted to make IT a driver of business success, but its lean IT staff was continually preoccupied with handling emergencies. By adopting a Microsoft Services Premier Support agreement, Del Monte's IT staff has boosted the time that...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

Resort Enhances Guest Experience With Right Information to Employees at Right Time

whitepaper For example, Borgata's budget and forecasting process is accomplished 33 percent faster than before the portal. As a result, executives have seen the value of IT in driving business success. When Borgata planned the first hotel to be built in...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Show and Tell: Combining Pictures and Words to Create Full Project Management Capability

whitepaper Ineffective or failed project delivery is the bane of every IT user and tales of budget overruns, cancellations and time lags are legion. It is quite alarming that significant numbers of IT projects still fail to deliver key benefits on time and to...

Tags: methodology

[09 May 2008]

Optimized Testing: How to Balance Quality, Cost and Schedules

whitepaper Optimized testing improves application quality, maximizes development resources and helps deliver applications on time and within budget. Organizations are constantly working to leverage today's best practices for testing - within the context of...

Tags: infrastructure management

[09 May 2008]

When is Enough "Enough?" Automated End-to-End Testing with QACenter for z/OS

whitepaper This webcast explains how Compuware's cost-effective, risk-management testing solution for z/OS, can help you deliver production-ready applications on time and within budget - regardless of how complex your environment is.

Tags: network operating systems, environments, deployment, testing

[09 May 2008]

Key Issues in Messaging Mobility

whitepaper With this combination, the IT staff and overall budget can now be focused on core components of the business. This Osterman Research white paper discusses key trends in the mobile messaging space and the variety of challenges that organizations...

Tags: portable computers, hosting, messaging, mobile messaging

[08 May 2008]

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