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Accelerating Enterprise Data Governance Part 1

whitepaper In the first of this series of three white papers, Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines what data governance is and then looks at the requirements that need to be met for full data governance to be implemented.

Tags: knowledge and data management, governance, data governance, guarantee

[11 May 2008]

Getting Started with Master Data Management

whitepaper This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines master data, examines why it is needed, and explores methodologies for implementing master data management. Master data management forms part of an overall enterprise...

Tags: knowledge and data management, master, data management, aims

[11 May 2008]

Family Dollar Enables Strategic Business Initiatives With New Store Systems

whitepaper To get those strategies implemented at the store level, Family Dollar needed to revamp its 16,000 checkout lanes and legacy POS systems. One of the nation's largest discount retailers, Family Dollar Stores has strategic business initiatives in...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Success Deploying, Integrating and Operating Symantec Endpoint Protection

whitepaper The attendee will learn how to augment and maintain key IT functions with the residency and managed services offerings; allow the staff to focus on core business strategies; maximize the investments in Symantec Endpoint Protection and Symantec...

Tags: network security

[11 May 2008]

SOA - Implementing a Service smorgasbord?: An Approach to SOA Transformation

whitepaper There have been numerous architectural patters designed around SOA, but business and technical community is continually puzzled over the strategies to adopting SOA. SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is an interesting and an attractive proposition...

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

The Adaptive Architecture for the Data Center Network

whitepaper A single approach to server infrastructure is no longer appropriate and is being replaced with multiple server strategies, each designed to meet different functional and cost objectives. Cisco offers a complete portfolio of award-winning switches...

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 May 2008]

Facilities Considerations for the Cisco Data Center Network Architecture

whitepaper This paper presents strategies for designing the integrated, end-to-end facilities that provide this crucial physical infrastructure to support the on-demand computing environment of the Cisco Data Center Network Architecture.

Tags: network design

[11 May 2008]

Integrating Oracle E-Business Suite 11i in the Cisco Data Center

whitepaper It introduces key concepts and options regarding the application deployment and detailed designs strategies available to a data center leveraging Cisco's application and networking technologies. The Oracle E-Business Suite is an extensive set of...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Facility Considerations for the Data Center

whitepaper This paper presents strategies for designing the integrated, end-to-end facilities that provide this crucial physical infrastructure to support the emerging virtualized computing environment. The Cisco Enterprise Data Center Architecture - a...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Data Center Projects: Growth Model

whitepaper Many unnecessary costs can be avoided with simple planning strategies, and even uncertainty itself can be incorporated into a plan. Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

A Model for Business Operations Design in Preparation for a Pandemic

whitepaper By focusing the enterprise's employee and customer response on the protection and support of boundary conditions, the enterprise can develop a series of innovative strategies that allow the corporation to sustain operations.

Tags: business strategies

[11 May 2008]

3Com Solutions: Strategies for Successful IP Telephony Implementations

whitepaper It is the author's hope that this presentation of strategic options clearly demonstrates the broad array of opportunities for enhancing investment returns and delivering business benefits now. There are as many ways to implement IP telephony as...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[11 May 2008]

Embracing SOA for the Legacy World: Architectural Strategies to Give Your Mainframes and Legacy Applications a New Lease on Life

whitepaper Explore ways to stretch the return on IT investment of legacy platforms, such as mainframes, by using SOA-based technologies to expose critical business functions as business services. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming widely accepted...

Tags: mainframes

[11 May 2008]

Effective Strategies for Backup, Recovery & Archiving

whitepaper The presenter discusses the business needs driving each of these disciplines, as well as technical differentiators to determine in which scenario to apply each solution. Backup vs.archiving? Recovery vs.discovery?

Tags: disaster recovery

[11 May 2008]

Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Bandwidth-draining apps such as the BBC iPlayer may also be causing ISPs to scratch their heads over their broadband strategies, he added. Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 per cent of its retail business to US retail giant...

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

Datacenter Services: Take Advantage of Sun's Proven Methodologies to Manage Change With the Least Disruption

whitepaper Many companies today are revising datacenter strategies to meet evolving business objectives. New strategies may include consolidation, relocation, migration, expansion, and review of asset management policies - with the goal of optimizing...

Tags: data center

[06 May 2008]

Microsoft Drives Corporate Performance With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

whitepaper The perfect solution presented itself in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, an integrated performance management application with comprehensive capabilities that include budget and forecasting, which are essential for establishing the...

Tags: data mining - analysis

[06 May 2008]

Essential Manager's Guide: Communications Tools for the Effective Worker

whitepaper Learn specific proven strategies for using Unified Communications to address these challenges, and gain useful insights for evaluating and building a compelling business case for Unified Communications in your organization.

Tags: voice - data integration

[05 May 2008]

Get expert advice on SOA and capitalize on change

whitepaper This article was originally published in "Midmarket Strategies. In this interview, IBM expert Walter Kamme talks about how SOA can help mid-sized companies become more flexible and respond to changing business needs.

Tags: middleware, strategies, soa, montgomery research

[02 May 2008]

Outsourcing B2B Operations to a Managed Services Provider

whitepaper Companies seeking to drive growth and cut costs this year are increasingly adopting business-to-business (B2B) collaboration strategies. These strategies provide greater efficiency along with real-time visibility and control over the business...

Tags: back-office, managed, managed services, visibility

[28 Apr 2008]

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