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Explore Model-Driven Development (MDD) and Related Approaches: A Closer Look at Model-Driven Development and Other Industry Initiatives

whitepaper MDD also has much in common with other initiatives, such as Microsoft's Software Factories and domain-specific languages. In this paper, one discovers how the OMG's MDA initiative is working to formalize the ideas of MDD and to provide standards in...

Tags: programming languages

[11 May 2008]

Family Dollar Enables Strategic Business Initiatives With New Store Systems

whitepaper One of the nation's largest discount retailers, Family Dollar Stores has strategic business initiatives in place to support its growth objectives. To get those strategies implemented at the store level, Family Dollar needed to revamp its 16,000...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Data Centers Are Adopting Green Initiatives But Are Wary of Vendors' Marketing Messages

whitepaper The IT industry and business in general are slowly waking up to the impact they are having on the environment. While the newspaper headlines target the growth of cheap flights as a leading cause of global warming, some commentators have suggested...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation

whitepaper This paper provides an overview of the factors driving consolidation initiatives and considers best practices for ensuring a successful consolidation initiative and a maximum return on investment. It also provides an introduction to workload...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Next Generation Federal Data Center Architectures

whitepaper FEA initiatives will drive the development of next-generation federal IT architectures. Cisco, in response to the FEA and to enterprise IT initiatives throughout public and private industry, developed the Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Improving Intercompany Reconciliation for a Faster Close

whitepaper Of the various initiatives supporting this shift, the fast close--a concept used to describe a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and close its books quickly--is perhaps one of the best documented.

Tags: back-office

[11 May 2008]

Healthy IT: Simplifying Deployment, Management and Protection

whitepaper The presenter of this webcast will explain about management technology for the critical IT Healthcare initiatives to keep computers compliant, automate typical management tasks, and provide proactive IT service-oriented management.

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 May 2008]

Croatia-Based Oil Firm Enhances Operations, Achieves 100 Per Cent Accurate Retail Data

whitepaper Until 2006, INA business and marketing teams relied on the sales data provided by gas and retail stores to manage stock and plan new marketing initiatives. INA is a leading oil and gas provider in Croatia.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Developer Security Best Practices

whitepaper This paper provides information about payments industry security initiatives and other best practices that are recommended to developers for incorporating the highest levels of data protection in their various payment applications.

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Customer Story: Intel

whitepaper Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Being able to identify and track meaningful conversion events that occur on the site after an ad has...

Tags: search strategies

[06 May 2008]

The ITIL Imperative: Accelerate from Strategy to Value in '08

whitepaper Joel Bomgar from Bomgar Corporation shows how the right remote support solution can accelerate your ability to drive near-term value from your ITIL initiatives As ITIL hits the top of many organizations' priority lists in '08, business leaders are...

Tags: cost control - risk mgmt.

[06 May 2008]

The Emergence of a Software Centric Communications Model: Service Implications and Opportunities

whitepaper This GreenSpring Partners White Paper explores how enterprises can realize their objectives for competitive differentiation by undertaking initiatives that exploit the opportunities inherent in a software-centric communications model.

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[05 May 2008]

Rapid E-Learning: Maturing Technology Brings Balance and Possibilities

whitepaper While many of these early adopters found success in rapid e-Learning initiatives, overreaching aspirations of both users and technology providers led some to disappointment. In a 2003 survey of Fortune 500 companies more than 80 percent of...

Tags: streaming media

[03 May 2008]

Fostering a Culture of Adaptability: Using Information Technology to Increase Your Company's Agility

whitepaper To achieve profitable growth, successful companies maintain a laser-sharp focus on executing a few key initiatives efficiently. Moving quickly and effectively on these initiatives requires you to make changes across your entire business so you can...

Tags: erp

[02 May 2008]

Promote Regular Team Interaction

whitepaper Although team-building retreats and special events can be great ways to kick off new team initiatives, the real work of building a successful team happens in the trenches. It is the day-to-day challenges of communicating, organizing, and reporting...

Tags: business management

[02 May 2008]

Solutions for the Datacenter's Thermal Challenges

whitepaper The issue of power and cooling poses a real challenge to today's datacenter, in both financial and operational terms, particularly as customers are beginning to integrate IT departments and corporate facilities and continuing to drive initiatives...

Tags: data center

[02 May 2008]

Web application security and PCI DSS compliance: is your data secure?

whitepaper While IT departments cannot control or drive all PCI DSS compliance initiatives, they can help meet compliance by deploying technologies that automate and enforce the internal controls needed to protect sensitive cardholder data.

Tags: application security tools

[01 May 2008]

'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves

Comment Meanwhile, energy company E.ON UK - which has been ramping up videoconferencing to cut travel as part of a series of initiatives directly aimed at shrinking its carbon footprint - found its air miles actually increased last year despite these...

Tags: climate change, technology, videoconferencing

[28 Apr 2008]

Butler Group Technical Audit: Sterling Commerce Managed Services

whitepaper To learn more about how these solutions can aid your B2B initiatives, download this informative white paper today. Read Butler Group's report about Business-to-Business (B2B) infrastructure solutions that allow trading organizations to interact...

Tags: back-office, commerce, managed, trading

[28 Apr 2008]

E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs

News He said: "Any initiatives… have got to be done in partnership with the business. However, despite its best efforts, Middleditch conceded E.ON's air mileage went up last year - because it is part of an international group he said it is increasingly...

Tags: green, e.on, carbon emissions, travel

[25 Apr 2008]

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