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The True Value of Learning
White Paper Read this article for more insights on how to measure training and learning in your organization. Yogi Berra, that paragon of word manipulation, exposition and baseball, is often quoted as saying, "The future ain't what it used to be. [13 Aug 2008]
Travel and Procurement: The Convergence
White Paper According to a recent Aberdeen Group survey, companies that don't use an integrated travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management service, like Concur Travel & Expense, are falling behind in almost every measure of financial management. [12 Aug 2008]
Gauging the Impact of Fragmentation
White Paper Looking for an accurate way to measure fragmentation on your systems? This white paper has clear step-by-step instructions that can tell if your volumes are standing up to fragmentation or if your performance is deteriorating. [11 Aug 2008]
Tech to get walkers back on streets of London
News Transport for London (TfL) says the system will boost public health and reduce stress on buses and the Tube by providing a benchmark to measure the success of schemes to promote walking. London is to use pedestrian counting technology to help turn... [08 Aug 2008]
Is Your Anti-Spam Defense at the Top of its Game?
White Paper What you should expect from your anti-spam solution -- and how to measure the effectiveness of your current solutions. Spammers continue to change their spam distribution tactics in order to maximize delivery rates for their messages. [05 Aug 2008]
Reduce Spam and Viruses While You Increase ROI with Virtual Appliances
White Paper What you should expect from your anti-spam and anti-virus solution -- and how to measure the effectiveness of your current solutions. As more and more enterprises realize the benefits of server virtualization--including lower costs, increased IT... [05 Aug 2008]
Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML & DITA: How to Forecast and Measure Continued ROI, Cost Savings and Process Improvement in Content Creation, Localization, and Publishing
White Paper In the technology age, bottom-line impact is the holy grail: savings in costs, time and resources. Any new investment or process improvement starts with infectious optimism, but ROI-focused executive teams need more proof than potential to give the... [04 Aug 2008]
The Secrets of Tuned in Leaders: How Technology Company CEOs Create Success (and Why Most Fail)
White Paper Yet, when one goes into these organizations and actually measure the things people do all day, one inevitably hears about problems and opportunities that originate as inside-out thinking (Apple Newton) vs.from the outside-in (the buyers... [04 Aug 2008]
On Quality of Service Optimization With Discrete QoS Options
White Paper This paper presents a QoS management scheme that enables people to quantitatively measure QoS, and to analytically plan and allocate resource. Quality of Service (QoS) control is considered an important user demand and therefore receives wide... [04 Aug 2008]
Controlling Multimedia QoS in the Future Home Network Using the PSQA Metric
White Paper This technique allows to measure, in real time and with high accuracy, the quality of a multimedia (or audio, or video) communication over a packet network. This paper studies the quality of multimedia (voice and video) streams in a likely future... [04 Aug 2008]
Eight Essential Mantras for BI Outsourcing Success
White Paper Develop the Right Mind-Set, Choose the Right Partner, Take a Portfolio Management Approach, Big Bang Will not Work, Measure Continuous Innovation, Get Your Business to Own and Participate, Foster One Team Culture and Cultivate Work Ethics. [04 Aug 2008]
A Review of Scalability and Its Application in the Evaluation of the Scalability Measure of AntNet Routing
White Paper One of the key problems facing designers of Network Management Systems is that of scalability. Due to the special characteristics associated with network management, the scalability issues of such systems are different to those of traditional... [04 Aug 2008]
Determining Fathom Replication Network Bandwidth
White Paper The best way to measure network bandwidth requirements is to run Fathom Replication in a controlled test environment reflecting the true demands of one's application and database. In this environment one can use a network monitoring tool to capture... [04 Aug 2008]
On the Cost of Participating in a Peer-to-Peer Network
White Paper Such a cost model allows to gauge potential disincentives for peers to collaborate, and provides a measure of the "Total cost" of a network, which is a possible benchmark to distinguish between proposals. [04 Aug 2008]
On Active Measurements in QoS-Enabled IP Networks
White Paper Unless the monitoring application can determine the network's QoS configuration and react accordingly, it might incorrectly measure the QoS behavior of the network. Network monitoring applications are often used by service providers to monitor... [04 Aug 2008]
