measurement
RSS measurementInside Outside: Making Enterprise Architecture work
White Paper This paper discusses how an enterprise can optimally tap the potential of EA and use dimensions of policies and principles, processes, measurement and tool enablement to ensure governance, while also taking the business... [16 Oct 2009]
Gauging the Impact of Fragmentation
White Paper The paper also recommends a handful of performance measurement tools from software companies that objectively analyze your PC. Looking for an accurate way to measure fragmentation on your systems? This white paper has... [16 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News Coupe said the new system, which is currently being rolled out, will give the chain a "much more accurate measurement of where our stock is" than it currently has and allow Sainsbury's to better match products to stores... [09 Oct 2009]
Sustaining SOX Compliance: Best Practices to Mitigate Risk, Automate Compliance, and Reduce Costs
White Paper Sections 302, 404 and 409 of SOX, and corresponding SEC Rules and Regulations, have tremendous ramifications for Information Technology (IT) in the areas of control (internal controls), evaluation (governance,... [05 Oct 2009]
Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
White Paper Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is both possible and prudent to plan, measure, and improve data center... [01 Oct 2009]
Selecting an Industry-Standard Metric for Data Center Efficiency
White Paper The development of standards for the measurement and specification of data center efficiency is an essential step in the global effort to reduce the environmental impact of data centers. This paper explains some of the... [01 Oct 2009]
Improving Utilization and Allocation With VMware vCenter Chargeback
White Paper Creating business accountability for IT resources in a virtualized environment requires accurate, flexible cost measurement. With the right cost measurement processes in place, IT organizations can make... [01 Oct 2009]
Arab Potash Company Reduces License Requests by 90% and Fully Understands Oracle Licensing
White Paper Arab Potash Company reduced user license requests by 90% and optimized license allocation through guidance from Oracle License Management Services and achieved ability to track all users and usage across entire Oracle implementation with... [01 Oct 2009]
IT chiefs ignoring datacentre energy use
News In order to include metrics, measurement and modelling in a datacentre's green IT strategy, Gartner recommends that datacentre and IT managers: Datacentre and IT chiefs aren't paying enough attention to measuring,... [25 Sep 2009]
BBM Canada Improves Forecasting Accuracy, Saves Costs With SAS
White Paper BBM Canada, founded in 1944 as the not-for-profit Bureau of Broadcast Measurement, conducts audience research across the country to provide this information to its members, who include television and radio stations and... [19 Sep 2009]
Inova Gains Fairer Insurance Reimbursements, Enhances Patient Outcomes With SAS
White Paper Inova Health System - a not-for-profit healthcare system with a variety of facilities across northern Virginia - refers to that practice as "Functional Outcomes Measurement". The challenge was to guarantee that patients... [19 Sep 2009]
The True Value of Learning
White Paper And, surprisingly, so it is in the world of learning measurement. Yogi Berra, that paragon of word manipulation, exposition and baseball, is often quoted as saying, "The future ain't what it used to be. [09 Sep 2009]
Business Interfaces, Performance Networks - And a New View of Alignment
White Paper Buytendijk, author of Performance Leadership (McGraw-Hill, 2008), argues that the term "Alignment" needs an expanded definition - and new measurement approaches. Performance management has traditionally been a... [02 Sep 2009]
CONEVAL Unifies Information and Improves Evaluation and Monitoring of Social Programs
White Paper It needed to implement a single, reliable, and flexible information system to facilitate exact measurement of poverty levels in the country and establish a single robust online database with quick and easy access to... [31 Aug 2009]
Achieve Business and Environmental Goals: Using HP Web Jetadmin Functionality and HP Eco Solutions Reports to Reduce Environmental Impact
White Paper HP Eco Solutions reports enable measurement of environmentally relevant capabilities, settings and use patterns. HP Web Jetadmin software offers business intelligence capabilities, as part of the Enterprise Edition... [30 Aug 2009]
