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Metrics-Based Sales Productivity – Delivering Dividends for Forward Thinking Sales Organizations sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: New Sales Performance Management solutions enable sales leaders to align technology to business need and strategy. Read this paper for a series of discussions related to the metrics-based sales productivity solutions that forward thinking sales organizations are employing to harness the power of the pipeline and take advantage of sales analytics. Posted: 16 Mar 2010 \| Published: 05 Mar 2010 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business IT Alignment \| Productivity \| Sales \| Sales Force Automation \| Sales Information Systems \| Sales Representatives

Simplifying IT through Virtualization sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Working with Dell will ensure that your virtualization projects achieve fast time to value and return on investment (ROI). Read this paper to learn about how Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services, backed by a close partnership with Microsoft, offers flexible, high-impact consulting services for comprehensive solution design and much more. Posted: 05 Apr 2010 \| Published: 05 Apr 2010 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Consultants \| Data Center Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| ROI \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Provisioning \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Systems Management Software \| Virtual Machine \| Windows Server Software

Four Starting Points for Effective Project and Portfolio Management sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise WHITE PAPER: Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes. Posted: 01 Aug 2008 \| Published: 01 Aug 2008 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| IT Best Practices \| Project Management \| Project Management Software \| Project Portfolio Management \| Software Development Life-Cycles \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools

Funding for BI: It’s All About ROI, ROI, ROI sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a summary of the 2nd webcast in a series sponsored by IBM that is designed to empower IT and Business Unit managers to develop a strong business case for the return on investment (ROI) of their business intelligence initiatives. Posted: 10 Aug 2010 \| Published: 07 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Management \| Business Systems \| Investments \| ROI \| SAP (Product)

Robust Infrastructure for SOA: A Technical Introduction to WebSphere Application Server V6.1 sponsored by IBM Software Group WHITE PAPER: IBM WebSphere Application Server, Version 6.1 is the foundation of the IBM WebSphere software platform and is the key building block for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Posted: 16 Nov 2006 \| Published: 01 Nov 2006 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Application Integration \| Application Server Software \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| J2EE \| SIP \| SOA \| Web Development \| Web Development Tools \| Web Services \| Web Services Management \| WebSphere \| z/OS

Why Buy Vs. Build Serena Service Manager sponsored by SERENA Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This decision guide demonstrates how migrating to Serena Service Manager will help transform your IT organization into an agile, responsive, and business-focused service provider. Posted: 04 Apr 2012 \| Published: 04 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Business Management \| Business of Information Technology \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Business Service Management \| IT Industry \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Service Management \| ITIL

Five best practices for deploying a successful service-oriented architecture: Leveraging lessons learned from the IBM Academy of Technology sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn about the five best practices for deploying successful SOA and see rapid return on your investment. Posted: 13 Feb 2009 \| Published: 13 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Best Practices \| Business IT Alignment \| ESB \| IT Infrastructure \| ROI \| SOA

How to Transform Your Business: A Strategic Roadmap for Delivering Value sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the key strategic issues and best practices involved in transforming your business to enable growth. Discover the steps you must take to innovate, translate business strategy into IT strategy, develop a roadmap for strategic business transformation, and obtain maximum benefit from your SAP investment. Posted: 20 Sep 2010 \| Published: 20 Sep 2010 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Business Performance Management \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Business Processes \| IT Asset Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| SAP (Product)

Value-driven product management: Six keys to product success sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how assessment, alignment, achievability, accessibility, agility and accountability, the six key concepts of value-driven product management, can be applied to create a repeatable process for developing successful products. Posted: 19 Mar 2009 \| Published: 01 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Customer Satisfaction \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| Product Life Cycles \| Product Management \| Revenue Projections

Strive for Simplicity: IT infrastructures that cut through complexity to drive business benefits sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Through this white paper learn the business value of simplifying IT infrastructure and processes. Learn 4 areas of IT that can easily be simplified, the 5 substantial business benefits of simplification, and much more. Posted: 29 Jun 2012 \| Published: 25 Jun 2012 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| IT Industry \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Systems \| Oracle (Product)