WHITE PAPER - This paper outlines the maturity steps involved in the progression towards proactive Business Service Management (BSM) and explains how ASG's metaCMDB helps secure its seamless adoption.
Posted: February 22, 2010 | Published: February 22, 2010


Topics:  Business Service Management | Business Service Management Software | CMDB | IT Management | IT Service Management | IT Services | ITIL | Metadata | Metadata Standards

WHITE PAPER - This white paper looks at two of the most fundamental and conflicted concepts surrounding these requirements: BSM and the CMDB system, focusing on CMDB requirements as they support a BSM strategy, and highlighting ASG's offerings in that context.
Posted: February 22, 2010 | Published: February 22, 2010


Topics:  Business Service Management | Business Service Management Software | CMDB | Configuration Management | Database Management | Metadata | Metadata Standards | SLA

WHITE PAPER - For organizations that start small, and do it right, the gains achieved with their initial CMDB population will serve as a foundation for optimal data management results in other departments and other service areas. Read this paper to learn how.
Posted: February 8, 2010 | Published: February 8, 2010


Topics:  CMDB | Configuration Management | Data Quality | ETL (Software) | Federated Search | Metadata | Metadata Standards | Platform as a service

PODCAST - This podcast, featuring Rob Karel of Forrester Research, discusses how enterprises are linking metadata to the formal management of business terms to achieve true enterprise governance.
Posted: February 8, 2010 | Premiered: February 8, 2010


Topics:  Corporate Governance | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Quality | Information Management | IT Governance | Metadata | Metadata Standards | Regulatory Compliance

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - In this presentation transcript, Scott McCurdy, SVP of Business Solutions at ASG and featured guest Rob Karel, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, discuss how enterprises are linking technical metadata to the formal management of business terms to achieve true enterprise data governance.
Posted: February 5, 2010 | Published: February 5, 2010


Topics:  Data Governance | Data Management | Data Quality | Information Management | IT Governance | Metadata | Metadata Standards | Regulatory Compliance

WEBCAST - In this webcast, Scott McCurdy, SVP of Business Solutions at ASG and featured guest Rob Karel, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, discuss how enterprises are linking technical metadata to the formal management of business terms to achieve true enterprise data governance.
Posted: January 21, 2010 | Premiered: January 28, 2010


Topics:  Corporate Governance | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Quality | Information Management | IT Governance | Metadata | Metadata Standards | Regulatory Compliance

WHITE PAPER - Most projects involve data integration these days due to multiple applications and databases usage. It is necessary to plan and design the data integration parts of your projects to avoid a data integration tar pit. Read this paper to learn how Agile integration can help IT projects avoid this tangled mess of point-to point integrations.
Posted: January 7, 2010 | Published: January 6, 2010


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Modeling | Data Quality | Metadata Standards | Rapid Application Development | Software Best Practices | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on manufacturing companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in manufacturing and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Compliance Best Practices | Customer Service | Data Quality | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Industry Organizations | Metadata Standards | Risk Assessment | Risk Management