WHITE PAPER - When an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to think about updating your skill set.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: May 13, 2009


Topics:  COBOL | Code Management | IT Best Practices | IT Departments | IT Governance | IT Industry | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Services | IT Systems | IT Workforce | Programming | Programming Languages

WHITE PAPER - Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Systems | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Management | Databases | ERP | Manufacturing | Quality Control | Real-time Analytics | Supply Chain Management

PODCAST - This podcast looks closely at a unique data recovery solution for IBM AIX Environments called EchoStream for AIX.
Posted: May 9, 2008 | Premiered: May 9, 2008


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery | IT Managers | IT Systems | ITIL | Replication

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Businesses today grow and change at a frantic pace, making Active Directory (AD) management one of the most time-consuming IT tasks. AD administrators struggle to keep up with requests to create, change or remove user access to various network resources.
Posted: April 15, 2009 | Published: April 10, 2009


Topics:  Active Directory | Enterprise Systems | IT Service Management | IT Systems | Network Management Software | Network Security | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - The ability to manage data is becoming increasingly key to a company's ability to compete effectively in today's ever more competitive business environment. The following paper outlines some of these drivers and examines the strategic role enhanced data management can play.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Published: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Business Management | Business Service Management Software | Business Systems | Customer Service | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Information Management | Knowledge Management

ANALYST REPORT - In June 2008, CFO Research Services conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The research looked at what kinds of alliances companies are forming and how finance sees itself working with internal and external partners to establish and assess successful alliances.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Communications | Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Metrics | Business Models | Business Performance Management | Business Process Modeling | Business Processes | Business Systems | CEOs | CFOs | CIOs | Communications Networks | Financial Management | Financial Reporting

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores how today's advanced business intelligence solutions can put powerful, informative BI information into the hands of more users.
Posted: July 20, 2009 | Published: April 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Integration Software | Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Performance Management | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Service Management | Business Structures | Business Systems | Dashboards | Data Management | Data Management Software | Decision Support Systems

RESOURCE CENTER - Security is all about protecting corporate information and technology assets from intruders, thieves, and vandals.
Posted: November 30, 2006 | Published: November 30, 2006


Topics:  Managed Security Services | Managed Security Services Providers | Security | Security Architectures | Security Best Practices | Security Hardware | Security Industry | Security Infrastructure | Security Software | Security Spending | Security Standards | Security Systems | Software Viruses | VPN

CASE STUDY - The City of Hamilton deployed NOMAD, an application from Horizant, for BlackBerry smartphones, which mobilizes the way facilities management is handled. The solution is designed to automatically push out work orders from the City of Hamilton's back-end database which are then received by tradespeople on their BlackBerry smartphones.
Posted: February 17, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Communications Software | Information Management | IT Systems | Mobile Device Management | Mobile Middleware | Mobile Workers | Productivity | ROI | Smart Phones

WHITE PAPER - Directors of IT operations are under pressure to control or reduce mainframe operating costs while maintaining service levels to the business. This paper describes how BMC® MAINVIEW® from BMC Software uniquely delivers aggressive and strategic performance management and optimization.
Posted: April 17, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  IT Management Services | IT Services | IT Systems | Mainframe Operating Systems | Operating Systems | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides a survey of the practices and technology related to business process management (BPM). Basic concepts are explained, the transformational effect on the enterprise is examined, and the value that BPM can create is analyzed. The paper then presents a survey of the vast array of technology that is related to BPM.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Models | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Process Modeling | Business Processes | Business Structures | Business Systems | CEOs | CIOs | ERP | Model Driven Architecture

WHITE PAPER - Business intelligence (BI) allows organizations to better understand, analyze, and even predict what's occurring in their company.
Posted: June 9, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Process Management | Business Systems | Customer Satisfaction | Dashboards | Data Management | Decision Support Databases | OLAP | Reporting Software | SMBs | Spreadsheets

WHITE PAPER - This paper will assess how to locate and account for functionality gaps. It will also illustrate a methodology for realigning applications with business goals.
Posted: December 4, 2009 | Published: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Application Portfolio Management | Business Intelligence | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Business Systems | ERP | ERP Software

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines how you can gain reliable, accessible information from efficient, integrated IT systems – and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions. In turn, the right decisions will lead to better operations and a stronger competitive position.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Published: December 17, 2007


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Information Management | Inventory Management | IT Systems | Manufacturing Systems | SAP (Product) | SMBs | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores how contextualization and insight into existing applications accelerates the discovery and transformation of logic into refined, true business rules. It also includes a discussion of best practices around this semantic capture of technical rules and their abstraction into business rules.
Posted: December 7, 2009 | Published: November 25, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Business Systems | SOA