Back Office Outsourcing and Investment Reporting - A Guide for Investment Advisors  by Advent Software, Inc

January 01, 2006 - In investment reporting, customers expect detailed reports of irreproachable accuracy, delivered with no delay or excuses. This whitepaper will serve as as a guide for Investment Advisors.

Backup as a service FAQ  by i365, A Seagate Company

November 23, 2009 - Trying to decide if online backup, or backup as a service, will be beneficial to your small-midsized business (SMB)? John Merryman, services director for recovery services at GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the benefits and drawbacks of online backup today. His answers are also available as an MP3 download.

Become a Service Provider CEO. Transform the World. Play Cisco myPlanNet.  by Cisco Systems, Inc.

October 19, 2009 - Cisco myPlanNet 1.0 is a simulation game that puts you into the shoes of a service provider CEO. You manage your business as it evolves from the stone age of dial-up, through the broadband and mobile connected eras, and into the dawning of the medianet age. Play now.

Best in Class Virtualization: Using Intel-based HP G6 Servers with VMware vSphere 4  by HP, Intel, & VMware

June 05, 2009 - Read this brief paper to get the details about an HP and VMware solution that both enhances service and reduces cost, while positioning operations for growth when the economy turns around.

Best Practices for Building Partnerships Between Network Providers  by Alcatel-Lucent

October 02, 2009 - Network providers must re-examine how they can speed up innovation and time to market by working with trusted partners and developer communities. But energizing such an ecosystem takes careful planning. This podcast discusses the lessons learned in the market for working well with application developers, and best practices for network providers.

Best Practices for Implementing Automated Functional Testing  by Hewlett-Packard Company

April 01, 2007 - By automating functional testing, you can take major steps forward to improve automated business processes. Your development and QA teams can increase the speed and accuracy, and your IT department can achieve a higher ROI from software projects.

Best Practices for Virtualizing Distributed Environments: Enterprise-Class Virtualization for Remote Office and Branch Office Infrastructures  by VM6 Software

October 27, 2009 - This whitepaper provides the 4 best practices that IT leaders of ROBO organizations need to consider when virtualizing their businesses, providing ROI tips and establishing a roadmap for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for virtualizing the distributed ROBO environment.

Best Practices in the Call Center: A Customer Touch-Point Methodology  by Oracle Corporation

January 26, 2009 - One of the biggest dangers in establishing best practices for your contact center is to do so in isolation from your self-service stakeholders. Instead, all customer "touch-points" must be viewed as part of a continuum. Customer touch points include Web Self-Service, Interactive Voice Response, Contact Center Agents, and Face-to-Face transactions.

Better Reporting, Better Results: Successful Strategies from the Field  by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters

March 17, 2009 - Learn how top companies successfully deliver research results to customers and decision-makers. If you want to know more about how to leverage all of your research data, how to communicate insights effectively, and how to get researchers and decision-makers engaged in analysis, you'll want to view this webcast.

Bitpipe Research Guide: EAI and Web Services  by Bitpipe

November 30, 2006 - Research has shown more than 30 percent of IT spending is on integration, with software costs running into the millions of dollars for large enterprises.

Bloor Research - Data Integration Platforms Market Update  by Talend

February 10, 2009 - Talend is an open source provider of data integration products, it has a business model and organisation that more closely resembles that of a conventional software vendor, while still leveraging the open source model.

Blue Coat and VMware  by Blue Coat

December 26, 2008 - Check out this solution brief to see how the joint Blue Coat and VMware solution enables IT organizations to consolidate servers and perform disaster recovery operations in real-time, without the risk of performance degradation due to latency or limited bandwidth.

BMC Mainview: Controlling Mainframe Operating Costs While Maintaining Service Levels  by BMC Software, Inc

April 17, 2009 - 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.

Boom in Mobile Data Creates Backhaul Urgency  by Alcatel-Lucent

March 26, 2009 - This paper will identify the challenges mobile operators face in the current environment; outline the steps they can take to evolve the backhaul network to support greater capacity at lower cost; and examine the role of a trusted partner in helping implement a mobile backhaul solution that meets their specific business imperatives.

BPM Blueworks: The Easy On-Ramp to Business Process Management (BPM)  by IBM

October 16, 2009 - With BPM BlueWorks from IBM, it's never been easier to get started with BPM. Using cloud-based processes and strategy tools, BPM BlueWorks allows you to capture and collaborate on BPM Business Designs, discover and contribute industry-specific BPM content and participate easily in the community. See how today.

Branch Modernization  by Microsoft

June 01, 2009 - Your organization can reduce information technology (IT) costs, improve IT service levels, and enable new business scenarios by adopting best practices that will enable you to modernize your branch infrastructure. These best practices presented in this paper include virtualization, centralized management, and increased network efficiency.

Building a Data Quality Scorecard for Operational Data Governance  by DataFlux Corporation

June 06, 2008 - Operational data governance is the process of evaluating data to see if data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. This is measured with a "data quality scorecard", a management tool for monitoring organizational performance.

Building a Powerful, Resilient, Affordable IT Infrastructure  by CompuCom and IBM

October 09, 2009 - Small and midsize companies with strapped IT budgets and limited IT resources do not have to be limited to inflexible, inefficient IT infrastructures that offer unreliable IT services. Instead, smaller companies can empower their IT environments through virtualization, optimizing assets and realizing new opportunities for efficiency.

Building Your IT Staff: Essential Experience and Skill Sets for Tomorrow's Challenges  by SkillSoft Corporation

August 18, 2009 - In this paper, the top information services leaders share their expertise on how to most efficiently build your IT staff. Read this paper to learn the essential qualities and must-haves for your company's IT Staff.

Business Case for IBM Virtualization Solutions: Bottom Line Impact for Enterprise Infrastructures  by IBM

July 09, 2009 - The IBM Dynamic Infrastructure initiative is a combination of programs, products and services designed to improve service to users, reduce costs and more effectively manage risk across all components of organizational IT infrastructures.

Business Critical Cloud Storage: Best Practices for Archiving Customer Data  by Iron Mountain Digital

October 15, 2009 - Profiled in this whitepaper are two examples of ISVs that have turned to Iron Mountain's Archive Services Platform API solution to help their customers better manage their data. Read this Whitepaper from Iron Mountain to learn more.

Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies—Improving Your Company’s Efficiency and Effectiveness, No Matter Its Size  by SAP AG

September 01, 2009 - While your company has continued to improve its operating efficiencies, you feel your company should be spending more time analyzing what's going on and predicting and planning for the future. This white paper from SAP offers guidance on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company with business intelligence.

Business Process Management Enabled by SOA  by PointSource

March 26, 2009 - The purpose in this IBM Redpaper is to introduce you to the concepts used in the IBM BPM Enabled by SOA methodology. The IBM® Business Process Management (BPM) Enabled by SOA Method provides a structured process for developing an organization's cross-functional, customer-focused, end-to-end core business processes.

Business Productivity with Microsoft Online Services  by Microsoft

September 15, 2009 - This data sheets examines how Microsoft Online Services can give your business the powerful productivity capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting —all hosted online.

Business Ready Virtualization for the Data Center  by Dell, Inc.

June 09, 2009 - Dell is committed to driving the cost and complexity out of virtualization, helping you accelerate adoption and achieve cost savings sooner without sacrificing productivity. Read this solution guide to learn about Dell's Business Ready Virtualization Configurations.

Business Rules with JBoss: Value Overview and High-level Technology Summary  by JBoss, a Division of Red Hat

July 17, 2009 - In this webinar you will learn about the features, capabilities, and value offered by JBoss Enterprise Middleware in the management of business rules. We'll introduce business rules management concepts and value, explore use cases, and dive deeper into the JBoss Enterprise business rules management technology.

Business Service Management: What It Is and Why You Should Care  by Global Knowledge

December 10, 2008 - The purpose of this business training white paper is to explain what BSM is and what it isn't and it will also describe BSM benefits.

Business Together with Microsoft: the unified communications and collaboration solution of Orange Business Services and Microsoft  by Orange Business Services

July 20, 2009 - With the momentum of IP convergence and the movement toward an all digital world, professional communication systems combining telephony over IP, e-mail, instant messaging and audio/video conferencing services are sparking serious interest due to the benefits they offer. Read on to learn more.

Business Value of Storage Virtualisation: Scaling the Storage Solution; Leveraging the Storage Investment  by Hewlett-Packard Company

February 19, 2009 - This analysis looks at the positive business impact of networked storage virtualisation solutions that improve storage asset utilisation, reduce the administrative costs of provisioning new storage systems, and improve application availability.

Business-Driven Virtualization: Optimizing Insight and Operational Efficiency in the Dynamic Datacenter  by Hyper9, Inc.

November 17, 2009 - In this profile you will explore how to maximize future investment returns in more detail and review the key requirements for optimization solutions. You'll then be introduced to the Virtualization Management Maturity Model, an assessment and planning guide for achieving greater operational efficiency at any stage of virtualization.

Buyer’s Guide for Compliance Solutions  by Oracle Corporation

February 13, 2009 - This document presents an overview of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB), and Health Insurance Portability & Accountability (HIPAA). It then translates these mandates into identity management requirements and challenges; defines and describes the reference model, and applies the reference model to the mandates.

Buying your BI solution from your ERP vendor: Strategic Business Enabler or IT Convenience? - Podcast  by IBM

October 08, 2009 - This Podcast explores the benefits and drawbacks of buying business intelligence (BI) solutions from enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, and shares survey results that reveal whether or not customers who have gone down the sole-sourcing path are happy with their decision.