IT/Business Strategic Planning Reports

Making the case for cloud: Using soft skills for hard results
sponsored by BMC-Accenture
EGUIDE: When Lands’ End was struggling to improve agility and scalability in fragmented legacy systems, CIO Steve Cretney knew it was the perfect opportunity to move to the cloud. Inside this exclusive e-guide, find out how Cretney successfully made the case for a new cloud computing model at Lands’ End.
Posted: 07 Sep 2011 | Published: 07 Sep 2011

BMC-Accenture

Advancing Healthcare through the Application of Predictive Knowledge Management
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how the health care industry can proactively support patient-focused care through the use of technology services that enable predictive analysis.
Posted: 20 Jun 2012 | Published: 20 Jun 2012

DellEMC and Intel®

IBM Global CIO Study - Implications for IT Managers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Recognizing that successful IT innovation requires deep involvement with the business overall, CIOs increasingly help set business strategy, use IT to enable business flexibility, and help corporations meet enterprise-wide goals. Learn what this means to IT managers, operations managers, development managers, strategy and architecture leaders.
Posted: 17 Jun 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

IBM

BI and ETL - Process Management Pain Points
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Sound business intelligence (BI) reporting can be invaluable in helping your business peers make the best decisions for your company. Ensuring error-free, end-to-end integration of data between processes distributed throughout your organization, however, can be challenging. Learn how scheduling and process automation technologies can help.
Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Ashurst Australia Focuses on Domestic and International Growth
sponsored by IBM
CASE STUDY: This exclusive case study reveals how the right analytics strategy enabled the law firm Ashurst Australia to address the challenges of business growth by analyzing business performance, identifying opportunities for improvement, and more.
Posted: 14 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

IBM

Storage strategies for the health IT professional
sponsored by EMC Isilon
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Marc Staimer, president of Dragon Slayer Consulting, describes the basics of tiered storage architecture and demonstrates how health care organizations can set policies to automate the process of moving data to different tiers.
Posted: 31 Aug 2012 | Published: 31 Aug 2012

EMC Isilon

The Power of Real-time Continuous Intelligence™ with ESP
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the inherent challenges of dealing with "big data": overwhelming information that seems to come from everywhere and everything. Continue reading to discover strategies for overcoming these challenges by processing "big data" and providing impressive, real-time decision making.
Posted: 12 Jul 2011 | Published: 12 Jul 2011

Sybase, an SAP company

Identify and Leverage Your Existing Service Life Cycles
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This executive brief will illustrate the progression of service management since the 1990s, illuminate the hidden service life cycles and discuss how, once they are visible, we can start to make them work — to improve services and better align IT with business objectives.
Posted: 22 Jul 2010 | Published: 22 Jul 2010

IBM

How to successfully modernize your BI system
sponsored by IBM
EGUIDE: Business intelligence (BI) has become more essential than ever before as organizations strive to stay one step ahead of competitors. Inside this expert resource, learn how IT leaders use emerging strategies for extracting meaningful information from growing stores of data with state-of-the-art BI systems.
Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

IBM

How Do You Measure Up Against Top IT Service Provider Benchmarks? 13 Must See Charts
sponsored by Autotask Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This graphic whitepaper features 13 charts that will show you how your IT department compares to some of the top service providers.
Posted: 04 Feb 2014 | Published: 04 Feb 2014

Autotask Corporation