Explore with IDC how successful companies are finding ways to wield IT as a strategic business weapon.
The ITIL framework offers a widely accepted set of recommendations and best practices that help organizations achieve this objective. (IDC, 2008)
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Saving Six Figures Annually With the HP BladeSystem and Managed Services
Career training company ATI Enterprises keeps its IT staff lean and availability high with HP servers and remote management.
Needing a blade infrastructure that’s ready to grow, easy to manage, and up 99.9% of the time, HP helps ATI Enterprises consolidate their IT infrastructure and simplify operations with the HP BladeSystem and management tools from HP and Microsoft.
Managing IT in a Downturn: Beyond Cost Cutting
As the economic slowdown intensifies, companies are looking for ways to cut costs, and IT budgets are a prime target.
Rather than implement across-the-board cuts, managers should take a more integrated view of how IT is used throughout the business. Targeted IT investments can make operations more efficient and increase revenues, delivering returns larger than simple cost-cutting measures typically do.
MultiLingual
Covers the rapidly growing field of international language technology and global business communications. The content emphasizes information on international software development and localization with technical programming articles as well as market-related pieces.
MultiLingual is distributed nine times a year (eight issues plus an annual resource directory/index) to readers in 60 countries. Issues cover topics ranging from technical internationalization to project management to language histories. In addition, product and book reviews give you the latest news and opinions.
eWeek
Is the industry leader for strategic technology information, delivers breaking news, technology evaluations and strategic analysis covering the technologies, platforms and trends important to enterprise-wide computing.
eWEEK, the industry leader for strategic technology information, delivers breaking news, technology evaluations and strategic analysis covering the technologies, platforms and trends important to enterprise-wide computing. Their award-winning journalists and labs analysts provide the news, analysis, opinion and expert product reviews necessary for IT professionals to make the best decisions for their companies.
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insight into how to use BI best practices to optimize business processes, boost operational performance, and achieve compliance goals.
View this previously recorded webinar featuring Gartner. You’ll hear leading experts share their vision for the future of enterprise business intelligence, including how to maximize the success and ROI of BI applications through best practices.
Gartner Analyst Bill Hostmann will kick off the webinar, with a 25-minute marketplace viewpoint. Information Builders will then present its industry-leading best practices for operational business intelligence. Designed to empower organizations to maximize the value and effectiveness of their business intelligence applications, Information Builders’ best practices for operational business intelligence span the critical aspects of successful BI deployments, including:
- Strategic utility of BI
- Organizational readiness
- Data management and integration
- Architecture and administration
- Application design and development
- Migration, re-architecting, right sizing, and conversion
- Security
- Training and education
- Support
Baseline
The Fusion of Business and Technology.
Baseline is the only magazine that provides the practical information business technology leaders need to undertake complex business technology initiatives that produce bottom-line results. These executives seek an understanding of what has worked for other companies, strategies that have resulted in measurable return on IT investment and how to avoid the pitfalls.
CIO Insight
Best Practices for IT Business Leaders.
CIO Insight provides CIO’s and other senior-level technology decision-makers with progressive articles, interviews, surveys and proprietary research on technology strategies and cost-cutting techniques through the lens of experienced industry insiders and professional veteran journalists versed in technology and management issues.
The High Performance Information Workplace: How Social Computing, Team Collaboration and Enterprise Content Management Drive Competitive Advantage
This white paper reviews how utilizing an integrated approach to incorporating content from collaborative sources can reduce business and IT risks and costs.
The rapid adoption of social computing has created opportunities for enterprises to improve their competitive positions in today’s knowledge economy.
Technology Investment and Growth Patterns: the Conditions and Trends Making Way for Mid-Market Success
This informative study conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit takes a close look at the issue of technology investments in mid-sized companies.
The study is based on extensive economic analysis, surveys, and in-depth supporting interviews with executives. At the macro level, it examines how investments in a country’s information infrastructure facilitate the growth of both the overall economy and mid-sized companies. At the micro level, the study outlines the common goals facing midsized businesses worldwide and identifies the most commonly used growth strategies, investment decisions, and general best practices that have lead to success in the mid-market.
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