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White Paper Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with CA Recovery Management and VMware Infrastructure Learn about an integrated approach to application and server provisioning that reduces total cost and complexity, plus boosts application availability.

Tags: Business Continuity, CA XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Data Management, Disaster Recovery

Sponsored by: CA XOsoft
Date: November 2009
CA XOsoft
White Paper Solutions Brief: Storage Consolidation and Data Protection for the Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) Discover how the Dell EqualLogic PS4000 Series drives Enterprise-level efficiencies and capabilities far beyond your corporate data center.

Tags: Backups, Storage Consolidation, Storage, Hardware, Disaster Recovery

Sponsored by: Dell EqualLogic
Date: November 2009
Dell EqualLogic
White Paper Oracle Data Guard with Oracle Database 11g Release 2  Take a closer look at Oracle Data Guard, a comprehensive data protection, data availability, and disaster recovery solution for the Oracle Database.

Tags: Backups, Data Management, Data Protection, Database, Disaster Recovery

Sponsored by: Oracle
Date: January 2009
Oracle
White Paper Adopting Server Virtualization for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Discover the advantages of server virtualization for building an IT infrastructure with robust business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.

Tags: Business Continuity, CA XOSoft, Data Management, Disaster Recovery, Hardware

Sponsored by: CA XOsoft
Date: November 2009
CA XOsoft
White Paper Microsoft Online Services Business Value Gain access to rich communication, collaboration, and productivity applications from anywhere with subscription-based Microsoft Online Services.

Tags: Cloud Computing, Information Technology, License Management, Managed Hosting, Management

Sponsored by: Microsoft
Date: June 2009
Microsoft
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White Paper White Paper: Moving Up the QA Maturity Ladder Inefficient QA practices lead to increased defects, lower customer satisfaction, inefficient schedules, lower employee morale and many other ills that affect bottom line numbers by...

Tags: QA

Company: MDI Group
Date: September 2008
MDI Group
White Paper Information Technology Investment Management: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Process Maturity The Information Technology Investment Management Framework identifies - and organizes into a framework of increasingly mature stages - thirteen processes that are critical for successful...

Tags: Finance, Framework, General Accounting Office, Information Technology, Information Technology Investment Management Framework

Company: U.S. General Accounting Office
Date: March 2004
U.S. General Accounting Office
White Paper IT Service Management: A Business Based Assessment Approach to ITIL Maturity A primary focus of IT Service Management (ITSM) is the application of the ITIL best practices framework to enable IT to be a more effective...

Tags: Information Technology, It Operations, It service Management, It Services, ITIL

Company: IT Service Management Forum (itSMF)
Date: October 2005
IT Service Management Forum (itSMF)
Webcast Momentum Webcast: Charting Your Path on the SAM Maturity Model (Level 100) The attendee of this webcast will learn about the new Software Asset Management (SAM) Maturity Model and how and why one should consider charting the...

Tags: Business Operations, ISO, Iso standards, Management, Process Improvement

Company: Microsoft Tips
Date: April 2008
Microsoft Tips
Webcast From Tactical to Strategic: The Workforce Optimization Maturity Model Asking about the maturity of a contact center is certainly a delicate matter. But it is a question that has to be asked. This webcast...

Tags: Call Centers, Contact Center, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, It Operations

Company: RealMarket
RealMarket
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White Paper The IBM Data Governance Council Maturity Model: Building a Roadmap for Effective Data Governance Data governance is a quality control discipline for adding new rigor and discipline to the process of managing, using, improving and protecting organizational information. Effective...

Tags: Business Operations, Data Governance, IBM Corp., IBM Data Governance Council Maturity Model, Quality

Company: IBM
Date: October 2007
IBM
White Paper MDM Components and the Maturity Model Any effective master data management program requires a mix of technologies to achieve success. This white paper by David Loshin provides a conceptual outline of...

Tags: Master Data Management

Company: DataFlux
Date: October 2008
DataFlux
White Paper IT Risk Management: Balanced Maturity Can Yield Big Results Think IT risk management is just about spending money to avoid risks? Think again. Recent research shows that organisations taking a balanced approach to IT...

Tags: Information Technology, Management, Maturity, Strategy

Company: IBM
Date: January 2009
IBM
White Paper SOA Maturity Model: Guiding and Accelerating SOA Success To successfully adopt SOA, a company must create a plan that addresses the full extent of the changes required for SOA. For the past five...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Middleware, Oracle Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA

Company: Oracle
Date: September 2008
Oracle
Webcast Five Levels of Requirements Management Maturity This webcast provides a framework for the requirements management discipline to help practitioners categorize and understand requirements management concepts, from simple to complex. Someone first...

Tags: Webcast

Company: IBM
IBM
White Paper Information Lifecycle Management Maturity Model Information lifecycle management (ILM) has been widely hyped in the storage industry without a clearly understood vision or a defined approach to implementation. Information lifecycle...

Tags: Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Information Lifecycle Management, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement

Company: Storage Technology
Date: April 2005
Storage Technology
White Paper Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3): Knowledge Foundation The Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3) falls naturally within the sequence of Standards published by the Project Management Institute (PMI). A Guide to the...

Tags: It Operations, It service Management, Knowledge, Management, OPM3

Company: Project Management Institute
Date: February 2004
Project Management Institute
White Paper A Marketing Maturity Model for IT: Building a Customer-Centric IT Organization Despite a variety of management tools, valuable management prescriptions, and the desire of Information Technology (IT) managers and business managers alike to build a better...

Tags: Information Technology, Management, Marketing, Marketing Research, Relationship

Company: IBM
Date: January 2006
IBM
White Paper Information Lifecycle Management - Benchmark Study: Maturity Progression Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a sustainable storage strategy that balances the cost of storing and managing information with its business value. This paper is...

Tags: Business Operations, Strategy, Software, Quality, Progression

Company: Sun Microsystems
Date: February 2006
Sun Microsystems
Research Report IT Leadership Maturity Checkup Forrester has taken its IT leadership maturity model and tested it against the experience of 84 senior IT executives. This checkup looks at three sets...

Tags: Forrester Research Inc., Information Technology, Management, Strategy

Company: Forrester Research
Date: February 2007
Forrester Research
White Paper The Data Governance Maturity Model For any organisation, the first step to address the quality and value of corporate data is to take an honest assessment of the data management...

Tags: Data Management, Data Quality, Databases, DataFlux Corp., Enterprise Software

Company: DataFlux
Date: January 2008
DataFlux
White Paper Information Management Maturity Model Information Management (IM) is a sustainable storage strategy that balances the cost of storing and managing information with its business value. A well executed and...

Tags: Information Management, Management, Strategy

Company: Sun Microsystems
Date: September 2006
Sun Microsystems
Resource Center Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Maturity Value Calculator In just five minutes you can use this calculator to assess your Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) maturity level, compare it with your peers and...

Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., Personal Finance, Portfolio Management

Company: CA (Computer Associates)
Date: January 2009
CA (Computer Associates)
White Paper Leveraging Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Best Practices to Attain Organizational Maturity In order to be competitive today, companies must actively listen to their customers and innovate quickly in response to new challenges, customer needs and business...

Tags: Business Operations, Strategy, Quality, Process Improvement, Management

Company: CompuCom Systems
Date: September 2007
CompuCom Systems
White Paper Test Maturity Model Integrates (TMMI) Survey Results Test maturity model integrated (TMMi) survey results. How mature are companies software quality management processes in today's market?

Tags: Experimentus, Management, Marketing, Marketing Research, Survey

Company: Experimentus
Date: March 2009
Experimentus
White Paper AppLabs and the Test Maturity Model Integration (TMMi) The Test Maturity Model Integration (TMMi) Foundation is an organization dedicated to improving testing for everyone. The TMMi Foundation has been founded as a non-profit...

Tags: AppLabs, Organization, Test Maturity Model Integration Foundation

Company: AppLabs
Date: July 2009
AppLabs
White Paper Getting Strategic About Quality: Using the Borland Quality Maturity Curve to Create a Lifecycle Quality Management Plan for Lasting Change This paper describes how one can use Borland's Quality Maturity Curve (QMC) concept to break this unproductive cycle and achieve quality objectives in an efficient,...

Tags: Borland Software Corp., Business Operations, Quality, Quality Management

Company: Borland
Date: November 2008
Borland
White Paper Business Intelligence Maturity and the Quest for Better Performance: Why Most Organizations Aren't Realizing the Full Potential of BI - And What Successful Organizations Do Differently The goal of this paper is to assess where companies stand in the evolution of their use of information - and how they are turning...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Software, Pricing, Performance, Marketing

Company: SAS Institute
Date: May 2007
SAS Institute
White Paper Baselining IT Service Management The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with an introduction to the concept of baselining the maturity of IT Service Management processes....

Tags: Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, It Services, ITIL

Company: ProActive Services
Date: March 2006
ProActive Services
White Paper Using SAS BI Web Services and PROC SOAP in a Service-Oriented Architecture Many businesses are just starting to use a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). In order to build an understanding of what an SOA consists of and to...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Middleware, SAS Institute, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA

Company: SAS Institute
Date: March 2008
SAS Institute
Webcast Effective PPM - Realistic Steps to Success As IT organizations begin adopting PPM practices to help support their charter, many are realizing that their organization's culture, capabilities and process maturity don't match...

Tags: Compuware Corp., Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Financial Planning

Company: Compuware
Date: January 2009
Compuware
White Paper Achieving Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level 2 Using IBM Rational Software’s Solutions This paper identifies how the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Version 2002.05.00 and the application of IBM Rational tools and services, along with your organization's processes,...

Tags: Capability Maturity Model, Capability Maturity Model (CMM), IBM Corp., Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software

Company: IBM
Date: January 2003
IBM
White Paper S-Ox and the Need to Audit IT Processes A disciplined approach to internal process controls and good IT governance are the keys to complying with Sarbanes Oxley. Section 404(a) calls on companies to...

Tags: Audit, Information Technology, Internal Control, IT Governance, Management

Company: Simplex Knowledge
Date: December 2004
Simplex Knowledge
White Paper EA Readiness Assessment: Validation Report The success of an Enterprise Architecture program lies in the ability to assess the current maturity of the program and apply that knowledge to provide...

Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Management, Strategy

Company: National Association of State Chief Information Officers
Date: August 2003
National Association of State Chief Information Officers
Book Chapters Develop more efficient code under the new Java language specifications The latest specifications reflect the increasing maturity of Java. This chapter excerpt describes the current lexical structure of the Java programming language.The inner workings of...

Tags: Addison-Wesley, Java, Programming Language, Programming Languages, Software Development

Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: August 2005
Addison Wesley Professional
White Paper Infrastructure Foundation for Business Service Management: An ITIL Approach Many businesses are looking for ways to demonstrate the value that IT makes to the bottom line. With an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework...

Tags: Business Operations, Quality, Process Improvement, Management, ITIL

Company: BMC Software
Date: August 2006
BMC Software
Webcast MSDN Webcast: Collaborative Project Management With SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help to manage projects of various levels of work complexity, process,...

Tags: It Operations, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Project Management, Microsoft SharePoint

Company: Microsoft
Microsoft
Book Chapters Effectively implement improved process solutions in your company based on industry best practices Implementing the IBM Rational Unified Process and Solutions: A Guide to Improving Your Software Development Capability and Maturity is a hands-on roadmap for anyone looking...

Tags: Best Practice, Chapter Coverage, IBM Corp., Industry, Ooa/Ood/Oop

Company: IBM Press
Date: July 2007
IBM Press
White Paper Aberdeen Group: B2B Collaboration: Assessing the ROI of Process Integration By helping companies assess their own B2B collaboration maturity and making specific recommendations for action based on maturity levels and business objectives, this Aberdeen Group...

Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, Integration, Internet

Company: Sterling Commerce
Date: July 2006
Sterling Commerce
White Paper Maturing Your Demand Management Practices In this paper, Susan Cramm, executive coach and founder of Valuedance, explains how effective demand management is a key factor in a CIO's success -...

Tags: Compuware Corp., Finance, Investment, Stage

Company: Compuware
Date: January 2007
Compuware
White Paper Create the Ideal SOA Team: Redefining the Roles of Traditional Software Development Teams The prevailing evolution in software development is moving from traditional software architecture to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). In traditional software architecture, one thinks of a project...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Middleware, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA, Software

Company: IBM
Date: July 2006
IBM
White Paper IBM Master Data Management: Effective Data Governance Organizations with data-sharing environments, complex information and systems hinder business responsiveness and decision makers' ability to make informed decisions. Collaboration among users, functions and systems...

Tags: Data Management, IBM Corp., Master Data Management

Company: IBM
Date: November 2007
IBM
White Paper The Key to IT Business Alignment Is in Operations The predictability of results is a sign of maturity in any activity or process. Predictability is also what IT is trying to achieve but very...

Tags: Forrester Research Inc., Information Technology, Management, Predictability, Process

Company: Forrester Research
Date: April 2007
Forrester Research
Case Study Clinical Trials Firm Uses IO and SAM for Postmerger Strategic Planning and Integration Worldwide Clinical Trials (Worldwide) provides clinical research and drug trial services for companies around the globe. Approached by Microsoft, Worldwide participated in an Infrastructure &...

Tags: Asset, Asset Management, Business Operations, Clinical Trial, Healthcare

Company: Microsoft
Date: June 2009
Microsoft
White Paper Maximizing NFS Scalability on Dell Servers and Storage in High-Performance Computing Environments Popular because of its maturity and ease of use, the Network File System (NFS) can be used in high-performance computing cluster environments. This paper discusses...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell Server, File System, High-performance, High-performance Computing

Company: Dell
Date: October 2004
Dell

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