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<title><![CDATA[Video: Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A better way to do load testing]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1156069]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Watch the free, on-demand video to learn how to easily launch a critical Web application. Ensuring good application performance is crucial, but time is short. How can you optimally test the application and still meet your deadlines? Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web  application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience. Developed through years of testing engagements across all types of platforms, the RBI methodology dramatically reduces load testing cycles while allowing more—and more thorough —testing. Using this approach, organizations can improve application quality, enhance the customer experience, and lower the cost of deploying new systems.  Watch now!
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:35:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Integrating the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog With SAP NetWeaver]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1152799]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The level of integration between SAP Enterprise and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has never been higher. Both systems now offer a common set of interfaces. These interfaces simplify communication, resulting in a significant decrease in the complexity of integration projects and an increase in new cross-system business scenarios. This white paper is part of a series that describes how to configure different cross-system integration scenarios for SAP Enterprise and Office SharePoint Server 2007.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:34:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Configuring the Business Data Catalog]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1152783]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments enables one to integrate data from Line-Of-Business (LOB) systems. Integrating business data into Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation enables one to provide mission-critical analysis of data that is stored on external systems. This paper describes how to plan for business data catalog implementation, including connections, business data presentation, and user profiles. It also explains how to configure the business data catalog by creating connections, managed properties, and custom business data profiles, and supplementing user profile data.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:25:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Integrating the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog and SAP Enterprise for Search]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1140523]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The integration between SAP Enterprise and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has never been stronger. Both systems now offer a common set of interfaces that has simplified the communication between them. The result is a significant decrease in the complexity of integration projects, as well as the availability of many new cross-system business scenarios. This white paper is part of a series for configuring integration scenarios for SAP Enterprise and Office SharePoint Server 2007.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:50:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Service Request Management: A Business Impact Assessment]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1127059]]></link>
<description><![CDATA["Service Request Management" refers to the customer-facing requirements for publishing and actualizing IT services for IT's service consumers. This includes requirements to define, standardize and publish a consistent set of available services, as well as capabilities to support more efficient service delivery through various types of automation, most typically workflow-driven process automation. In other words, the catalog of services provided by an SRM system should ideally represent all business services provided by IT, including many that typically require a high degree of personal involvement, or a high human touch.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:44:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Understanding ITIL Service Portfolio Management and the Service Catalog: An Approach for Implementing Effective Service Lifecycle Management]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1110981]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine trying to run a manufacturing business without a comprehensive, detailed view of the products provided by company. It would be difficult to know all the products currently planned, in development, or available to customers. One wouldn't know the recurring or nonrecurring product costs, the prices, or the sources of products and component assemblies. How could one even determine the support resources required for each product or the product's warranty options? This paper describes the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3 (V3) approach to service portfolio management. It examines the various components of the service portfolio, such as the service catalog. In addition, it discusses technologies available to develop and manage the service portfolio and to leverage the information contained in the catalog.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:22:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Infomercati Modernizes and Automates Business Processes to Increase Operational Efficiency]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=354805]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Infomercati is an obligatory association established in Italy under a 1996 law requiring creation and management of an information system for wholesale food and agriculture markets. Infomercati wanted to deploy a single tool for recording the prices of food and agricultural products, such as produce, fish, flowers, and meat and catalogue the prices recorded in order to compare price lists and permit statistical analysis. The challenge was to ensure rapid information availability outside of the association. Infomercati created the Infomercati SIMA system to centrally store data - including quantity, cost by product and zone, and the number of transactions per market - for all products sold on Italy's food and agriculture markets as well as implemented the Oracle platform for development of a Web-based open standard solution.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:41:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[E-Selling With mySAP CRM: 600,000 Items Cataloged Online]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=318761]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Around the clock, quick, and easy with SAP: Since October 2001, customers throughout the world have been able to find out about the extensive product range provided by Lemforder International AG & Co. KG and place their orders online. Using mySAP Customer Relationship Management (mySAP CRM) and its e-selling capabilities, the Bremen, Germany-based company is breaking new ground in customer acquisition and retention.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:39:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Develop a Service Catalog]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=303363]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[A Service Catalog is a listing of standard services that IT organizations provide to their customers. The Service Catalog is a foundation for defining services and communicating those services to the business. Service Catalog establishes a standard set of deliverables by creating business-oriented agreements associated with Service Levels and their costs. The purpose of a Service Catalog is to ensure delivery of a repeatable and standardized quality of customer service.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:40:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MSDN Webcast: Business Data Catalog for Developers]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=299500]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The Business Data Catalog, a shared service in Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007, provides the powerful capability of exposing back-end data to a portal site. This webcast explores exposing data and services in this unique manner.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:02:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Making Utility Jobs Easy]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=298364]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The attendee of this webcast will learn how to use BMC Software's CATALOG MANAGER for DB2 can easily handle the task of setting up DB2 utility jobs.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:01:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Streamline Requests and Delivery With the New Integrated Service Catalog in HP OpenView ServiceCenter 6.2]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=298314]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The attendee of this webcast will learn how to improve IT service requests and delivery for both customers and IT with a Service Catalog.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:34:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[HP Client Catalog for SMS Technical White Paper]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=294183]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[This paper describes the HP software update catalog for Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) 2003 Release 2 (R2). It also provides an overview of the SMS custom update process, explains the benefits of using the HP Client Catalog for SMS, and gives some insight into how the catalog leverages Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and the HP Client Management Interface (HP CMI). Finally, this paper describes the steps that should be followed to import the catalog into SMS and deploy HP software updates to HP client systems.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:15:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tyler Schools District selects e-mail archiving system to satisfy Public Information Act]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=258363]]></link>
<description><![CDATA["The new archiving solution has placed our district in a favorable position, where we are protected from a potential accusation of not providing all information requested by a citizen.  We can also show that our e-mail records are in a tamper-proof storage system and that we can easily search and retrieve emails using the extensive search tools within the application."  Read more...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:05:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maximizing Value Through IT Services]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=237644]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[This paper describes how running IT as a service-based business has the potential to improve both the real and perceived value of IT to the enterprise. The role of the IT Service Catalog, a critical enabler, is given particular attention. The paper also describes: The circumstances and drivers encouraging a service-based approach to IT; Description and characteristics of an IT Service; Description and characteristics of an IT Service Catalog; Benefits to IT and the enterprise; Considerations for implementation and Opportunities to accelerate results while minimizing risk.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:22:56 -0700</pubDate>
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