IT/Business Strategic Planning White Papers

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IT Transformation Consulting Services: Align your technology direction
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This brief resource introduces an IT transformation consulting service as a means of achieving effective, value-driven change. Read on now to learn how you can ensure business and IT alignment, spur business growth, and more.
Posted: 09 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 May 2012

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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

Integrating the Finance organization for global business: Important implications for CIOs
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at the growing alignment between the financial and technical disciplines. It examines the results of the Global CFO Study 2008 in the context of IT, identifying the critical implications for CIOs, and the need for a strategic partnership with CFOs and more ongoing collaboration between Finance and IT.
Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

IBM

SOA Centers of Excellence: Preserving Order Amid Change
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: There is only one good way to approach the adoption and facilitation of SOA and Web services, and that is to establish, right from the beginning, a corporate Center of Excellence to guide the revolution from making a compelling business case to putting in place a long-term solution for measuring and improving on every success.
Posted: 23 Dec 2009 | Published: 21 Mar 2008

Oracle Corporation

Virtual and Superior: How to Build Teams that Get Things Done
sponsored by Citrix
WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights tips and best practices for CIOs looking for more effective ways to cut risk and create value in virtual environments through better teamwork.
Posted: 12 Sep 2012 | Published: 12 Sep 2012

Citrix

A Business Intelligence (BI) Agenda for Midsize Organizations: Six Strategies for Success White Paper
sponsored by IBM Cognos
WHITE PAPER: Success in business intelligence is all about facilitating sound, data-driven decisions at every level of the business. Read this white paper to learn six strategies for BI success, drawn from the experiences of actual IBM Cognos customers.
Posted: 02 Mar 2009 | Published: 02 Mar 2009

IBM Cognos

Enhancing Decision-Making, Cost-Efficiency, and Profitability With Predictive Analytics
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: Business and IT leaders are under pressure to make more intelligent decision and more accurate estimates – making effective predictive analytics a top priority in today's business world. Read this paper to learn about a next-generation unified decision-support environment that can simplify the analysis of past, present, and future data.
Posted: 03 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 Aug 2012

Information Builders

The new collaboration: enabling innovation, changing the workplace
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the changing face of collaboration and the ways in which the new collaboration can benefit business. It points out that smart businesses already are looking for ways to connect communities so they can tap into both internal and external knowledge and use that knowledge to accelerate innovation.
Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

IBM

Why Buy Vs. Build Serena Service Manager
sponsored by SERENA Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This decision guide demonstrates how migrating to Serena Service Manager will help transform your IT organization into an agile, responsive, and business-focused service provider.
Posted: 04 Apr 2012 | Published: 04 Apr 2012

SERENA Software, Inc.

Implementing Best Practices: The Dell Management Console and ITIL
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how reduced budgets and growing demands on IT departments have forced organizations to find ways to cut costs, increase IT resource productivity, and optimize existing investments. Find out more about on this topic and how the new Dell Management Console can assist you.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

Dell, Inc. and Intel®