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Validating the Business Benefits of Integrated Systems Management: The LANDesk Software Customer Experience
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
IT organizations want to provide high-quality, low-cost technology services to business units as part of their basic mission; however, software complexity, manpower changes, mergers and...
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Linux Management With Red Hat Network Satellite Server: Measuring Business Impact and ROI
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Linux is increasingly being used to deploy business applications and databases, trading on its reputation as a low-cost operating environment. For many IT organizations, Linux is a mainstay for...
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SLA 101: What to Look for in a Service-Level Agreement
March 15, 2006, 12:00am PST
Many IT administrators aren't comfortable handing over control of the most critical security components of their infrastructure. But in recent years, security outsourcing has become a popular and...
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Evolution or Revolution: Either Approach to Core Banking Investment Requires Proper IT Risk Mitigation
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The banking industry in North America and around the world is reeling from the financial crisis. To change and adapt quickly, institutions recognize that large-scale IT investment and realignment...
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Open Text and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server: The Road to Greater Productivity
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This White Paper focuses on the solutions and frameworks that Open Text has developed to address this market need. These solutions augment and extend the SharePoint environment so that content...
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Video Telephony: Completing the Picture of Unified Communications Effectiveness
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Unified Communications (UC) is a term that has been heralded in the telephony and network markets as the IT architecture that will streamline business processes and break down the distinct silos...
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The Business Benefits of Hosted Email Security for the SMB
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
All businesses face a daily bombardment of email spam that consumes valuable IT staff time as well as end-user productivity. In addition, email is an attack vector for many types of security...
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Endpoint Security: Proactive Solutions for Networkwide Platforms
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This white paper examines the looming threat horizon that is forcing companies to reexamine their endpoint security functions and discusses ESET's solution for integrated security management that...
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Containing Vendor Sprawl: Improve Security, Reduce Risk, and Lower Cost
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This white paper analyzes the benefits of reducing vendor sprawl associated with security, storage, and system management solutions. Corporate IT systems have grown extremely complex as point...
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Mobile Line-of-Business Applications for the Midsize Business: An ROI Analysis
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This white paper analyzes the ROI and value proposition around mobility solutions available to the midsize business. The white paper examines key market requirements for mobility solutions,...
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Mobility Solutions in Enterprise-Sized Businesses: Quantifying the Return on Investment
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The deployment of Line-Of-Business (LOB) applications in large enterprises is happening in earnest today as organizations recognize strong business benefits in the deployment of such solutions....
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Green IT Barometer: European Organisations and the Business Imperatives of Deploying a Green and Sustainable IT Strategy
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This white paper details the results of the first IDC-Dell Green IT Barometer. Addressing green and sustainability issues brings significant changes to the IT organisation and the infrastructure...
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Making IT Greener: Choosing Windows Server 2008 on Dell
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The pressure to increase environmental sustainability is becoming a pressing concern for organizations around the world. Thanks to the high concentration of energy-gobbling electronics in the data...
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Grow IT Smarter: Choosing Windows Server 2008 on Dell
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Business growth is a primary goal of most organizations. In challenging economic conditions, however, intelligent and sustainable growth is the only sure path to success. IT professionals have...
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Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This white paper takes a look at the growth of Linux as a server operating system and how deployment form factors have changed over time. Today Linux has become a key server for supporting...
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Web - Based Security for Business Enablement
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
IDC explores the complexities specific to Web-based transactions and evolving Web-driven ecosystems. IDC research highlights the solutions available today to achieve security, scalability,...
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Operationalizing Compliance Through Business Service Automation
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This white paper provides IT executives and staff with key considerations and best practices for reducing risk and improving compliance visibility across the IT service life cycle. The paper...
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Intel Itanium: A Scalable Platform for Mission-Critical Applications
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
IT managers frequently "Inherit" the infrastructure they must manage. Often, that infrastructure is fragmented in information "Silos" that impede the process of virtualization of the server...
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Optimizing Business Benefits for Midsize Companies Through the HP-Oracle Accelerate Partnership
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Midsize companies - firms that are neither small businesses nor in the Fortune 5000 - are under increasing pressure to sharpen their business processes in light of globalization and changing...
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Using Clustered File System Software for Superior Application Availability
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Managers across organizations of all types and sizes would prefer not to experience downtime, but that might not be realistic expectation. Organizations for which downtime - say, even 20 minutes -...
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Pulling the Thin Provisioning Lever to Improve Storage Management Efficiency
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
IT departments and systems administrators are beset by storage management challenges. The tremendous growth in the amount of digital data, combined with IT staffs that are stretched thin, is...
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Identifying Storage Management Challenges When Deploying Server Virtualization
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Server virtualization market has been growing at a double-digit rate for the past two years, and is expected to continue growing in 2008 and beyond. The need for consolidation to reduce datacenter...
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Using Availability and Clustering Software to Maintain Business Continuity in the Era of Virtualization
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The market for highly available servers and high availability is growing, reflecting enterprise demand for solutions that strive to maintain business continuity. These solutions are becoming more...
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Virtualization on Itanium: Intel Enables Choice and Flexibility for Customers
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Intel is partnering with a host of virtualization providers to deliver customers as much choice and flexibility as possible on which to run their mission-critical applications. Key virtualization...
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Advanced CPUs: The Impact on TCO Evaluations of Retail Store IT Investments
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many retail IT and store operations executives struggle to justify the up-front acquisition/purchase costs of Point-Of-Sale (POS) replacement terminals, allowing legacy store equipment to...
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Beyond Power Consumption: What It Really Means to Go Green
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
"Going Green" has become one of the most pervasive slogans in today's commercial marketplace. Growing awareness among policymakers, who are introducing more stringent environmental regulation and...
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Dell Takes Holistic Approach to the Secondary Storage Market With Its Intelligent Data Management Solutions
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This white paper analyzes the market opportunity for Dell's new data protection appliance, the PowerVault DL2000 product. In addition, IDC explores Dell's offering in the context of the secondary...
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Why the Software Industry Is Building Appliance Solutions on Commercially Available Hardware
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Enterprise IT managers are under pressure to accomplish more each year with budgets that are being held to little or no growth. Thus, they must find new solutions that are more efficient and more...
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The Economic Impact of Microsoft's Windows 7, Worldwide
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This profile quantifies the forecasted economic impact that Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system will have worldwide from launch in October 2009 to the end of 2010. The impact is seen in IT...
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IT Economics: Streamlining Application Performance Management With Extended Visibility and Visualization
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This IDC White Paper discusses how APM solutions can help IT managers cope with todays economic and operational IT challenges. The paper identifies the types of application performance management...
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Secure Collaboration and Secure Information Access: Enablers for Citizen-Centric Services
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This White Paper presents a pair of case studies that describe how two government agencies are proactively addressing the challenges associated with providing citizen-centric services. In an...
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The Business Value of Software Deployment Services
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This white paper describes the challenges enterprises can encounter when deploying software packages into their IT environment. It also highlights what enterprises should consider when evaluating...
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Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The use of static x86 server configurations is quickly becoming an outdated concept with the introduction of modern solutions based on blade architectures, which can offer both intelligent...
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Remote Client Solutions: The Multiplication of Virtualisation Technologies
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This White Paper analyses the various models of IT infrastructure available today - how they compare with the traditional distributed infrastructure, and what ROI can be expected from the...
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Next-Generation Management Software for Blade Environments
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper examines HP Insight Software and the importance of manageability in the selection of a blade platform with ProLiant servers. It joins the IDC white paper Gaining Business Value and ROI...
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Blade Servers for the Masses: Cost Advantages in Midsize and Enterprise Markets
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Early in their adoption cycle, blade servers were designed to provide economies of scale for larger systems. However, only the largest IT organizations gained the capital and operating cost...
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Realizing TCO Savings With HP BladeSystem Virtual Connect Flex-10 Technology
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
HP Virtual Connect technology is an interconnect option for HP BladeSystem designed to simplify the connection of blade servers to datacenter networks. Virtual Connect creates pools of LAN and SAN...
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Linux Adoption in a Global Recession
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Linux has been a commercially viable solution for much of the past decade and has battled its way into the number 2 position in the industry on the basis of units deployed on an annual basis. In...
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The Market for Software Appliances: An Opportunity Poised for Growth
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the midst of an uncertain economy, end users are increasingly looking for simplicity in their IT solutions. The goal of streamlining operations will lead customers to more cost-effective...
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Demonstrating Return on Investment With Enterprise-Class Identity and Access Management Technology
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
End-to-end, secure Identity and Access Management (IAM) within a distributed systems infrastructure is a key goal of most organizations today. This Paper demonstrates how enterprise customers can...
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With Its New PowerXCell 8i Product Line, IBM in Tends to Take Accelerated Processing Into the HPC Mainstream
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Fifteen years ago, the High-Performance Computing (HPC) market started to abandon its data-parallel, vector architectural lineage and turned to commodity-priced scalar processors. One by one, the...
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End Point Security: Proactive Solutions for Networkwide Plat Forms
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The past few years have witnessed several highly publicized cases of security breaches at major corporations. These high-profile incidents have emphasized the need to protect and control sensitive...
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Voice Over IP Security: Issues and Answers
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is an increasingly popular technology that allows participants to make telephone calls using a broadband Internet connection rather than a traditional analog...
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Reducing IT Costs With Client Virtualization
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Organizations are always looking for ways to reduce their IT costs and increase their flexibility and agility - but that combination rarely comes together at the same time. The development and the...
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Validating the Business Benefits of Integrated Systems Management : The LANDesk Software Customer Experience
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
IT organizations want to provide high-quality, low-cost technology services to business units as part of their basic mission; however, software complexity, manpower changes, mergers and...
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Using Desktop Virtualization to Drive Quality and Cost Savings in Clinical Computing
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Incentives created by the HITECH Act portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) are expected to result in a surge of new Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Computerized...
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The Future of Virtualization: Leveraging Mobility to Move Beyond Consolidation
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The server virtualization marketplace has been evolving rapidly over the past few years and IDC has seen customer attitudes and stances toward virtualization mature rapidly as well. As customers...
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The Economic Impact of File Virtualization: Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiency for File-Based Storage
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The continued expansion of file-based, business-critical information within extended enterprises is changing the storage dynamic in a wide range of industries and organizations. In a series of...
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Managing Distributed Software Development Teams
November 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
Software development is a process of evaluation and management of user requests and requirements, control of project specifications and scope, and leadership and coordination of the development...
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Retaining Your IT Staff
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A difficult economy has not reversed the demand for talented IT professionals. It might be more competitive than three years ago, but IT workers with a strong skills base and the experience to...
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ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The US Healthcare system has endeavored to give codes are deeply embedded as part of the coding, providers a systematic way to classify diseases in reporting, and reimbursement methodology in use...
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Leveraging SUSE Linux Enterprise and HP Platforms for Business-Critical Work Load Deployments
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Linux has come a long way in the past decade. Considered to be little more than a curious phenomenon by enterprise customers 10 years ago, Linux is increasingly becoming a platform of choice for...
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Return on Investment: Migrating to Blade Servers
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
IDC believes that IT technology will be a significant component to future business initiatives, whether it be expanding business internationally, dealing with M&As, adhering to regulations, or...
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Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers: Scalable Platforms for Enterprise Computing
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The datacenter is changing, with concerns about power and cooling, availability, and reliability becoming top-of-mind issues for datacenter managers. These issues affect operational costs, on an...
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Oracle Database and Microsoft Windows and .NET Interoper Ability: Packing Much More Than Meets the Eye
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Though often coming without much fanfare, the interoperability initiatives between Oracle and Microsoft technologies around Oracle database support on Windows and with .NET application development...
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Aid to Recovery: The Economic Impact of IT, Software, and the Microsoft Ecosystem on the Global Economy
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Economists have long recognized the important role Information Technology (IT) can play in a country's development. As the IT sector helps lead the corporate sector out of the worst global...
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Intelligent Workload Management: Opportunities and Challenges
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Over the next several years, IDC expects enterprises will continue to increase both the percentage of virtualized datacenter workloads and the density of Virtual Machines (VMs) on physical servers...
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The Supercomputer on Your Desktop
February 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
High-Performance Computing (HPC) has almost always required a supercomputer - one of those room-size monoliths that find at government research labs and universities. And while those systems...
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Implicit Advantages Accrue to Integrated Storage Management Suites
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Hitachi Storage Command Suite is an integrated product that is based on extensive research into current and future market directions as well as pain-point feedback from users. While the suite...
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Enabling SharePoint Operational Efficiency and Information Governance With EMC SourceOne
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is dedicated to providing firms with guidance on addressing the operational and information governance challenges associated with managing SharePoint sites, libraries and content...
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Optimizing Infrastructure : The Relationship Between IT Labor Costs and Best Practices for Managing Windows Servers
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Windows Server 2003 and earlier Windows Server products are the most widely deployed operating systems ever sold. Most organizations using server operating systems have one or more Windows Server...
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Improving Desktop Management With Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Some of the most basic tasks that IT departments face deal with desktop management, yet managing internal IT users present great challenges. These challenges include testing for application...
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The Evolution of the Multi-Protocol SAN
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The recession and global economic crisis in 2009 had a profound effect on organizations investment and operations priorities. Some of these (e.g. delayed capital expenditures and staff reductions)...
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Improving IT Economics and Gaining Business Value With CA's Enterprise IT Management Software: An ROI Study
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recent dislocations in the world economy have driven IT economics especially the cost and value of IT operations to the forefront of IT concerns. With this situation in mind, the authors present...
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The Evolution of SAP Support Services: SAP Enterprise Support
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Enterprise software has become an essential component of everyday operations in most large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses. To minimize downtime and maintain peak performance,...
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SAP in the Small Enterprise: Lessons Learned in Europe and Africa
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Small European enterprises are under pressure to comply with regulations and industry standards, conduct business in several countries, often using several languages, and currencies, and manage...
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SAP in the Mid - Sized Enterprise: Lessons Learned in Europe and Africa
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Mid-sized enterprises are under pressure many sides. Despite growth, they often find it hard to reap global economies of scale because local systems and business procedures inhibit coordination,...
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Case Studies
Case Study: College Converges Fixed and Mobile Phones
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
New College, Durham likes to keep ahead of the curve on technology. It's installing a system that will save money by letting staff use mobile phones to make calls over the college Wi-Fi network....
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The Benefit of Using Windows 7 in Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
All indications suggest that Windows 7 will be a major success with business customers of all sizes as well as with consumers. Windows 7 has the ability to drive productivity and user satisfaction...
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Understanding the Spectrum: Videoconferencing to Telepresence Solutions
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Videoconferencing and telepresence in particular give organizations the ability to effectively message and align an entire company. Videoconferencing and telepresence not only help executives...
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SAP ERP Life -Cycle Management Overcoming the Downside of Upgrading
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Enterprises today are reliant on their ERP to streamline critical business activities. In accordance, ERP systems have become increasingly sophisticated and include a wide range of capabilities,...
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Driving the Real Value From a CRM Solution in a High-Volume Contact Center
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This white paper discusses the current state of high-volume contact centers. It considers the business and technical challenges involved in maintaining good customer support in the face of rising...
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Sybase PowerBuilder Meets Microsoft .NET: Setting the Pace for Application Development Productivity
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Sybase PowerBuilder has remained throughout the years a bastion of application development productivity for a wide class of enterprise applications that combine heavy database orientation with a...
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Why Architecture Matters: PowerDesigner Enhances Support for Enterprise Architecture
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This white paper examines the evolutionary changes that are occurring in the overall architectural tools market, including the increasing emphasis on enterprise architecture tools and the...
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Driving Productivity With Multiple Monitors
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This white paper discusses the increasing need for a cost-effective, easy-to-use multiple-monitor solution. It explores the impact adding multiple-monitor workstations had on three tech-driven...
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Running and Optimizing the Business of IT : The SAP Best Practices Approach
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
IT organizations are challenged to deliver effective services to constituents and end users who align with business priorities and who can change quickly to meet evolving requirements. At the same...
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Seamless Communications: Simplicity, Efficiency, and Transparency Achieved Through Integrated Wireline and Wireless Services
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This White Paper provides analysis of the convergence between wire line and wireless technologies and the opportunities this evolution offers to enterprises looking to reduce costs, minimize...
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Distinctions Between SMB and Enterprise Requirements for Protection, Archiving, and Recovery
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper segments the differences in requirements and characteristics among firms of differing sizes when it comes to how they manage their data and the types of features and solutions they look...
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Case Studies
IT Management and Virtualization Software Reduce Cost and Energy Consumption at BMC Datacenter : An ROI Case Study
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today's IT organizations act as service providers to the business. IT must align with business strategy, minimize operational costs, maximize the return from investments and operational...
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Case Studies
MAXM Database Advisor From BMC Drives IMS Agility at Multimillion-Dollar European Financial Services Firm
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This global group of companies offers a complete range of financial and nonfinancial products and services in over 30 countries around the world. One of the company's most valuable assets...
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