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Whitepapers
Change Is Constant: PMBOK Guide® 5th Edition
Jan 2013
On December 31, 2012 the fifth edition of the PMBOK Guide® was released and once again the profession of project management moved forward. As we wrap up the current four-year review cycle and...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Building A Successful Roadmap to the Cloud
Mar 2012
Whether your organisation is just getting started in the cloud or is looking to expand the usage beyond one or two workloads, it pays to have a solid roadmap in place. The roadmap will ensure to...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Practical Project Management: Tips, Tactics, and Tools
Oct 2003
Practical Project Management: Tips, Tactics, and Tools is a valuable work for the insights it contains into the real world of genuine project management. It is written by an author who has...
Provided by AEW Services
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Whitepapers
Project Management: Communication is the Key to Management and Leadership
Aug 2012
Project managers lead groups of people or teams, share a vision with them, control and direct project activities, and communicate with their teams and with other stakeholders, ensuring the...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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White Papers
Project Manager Competency Development (PMCD) Framework
Nov 2002
The Standard presented in this paper provides guidance on defining project manager competence. The Project Manager Competency Development (PMCD) Framework was developed to apply generically to all...
Provided by Project Management Institute
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Whitepapers
The Manager’s Guide to Avoiding 7 Project Portfolio Pitfalls
Jan 2013
Do projects seem to appear out of nowhere? Do you find yourself scrambling to pull together reports for executives? Download this free guide and learn about several project portfolio management...
Provided by AtTask
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White Papers
Bet Your Excel Spreadsheet Can't Do This - Align IT and Business with Demand Management
May 2008
In this white paper, renowned Project Portfolio Management (PPM) luminary, and former PMI President and Chairman, Harvey Levine discusses the newest approaches to Demand Management, and how you...
Provided by Serena Software
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Downloads
Find out how quickly your green IT projects can pay off with this ROI tool
Jul 2010
If you're considering a green IT project, you probably want to know how quickly the project and offer a return on the investment you're making. With this online assessment tool, based on research...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Tips for choosing a cloud services provider
Jan 2013
IT leaders know that their businesses - and their jobs - depend on thoughtful planning. Once the decision has been made to pursue or build upon a cloud service model, what criteria should be...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Project Management Tool Analysis and Recommendations White Paper
Jan 2004
The Principal Center for Workgroup Hardware and Software (PCHWS) has been involved in an extensive study of project management tools in use and available in industry. Under the FY2000 Memorandum...
Provided by NASA
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Podcasts
The Distinct Edge Group leverages Skillsoft project management content
Dec 2012
Virginia Clark, Co-founder of The Distinct Edge Group and former CLO of SAP and Unisys, utilizes Skillsoft content with clients to prepare employees for the project management certification. It's...
Provided by SkillSoft
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Whitepapers
Keeping distributed endpoints safe and secure
Feb 2013
In today’s far-reaching environments, where the numbers and varieties of servers, desktops, laptops, mobile devices and specialized equipment such as point-of-sale (POS) devices, ATMs and...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Case Study: The Body Shop International
Jan 2010
The Body Shop International is a values driven retailer of high quality skin and body care products. In order to increase operational efficiency and reduce the total cost of ownership, The Body...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Webcasts
Service Cost Management: Extending the Power and Value of Service Request Management
Oct 2010
Extend the value of automated request fulfillment by adding financial transparency into IT service costs and consumption with Service Cost Management. With Service Cost Management one can...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Speeding Software Innovation through Mass Collaboration
Jul 2011
To get their projects moving in the right direction, enterprise development organizations need to take a hard look at what's working and what isn't, and make the changes necessary to succeed in...
Provided by CollabNet
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White Papers
10 Keys to Successful Scrum Adoption
Sep 2008
Scrum is a project management approach for Agile software development and is the most commonly adopted Agile approach in the industry today. Construx has worked with hundreds of organizations to...
Provided by Construx Software Builders
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White Papers
Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed
Aug 2005
It should be noted that the background of author Gerry Kendall is as a consultant, strategic planner and public speaker, while Steve Rollins's interest is in Enterprise Program/Project Management...
Provided by AEW Services
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White Papers
Offshore Project Management - Risks and Best Practices
Jun 2005
Outsourcing and offshoring have been the biggest trends of the last decade in IT. As more and more companies take advantage of the overwhelming benefits of reduced costs and increased flexibility,...
Provided by Zinnov
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Whitepapers
Avoiding 7 project portfolio pitfalls: Manager's guide
Oct 2012
Do projects seem to appear out of nowhere? Do you find yourself scrambling to pull together reports for executives? Download this free guide and learn about several project portfolio management...
Provided by AtTask
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Downloads
Download Savvion's Free Business Process Modeling Software
Jul 2006
The first step in improving your business processes is to articulate precisely where bottlenecks exist, and the most efficient way to do that is by simulating your existing processes using...
Provided by Savvion
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Research
Best Practices for Service-Level Management
Dec 2004
Aligning IT with business objectives and showing the value of IT to the business is often seen as the Holy Grail by many CIOs. Among the potential ways of demonstrating IT value, reporting and...
Provided by Forrester Research
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White Papers
Value of Project Management in IT Organizations
Oct 2001
Implementing project management adds significant value to IT organizations. This conclusion is the result of a survey of senior-level project management practitioners by the Center for Business...
Provided by Project Management Solutions
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Whitepapers
The Formula for Project Success
Apr 2011
We can learn a lot about project management from NASA's race to the moon. However, successfully managing work isn't rocket science. It begins with aligning corporate strategy and workforce...
Provided by AtTask
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Case Studies
Capgemini Success Story: Citibank Taiwan
Jan 2007
Citibank Taiwan wanted to focus on core competence, to reduce the costs of Applications Management in Technology Service Group, and to leverage external professional resources on application...
Provided by Capgemini
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Webcasts
IT Manager Webcast: Deploying SharePoint Server With Project Server 2007 (Level 200)
Mar 2008
Out of the box, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 is deployed on top of Windows SharePoint Services. The presenter of this webcast explains why customers are deploying Project Server 2007 with...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Online Services (Part 4 of 4): Infrastructure Planning and Migration (Level 200)
Apr 2009
The Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services Suite provides organizations with unprecedented flexibility and scalability in the deployment of enterprise-grade communications and...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Improving Patient Care with a High-Performance CampusFabric
Jun 2009
The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), a large medical treatment and research campus in upstate New York, is the university's primary medical facility for education, research, and...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Customer Video: Siemens
Aug 2009
Siemens is one of the largest technology companies with six major business divisions. They chose DB2 and SAP for scalability, performance, increased savings, and lower TCO.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Aberdeen - A Fresh Look at SAP's Software as a Service (SaaS) Solution
May 2009
After a year of silence surrounding SAP's newest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, SAP Business ByDesign is back. Aberdeen takes a fresh look at the solution.
Provided by SAP
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Webcasts
IBM Web Seminar: Dynamic Process Change to Optimize Cost and Agility.
Oct 2009
Tune into this Web Seminar to hear BPM industry analysts, Dr. Bruce Silver and Amy Lipton share how dynamic BPM powered by the IBM® Smart SOATM approach can help you react quickly and drive ROI....
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Asset Management Is a People Business
Oct 2008
Allianz Global Investors wanted to provide a quick, reliable way to notify employees during an emergency or crisis. Previously, Allianz relied on manual call-trees for employee notification which...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Engineering Consultancy Receives 13 Recommendations for Future Development With Dell's IT Simplification Assessment Service
Aug 2009
Halcrow, a leading engineering consultancy, wanted confirmation that it was on the right track with its IT environment and to benchmark its infrastructure against other firms in the industry. Dell...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Infrastructures for Innovation
Jan 2010
"Nearly nine out of ten senior IT and business executives say that data, voice and network services can be leveraged to drive innovation, facilitating remote access to critical applications and...
Provided by Qwest Communications
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White Papers
Demystifying Deduplication
Jan 2010
This article explains how deduplication holds the promise of efficient storage and bandwidth utilization, accelerated backup and recovery, reduced costs, and more. Understanding how this...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
White Paper Spotlight: "IT Outsourcing Essentials" Research Series from IT Consulting Int'l
Nov 2004
Inside Volume I - "Collaboration Fundamentals: Preventing Client/Vendor Process Mismatch" * A Process Compatibility Matrix Diagram * Real Life Process Mismatch Examples * Visual Aid to...
Provided by IT Consulting International
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Research
Defining IT Portfolio Management
Sep 2004
Business cases for IT investments are now the norm rather than the exception. However, projects are still considered individually as discrete investments. Likewise, there is often a segmentation...
Provided by Forrester Research
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White Papers
An Alternative to the Business Case
Jun 2005
It is generally accepted that a new project requires a business case to get approval to proceed. The business case is a financial estimate, and justification for the existence of the project. So...
Provided by Project Perfect
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White Papers
Project Management Assessment Overview
Jun 2005
Any process should be fast, cheap, and disrupt your life as little as possible. You don't need the solutions detailed. You need the problems identified. If you have a significant problem with how...
Provided by Project Perfect
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White Papers
Do I Need a Project Manager?
Jun 2005
As project managers we assume everyone sees a need for a professionally trained or experienced project manager on every project. It is sometimes a shock to find that non project people see a...
Provided by Project Perfect
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White Papers
Project Manager to Project Leader? And the Rocky Road Between...
Jun 2002
The "planning" phases of a project involve the crystallizing of project goals, the development of the concepts and technical requirements and planning for implementation. These activities...
Provided by University of British Columbia
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Whitepapers
Keeping distributed endpoints safe and secure
Feb 2013
In today’s far-reaching environments, where the numbers and varieties of servers, desktops, laptops, mobile devices and specialized equipment such as point-of-sale (POS) devices, ATMs and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Managing Growth in 2012
Feb 2013
This independent market assessment, conducted by Loudhouse Research, canvassed 300 senior decision makers of software and IT services companies across the world, with responsibility for finance or...
Provided by Netsuite AU
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Whitepapers
The Manager’s Guide to Avoiding 7 Project Portfolio Pitfalls
Jan 2013
Do projects seem to appear out of nowhere? Do you find yourself scrambling to pull together reports for executives? Download this free guide and learn about several project portfolio management...
Provided by AtTask
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Whitepapers
Tips for choosing a cloud services provider
Jan 2013
IT leaders know that their businesses - and their jobs - depend on thoughtful planning. Once the decision has been made to pursue or build upon a cloud service model, what criteria should be...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Cisco Unified Data Center: The Foundation for Private Cloud Infrastructure
Mar 2012
Enterprises are often held back by an inflexible and complex IT infrastructure that cannot keep up with the new application and service demands of an increasingly distributed workforce. These...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Change Is Constant: PMBOK Guide® 5th Edition
Jan 2013
On December 31, 2012 the fifth edition of the PMBOK Guide® was released and once again the profession of project management moved forward. As we wrap up the current four-year review cycle and...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Case Studies
SPSS Statistics Case Study: Metro Spinal Clinic supports ground-breaking research
Jan 2013
Metro Spinal Clinic found paper forms didn’t allow patients a way to pinpoint their pain issues. With the help of IBM® SPSS® software, Metro developed an online graphical interface...
Provided by IBM
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Podcasts
The Distinct Edge Group leverages Skillsoft project management content
Dec 2012
Virginia Clark, Co-founder of The Distinct Edge Group and former CLO of SAP and Unisys, utilizes Skillsoft content with clients to prepare employees for the project management certification. It's...
Provided by SkillSoft
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Whitepapers
Avoiding 7 project portfolio pitfalls: Manager's guide
Oct 2012
Do projects seem to appear out of nowhere? Do you find yourself scrambling to pull together reports for executives? Download this free guide and learn about several project portfolio management...
Provided by AtTask
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Whitepapers
Building A Successful Roadmap to the Cloud
Mar 2012
Whether your organisation is just getting started in the cloud or is looking to expand the usage beyond one or two workloads, it pays to have a solid roadmap in place. The roadmap will ensure to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Project Management: Communication is the Key to Management and Leadership
Aug 2012
Project managers lead groups of people or teams, share a vision with them, control and direct project activities, and communicate with their teams and with other stakeholders, ensuring the...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Analyst Whitepeper: Bloor Research: Sybase ASE Total Cost of Ownership - A Comparison to Oracle
Mar 2012
Given that Sybase ASE can now be deployed as the foundation for SAP Business Suite and BW implementations (in addition to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2), the information is relevant to...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Extended Warehouse Management with SAP SCM
Mar 2012
Learn how SAP SCM functionality has been extended to provide broader warehouse management support via SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM). Designed to work in high-volume warehouses, SAP...
Provided by SAP
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Podcasts
Pro actively Manage Energy Consumption - Don't Just Report on It
Mar 2012
SAP's energy analysis solution provides real-time, actionable energy information on usage and resulting costs that can be used for identifying energy reduction opportunities to lower energy costs...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers - Video
Find an Assured Unix Platform For Oracle Applications with SPARC and Solaris
Dec 2011
Organizations running Oracle software for their mission-critical applications need a clear roadmap for their server platform that offers assured support, along with best-in-class performance and...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
IBM Systems Solution with SAP Discovery System
Oct 2011
Whether you plan to integrate new SAP products into your infrastructure or are preparing for an upgrade, the IBM Systems solution with SAP Discovery system can help you thoroughly evaluate SAP...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Business Continueity for SAP on System Z
Oct 2011
This book describes the IBM High Availability Solution for SAP on System z, which provides the means for fully automating the management of all SAP components and related products running on z/OS,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Taking management of your SAP environment to the next level
Oct 2011
IBM Integrated Service Management solutions deliver the capabilities necessary to address even the most complex and sophisticated IT infrastructures. With this industry-leading portfolio of tools,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Speeding Software Innovation through Mass Collaboration
Jul 2011
To get their projects moving in the right direction, enterprise development organizations need to take a hard look at what's working and what isn't, and make the changes necessary to succeed in...
Provided by CollabNet
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Whitepapers
System engineering: Four top design tips
Aug 2011
The current economy has driven many companies to look for ways to take cost out of their products and make their products even more appealing with more feature rich, intelligent products. This is...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Use product development for competitive advantage
Aug 2011
Remember when MP3 players just played music? Today, consumers want players that can host music, stream video, support messaging and offer games. These smart products, driven by innovative...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Study: Product innovation requires more flexible software delivery
Aug 2011
Product development leaders are fervently seeking more innovation, and software is playing an increasingly central role in that innovation. As the pace of product innovation increases, the need...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Systems engineering: Best practice for development success
Aug 2011
Systems engineering isn't just a technical activity in the product lifecycle—it determines the commercial viability of the entire project. It's also very demanding: your project should aim to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
GHY Customer Reference: Architecting an IT transformation for increased business innovation
Jun 2011
GHY International, a provider of customs brokerage services, wanted to increase its ability to provide rapid, reliable service while focusing IT resources on delivering business value. Read this...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
A Software to Manage Risks in Project's Negotiations
May 2008
The constant changes in social, economic and political scenarios have influenced how negotiation is discussed in organizations. In this paper, decision-making processes usually require great...
Provided by Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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Whitepapers
International Technology Group: Value Proposition for IBM Power Systems - Platform Choices for the Enterprise SAP Infrastructure
Jun 2011
In today's environment the central issue becomes how to maintain competitive momentum while reducing costs. SAP solutions can play a major role in achieving the former. New approaches to the...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Consumer-Specified Service License Selection and Composition
Nov 2007
Service oriented computing represents the convergence of technology with an understanding of cross organizational business processes. A service license describes the terms and conditions for the...
Provided by University of Trento
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Whitepapers
The Formula for Project Success
Apr 2011
We can learn a lot about project management from NASA's race to the moon. However, successfully managing work isn't rocket science. It begins with aligning corporate strategy and workforce...
Provided by AtTask
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Whitepapers
Strategy Guide to Business Risk Mitigation for Healthcare
Feb 2011
When you think of IT disaster recovery for a hospital, you might envision a plan for protecting critical patient data if the facility is struck by a flood or a fire. What does not immediately come...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Gartner "Magic Quadrant" examines communication services vendors
Mar 2011
Selecting a vendor for telecommunications and IT network services can be complex - and can have an enormous impact on your organization. Communications services are important to your operation,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Financial Analysis Analogies for Software Risk
Sep 2010
A dynamic software risk assessment model is presented. Analogies between dynamic financial analysis and software risk assessment models are established and based on these analogies it suggested...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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Case Studies
CA Technologies Transforms Online Experience for Thousands of Customers
Aug 2010
CA Technologies provides IT management software and solutions to the majority of the Forbes Global 2000, as well as government organizations and thousands of companies in diverse industries...
Provided by CA
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Case Studies
RWWA Safeguards Wagering Revenues With IT Service Assurance
Sep 2010
Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) provides strategic direction and leadership in the development, integrity and welfare of the racing and wagering industry in Western Australia. Racing...
Provided by CA
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Webcasts
Service Cost Management: Extending the Power and Value of Service Request Management
Oct 2010
Extend the value of automated request fulfillment by adding financial transparency into IT service costs and consumption with Service Cost Management. With Service Cost Management one can...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Making What Goes Around Come Around: Improve Constituent Services by Re-Using Information Effectively
Nov 2010
Technology is one area where progress is evident. Change is afoot everywhere, from optimizing government websites for mobile devices, to coordinated healthcare services and discussions about...
Provided by Optical Image Technology
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Webcasts
Integrated and Secure Point-of-Sale Processing: Intelligent Point-of-Sale Automation
Dec 2010
Snap-on Credit deployed Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions integrated with its point-of-sale system and electronic signature capability to deliver an intelligent, automated forms workflow.
Provided by Adobe Systems
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Whitepapers
Free Project Management Toolkit - For Executives
Dec 2010
Learn what other executives are doing to increase visibility into project resources and team productivity by downloading this free project management toolkit from @task. This collection of white...
Provided by AtTask
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Whitepapers
Discover 11 Secrets to Spot a Failing Project
Dec 2010
Learn 11 secrets that successful project managers use to fail-proof their projects. Find out about best practices for managing projects in your organization by downloading this FREE article: "How...
Provided by AtTask
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Whitepapers
Service Comprehension
Oct 2008
Confronted with the complexity of services systems, providers capitulate to the build and hope approach, so dominant in software engineering - rather than the design, analyze, build and improve...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Define, Hire, And Develop Your Next-Generation Project Managers
Oct 2010
This Forrester white paper explores the evolution of project management and outlines steps for defining, hiring and developing your next-generation project managers.
Provided by Citrix Online
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Whitepapers
Building A Successful Roadmap to the Cloud
Mar 2012
Whether your organisation is just getting started in the cloud or is looking to expand the usage beyond one or two workloads, it pays to have a solid roadmap in place. The roadmap will ensure to...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
What is Application Lifecycle Management?
Dec 2008
Defining application lifecycle management (ALM) isn't easy. Different people (and different vendors) take quite different perspectives. Still, ALM is an important topic, and so understanding what...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Project Management: Communication is the Key to Management and Leadership
Aug 2012
Project managers lead groups of people or teams, share a vision with them, control and direct project activities, and communicate with their teams and with other stakeholders, ensuring the...
Provided by Global Knowledge
-
Whitepapers
Change Is Constant: PMBOK Guide® 5th Edition
Jan 2013
On December 31, 2012 the fifth edition of the PMBOK Guide® was released and once again the profession of project management moved forward. As we wrap up the current four-year review cycle and...
Provided by Global Knowledge
-
Downloads
Download Savvion's Free Business Process Modeling Software
Jul 2006
The first step in improving your business processes is to articulate precisely where bottlenecks exist, and the most efficient way to do that is by simulating your existing processes using...
Provided by Savvion
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White Papers
Improving Patient Care with a High-Performance CampusFabric
Jun 2009
The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), a large medical treatment and research campus in upstate New York, is the university's primary medical facility for education, research, and...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
Case Studies
Customer Video: Siemens
Aug 2009
Siemens is one of the largest technology companies with six major business divisions. They chose DB2 and SAP for scalability, performance, increased savings, and lower TCO.
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Aberdeen - A Fresh Look at SAP's Software as a Service (SaaS) Solution
May 2009
After a year of silence surrounding SAP's newest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, SAP Business ByDesign is back. Aberdeen takes a fresh look at the solution.
Provided by SAP
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Webcasts
IBM Web Seminar: Dynamic Process Change to Optimize Cost and Agility.
Oct 2009
Tune into this Web Seminar to hear BPM industry analysts, Dr. Bruce Silver and Amy Lipton share how dynamic BPM powered by the IBM® Smart SOATM approach can help you react quickly and drive ROI....
Provided by IBM
-
Case Studies
Asset Management Is a People Business
Oct 2008
Allianz Global Investors wanted to provide a quick, reliable way to notify employees during an emergency or crisis. Previously, Allianz relied on manual call-trees for employee notification which...
Provided by Dell
-
Case Studies
Engineering Consultancy Receives 13 Recommendations for Future Development With Dell's IT Simplification Assessment Service
Aug 2009
Halcrow, a leading engineering consultancy, wanted confirmation that it was on the right track with its IT environment and to benchmark its infrastructure against other firms in the industry. Dell...
Provided by Dell
-
White Papers
Infrastructures for Innovation
Jan 2010
"Nearly nine out of ten senior IT and business executives say that data, voice and network services can be leveraged to drive innovation, facilitating remote access to critical applications and...
Provided by Qwest Communications
-
White Papers
Demystifying Deduplication
Jan 2010
This article explains how deduplication holds the promise of efficient storage and bandwidth utilization, accelerated backup and recovery, reduced costs, and more. Understanding how this...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
-
White Papers
White Paper Spotlight: "IT Outsourcing Essentials" Research Series from IT Consulting Int'l
Nov 2004
Inside Volume I - "Collaboration Fundamentals: Preventing Client/Vendor Process Mismatch" * A Process Compatibility Matrix Diagram * Real Life Process Mismatch Examples * Visual Aid to...
Provided by IT Consulting International
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Research
Best Practices for Service-Level Management
Dec 2004
Aligning IT with business objectives and showing the value of IT to the business is often seen as the Holy Grail by many CIOs. Among the potential ways of demonstrating IT value, reporting and...
Provided by Forrester Research
-
Research
Defining IT Portfolio Management
Sep 2004
Business cases for IT investments are now the norm rather than the exception. However, projects are still considered individually as discrete investments. Likewise, there is often a segmentation...
Provided by Forrester Research
-
White Papers
An Alternative to the Business Case
Jun 2005
It is generally accepted that a new project requires a business case to get approval to proceed. The business case is a financial estimate, and justification for the existence of the project. So...
Provided by Project Perfect
-
White Papers
Project Management Assessment Overview
Jun 2005
Any process should be fast, cheap, and disrupt your life as little as possible. You don't need the solutions detailed. You need the problems identified. If you have a significant problem with how...
Provided by Project Perfect
-
White Papers
Do I Need a Project Manager?
Jun 2005
As project managers we assume everyone sees a need for a professionally trained or experienced project manager on every project. It is sometimes a shock to find that non project people see a...
Provided by Project Perfect
-
White Papers
Project Manager to Project Leader? And the Rocky Road Between...
Jun 2002
The "planning" phases of a project involve the crystallizing of project goals, the development of the concepts and technical requirements and planning for implementation. These activities...
Provided by University of British Columbia
-
White Papers
Practical Project Management: Tips, Tactics, and Tools
Oct 2003
Practical Project Management: Tips, Tactics, and Tools is a valuable work for the insights it contains into the real world of genuine project management. It is written by an author who has...
Provided by AEW Services
-
White Papers
Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed
Aug 2005
It should be noted that the background of author Gerry Kendall is as a consultant, strategic planner and public speaker, while Steve Rollins's interest is in Enterprise Program/Project Management...
Provided by AEW Services
-
White Papers
Butler Group - The Business Value of Collaboration
Feb 2010
This report looks at the benefits, costs and risks of new collaborative technologies available and how they can best be used in business. Mindjet's Catalyst solution is featured to demonstrate how...
Provided by Mindjet
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White Papers
Content and Motion case study
Feb 2010
Content and Motion are a fast paced marketing agency with many blue chip clients. They required a way to present concepts and thoughts in a clear format for their clients to quickly understand....
Provided by Mindjet
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White Papers
Case Study - WebEx Communciations inc
Feb 2010
WebEx uses Minjet's MindManager software to streamline their project management and allow for better communication of plans to both clients and the teams. By being better able to visualise their...
Provided by Mindjet
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White Papers
Ascendworks Case Study
Feb 2010
Ascendworks has integrated Mindjet Catalyst in to their sales process to gain a faster and better understanding of their prospects. The solution has made their business much more successful in...
Provided by Mindjet
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White Papers
Value of Project Management in IT Organizations
Oct 2001
Implementing project management adds significant value to IT organizations. This conclusion is the result of a survey of senior-level project management practitioners by the Center for Business...
Provided by Project Management Solutions
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White Papers
Project Manager Competency Development (PMCD) Framework
Nov 2002
The Standard presented in this paper provides guidance on defining project manager competence. The Project Manager Competency Development (PMCD) Framework was developed to apply generically to all...
Provided by Project Management Institute
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White Papers
Project Management Tool Analysis and Recommendations White Paper
Jan 2004
The Principal Center for Workgroup Hardware and Software (PCHWS) has been involved in an extensive study of project management tools in use and available in industry. Under the FY2000 Memorandum...
Provided by NASA
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Research
Taking Your PMO to the Next Step: The Office of the CIO
Sep 2005
Project management offices (PMOs) have long been responsible for overseeing and developing project management expertise, but forward-thinking companies are now considering them for a new role: the...
Provided by Forrester Research
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White Papers
Enterprise Project Management - IT Governance and the Program Management Office
Jan 2006
Organizations are challenged to track and measure the effectiveness of a large number of projects in various aspects of their work, and aligning Information Technology costs with business...
Provided by Software Spectrum
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Case Studies
Manufacturer Saves $300,000 by Moving to Scalable, Hosted Online Services
Nov 2009
Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc. is a U.S.$1 billion global provider of manufacturing equipment and services. The company's employees rely on up-to-date messaging technology to conduct business...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Software-Plus-Services Model Cuts Management Tool Sales Cycle to Less Than 12 Months
Apr 2009
Independent software vendor The Online Workshop of Melbourne, Australia, specialises in building enterprise-class asset management software. With its new product SmartAsset, the firm wanted to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Software-Plus-Services Approach Increases Customer Time-to-Value for Solution
May 2008
Nimbus develops and markets a process management application that helps organizations handle major business change, such as software implementations, outsourcing, and mergers and acquisitions....
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
IT Project and Portfolio Management and Application Life Cycle: Understanding the Market and Enabling IT/Business Coordination
Feb 2006
Today, Global 2000 organizations are striving to gain strategic advantage and efficiencies of scale through better governance and management of IT projects and programs. This executive level...
Provided by Borland Software
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White Papers
Offshore Project Management - Risks and Best Practices
Jun 2005
Outsourcing and offshoring have been the biggest trends of the last decade in IT. As more and more companies take advantage of the overwhelming benefits of reduced costs and increased flexibility,...
Provided by Zinnov
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Webcasts
Introducing GoToTraining: Online Training Made Easy
Mar 2010
How can you make the most of your training time and budget? Moving at least part of your training efforts online not only saves time, money and other valuable resources, it increases...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Case Studies
City of Rome Gains Ability to Plan Future Projects With More Efficient Use of IT Resources
Mar 2010
The City of Rome wanted to provide complete visibility into the city's Oracle software usage to more effectively manage Oracle licensing -term development and improve compliance with Oracle...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Improve IT Project Management
Apr 2010
"I needed a quick and reliable way to gauge the overall health of my projects. The Crowdcast solution was spot on." - VP of IT, Oracle Sophisticated IT systems can be complex and expensive to...
Provided by Crowdcast, Inc.
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Webcasts
How to Rapidly Train your Global Workforce
Aug 2009
View this recorded webinar to learn from industry expert how meet training goals faster and more easily. Discover the tools you need to not only create your training content faster but also roll...
Provided by Adobe Systems
