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White Papers
How To Use Collaborative Commerce To Manage The Extended Enterprise
Jan 2011
When a company and its key value chain work together to meet customer needs, they are operating in an Extended Enterprise model and virtually all large organizations today are already doing just...
Provided by Business Forum Institute
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White Papers
Next-Generation Data Center
Dec 2009
A generation gap is opening between data centers that are now showing distinct signs of aging and a new generation of data centers that will eventually replace them in many organizations. In these...
Provided by Logicalis Group
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White Papers
One-Page Strategic Plan: How To Complete
Apr 2008
Vision - A Dream With A Plan - Most people don't have visions, they have dreams. The one-page planning document guides you to answer 7 simple questions around your dream - Who, What, When, Where,...
Provided by Gazelles
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White Papers
A Five Year Goal For All Companies
Jun 2010
It's 2013 and your company is paying the highest wages in your industry, affording you the ability to attract and retain the best talent. Yet you have the lowest cost structure, so you have huge...
Provided by Gazelles
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White Papers
Strategic Preparation: Three Critical Steps
Aug 2010
This is the season for strategic planning as companies look to next year and beyond. Yet many small to mid-size companies jump into the process without proper preparation, hampering the...
Provided by Gazelles
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White Papers
Making Strategy Work: A Literature Review On The Factors Influencing Strategy Implementation
Feb 2008
Although formulating a consistent strategy is a difficult task for any management team, making that strategy work - implementing it throughout the organization - is even more difficult (Hrebiniak,...
Provided by University of Lugano
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White Papers
Strategy Execution: Setting Strategy Is Just The Beginning
Jun 2009
Every year, companies invest an extraordinary amount of time, money and effort into the creation of the perfect strategic plan. A well-planned road map for success. Yet few companies actually...
Provided by Hitachi Consulting
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White Papers
Grading Your Business Strategist
Aug 2009
There is the "Boss" role. They get to make large decisions about how to be organized, where to spend money and who to reward. There is the "Marketing" role that gets to tell all types of stories...
Provided by JTHawes Consulting
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White Papers
Closed Loop Performance Management: Closing the Gap between Strategy & Execution
Feb 2011
Formal performance-management (PM) methodologies and solutions can give organizations the discipline to prosper during difficult economic times while providing the flexibility to pursue...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Strategic Debt: Evidence From Bertrand And Cournot Competition
Jun 2007
The authors investigate how competitive behavior affects the capital structure of a firm. Theory predicts that the impact of different types of output market uncertainty (in particular,...
Provided by Development & Policies Research Center
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White Papers
A Reason For Unreason: Returns-Based Beliefs In Game Theory
Sep 2010
Players cooperate in experiments more than game theory would predict. The authors introduce the 'Returns-based beliefs' approach: the expected returns of a particular strategy in proportion to...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Club Networks With Multiple Club Memberships And Noncooperative Stability
Feb 2009
Modeling club structures as bipartite directed networks, the authors formulate the problem of club formation as a noncooperative game of network formation and identify conditions on network...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
Oracle Scorecard And Strategy Management
Feb 2011
More and more executives are realizing the effectiveness of key performance indicators when it comes to measuring and communicating organizational goals. This data sheet explains how the Oracle...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Economic Policy: Protectionism As An Elite Strategy
Jan 2009
The EU has pursued protectionist policies not merely in food but also in manufacturing at the customs union level. In services it has not dismantled much of the existing national protectionism....
Provided by Cardiff Business School
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White Papers
Business Process Management II: Best Practices of Boeing and UPS
Oct 2006
This executive summary is a follow up report to APQC's 2005 "Business Process Management" Best- practice Report. It digs deeper into how organizations are navigating the transition from...
Provided by APQC
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White Papers
What Is Planning and Why You Need to Plan
Oct 2006
Planning is one of the most important project management and time management techniques. Planning is preparing a sequence of action steps to achieve some specific goal. If a person does it...
Provided by Time-Management-Guide.com
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Whitepapers
Whitepaper - Next-generation data protection for midsized companies.
Mar 2011
Next-generation data protection takes advantage of the ever-increasing capacities and decreasing costs of hard disk storage, and can be used to address challenges such as improving your recovery...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Whitepaper - Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign On - An Overview
Mar 2011
This white paper describes Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On, including its key features and benefits. With an increasing number of enterprise applications and access...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Web-based, business-class messaging solution for everyone in your organization
Mar 2011
Take the on-premise solutions off-premise. Just as the Internet makes information available whenever, wherever, cloud computing solutions —which complement your existing IT network — do the same...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Case Study: Hardware retailer increases mobile messaging security and flexibility while improving integration with IBM Lotus
Mar 2011
This document discusses one company's decision to upgrade to IBM® Lotus® Notes®. Numerous feature improvements, such as increased mobile security for virtual private network (VPN) connections,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Network and communications solutions for virtualization and consolidation
Mar 2011
Many organizations are turning to virtualization and consolidation of server and storage resources to help improve efficiency and performance in the data center. These solutions can help you...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Podcast: Is your datacenter ready for cloud computing?
Mar 2011
As you evaluate your datacenter and the future of your IT infrastructure, you may be looking at cloud computing as an option for your IT. Listen to this IBM podcast to: Learn how to evaluate...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Layered Tech: Taking IT to the Next Level
Sep 2009
When hosting services leader Layered Tech acquired a major dedicated hosting provider, it suddenly became a much larger company with bigger infrastructure requirements. Layered Tech needed servers...
Provided by VMware & Dell
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Whitepapers
Networking for a dynamic infrastructure: getting it right.
Apr 2011
Many organizations are turning to virtualization and consolidation of server and storage resources to help improve efficiency and performance in the data center. These solutions can help you...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Case Study - Hardware retailer increases mobile messaging security and flexibility while improving integration with IBM Lotus
Apr 2011
This document discusses one company's decision to upgrade to IBM® Lotus® Notes®. Numerous feature improvements, such as increased mobile security for virtual private network (VPN) connections,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
CIO insights from IBM: IT optimization to meet business goals
Sep 2006
The need for IT optimization is nothing new. But as CIOs are increasingly called upon to drive business strategy, they need to take a new look at their IT optimization goals. They still need to...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Do Consumers Make Too Much Effort To Save On Cheap Items And Too Little To Save On Expensive Items? Experimental Results And Implications For Business Strategy
Feb 2010
The paper presents an experiment that illustrates a behavior that the author denotes "Relative thinking." Subjects in the experiment revealed the minimal price difference for which they were...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Cooperative Strategies For Improving The Tourism Industry In Remote Geographic Regions: An Addition To Trust And Commitment Theory With One Key Mediating Construct
May 2008
The success of cooperative relationships is influenced by interorganizational commitment, which is a long-run goal of networks. The research examined cooperative relationships in the tourism...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Transforming Business Through Collaboration
May 2011
Businesses increasingly see collaboration as a strategic initiative because it allows them to take advantage of new business models and meet customer demands. Collaboration helps organizations...
Provided by Sage Software
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White Papers
Evaluation Of Pairs Trading Strategy At The Brazilian Financial Market
Apr 2008
Pairs trading is a popular trading strategy that tries to take advantage of market inefficiencies in order to obtain profit. The idea is simple: find two stocks that move together and take...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Fund-Of-Funds Construction
Sep 2009
Fund-of-Funds (FoF) managers face the task of selecting a (relatively) small number of hedge funds from a large universe of candidate funds. The authors analyse whether such a selection can be...
Provided by University of Zurich
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White Papers
The Strategic Role Of Suppliers In The New Service Concomitance
Sep 2008
The concomitance arises within the literature about service marketing as the simultaneous fruition of a service in the same place from a plurality of people. Such concomitance has been considered...
Provided by Universita Bocconi
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White Papers
Strategizing In Industrial Networks
Aug 2008
Recently, it was claimed that the overall contribution of the IMP approach to the strategy literature has been insignificant and that, within the strategic management field, the...
Provided by Jonkoping International Business School
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White Papers
Signalling Sustainability Strategies: Preliminary Findings From Two Case Studies
Aug 2010
The purpose of this paper is to develop the understanding on how sustainability strategies emerge. Two case studies focusing on business groups from the cork and electrical equipment sectors are...
Provided by Lancaster University
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White Papers
Identification Strategies In Survey Response Using Vignettes
May 2010
The use of survey data to study the determination of individual preferences is now firmly rooted in the social sciences. Although the theory and application of revealed preference has been a...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Trying To Make Sense Of The Bank Of Japan~s Monetary Policy Since The Exit From Quantitative Easing
Dec 2007
In this paper, the author reviews the Bank of Japan's monetary policy since its exit from the so-called quantitative easing regime early in 2006. The major characteristic of the policy stance...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Belief Free Incomplete Information Games
Sep 2007
The authors consider the following belief free solution concepts for games with incomplete information: incomplete information rationalizability, incomplete information correlated equilibrium and...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
The Paradox Of Sustainability Definitions
Jul 2010
This paper aims to encourage debate and reflection over the increasing application of the word sustainability and the implied meanings taken from this usage. It is argued that there are increasing...
Provided by University of Waikato
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White Papers
Security-as-a-Service: Doing More With Less
Apr 2010
Can you put a price on security? Businesses have taken for granted the fact that they have to invest in security solutions. Traditionally the costs have been in the purchase of software and the...
Provided by Insight
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Resource Center
Security-as-a-Service ROI Calculator
Jun 2011
Security can be your most important investment. Protecting your company's assets from online threats is a necessity that cannot be overlooked. Still, many businesses would like to spend less on...
Provided by Insight
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Downloads
Try IBM Cognos Express FREE for 30 days for integrated reporting, analysis & planning
Dec 2009
Download a free trial of IBM Cognos Express, the first and only integrated business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies. Get essential reporting, analysis,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage
May 2008
Today's professional services climate is challenging. Customers demand local delivery of global services. Sophisticated clients want consultants with deep industry or functional experience. And...
Provided by SAP
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Webcasts
Increase Productivity and Information Availability with ESB Messaging & Enrichment and Industry Connectivity
Dec 2009
Learn how Mayo Clinic improved information availability and improved productivity Mayo Clinic, an internationally renowned group medical practice has embarked on a project to integrate...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Data Protection Strategies: Deduplication for More Efficient Backups
Nov 2009
On-Demand 8 minute Webcast: Data proliferation coupled with increasing pressures to ensure comprehensive data protection is driving organizations to evaluate technologies to help them meet these...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Interference-Aware MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks by a Game-Theoretic Approach
Jan 2009
This paper proposes an interference-aware MAC protocol using a simple transmission strategy motivated by a game-theoretic approach. The paper formulates a channel access game, which considers...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Planning for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Using CA Recovery Management Solutions and VMware vSphere Cloud Operating Systems for High Availability
Nov 2009
Today, IT organizations face significant growth of mission-critical business processes and services, fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the...
Provided by CA XOsoft
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White Papers
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with CA Recovery Management and VMware Infrastructure
Nov 2009
The expansion of IT systems to support the growth of mission-critical business processes and services is fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and...
Provided by CA XOsoft
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White Papers
Adopting Server Virtualization for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Nov 2009
In today's competitive business environment, your IT infrastructure must accommodate rapidly changing business needs and unforeseen problems with minimal impact on day-to-day operations. But this...
Provided by CA XOsoft
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Webcasts
Webinar: Securing the Cloud Dec 10th, 2pm ET / 11am PT
Nov 2009
Cloud computing promises to provide vast computing power, reliable off-site data storage, wide availability, all at lower maintenance and investment costs. But recent cloud computing mishaps have...
Provided by Enterprise Florida
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White Papers
HIPAA Security Provisions: Is Your Network Ready for a Physical?
Oct 2009
The security-focused Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) federal regulation became effective April 2005, requiring many companies to review the health of their systems that...
Provided by Tripwire
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White Papers
A Social Mechanism for Supporting Home Computer Security
Apr 2009
Hackers have learned to leverage the enormous number of poorly protected home computers by turning them into a large distributed system (known as a botnet), making home computers an important...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Whitepapers
Flexible IT contains costs, boosts efficiency
Oct 2009
Like other midmarket companies today, you're probably focused on cost optimization. In the ForwardView article, "Work smarter, not harder: Flexible IT," experts suggest ways to do more with less....
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Get more from BI by understanding your analysis needs
Oct 2009
By understanding the four major types of analysis companies can avoid the common pitfalls that derail more traditional approaches to BI implementation.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Root Access Risk Control for the Enterprise
Oct 2009
Compliance efforts and security concerns have driven businesses to make substantial investments in threat control. Too often, however, these efforts pay far too little heed to the risks posed by...
Provided by BeyondTrust
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White Papers
Improving Efficiency in IT Administration by Implementing Policy Automation
Oct 2009
Privileged access is critical for smooth ongoing administration of IT assets. At the same time, this access exposes an organization to security risks, especially regarding insiders. The right...
Provided by BeyondTrust
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Whitepapers
Top 10 Ways to Increase IT ROI Without Adding Staff
Oct 2009
Tough economic times are upon us, and no one knows how long they may last. Today, IT managers are looking for alternative strategies to increase their IT ROI. The first principle is: Simplify...
Provided by KACE
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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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Webcasts
Join Us for the Informatica 9 Launch: Transform your business. Transform your world
Oct 2009
Join Us for the Informatica 9 Launch Transform your business. Transform your world. Business and IT will finally be on the same page. Data quality issues will be a thing of the past. The promise...
Provided by Informatica
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White Papers
Succession Planning: Five Costly Errors to Avoid
Oct 2009
This white paper shows you how to avoid five of the most common --- and costly -- errors when embarking on a succession planning initiative. You'll learn: How a lack of alignment between the...
Provided by SumTotal Systems
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White Papers
Enabling the Windows Optimized Desktop through Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 R2
Sep 2009
There is more pressure than ever on information technology (IT) departments to deliver business value, despite the challenges of shrinking budgets, rapidly changing technologies, and increasing...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Anthem Education Group: More Bang for the Buck
Sep 2009
Anthem Education Group was paying too much for a third-party service that charged a monthly fee for printer toner with a premium for service calls. The company needed to find a lower-cost solution...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
High-availability Clustering in Microsoft Windows Server 2008
May 2008
Cluster environments enable multiple systems to provide higher availability for applications and services than a single system can typically provide. The Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 OS...
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
Overview of New Security Features in Windows Server 2008
Sep 2009
Microsoft Longhorn, otherwise known as Microsoft Windows Server 2008 has a lot of new features, especially deployment and security features. Today we're talking about Bitlocker. No, it isn't a...
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
Business Ready Security Video
Sep 2009
This video excerpt discusses the future direction and trends of enterprise security. The speaker discusses the importance of security as a primary business activity that must be embraced by...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Veritas Storage Foundation for Sybase ASE Cluster Edition
Sep 2009
Sybase and Symantec are working together to optimize Sybase's Virtualized Resource Management™ technology framework found in ASE Cluster Edition for Veritas Storage Foundation HA. The new solution...
Provided by Sybase
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White Papers
Red Hat Open Source Security
Sep 2009
No software is perfect—even the most rigorously tested and secured operating system or application will contain flaws and vulnerabilities. Open source technology gives administrators control over...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
State of Business Process Management Market 2008
Aug 2008
Over the last few years, BPM has seen rapid growth because it succeeds where earlier approaches have failed -— uniting business strategists and technologists together with a shared set of tools to...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability
Jul 2009
These days, there is tremendous pressure on organizations to develop, integrate and deploy enterprise Web applications at an almost breakneck pace. As a result, many go live and deliver...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Ensuring Web Service Quality for Service-Oriented Architectures
Jun 2008
Current trends show that the vast majority of companies are moving to services-oriented architectures (SOAs) and deploying Web services within and across their IT infrastructure. However, the...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
When your data matters, once a day is not enough
Jan 2009
Remote offices are often the front line for direct client contact and are the heart of your mission critical applications. You need a backup and recovery solution that can offer enterprise-class...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Training
Simplified Cloud Computing
Sep 2009
Cloud computing has emerged as a powerful tool to address the explosive growth of Internet-connected devices by offering highly efficient acquisition and delivery of information technology and...
Provided by IBM
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Downloads
Self-service Cloud Computing
Sep 2009
Cloud computing provides reliable, flexible and cost-effective access to all data, devices and services in a virtualized network environment. Representing a true paradigm shift in the way we view...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
How to share sensitive documents and maintain control over them
Sep 2009
Businesses need to share important or sensitive documents on a daily basis, whether it's quotes or RFP responses sent to customers, intellectual property or specs shared with contractors, or...
Provided by Confidela
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White Papers
Cloud Computing— Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future?
Sep 2009
Cloud computing frees up budgets hand-cuffed by IT expenses. Instead of purchasing software licenses and hardware for new employees and locations, businesses simply add accounts to expand...
Provided by Google
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White Papers
The Path to EPM Success
Jun 2008
An EPM system is most effective when it is applied to the entire organization. But a completely centralized approach to EPM is unrealistic in most large companies. For companies that have many...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
Sybase Webcast "Replication 15.2. Do More with your Data"
Aug 2009
During this on-demand Web seminar you will learn how Sybase Replication Server enables you to move and synchronize data across the hetergeneous enterprise, faster than ever before, adressing a...
Provided by Sybase
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Webcasts
Meeting the Growing Need for Real-Time Data Movement in the Enterprise
Aug 2009
Principal Analyst Noel Yuhanna of Forrester Research discussed the latest demands for data movement and replication within the enterprise. Bill Zhang of Sybase featured the new release of...
Provided by Sybase
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White Papers
Sybase Raises the Bar on Database Replication
Jul 2009
In the past year, Forrester interviewed 27 Sybase customers who are using Sybase Replication Server to investigate their implementations. Most customers found that Sybase met or exceeded their...
Provided by Sybase
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Whitepapers
Top 5 IT Budget Killers (and how you can fight back)
Jul 2008
You've heard it a million times: Do more with less. It may be good business, but as budgets shrink and IT demands grow, you may start to wonder if the people who are saying ""do more with less""...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
PS Series Comprehensive Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange
Jan 2009
PS Series iSCSI SANs deliver high-performance, fully redundant, highly available storage platforms for Exchange deployments — supporting departmental to mission critical Windows® server...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Club Networks With Multiple Club Memberships And Noncooperative Stability
Feb 2009
Modeling club structures as bipartite directed networks, the authors formulate the problem of club formation as a noncooperative game of network formation and identify conditions on network...
Provided by Indiana University
-
White Papers
Oracle Scorecard And Strategy Management
Feb 2011
More and more executives are realizing the effectiveness of key performance indicators when it comes to measuring and communicating organizational goals. This data sheet explains how the Oracle...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Economic Policy: Protectionism As An Elite Strategy
Jan 2009
The EU has pursued protectionist policies not merely in food but also in manufacturing at the customs union level. In services it has not dismantled much of the existing national protectionism....
Provided by Cardiff Business School
-
White Papers
Business Process Management II: Best Practices of Boeing and UPS
Oct 2006
This executive summary is a follow up report to APQC's 2005 "Business Process Management" Best- practice Report. It digs deeper into how organizations are navigating the transition from...
Provided by APQC
-
White Papers
What Is Planning and Why You Need to Plan
Oct 2006
Planning is one of the most important project management and time management techniques. Planning is preparing a sequence of action steps to achieve some specific goal. If a person does it...
Provided by Time-Management-Guide.com
-
Whitepapers
Whitepaper - Next-generation data protection for midsized companies.
Mar 2011
Next-generation data protection takes advantage of the ever-increasing capacities and decreasing costs of hard disk storage, and can be used to address challenges such as improving your recovery...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Whitepaper - Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign On - An Overview
Mar 2011
This white paper describes Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On, including its key features and benefits. With an increasing number of enterprise applications and access...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Web-based, business-class messaging solution for everyone in your organization
Mar 2011
Take the on-premise solutions off-premise. Just as the Internet makes information available whenever, wherever, cloud computing solutions —which complement your existing IT network — do the same...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Case Study: Hardware retailer increases mobile messaging security and flexibility while improving integration with IBM Lotus
Mar 2011
This document discusses one company's decision to upgrade to IBM® Lotus® Notes®. Numerous feature improvements, such as increased mobile security for virtual private network (VPN) connections,...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Network and communications solutions for virtualization and consolidation
Mar 2011
Many organizations are turning to virtualization and consolidation of server and storage resources to help improve efficiency and performance in the data center. These solutions can help you...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Podcast: Is your datacenter ready for cloud computing?
Mar 2011
As you evaluate your datacenter and the future of your IT infrastructure, you may be looking at cloud computing as an option for your IT. Listen to this IBM podcast to: Learn how to evaluate...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Layered Tech: Taking IT to the Next Level
Sep 2009
When hosting services leader Layered Tech acquired a major dedicated hosting provider, it suddenly became a much larger company with bigger infrastructure requirements. Layered Tech needed servers...
Provided by VMware & Dell
-
Whitepapers
Networking for a dynamic infrastructure: getting it right.
Apr 2011
Many organizations are turning to virtualization and consolidation of server and storage resources to help improve efficiency and performance in the data center. These solutions can help you...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Case Study - Hardware retailer increases mobile messaging security and flexibility while improving integration with IBM Lotus
Apr 2011
This document discusses one company's decision to upgrade to IBM® Lotus® Notes®. Numerous feature improvements, such as increased mobile security for virtual private network (VPN) connections,...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
CIO insights from IBM: IT optimization to meet business goals
Sep 2006
The need for IT optimization is nothing new. But as CIOs are increasingly called upon to drive business strategy, they need to take a new look at their IT optimization goals. They still need to...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Do Consumers Make Too Much Effort To Save On Cheap Items And Too Little To Save On Expensive Items? Experimental Results And Implications For Business Strategy
Feb 2010
The paper presents an experiment that illustrates a behavior that the author denotes "Relative thinking." Subjects in the experiment revealed the minimal price difference for which they were...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Cooperative Strategies For Improving The Tourism Industry In Remote Geographic Regions: An Addition To Trust And Commitment Theory With One Key Mediating Construct
May 2008
The success of cooperative relationships is influenced by interorganizational commitment, which is a long-run goal of networks. The research examined cooperative relationships in the tourism...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Evaluation Of Pairs Trading Strategy At The Brazilian Financial Market
Apr 2008
Pairs trading is a popular trading strategy that tries to take advantage of market inefficiencies in order to obtain profit. The idea is simple: find two stocks that move together and take...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Fund-Of-Funds Construction
Sep 2009
Fund-of-Funds (FoF) managers face the task of selecting a (relatively) small number of hedge funds from a large universe of candidate funds. The authors analyse whether such a selection can be...
Provided by University of Zurich
-
White Papers
The Strategic Role Of Suppliers In The New Service Concomitance
Sep 2008
The concomitance arises within the literature about service marketing as the simultaneous fruition of a service in the same place from a plurality of people. Such concomitance has been considered...
Provided by Universita Bocconi
-
White Papers
Strategizing In Industrial Networks
Aug 2008
Recently, it was claimed that the overall contribution of the IMP approach to the strategy literature has been insignificant and that, within the strategic management field, the...
Provided by Jonkoping International Business School
-
White Papers
Signalling Sustainability Strategies: Preliminary Findings From Two Case Studies
Aug 2010
The purpose of this paper is to develop the understanding on how sustainability strategies emerge. Two case studies focusing on business groups from the cork and electrical equipment sectors are...
Provided by Lancaster University
-
White Papers
Identification Strategies In Survey Response Using Vignettes
May 2010
The use of survey data to study the determination of individual preferences is now firmly rooted in the social sciences. Although the theory and application of revealed preference has been a...
Provided by University of Cambridge
-
White Papers
Trying To Make Sense Of The Bank Of Japan~s Monetary Policy Since The Exit From Quantitative Easing
Dec 2007
In this paper, the author reviews the Bank of Japan's monetary policy since its exit from the so-called quantitative easing regime early in 2006. The major characteristic of the policy stance...
Provided by University of Tokyo
-
White Papers
Belief Free Incomplete Information Games
Sep 2007
The authors consider the following belief free solution concepts for games with incomplete information: incomplete information rationalizability, incomplete information correlated equilibrium and...
Provided by Yale University
-
White Papers
The Paradox Of Sustainability Definitions
Jul 2010
This paper aims to encourage debate and reflection over the increasing application of the word sustainability and the implied meanings taken from this usage. It is argued that there are increasing...
Provided by University of Waikato
-
White Papers
Security-as-a-Service: Doing More With Less
Apr 2010
Can you put a price on security? Businesses have taken for granted the fact that they have to invest in security solutions. Traditionally the costs have been in the purchase of software and the...
Provided by Insight
-
Resource Center
Security-as-a-Service ROI Calculator
Jun 2011
Security can be your most important investment. Protecting your company's assets from online threats is a necessity that cannot be overlooked. Still, many businesses would like to spend less on...
Provided by Insight
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White Papers
If Entry Strategy And Money Go Together, What Is The Right Side Of The Coin?
Apr 2011
The goal of this paper is to determine which strategic model, either IO or RBV, allows firms to generate the highest performance on a competitive market. Contrasting with classical studies that...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Metrics for Social Customer Service
Jul 2011
How to Go from Monitoring Metrics to Implementing a Strategic Measurements Model and from Average Handle Time to Sentiments.
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Towards Achieving the Maximum Capacity in Large Mobile Wireless Networks Under Delay Constraints
Jul 2007
This paper explains how to achieve the maximum capacity under delay constraints for large mobile wireless networks. It develops a systematic methodology for studying this problem in the asymptotic...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
The Fundamental Capacity-Delay Tradeoff in Large Mobile Wireless Networks
Aug 2007
The paper establishes the fundamental tradeoff between the achievable capacity and delay in large mobile wireless networks. Under an i.i.d. mobility model, the paper first obtains the following...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks
Aug 2007
The stationary nature of nodes in a mesh network has shifted the main design goal of routing protocols from maintaining connectivity between source and destination nodes to finding high-throughput...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Why We Aren't As Ethical As We Think We Are: A Temporal Explanation
Aug 2007
This paper explores the biased perceptions that people hold of their own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of prediction, action and evaluation is central to these misperceptions:...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Exclusivity And Control
Aug 2007
We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a model of bargaining and price competition...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Recruiting, Developing, And Retaining Solution Architects
Sep 2007
Solution Architects have become the critical path to a PS (Professional Services) organization's ability to successfully scale the business. This paper thoroughly defines the role of the Solution...
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Earned Value Management - Not Just For Monster Projects
Sep 2007
EVM (Earned Value Management) is a way of monitoring your project success based on actual work (time) completed, task estimated percent complete, and work scheduled to be completed. These are each...
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Professional Services Playoff: Five Critical Dimensions Of Leadership And A Playbook For Applying Them
Sep 2007
The role of Professional Services (PS) is changing and consequently the talents required to be a successful PS leader are changing as well. As PS has become a more significant differentiator and...
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Two Mistakes Most Software Services Organizations Make Every Day
Sep 2007
The software services economy is comprised of a large workforce that, through the utilization of their intellectual capital and technical ability, drives the financial success of Professional...
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The Professional Services Business Model - Fighting The 40/20 Myth
Sep 2007
Many Professional Services Organizations focus on increasing bill rates, increasing utilization, and reducing load costs to meet profitability targets. While it's important to track such metrics,...
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