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10 Dying IT Skills
sponsored by Global Knowledge
 | White Paper: | Posted: 13 May 2009
| | Published: | 13 May 2009 | |
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When an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to think about updating your skill set.
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Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.
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Assembling the Jigsaw - Realising the Value of Data
sponsored by Sage (UK) Limited
| White Paper: | Posted: 16 Mar 2010
| | Published: | 16 Mar 2010 | |
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The ability to manage data is becoming increasingly key to a company's ability to compete effectively in today's ever more competitive business environment. The following paper outlines some of these drivers and examines the strategic role enhanced data management can play.
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BI for Business Users: How IT Can Make Business Intelligence Easy for Everyone
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 20 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 23 Apr 2009 | |
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This white paper explores how today's advanced business intelligence solutions can put powerful, informative BI information into the hands of more users.
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BMC Mainview: Controlling Mainframe Operating Costs While Maintaining Service Levels
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 17 Apr 2009 | |
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Directors of IT operations are under pressure to control or reduce mainframe operating costs while maintaining service levels to the business. This paper describes how BMC® MAINVIEW® from BMC Software uniquely delivers aggressive and strategic performance management and optimization.
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BPM Taxonomy Whitepaper - Dan Woods - Sponsored by SAP and Accenture
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Mar 2009 | |
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This paper provides a survey of the practices and technology related to business process management (BPM). Basic concepts are explained, the transformational effect on the enterprise is examined, and the value that BPM can create is analyzed. The paper then presents a survey of the vast array of technology that is related to BPM.
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Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 09 Jun 2008
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2008 | |
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Business intelligence (BI) allows organizations to better understand, analyze, and even predict what's occurring in their company.
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Business Rules and Gap Analysis: Discovery and Management of Business Rules Avoids Business Disruptions
sponsored by Micro Focus, Ltd
| White Paper: | Posted: 04 Dec 2009
| | Published: | 23 Nov 2009 | |
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This paper will assess how to locate and account for functionality gaps. It will also illustrate a methodology for realigning applications with business goals.
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Context is King: Practical Rule Mining-- Accelerating the Discovery and Reuse of Existing Business Rules
sponsored by Micro Focus, Ltd
| White Paper: | Posted: 07 Dec 2009
| | Published: | 25 Nov 2009 | |
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This paper explores how contextualization and insight into existing applications accelerates the discovery and transformation of logic into refined, true business rules. It also includes a discussion of best practices around this semantic capture of technical rules and their abstraction into business rules.
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Controlling Costs and Driving Agility in the Datacenter: Optimizing Server Infrastructure with Microsoft System Center
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
| White Paper: | Posted: 23 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 01 Nov 2007 | |
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To help control costs, improve business agility, and remain secure and in compliance, many IT organizations are taking steps to transition to a truly dynamic infrastructure. Microsoft® System Center is a family of leading IT management solutions that helps IT departments proactively plan, deploy, manage, and optimize an IT environment.
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Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
sponsored by APC by Schneider Electric
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 03 Feb 2009 | |
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This paper explains how data center efficiency can be measured, evaluated, and modeled, including a comparison of the benefits of periodic assessment vs. continuous monitoring.
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Embedding Architecture into the Organization
sponsored by Infosys Technologies Limited
| White Paper: | Posted: 04 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2005 | |
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Our experience suggests that Enterprise Architecture (EA) governance determines the impact of the architecture team to a great degree. We describe and manage EA governance along six dimensions.
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Employing Best Practices for Mainframe Tape Encryption
sponsored by CA
| White Paper: | Posted: 24 Feb 2010
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2008 | |
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Read this paper to learn how to implement a tape encryption strategy that aligns with business practices, security objectives and compliance drivers.
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From Reporting to Performance Management – A Roadmap: How IT Can Drive Better Business Performance
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Mar 2010
| | Published: | 25 Jul 2009 | |
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Read this paper to learn how IT decision makers can drive better business performance through strong strategic, tactical, and advanced reporting.
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Get More from BI by Understanding Your Analysis Needs
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Mar 2010
| | Published: | 25 Jul 2009 | |
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Companywide BI deployment that adapts to the analysis needs and styles of key sets of users within the organization is the key to unlocking the true potential of BI. Read this paper to learn more.
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