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Responding quickly to changing markets: Anticipate, Adapt, Excel: Market change is relentless: ever-higher customer expectations, shrinking product life cycles, and new rivals on the scene all accelerate the pace. But small businesses and midsize companies have one distinct advantage over larger competitors: agility. With fewer organizational layers and less-rigid processes, smaller businesses can act much faster than the...; Tags: SAP AG, Agility, Microsoft Excel, Product Marketing, Marketing Research, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Marketing; White papers 2007-12-12
IBM Smart SOA Tutorial: The forces of change are all around us. Organizations need the agility to adapt rapidly and the adoption of SOA can help provide this agility and enable change. This animated tutorial explains how IBM's Smart SOA approach provides basic to advanced guidance for pursuing SOA projects allowing you...; Tags: SOA, Agility, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; Presentations 2007-12-01
The Impact of Work Force Agility on Business Performance: Agility is an issue that is becoming more and more prominent in businesses across industries. While it is a common goal, its meaning can be somewhat ambiguous. Depending on the context, agility can mean different things to different organizational units. But one common thread persists: the accelerating speed of change....; Tags: Performance, Agility, SkillSoft, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management; White papers 2007-11-16
HP's Opsware buy highlights burgeoning role of 'management': I'm sitting at an engaging Open Group conference on SOA and its deep impact across IT and enterprises. A common theme, not surprisingly, is the issue of control ... some of the biggest fears about SOA is that it may be too good, too inclusive -- and may consequently spin...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Opsware Inc., SOA, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-07-23
The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System: Open Modular Architecture With a Choice of Sun SPARC , Intel Xeon , and AMD Opteron Platforms: The Participation Age is driving new demands that are focused squarely on capabilities of the datacenter. Web services and rapidly escalating Internet use are driving competitive organizations to lead with innovative new services and scalable, dynamic infrastructure. High Performance Computing (HPC) is constantly finding new application in both science and...; Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance Computing, AMD Opteron, Sun Blade, Sun Sparc, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Agility, Participation Age, Data Centers, Storage, Blade Servers, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components; White papers 2007-06-01

Virtualization: The Architectural Foundation for Dynamic IT: IT and business professionals will continue to face more devices, services, changes and demands in the business - not less. The challenge is to manage this complexity to achieve agility while keeping costs under control. Dynamic systems technologies help IT and business professionals meet this challenge. And in order to...; Tags: Information Technology, Agility, Business Professional, Virtualization, Strategy, Hardware, Management; White papers 2007-04-17
Does SOA have a vanishing point?: There was a time when the word 'dot' had positive connotations to it. Dot was revolutionary, turning the world upside down, wiping out intermediaries, turning business into seamless electronic transactions across the great global Internet. Sun prided itself on being the 'dot in dot-com.' Of course, more recently, 'dot'...; Tags: SOA; Blog posts 2006-08-18
The Emergence of a Software Centric Communications Model: Service Implications and Opportunities: The impact of globalization has focused IT thinking on achieving business speed, reach, and agility as companies seek to address new market opportunities, while defending their existing markets from global competitors. The emerging blueprint for achieving global agility and speed is one that is based upon the full utilization of...; Tags: Software, Agility, Globalization, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-08-01
Long-term SOA payback tough to predict: Short-term, measuring SOA payback is relatively straightforward. A company saves x amount of dollars by not having to reinvent a service for a new application. But the big payback happens gradually, over the years, through business gains and agility. Capturing this kind of data is, well, not so straightforward....; Tags: SOA; Blog posts 2006-07-04
Survey: IT hasn't delivered Agility, yet: Survey: IT hasn't delivered agility, yetGood ExecsSome pretty amazing execs. They know about SOA and that they need it. I'm impressed. Now if they could only figure out email.Business Agility needs IT to understand how business actually worksSo executives think "agility" will emerge from SOA and how do...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Strategy, Business process automation, Operational planning, Enterprise software, information technology, agility, survey; Discussion threads 2006-06-06
Survey: IT hasn't delivered Agility, yet: In my previous post, I shared the observations of Chris Koch, who said that business process management and SOA come from two different sides of the enterprise fence, and don't always see eye to eye. In addition, Koch is of the opinion that most advances in business agility in...; Tags: agility, information technology, SOA; Blog posts 2006-06-05
The Evolving Role of IT Service Management: The business environment is changing at a dizzying pace, driven by globalization, business virtualization, outsourcing, and other factors. To compete, and indeed to survive, enterprises must increase their agility. They must be able to swiftly adapt business processes to accommodate changing business conditions. To drive business agility, they must also...; Tags: Information Technology, CMDB, IT Service Management, Jupitermedia Corp., Agility, Business Environment, Globalization, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-04-24
Rule Enabling Applications With Oracle Business Rules: The primary motivator for the use of Business Rules is improved "agility", for implementing business policy changes. This agility, meaning fast time to market, is realized by reducing the latency from approved business policy changes to production deployment to near zero time. In addition to agility improvements, Business Rules development...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Agility, Oracle Business Rules; White papers 2005-09-01
Oracle Business Rules: Business Whitepaper: Business Rules are increasingly being used in the development of business applications. The key motivation for the migration to Business Rules is "Agility", particularly in the part of an application's life cycle that occurs after initial production deployment. "Agility" means that applications can be very quickly modified. Agility is especially...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Agility, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-09-01
Scalable Storage Performance With Magnitude 3D DataScale: For midsized enterprises - those companies with revenues between $100 million and $1 billion annually - and other midsized organizations such as government, education or healthcare institutions, the key to growth and profitability is agility. In short, agility is the ability to deliver products or services more quickly, conveniently, and...; Tags: 3D, XIOtech, Agility, Storage, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; White papers 2005-06-01
Asset Management and Contingency Planning: Maintenance and Aervice Managers' Role in Providing forEemergencies Serves Day-to-Day Operations as Well: The management of property and production plants and the after-sales service of capital equipment is an overlooked component of civil defense where process improvements can in turn improve homeland security. Companies vary widely in the agility of service and maintenance operations and their ability to absorb unexpected events. As the...; Tags: Asset, Contingency Planning, Oracle Corp., Agility, Business Security, Asset Management, Government, Homeland Security, Process Improvement, Business Operations, Operational Planning, Quality; White papers 2005-01-01
Crafting a Human Resource Strategy to Foster Organizational Agility: A Case Study: A decade ago, the CEO of Albert Einstein Healthcare Network (AEHN), anticipating a tumultuous and largely unpredictable period in its industry, undertook to convert this organization from one that was basically stable and complacent to one that was agile, "nimble, and change-hardy". This case study briefly addresses AEHN's approaches to...; Tags: Cornell University, Agility, Organizational Structure, Human Resources; Case studies
Viewing IT Service Delivery From the Risk Management Perspective: This webcast focuses on measuring and managing the risk of service delivery failure at a minimal cost while preserving agility. Many discussions center on delivering IT services for minimal cost while maximizing agility and consistency. The webcast turns these issues around and views them from a risk management perspective.; Tags: Webcast, Information Technology, TeamQuest Corp., Risk Management, Agility, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, It Management, Security, Finance, Management, It service Management; Webcasts
Momentum Webcast: Supporting Marketplace Agility With Software Asset Management (SAM) (Level 100): According to Gartner, agility is "the ability of an organization to sense environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively to that change." Through this webcast one can learn about the benefits of an agile SAM practice, such as the ability to manage software costs effectively, control inventories, add new users,...; Tags: Software, META Group Inc., Webcast, Agility, Tools & Techniques, Asset Management, Digital Media, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Webcasts
Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Secure Network Access for Your Business: Enterprises are evolving into virtual communities where employees demand anywhere/anytime access to email, files, and other business-critical applications, regardless of the method or device being used to connect. To meet networking demands, enterprise networks must be both agile and secure. Agile networks allow employees to respond quickly, enhancing efficiency and...; Tags: Webcast, Network, Microsoft Corp., Secure Network Access, Agility, Digital Media, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Webcasts