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Enterprise Performance Management: A Framework for Optimizing Network and Application Performance

The Enterprise Performance Management framework takes a systematic approach to managing the combined performance of enterprise application and network resources. It is a five-step framework that gives IT professionals the processes and information necessary to help ensure continuous IT infrastructure optimization, reliability and performance. In addition, EPM can also help...

Tags: Enterprise Performance Management, Performance, Network General Corp., Enterprise Performance Management Framework, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2006-03-01

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Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale

We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...

Tags: Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Small And Medium Business Need, European Enterprise 2.0 Scene, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-14

Seven ways companies go wrong with SOA

Remember, SOA is a journey, not a quick overnight fix. It's a transformative process that your organization will follow for the long run. A few years back, I put together a list of where companies appeared to be steering in the wrong direction in terms of...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Using green IT to meet corporate sustainability goals. Deloitte offers tips in Webinar.

Wondering how to get your chief executive to buy more into technology's role in helping reduce energy consumption or in managing environmental initiatives? Deloitte Consulting recently hosted a seminar called "Competing in the Low-Carbon Economy: The Essential Dialogue Between the CIO and the C-Suite. Its goal was...

Tags: Sustainability, Deloitte LLP, Webinar, Green IT, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-22

VMware completes the PaaS to vCloud

If you’ve been wondering why an infrastructure leader would acquire a developer framework, the answer is a bit more complex that what shows on the surface â€" and a lot more strategic. As stated in the press release and in the blogs by VMware CTO Steve Herrod and SpringSource CEO...

Tags: Java, PaaS, VMware Inc., SpringSource, Microsoft Windows Azure, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Cisco Releasing Sophisticated Collaboration Framework to Accelerate Your Business Value

Cisco are releasing a 58 page report which details their 900 percent return on investment in collaboration and social networking and which details how they have successfully increased productivity, innovation and growth. The Report, 'Creating a Collaborative Enterprise: a Guide to Accelerating Business...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Collaboration Framework, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-18

News to know: Cisco; Kindle DX; MySpace; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Cisco's third quarter: Better than expected; Sales down; Economic recovery 'eventual' Andrew Nusca: Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Twitter, Amazon Kindle, MySpace, Notebooks, Strategy, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Web Technologies Help MTV Networks Create Dynamic Website and Improve Global Workflow

MTV Networks MTVN, a division of Viacom, is one of the world's leading creators of entertainment content. In 2000, the company created ALIAS Archive Library Information Access System, an enterprise asset management system used by MTVN personnel to search and request assets from the company's videotape archives. MTV Networks sought...

Tags: Web Technology, Enterprise Asset Management, Web, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, Workflow, MTV Networks, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-04-01

Collaboration Return-On-Investment

"Competition has its place in the marketplace or against last year's performance -- perhaps even against another office or individual where there is no particular interdependence, no need to cooperate. But cooperation in the workplace is as important to free enterprise as...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Environment, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-29

Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques

Extending operational excellence to management excellence is the next strategic imperative for organizations of all sizes, in every market around the world. Oracle's strategy-to-success framework provides a path for companies to become smart, agile, and aligned while Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management EPM technologies provide the tools. One in a series...

Tags: Technique, Oracle Corp., Management Excellence, Productivity, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-11-01

IT Service Management: Aligning IT and Business Goals for the High-Performance Hospital

With the continuing growth of IT-enabled care and its transformation of the healthcare enterprise, it is becoming increasingly evident that the health of the patient is directly linked to the health of the IT operation. ITSM provides an integrated framework for the technology, people and processes required to ensure this...

Tags: Hospital, Information Technology, High-performance, Health Care, Service Level Management, Vertical Industries, It Services, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Human Resources, Management

White papers 2008-10-01

Management Excellence: How Tomorrow's Leaders Will Get Ahead

The Strategy-to-Success (S2S) framework expands the scope of traditional performance management to offer a framework by which companies can deliver Management Excellence. Enterprise Performance Management Systems EPMS then enable companies to realize their management process goals by connecting disparate management activities and bringing together strategy formulation, execution and feedback. This...

Tags: Enterprise Performance Management, Leader, Framework, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-09-01

Management Excellence: The Metrics Reloaded

The key to enterprise performance management is to identify an organization's value drivers, focus on them, and align the organization to drive results. It's as simple as that; and it is the hardest thing to do. The fact that there are many management methodologies, such as the balanced scorecard, performance...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Methodology, Metrics Inc., Balanced Scorecard, Business Intelligence, Marketing, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-09-01

Gaining Peak Performance From Your Symantec Enterprise Vault Deployment

Symantec Enterprise Vault software addresses these challenges by providing companies with an intelligent archiving framework, which enables the discovery of content held within each collaborative, e-mail, file system and Instant Messaging IM environments, while helping to reduce storage costs and simplify management. In addition, powerful search and discovery capabilities are...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Performance, Archiving, Business Intelligence, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-08-28

Building the ecosystem: Citrix and Platform Computing

David Roussain of Citrix and Peter Dyer of Platform Computing brought me up to speed on how the two companies are working together to provide a highly managable, agile computing environment based upon virtual machines supported by Citrix XenServer and Platform Computing's VM Orchestrator 4.0. ...

Tags: Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Platform Computing Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Managing Enterprise Services in Virtual Environment

Virtualization is becoming an increasingly commonplace commodity. The Service Lifecycle Management project at HP Labs is investigating how it can be applied to a more flexible provisioning of enterprise applications as a service by providing an automated delivery framework, enabling traditionally heavy-weight enterprise applications to become more agile. The work...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Virtual Environment, Enterprise Application, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software

White papers 2008-07-06

Information Security Control Centralization and IT Governance for Enterprises

Information Technology IT governance is important in every Enterprise to ensure the execution of the firm's security policies and procedures. It is a subset discipline of Corporate Governance focused on Information Technology IT systems and their performance and risk management. This paper sights current some problems. It also presents the...

Tags: Information Security, Centralization, IT Governance, Information Technology, Information Technology Governance, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-07-01

Open source SOA infrastructure project CXF elevated to full Apache status

After community incubation and development for nearly two years, the Apache CXF open-source SOA and middleware interoperability framework evolved last week into a full project of the Apache Software Foundation. CXF, with some 60,000 downloads since July 2007, takes its place alongside 60 other Apache projects. The...

Tags: Iona Technologies, Apache Software Foundation, CXF, Open Source, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-20

Frustrations with development languages

Frustrations with development languagesWhat's left?It seems that you don't like any programming language....Seriously the "failure" of Java EE you refer to isn't necessarily a failure of Java, it is likely a failure of software management by the IT department concerned. Many companies tend towards highly complex solutions and "smart" ways...

Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, Scripting languages, Ada, Java, programming

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

Reporter's Notebook: Apple's iPhone SDK rollout

Cupertino â€" After the announcement of iPhone support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync services, and after the testimony by software developers â€" most of whom had never used a Macintosh or an iPhone â€" about the ease of coding with the new iPhone SDK, and after Apple...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Notebook, SDK, Apple Inc., Reporter, Games, Personal Technology, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-03-06