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- Privileged Access Lifecycle Management: How PALM Refines Strategy for Enterprise IT
- Strengthening security, maintaining compliance, and achieving efficiencies and economies of scale are top-of-mind issues for enterprise IT executives. In this paper, IDC analysts examine the role of identity and access management IAM solutions in addressing these needs and specifically looks at the role privileged access lifecycle management PALM can play...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Access, Lifecycle Management, Information Technology, Palm Inc., Access Management, BeyondTrust, Security Administration, Security
- White papers 2009-10-14
- EPEAT spreads its wings, goes international
- The Green Electronics Council has created an international version of Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool EPEAT that will now enable manufacturers to list their products in 40 countries worldwide. With the expanded focus, EPEAT can now be used by IT purchasers in the United States, Canada, Europe,...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, Manufacturer, Green Electronics Council, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Groupe Meeschaert Improves Customer Lifecycle Management and Marketing Effectiveness
- Groupe Meeschaer wanted to implement a Customer Relationship Management CRM solution within an adaptive information system architecture and meet International Organization for Standardization parameters, including sales and campaign management. The challenge was to consolidate all company services through a single CRM solution, including market index tables trading business market, back-office...
- Tags: Marketing, Oracle Corp., Lifecycle Management, Back-office, Groupe Meeschaert, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Research: Thumbs-up for IT's attention to energy efficiency, thumbs-down for lifecycle management
- Don't mean to bring you down, but since more of you are likely to be reading about environmental issues today, it being Earth Day and all, I figured I would share some statistics from a new Sustainable Computing Assessment benchmark that has been created by Redemtech. The...
- Tags: Asset, Energy Efficiency, Lifecycle Management, Information Technology, Green IT, Redemtech, Asset Management, Patches, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Clouds, virtualization and lifecycle management what's not to love?
- It's not often that I'm sent a password protected PDF file when a supplier is presenting a briefing on their product, technology or services. The CEO of the super secret startup, Doyenz, Ashutosh Tiwary, did exactly that. It appears that he's gathered quite and impressive list of industry executives from...
- Tags: Virtualization, Lifecycle Management, ISV, Value-added Reseller, Retail, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- Telecommunications Firm Reduces Costs, Enhances Security With Standardized Desktop
- Telefonica 02 Czech Republic offers the most comprehensive portfolio of voice and data services in the Czech Republic. The company has a growing mobile workforce and relies on costly third-party security solutions to help ensure its data security aligns with Czech Republic regulations. As part of its operating system life...
- Tags: Desktop, Lifecycle Management, Operating System, Telefonica, Telecommunications, Czech Republic, Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- "We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us."
- Organisations are being force towards indentity- based acess lifecycle management tools in order to support IT agility & flexability, safeley empowering staff and rapid evolution of data cetres and core systems. This white paper addresses security, service delivery, vitualisation and fluid organisational structure ...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2009-01-21
- Understanding ITIL Service Portfolio Management and the Service Catalog: An Approach for Implementing Effective Service Lifecycle Management
- Imagine trying to run a manufacturing business without a comprehensive, detailed view of the products provided by company. It would be difficult to know all the products currently planned, in development, or available to customers. One wouldn't know the recurring or nonrecurring product costs, the prices, or the sources of...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, Portfolio Management, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Personal Finance, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-11-11
- Lead Lifecycle Management: How High Performance Marketers Are Confronting Dramatic Changes in Customer Behavior
- With increasing access to information on the Internet, the customer's buying process has radically changed. As a result, the rules of Business-to-Business (B2B) marketing are changing, too. Push marketing is giving way to pull marketing. No longer reliant on sellers to educate them, customers are moving down decision cycles on...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, High-performance, MarketOne, B2B, Marketing Research, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing
- White papers 2008-11-10
- Lifecycle Management Best Practices: Comparing KACE, Altiris, LANDesk, and Microsoft SCCM
- Systems Management involves a number of key disciplines aimed at achieving efficiency, productivity, and cost reduction. This white paper explains key best practices and uses these as a framework for a functional comparison to determine an overall solution value. Evaluate vendor offerings applying such criteria as comprehensive functionality, ease of...
- Tags: LANDesk Software, Lifecycle Management, Microsoft Corp., Kace, Systems Management, Altiris Inc., It Services, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Vkernel's catchphrase "performance lifecycle management"
- I recently was introduced to a new catchphrase during a discussion with Vkernel. The phrase was "performance lifecycle management." Although at first, it seemed the result of running one of those buzzword generators. I'm sure you know what I mean - software that selects three random words from a list...
- Tags: Catchphrase, Performance, Lifecycle Management, Virtual Server, Vkernel, Performance Lifecycle Management, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Business Structures, Performance Management, Ip storage, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Potential green tech corporate role models for you to research
- There are two new resources out for those of you who crave more case-study-type information to guide your corporate green initiatives. The first is a $399 guidebook from PR News that is an online resource containing case studies about companies small and large that have rearchitected some part of their...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Lifecycle Management, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-02
- Adaptive Information Technology for Service Lifecycle Management
- The shift from enterprise computing to service-oriented and cloud computing is happening very rapidly. As the demand for higher value services increases there will be a greater need for service customization, automation for the provisioning and management of services, and the ability to offer services that satisfy non-functional requirements. This...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, Information Technology, Service, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-07-21
- SOA Software, iTKO team up to offer SOA lifecycle management and QA
- I took a briefing recently on LISA and was really impressed with the approach and value. It's worth a look if you're not familiar with iTKO. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Team, SOA Software Inc., QA, Lifecycle Management, iTKO, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-14
- TechNet Webcast: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack Life-Cycle Management (Level 300)
- The attendee of this webcast learn how people, process, and technology can help to manage the life cycle of developing or tuning management packs in support of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. The presenter discuss the consideration of roles and responsibilities, the approach to managing overrides, developing custom management...
- Tags: Webcast, Lifecycle Management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, ITIL, It Services
- Webcasts 2008-06-11
- Identity Lifecycle Management: Bringing Together Security, Identity, and Compliance
- This paper discusses how corporations today can utilize identity management technologies to cost-effectively manage and control the identity lifecycle and demonstrate compliance more efficiently. Corporations must construct their identity management infrastructure to leverage both the security and control advantages of centralized policy management while enjoying the flexibility and time savings...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, Compliance, Identity, International Data Group, Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Security
- White papers 2008-06-01
- Eco-labeling, lifecycle management services are linchpin for HP's big new green tech push
- I'm keenly aware of how much paper and ink I waste with my measely personal inkjet printer, I can't even imagine what it's like for a company the magnitude of Hewlett-Packard, which has decided to tackle the problem big-time with a series of new products and services coming out of...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Green Technology, Lifecycle Management, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?
- Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Developer Improves Application Life Cycle Management to Build Reliable Solutions
- Switzerland-based software developer Zuhlke Engineering won a contract to provide traffic monitoring solution to the Swiss Federal Roads Ministry ASTRA. To build a reliable application for ASTRA, the company enhanced its development environment with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System development system. As a result, its developers now synchronise...
- Tags: Developer, Solution, Lifecycle Management, Monitoring, Microsoft Corp., Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Business Transformation Through Innovative Technology and Processes
- SPARX Group is in the midst of redesigning its IT operations to better support their business's objectives around growth and innovative service delivery. This required a number of fundamental changes in the way their IT function delivers services to the business on a day-to-day basis. A key area identified for...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, Dimension Data, SPARX Group, Datacraft, Dynamic Desktop Deployment Solution
- Case studies 2008-03-01
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