Project Management

Find out how Crowdcast Collective Intelligence Platform helps companies align decision-making and understand and reduce risks associated with developing and launching new products and on-going operations.

Read this topical and informative white paper from EMA Research and see how you can attain peace of mind that your end user's application performance will exceed expectations.

Leverage the tacit knowledge in your organization to identify, understand, and proactively reduce risk.

Your information can be one of your greatest assets - helping you stay on top of regulatory requirements, close to customers, and ahead of the competition. Organizations that pay attention to their data will be the ones to survive and thrive. So how do you obtain a complete view of your information when it is scattered across silos? Or integrate data from structured and unstructured data sources? Or help reduce the risk of inaccurate reporting? And how do you manage your information more effectively to help keep costs from spiraling out of control?

In this white paper, authored by Numara Software and Pink Elephant, we examine the critical role of having effective processes in driving down service costs. In particular, the paper demonstrates the importance of process and automation in helping IT executives stretch their IT budget further.

From planning, to proving, to production, there are a lot of intricate details to think about when you are considering a Linux implementation. In this webcast, Marianne Eggett summarizes industry best practices for project management of your IBM System z Linux (POC).

In today's business climate, IT organizations need to demonstrate their ability to add value. This white paper from Macehiter Ward-Dutton - an IT advisory firm that specializes in issues of IT-business alignment

As data center costs continue to rise, green is the word of the day. What it means is cost savings through consolidation and lower energy usage, as this white paper shows. See the role energy consumption plays in today's data centers, and how IBM Tivoli solutions can help optimize energy use in the data center.

IDC studied 14 mobile and fixed-line service providers that implemented Tivoli Netcool and found that IBM Tivoli Netcool can help in big ways. It reduces costs by improving operational efficiencies and still allows you to deliver a high-quality custom management.

Social media allows people to be more connected than ever before and the mediums available for marketing are changing rapidly as new technologies come available. Online users are communicating in real time and every brand in the world is being caught up in the conversation whether they are participating or not.

This paper covers the implementation, disclosure and ongoing evaluation of internal controls for SOX compliance with a focus on the role of IT, as well as the penalties for non-compliance.

IT executives are under intense pressure to cut costs, and that pressure is significantly increased by the current grim economic outlook.  So, how can your organization weather this economic storm? Surprisingly, a variety of opportunities for IT are hidden within today’s financial challenges.

Drive quality earlier in the development process with continuous testing. Large development organizations have increasingly been adopting select agile practices to enable faster development, create more reliable software, and reduce costs. Chief among these practices is providing developers early and frequent feedback from users, from other developers, and especially from the programming, build, and test tools. In the latter category, continuous integration and continuous testing are emerging as valuable techniques for identifying errors early so they can be corrected immediately by the developer who made the code changes.

How can a professional services firm grow profitably while providing clients with the higher-quality service and rock-bottom project pricing they demand? The firm must rely on leading best-practice solutions to gain control over every aspect of its business – from business development to resource planning to client billing.

There has never been a more important time to uncover process waste, reduce non-value adding activity, and increase productivity. Lean Six Sigma (LSS) produces real results, and when combined with business process management (BPM) and service oriented architecture (SOA) can position a company for growth as the economy begins to improve.

Finding the right IT service provider is not as simple as it may seem. Choosing a service provider based exclusively on low price may be good for your bottom line, but may fall short on delivering the right level of IT expertise and resource scalability for long-term advantage.

According to Forrester, organizations spent $1.5 trillion globally managing IT last year. 75% of this was spent on silos, legacy systems that still don't get answers to the most important questions: troubleshooting outages, investigating security incidents, and demonstrating compliance. Learn about the innovative software product forward-thinking organizations are using to dramatically improve their productivity and change the way they manage and secure IT.

A proven framework for delivering business alignment and implementing best practices for IT service management.

Today's business challenges are both epic and unprecedented, which, if not met by quick and decisive actions, can result in catastrophic consequences. Taking control of IT is one of the best ways to take control of your business.

Discover how IT Governance enables IT to meet these expectations, measure performance, manage resources, mitigate risk and make sure that IT aligns activities with the strategic direction of the enterprise - all for a surprisingly low cost.

COCC, a leading provider of technology services for community banks and credit unions, needed a way to reach distant customers without increasing travel costs. That's when COCC decided to try online meeting technology.

There's no "one size fits all" when it comes to telecommuting. This new Forrester white paper explores how implementing best practices to create a telecommuting program and standardized policy significantly reduces operational costs and increases employee productivity - a winning combination in a tough economy.

In IT today, it's all about strategy - that is, fully aligning all IT efforts and resources with the objectives of the organization. Review this white paper now and learn how and why IT Governance is the best path to achieving this critical alignment.

With help desk automation, companies can increase collaboration and information-sharing among the various departments that play a role in customer satisfaction, including customer service, product development, and quality assurance, as well as field consultants and support staff. Additionally, help desk automation can tightly integrate both internal and external support processes. Learn more today!

Peters' and Waterman's well-known book 'In Search of Excellence', a study of some of the most well-managed companies in the United States at that time, was one of the best-known business books of the 1980s. In the book, the authors identified eight common themes which they argued were responsible for the success of the included corporations. These attributes included hands-on management, centralized values accompanied by entrepreneurial productivity, and focusing on the core business (sticking to the knitting).