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Integration may not be new, but its role has drastically changed. Once used simply for support, it is now an enabler – serving as an indispensable foundation critical to achieving agility, efficiency, and growth. Done well, it can drive better business decisions, more cost-effective operations, and be the catalyst for competitive advantage. Architected without a clearly defined strategy, however, integration will fail to deliver on its promise. What are some of the pitfalls you can avoid when augmenting an existing infrastructure to maximize performance, results, and success? Read on.

This document makes recommendations for the design, optimization and scaling of VMware Horizon Workspace and Horizon View deployments on Nutanix. It shows the scalability of the Nutanix Complete Cluster and provides detailed performance and configuration information on the scale-out capabilities of the cluster when leveraged for Horizon deployments. Extensive testing has been performed in collaboration with VMware to simulate real real-world workload and conditions of operating a Horizon Workspace environment. Sizing and recommendations have been made after multiple testing iterations and joint validation. The solution and testing provided in this document was completed with VMware Horizon Workspace deployed on VMware vSphere on the Nutanix Complete Cluster.

This IDC white paper describes the challenges associated with managing the growing complexity of IT infrastructures, with a focus on support services for the enterprise. It highlights the important role of support services in maximizing system performance and minimizing downtime. The paper also examines the HP Insight Online, HP Insight Remote Support, and HP Proactive Care service offerings, specifically for HP ProLiant Gen8 servers featuring Intel Xeon technologies — including an analysis of the return on investment (ROI) from these programs for existing HP customers.

The costs and risks associated with the entire interfacing lifecycle are no longer acceptable in a world that requires fast turnarounds and go-live dates. Those implementing HL7 interfaces can tap into new – and proven – best practices for more effective scoping and overall project success.

In December 2012, Wainhouse Research (WR) and Polycom jointly created and fielded a WR-branded survey focused on the benefits that organizations realize via the use of video conferencing. Invitations to participate in the survey were released in numerous ways including: - Via email invites to a list of Polycom end-user contacts - Via email invites to a list of WR end-user contacts - Via clickable banners on numerous websites This document provides a top-level view of the survey data, along with some additional findings and observations.

Those of us who have been a part of high performing, innovative teams know the exhilaration of reducing time-to-market, cutting out unnecessary processes and costs, and simply producing better products for our customers through improved collaboration. So how do we create those innovative teams, who not only vastly improve our business but also energize our workers?

What if you could transform your communications system to rival the rich functionality and flexibility of bigger competitors with dedicated IT staff? This new white paper compares the costs and functionality of using a hosted unified communications (UC) system "in the cloud" versus investing in an on-site "premises-based" system. The findings might surprise you. Download this new white paper now to: •Understand the tradeoffs between owning vs. hosted UC systems •Review a dollars-to-dollars comparison in a full total cost of ownership (TCO) study •Learn the pitfalls to avoid when evaluating different UC systems

Discover how leading organizations leverage performance management software to obtain commitment from senior management, forge effective partnerships with auditors, and monitor progress throughout the year.

Seeking to leverage the power of emerging technologies, finance and IT leaders at LUSH Cosmetics used advanced Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software from Prophix to successfully predict customer purchasing patterns during a recent holiday season.

Having experienced challenges with spreadsheets and other reporting tools, Porter Airlines Inc. obtained advanced software that would allow them to model complex business problems, including the viability of their air routes, and analyze the health of their growing operations.

Construction companies are meeting the challenge of ever-intensifying competition by refining their business operations with standardized operating practices and “visible” information that is shared among multiple departments. “Before, only owners who wanted to grow a very large company would worry about transitioning from the informal business they started to formalized, standardized business processes,” says Jim Flynn, CEO of Maxwell Systems, a leading provider of construction management software solutions, expert services, and best practices. “But in the current environment, you also have to make that transition just to stay competitive and improve your profitability.”

Gaining Insights from Your Data Faster than Ever and Sharing the Insights with Others

This 30- minute webcast recording reviews the basics of project management and reporting for government contractors. Based on content from the Deltek Special Edition Government Contracting for Dummies e-book.

Setting the price of goods for sale can be considered either an art or a science. And accurately tracking the cost of the thousands of component parts that go into a piece of complex machinery can be some combination of both.

Read about best practices that can help your organization build success into each process it automates, from a process automation expert.

Read why the CaaS offering from Interactive Intelligence delivers a positive ROI from the start.

You should have an answer every question you have and provide business terms that you feel comfortable with. Here are 8 questions to ask phone system vendors before you agree to purchase.

Want to achieve faster ROI with WAN optimization? Read the latest IDC report and discover how you can cut IT costs without compromising performance, gain greater efficiency, and improve productivity and overall satisfaction.

A convergence of potentially conflicting trends is creating a perfect storm for IT professionals tasked with providing secure, reliable access to applications and other critical corporate information. So how can IT avoid the strain on corporate networks as more users attempt to access desktop infrastructures - including applications and services- from remote offices or through mobile devices? Learn how boosting application delivery and response time across a global network can improve collaboration and productivity among an increasingly global and mobile workforce.

In a recent Gartner survey1 of IT organizations, respondents cited data growth, system performance, and network congestion as their top three barriers to productivity. Because productivity enhances revenue, businesses are investing in technologies that boost it. But if it all relies on a network that is being deluged with data, how can IT professionals side-step these issues to increase productivity and reduce costs? Learn more.

Not long ago, if you asked an IT executive about transformation, there was a good chance you’d get a technology-centric response. You’d hear about consolidation and virtualization, power and cooling, security and availability. Today, the responses are different. This edition of Unleashing IT is all about transformation. Not technology change, but business change through the use of technology.

Join Frost & Sullivan, Govolution and Angel as we discuss how you can make IVR customer-friendly by knowing your customers with the help of intelligent data, which allows you to personalize the experience. And you can make IVR even more effective by sourcing it from the cloud, which permits you to expand or shrink ports on demand as opposed to the expense of buying, installing, and maintaining them on your servers.

This paper addresses the challenges of planning, budgeting and forecasting in a spreadsheet environment and highlights the advantages of using a software solution designed specifically for dynamic planning. The business challenges and drivers are discussed, including organizational and technological best practices to follow. A Planning Software Selection Matrix is included to assist decision makers in selecting the most appropriate planning software for their specific business processes and needs.

This paper will help you understand the value of an FCOE and show you how one might work in your organization.

Since the idea of outsourcing applications development became popular in the past 20 years, much of that activity has taken place in geographies such as India, the Middle East and even Russia. Those regions have offered an abundant, increasingly tech-savvy labor force and relatively low labor rates. But for North American companies, outsourcing development of business-critical applications has proven problematic when working with developers so far removed from headquarters-based IT departments and those organizations’ user bases. Companies in the U.S., Canada and Mexico have been looking for “near-sourcing” partners that can meet – or even exceed – the technical benefits provided by outsourcing firms in other parts of the world, while delivering other tangible and intangible benefits. Here are three reasons why a near-sourcing strategy for applications development can make sense for your North American organization.