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Smarter Business Planning and Transformation: Attain maximum value from your Enterprise Architecture
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Explore architecture management with IBM. Find out how the four elements of actionable enterprise architecture can transform your business.
Posted: 19 Sep 2011 | Published: 19 Sep 2011

IBM

SOA: The Missing Link between Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture
sponsored by Infosys Technologies Limited
WHITE PAPER: Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and enterprise architecture (EA) strive to tighten the business and IT alignment. Learn about the dependencies between an EA framework and an SOA strategy and how services impact the way applications are developed.
Posted: 14 May 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

Infosys Technologies Limited

The SOA Competitive Landscape Redefined: A Manager's Guide to SOA Platforms
sponsored by Fiorano Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes an approach to evaluating an SOA platform, that is aimed at creating a system based upon a service-oriented application composition and a peer-to-peer distributed infrastructure architecture.
Posted: 13 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Jun 2007

Fiorano Software, Inc.

Business Intelligence Strategies for 4G Operators
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the opportunities and challenges presented by the introduction of services on 4G networks, and examines how a strategic BI implementation can help to transform the services a company provides while managing costs of providing them. It also considers the variety of practical applications of a BI system.
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

Sybase, an SAP company

What CFOs Should Ask their Software Development Leaders
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates a new way of thinking about the funding of IT software projects, one that considers funding in terms of investment, and value as an expansive, longitudinal variable.
Posted: 20 Sep 2011 | Published: 20 Sep 2011

IBM

Getting Started: A Manager's Guide to Implementing Capacity Management
sponsored by TeamQuest Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Many IT departments have chosen to throw hardware at performance and capacity problems. In the past, that approach has worked, however times and management challenges have changed; demanding a different approach – capacity management. This guide is designed to help those IT leaders who are now looking to assemble a capacity management approach.
Posted: 12 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

TeamQuest Corporation

Running IT as a Business: Seven Steps to Aligning IT with the Business
sponsored by SAS
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the 7 steps to aligning IT with the business. Find out what they are and how they can help your business provide customer-driven results.
Posted: 27 Jun 2011 | Published: 27 Jun 2011

SAS

Whitepaper: The Journey Along an Information-Led Transformation
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Organizations that plan an information strategy, make realtime business analytics available to all levels of the organization, and architect an extensible information platform can generate more revenue, lower costs, reduce risk, and predict future outcomes with greater confidence. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

IBM

CRO Survey: Risk, Regulation and Return
sponsored by IBM Line of Business
WHITE PAPER: To better understand the perspectives and concerns of today's CROs, the IBM Institute for Business Value interviewed banking risk management executives in depth and cosponsored a wider, cross-industry survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Posted: 18 Jul 2007 | Published: 01 May 2005

IBM Line of Business

IBM Global CIO Study - Implications for IT Managers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Recognizing that successful IT innovation requires deep involvement with the business overall, CIOs increasingly help set business strategy, use IT to enable business flexibility, and help corporations meet enterprise-wide goals. Learn what this means to IT managers, operations managers, development managers, strategy and architecture leaders.
Posted: 17 Jun 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

IBM