March 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper examines the challenges that impede teams as they try to collect, analyze, and evaluate ideas to define the best solution requirements. The paper also provides information on the four critical areas to defining great requirements and how IBM Rational® solutions help teams address these areas.
October 2008 - (Free Research) Requirements definition and management is an activity that has the potential to deliver a high, fast ROI. This white paper explains the characteristics of a good requirement and presents ten steps to better requirements management. Read on to learn how better requirements translate into easier, higher quality projects.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Are you investing in your business analysts by defining roles and career paths, focusing on their processes and tools, and building community? If not, you have an important opportunity with a potentially huge payback.
April 2008 - (Free Research) This document discusses grid computing, Oracle's definition of it, the elements that comprise an Oracle Enterprise Grid Computing environment, and Oracle Grid on Windows.
November 2008 - (Free Research) This paper presents the fundamentals of power system grounding, definitions and requirements of the National Electrical Code with respect to grounding, the need for low voltage ground fault protection and how it is implemented.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Please join Don MacAskill, founder and CEO of SmugMug, as he relates the "SmugMug tale." SmugMug is a premium photo and video sharing company. This video provides a business and architectural overview of the SmugMug company.
July 2008 - (Free Research) In today's world, organizations have to compete for customers attention like never before. WEM (Web Experience Management) is a new business imperative, driven by demand for engagement that will only grow, not diminish. This white paper is designed to advance your company's engagement strategy and drive you towards the successful practice of WEM.
February 2009 - (Free Research) At the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, Spain, Motorola, Inc. announced it has deployed a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network over which it will demonstrate live LTE experiences moving through the streets of Barcelona for the duration of Mobile World Congress 2009.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Join this podcast to learn how IBM used Requirements Composer to define the product's shipping early and often iterations. They used scenario driven approaches to deliver a business-driven application that is transforming the way that applications are being created and delivered inside IBM.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Carl Kessler, Vice President of Worldwide Software Development for IBM's Enterprise Content Management business, discusses the challenges faced by organizations looking to define requirements that balance competing perspectives in order to maximize stakeholder returns.
February 2009 - (Free Research) This research paper holds the finding of a survey on business analytics commissioned by SAS and conducted by Computerworld. The goal was to better understand the audience's definition of and familiarity with business analytics as a growing market category, as well as to track the perceived benefits of business analytics software implementation.
June 2009 - (Free Research) In this podcast, learn the definition of Lifecycle of Information Management and best practices and strategies for prioritizing critical information. In addition, SMBs can learn more about procedures to put in place to be prepared not only for disasters, but to be compliant as well.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Driving up productivity is something that all businesses should focus on during tough economic times. Since IT drives productivity it is important to take a good look at your infrastructure and its various parts. This Q&A interview discusses the definition of the platform and its relationship to the network.
April 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper will cover virtualization beyond the data center in terms of the business need for network virtualization, the definition of network virtualization, an overview of Cisco campus network virtualization solutions and the business benefits, and Industry scenarios that illustrate Cisco network virtualization solutions.
December 2008 - (Free Research) Ajax, new application frameworks, and more iterative development processes mean that many developers find themselves working more closely with designers or even being charged with design themselves.
August 2008 - (Free Research) In studying the best practices in strategic meeting management, there's proven evidence that a "managed" meetings program can generate significant and immediate cost savings for corporations of all sizes.
October 2008 - (Free Research) This paper builds a model of enterprise social computing by analyzing business goals. It builds the architectural components and the relationships between them by starting from a basic definition of social computing and the most common goals.
July 2008 - (Free Research) A columnar data base is a data base arranged to optimize data analysis, but how? What is a columnar database really? This document presents the basic concepts of columnar databases in a straightforward manner so anyone who is involved with data, business or technical, can understand their purpose and application.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA™) white paper highlights a number of specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI and other benefits, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and explains why most current approaches to virtual system management fall short.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Read this case study to learn how SingTel, a major carrier in the Asia-Pacific region, overcame the challenges associated with providing new services and broadening their customer base. The solution allowed them to provide advanced IPTV features - including HD VoD - quickly and at aggressive prices, thereby affirming their place as a market leader.
November 2007 - (Free Research) Forrester reports that CEOs are beginning to recognize the need for their firms to become more agile in detecting and making the changes to strategy, operations, and products.
October 2007 - (Free Research) This document provides you with the knowledge to gain a complete understanding of all the issues you'll face when implementing a BI solution. In this paper, you'll find numerous examples of current Business Objects customers who are using BI in a variety of creative ways to make their organizations more responsive, productive, and profitable.
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