December 01, 2009 - Agile Software Development is one of the most effective methodologies to develop application software. This paper examines and compares RDBMS with several object persistence methods within the context of Agile Software Development by quantifying the impact of these methods on the velocity and success of an agile application development project.
December 06, 2007 - Virtual desktops can help reign in IT costs and greatly simplify management. Watch now to explore virtualization benefits, trends and architectures. Learn about the role of virtualized iSCSI SANs (storage area networks) to enhance scalability and why you should consider desktop virtualization now.
October 01, 2007 - Intelliem provides customized solutions that help companies improve their IT environments and that train workers to use software productively. Intelliem needed a cost-effective Web conferencing service to replace meetings, training sessions, and presentations requiring travel to on-site locations. Microsoft® Office Live Meeting was adopted.
September 25, 2009 - This paper summarizes the salient findings from a research into online consumer behavior and outlines the proper mechanisms for introducing security measures to streamline security and improve end-user experience by taking into account consumers’ attitudes and understanding of online security.
March 15, 2010 - Ontrack® PowerControls™ saves time and costs to search, recover, restore and manage data in Microsoft® Exchange Server and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server environments. It’s easy and offers granular level management to produce quick, relevant results.
February 22, 2010 - Unified communications tools enable your employees to communicate and collaborate with each other faster and more easily than ever before. Unfortunately, their use has been restricted to members of your enterprise—until now. View this webcast now to learn about a new solution that allows borderless collaboration.
June 28, 2009 - This paper examines the challenges faced by organizations today regarding their BI, data integration, and data warehousing environments, why traditional solutions fall short, and the rise of upstart open source companies. Read on to learn more about open source BI, data integration, and data warehousing solutions.
October 26, 2009 - Apache Solr is the definitive application development implementation for Lucene, and it is the leading open source search platform. This white paper describes the new features and improvements in the latest version, Apache Solr 1.4.
April 15, 2009 - With a growing portfolio of existing applications, IT departments have been asked to shoulder the burden of increasing infrastructure costs while being required to reduce risk and increase the flexibility of their IT infrastructure. Watch this video to see how Sun Microsystem's open source SOA can help your company achieve these goals.
September 01, 2007 - Enterprise users and their data have never been further apart. Business pressures that keep employees out of headquarters and close to customers and partners have met head-on with other drivers that are bringing far flung servers back to the datacenter.
February 17, 2010 - This white paper focuses on how IT professionals can achieve better VMware vSphere data protection through unified backup and replication to significantly simplify sophisticated IT backup and recovery procedures in virtual environments that include both ESX and ESXi hosts to meet service level agreements with aggressive RTO and RPO requirements.
February 23, 2010 - Simpana® from CommVault® enables IT to leverage a single solution that integrates backup, archive, replication and storage resource management across physical and virtual servers. Simpana helps IT deal with the challenges associated with critical backup recovery issues within a virtual infrastructure.
February 19, 2010 - Throughout this white paper you will learn in five easy steps how the traditional challenges of migrating from one operating system to another can become a thing of the past by using a user workspace management solution.
November 03, 2009 - As the business demands more from your tight IT budget, it's helpful to know that you can actually fund the IT improvements your business needs from savings generated by improvements in operational efficiency. Read a short overview of how BMC Solutions drive operational efficiency.
January 23, 2009 - Operational excellence means consistently doing things well across the value chain as a way of gaining competitive advantage. In its broadest terms, it is a discipline that drives corporate strategy.
January 01, 2009 - The paper provides valuable evidence about the benefits of achieving aligned operational excellence. In it you'll discover why companies that build and align their operational capabilities for strategic advantage earn a distinct execution premium in their business performance.
October 10, 2009 - This white paper presents an approach to data center convergence that rethinks the network from the ground up to provide a long-term, future-proof strategy and develop a converged data center fabric with the flexibility to scale to super data centers while driving down the cost and complexity of managing the data center information infrastructure.
May 14, 2009 - Blue Coat ProxyClient helps deliver a headquarters work experience to all employees wherever they are. With ProxyClient, you can define which applications to accelerate and which to block based on security and bandwidth requirements.
July 01, 2009 - Traffic between datacenters is growing at an accelerating rate. As throughput expands, the rate at which costs increase rises as well. A WAN optimization solution can help get backups and database synchronizations completed on time - without hurting VoIP or internet backhaul. Read on to learn more.
March 10, 2010 - Rising data and query volumes take a toll on data warehouse hardware, software and administration. To maintain service levels, IT must perform constant tweaking or commit more of the IT budget to adding more storage. Read this paper to find out how SAP NetWeaver BW optimizes for both cost and performance, while reducing the administrative load.
October 05, 2009 - This paper examines solutions, both traditional software and Software as a Service models, with a proven track record in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing.
February 09, 2010 - Improving data backup and recovery can impact a company’s budget. Do you want to gain tips to improve your backup systems without impacting your bottom line? View this webcast to learn about improving reliability of backups and restores and reducing backup storage capacity requirements by up to 95%.
February 26, 2010 - IT companies often struggle to handle explosive data growth. To successfully deploy new applications, they must be tested using real-world data sets. Many companies struggle with cycle times and infrastructure costs. This demo explains how Informatica’s Data Subset enterprise data growth solution can help untangle complex transactional systems.
August 01, 2009 - Project portfolio management solutions, such as Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, help oil and gas executives successfully manage their daily and routine maintenance projects, by enabling them to more effectively manage resources, capture best practices and complete projects on-time and within budget.
February 01, 2009 - This document is intended to aid IT administrators and other stakeholders responsible for managing distributed SharePoint deployments, in planning and implementing a comprehensive, reliable and efficient replication strategy to optimize collaboration and increase productivity.
March 09, 2010 - This webcast offers a solution with I/O virtualization which enhances functionality and reduces operational expenses and capital expenditure by removing layers from the data center.
December 15, 2008 - IT organizations must ensure that their data center management solutions are versatile. The solutions must address today's challenges such as provisioning, availability, compliance, and protection — and at the same time let data center managers focus on tomorrow's opportunities.
October 01, 2008 - This paper examines the complexity and management challenges presented by the current storage landscape, the explosive growth of data storage requirements and what it all means to businesses.
September 10, 2009 - Businesses of all sizes are using the messaging and collaboration features of Microsoft Exchange to run critical business functions that if lost, can result in severe business disruption. Exchange and Exchange infrastructure components are analyzed in this paper to determine how they can be protected so you can achieve your SLA commitments.
December 30, 2008 - This whitepaper will examine the trends and challenges associated with web-based services and MSPs, and will identify the best way to optimize network and application performance and security. We will look at today's best practices and examine how Blue Coat Systems is addressing requirements with an integrated solution.
April 01, 2009 - Adopting an effective application performance management strategy is a critical step in managing complex Web revenue and generating mission critical applications to deliver a high-quality end-user experience.
February 08, 2010 - Read this paper to learn how the expectations of business users have changed and continue to increase in scope. This paper details key capabilities needed for successful end-user monitoring and provides critical considerations for delivering a successful end-user experience.
February 15, 2010 - Efficient use of available storage is the main goal of every storage architect. Providing tiered storage in its arrays allows EMC customers to match business requirements with the right level of storage performance. By introducing Enterprise Flash Drives, EMC has added another tier of storage to handle the most performance-sensitive business data.
June 08, 2007 - This paper describes the benefits, architecture and features of Oracle Application Express and how it can help you quickly develop web deployed reporting and data entry applications on consolidated data in an Oracle database.
February 12, 2010 - Oracle provides applications, middleware and database software tailored to the needs of midsize organizations. This Oracle business brief explains how these solutions improve business and IT process flexibility and reduce costs through open standards and ease of integration with your existing infrastructure.
February 11, 2010 - Oracle provides Customer Relationship Management and Enterprise Resource Planning applications, middleware and database software tailored to the customer retention needs of midsize organizations. This Oracle Business Brief explains how these solutions help you retain customers cost-effectively through optimized information and improved flexibility.
February 01, 2008 - Business intelligence (BI) needs to evolve such that it is no longer about reporting results but driving business processes. Learn how BI can bring you greater business visibility and insight to improve business performance.
September 25, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn about a unique data protection and recovery solution that provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures and other disasters.
June 01, 2007 - Application development organizations have a wide variety of programming languages and technologies to choose from. In this white paper learn how Oracle Database 11g delivers a highly productive and powerful set of application development tools.
July 01, 2007 - Learn how Oracle continues to improve the performance, scalability, and capability of its Windows database server. This paper describes the architecture of the Oracle database on Windows and how it differs from its counterparts on UNIX and Linux.
October 01, 2007 - This white-paper provides an overview of Oracle Database 11g's capabilities for data warehousing, and discuses its key features and technologies. Discover how to integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes, and more.
September 25, 2009 - Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
June 01, 2009 - The increasingly sophisticated nature of information theft, and the continued emergence of new data privacy protection regulations worldwide, requires strong data security. Effective information security starts by protecting data at the source - the databases in which it resides. Read on to learn more.
August 01, 2008 - More and more organizations are looking to SOA as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate, hard to change, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems.
February 11, 2010 - In this issue of ONE, we’re taking a closer look at how cost control goes hand-in-hand with process flexibility. Your IT infrastructure can help, with integrated, automated processes that enable your staff to get things done faster.
February 11, 2010 - Many studies show it costs five times more to win a new customer than to retain an existing one. In this issue of ONE, we look at how the combination of insight and effective customer-facing processes can help you outshine your competitors and impress your customers enough to keep them with you.
February 12, 2010 - Read this e-book and learn about Oracle automated processes that protect important business information from theft or loss whilst improving efficiency, allowing midsize organisations to actually turn compliance to their advantage.
August 01, 2009 - This white paper discusses how Real Application Testing — with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 — allows businesses to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change.
June 18, 2008 - This paper discusses how Java EE 5 dramatically speeds the development of SOA applications and how enterprise developers can leverage its power by using Oracle WebLogic Server. Download this free white paper today.
June 01, 2009 - Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g is a significant new release of the core application grid infrastructure foundation underpinning Oracle Fusion Middleware. It has been designed to provide a standards-based, mission-critical platform for organizations that deploy application grid and service-oriented architectures.
December 19, 2008 - This free white paper shows that Oracle WebLogic Suite packages many essential middleware capabilities to help organizations implement application grid concepts. Learn how to create an infrastructure layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources on which business applications and SOA run.
October 10, 2007 - Does Oracle Accelerate have what it takes to deliver genuine value to midsize organizations? This white paper answers with an emphatic 'yes.' Read on for all the details.
July 14, 2009 - Orion APM delivers at-a-glance top 10 lists, map views, and graphs that enable you to quickly identify, troubleshoot, and resolve performance issues with business-critical applications. With Orion APM as your co-pilot, you can isolate performance issues before they affect your end users. Download this free trial to check it out for yourself.
February 10, 2009 - Many networking managers cite lack of visibility into network issues and performance as a common problem. They need the ability to identify which users and applications are consuming the most network bandwidth and which IP addresses are top talkers. Check out this download to learn how the Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides this information.
July 14, 2009 - Check out this download to see how the Orion Network Configuration Manager aids in managing network configuration files in multi-vendor network environments, monitoring changes to device configurations and ensuring compliance with federal and corporate policies.
July 14, 2009 - Traditional framework solutions are expensive and tough to implement; are difficult to use, maintain and customize; and often impractical for network engineers in mid- to large-sized organizations. Network engineers need affordable, scalable network management solutions that provide immediate visibility into performance of the entire network.
February 01, 2009 - annatommie, an orthopedic diagnosis and treatment and rehabilitation center in the Netherlands, was growing rapidly and wanted to take advantage of electronic, automated efficiencies to save money and improve productivity, while minimizing IT costs. Read this case study to learn how Microsoft® Online Services helped them reach their goals.
March 09, 2010 - One of the greatest challenges that an organization faces when securing an IBM i environment is protecting the system from the very people who are charged with its care. Fortunately, IBM i lets you audit events in a secure repository for forensic analysis and reporting. Read this article to learn more!
January 01, 2007 - This paper from the Center for Digital Government explores the drivers and benefits for going mobile in the public sector. It also includes success stories from early adopters, as well as suggestions for getting started.
June 02, 2009 - Data quality is an elusive subject that can defy measurement and yet be critical enough to derail any single IT project, strategic initiative, or even a company as a whole. This paper from Business Objects examines an overall approach to data quality ROI including 6 key steps to help you realize tangible ROI on your data quality initiative.
November 05, 2009 - This paper provides practical advice for knocking down the barriers to AP automation. It also discusses six levels of AP automation.
October 15, 2009 - In this white paper, you'll read about the top objections buyers have for upgrading their current equipment. You'll also hear about the solutions Intel has to offer to help increase the productivity of your workforce, reduce energy consumption, and much more!
July 01, 2009 - This paper looks at some of the challenges that CIOs are facing in managing mobility. This is clearly becoming more complex for large enterprises as mobility penetrates more deeply into their organizations, driven by changing working practices and supported by rapidly evolving technology.
August 27, 2009 - In this white paper, we are going to discuss the application of QoS to networks with media flows installed within them, such as voice and video. We'll see that it is very unnatural for voice to even exist on a data network, because it was never designed to do so.
December 01, 2009 - Owens & Minor needed to modernize its existing, business-critical enterprise systems while retaining unique business logic. Maintaining the competitive advantage embedded in this business logic while reducing costs to enable re-investment in customer-led improvements was imperative.
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