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Practical Steps to Achieve and Maintain NERC Compliance
sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes seven practical steps information security professionals can take to integrate controls into IT production operations, to simultaneously achieve NERC compliance goals, and also IT operational and security goals.
Posted: 31 Jul 2009 | Published: 08 Dec 2008

Tripwire, Inc.

IBM WebSphere Application Server family: Flexible infrastructure for today's business world
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how to create a flexible infrastructure through the implementation of an SOA and alignment of business processes with strategic goals to overcome the challenges associated with the rapidly changing business world.
Posted: 10 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

IBM

IBM Service Management: Driving growth for Managed ICT Service Providers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Integrated Service Management offerings from IBM are designed to help managed service providers (MSPs) accelerate growth by supporting cost reduction programs, service delivery excellence, and the enablement of new and innovative business models such as cloud-based services.
Posted: 03 Oct 2011 | Published: 03 Oct 2011

IBM

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.

Enhancing Your Infrastructure in an Uncertain Economy to Support Your SOA Business Initiatives
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper defines the challenges facing today's IT executives and steps you can take now to support your organization’s SOA-based initiatives by cutting costs, leveraging your existing IT infrastructure and improving productivity.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 15 Jan 2009

IBM

Is your data center holding you back?
sponsored by HP Inc
WHITE PAPER: Access this essential resource to discover five crucial steps to jump-start business and IT agility by becoming an instant-on enterprise, including planning, standardizing, virtualizing, and more.
Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

HP Inc

Ten Critical Success Factors for CRM: Lessons Learned from Successful Implementations
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Customer relationship management (CRM) deployments can be complex and difficult. This white paper provides a checklist of the ten critical success factors for organizations to follow to avoid common pitfalls as they design and deploy their CRM system.
Posted: 16 Jan 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2006

Oracle Corporation

Securing a Dynamic Infrastructure
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how security that is built into a dynamic infrastructure can mitigate risks, enabling agility, secure collaboration, and business transformation. The IBM Security Framework and lifecycle approach can help address changing business requirements.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2009

IBM

The New CIO: Change Partner and Business Leader
sponsored by The IBM CIO Interaction Channel
WHITE PAPER: In this study, find out what 765 global CEOs and 170 CIOs have to say about the importance of closing this "business-technology integration gap."
Posted: 16 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 May 2007

The IBM CIO Interaction Channel

Incorporating IBM Speech Solutions into a Service Oriented Architecture
sponsored by IBM Software Group
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the benefits of On Demand Business, standards-based development and SOA as a part of product offerings and how SOA has shifted from concept to a viable approach to managing disparate IT resources.
Posted: 16 Nov 2006 | Published: 01 Jun 2006

IBM Software Group