IT/Business Strategic Planning Reports

CIO MI E-Zine Supplement: Big Data: Access and Outcome Over Infrastructure
sponsored by TechTarget CIO
EZINE: In their rush to capitalize on big data, enterprises may be putting the cart before the horse, in this case infrastructure before business outcome. This e-zine can help CIOs and business executives formulate a big data strategy that is business-goal and business-value driven, including the choice of big data platforms.
Posted: 10 Apr 2013 | Published: 10 Apr 2013

TechTarget CIO

A Geek’s Guide to Presenting to Business People
sponsored by Citrix Online
WEBCAST: Giving presentations to business stakeholders is often a struggle for IT executives because they don’t know how to speak business executives “language”. Attend this live webcast on June 20th to learn what business-minded individuals need in a presentation and practical tips for how to make your presentations more compelling.
Posted: 05 Jun 2012 | Premiered: Jun 20, 2012, 01:00 EDT (05:00 GMT)

Citrix Online

Metrics-Based Sales Productivity – Delivering Dividends for Forward Thinking Sales Organizations
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: New Sales Performance Management solutions enable sales leaders to align technology to business need and strategy. Read this paper for a series of discussions related to the metrics-based sales productivity solutions that forward thinking sales organizations are employing to harness the power of the pipeline and take advantage of sales analytics.
Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 05 Mar 2010

IBM

Presentation Transcript: Global Business Xchanging Shares Results of Proactive IT Operations Implementation
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc.
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores how IT pros can better align their departments with the scope of the business. Learn how business service management can enhance customer service, improve service availability, and optimise performance of critical systems.
Posted: 31 Mar 2010 | Published: 31 Mar 2010

BMC Software, Inc.

Managing the Extended Enterprise for Profitable Growth
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: When today's modern, extended enterprises make the move to standardize on a single business software solution, they often find that very few vendors offer products with the necessary scope and flexibility. Read this paper to discover the required elements of successful, unified business software for the extended enterprise.
Posted: 02 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

SAP America, Inc.

Application Architecture, BPM Must Align Objectives
sponsored by IBM
EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, learn what you need to know about aligning business process management (BPM) with application architecture, and how to ensure you get the most business value from new technologies and tools.
Posted: 26 Nov 2013 | Published: 26 Nov 2013

IBM

Gartner Magic Quadrant: Selecting a vendor
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The demand for greater ecommerce capabilities is growing leading CIOs and IT professionals concerned with choosing the perfect vendor. Through this in-depth vendor analysis by Gartner, uncover the top 6 questions you should ask and the strengths and weaknesses of the top 20 e-commerce vendors.
Posted: 17 May 2012 | Published: 03 Nov 2011

IBM

IBM’s Three Server Approach to Workload Optimization vs. Oracle’s Exadata Single Server Approach
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to  learn about IBM vs. Oracle’s different methods of workload optimization. Review the differences between IBM’s three server approach and Oracle’s one-size-fits-all approach to deep analytics, operational analytics, and transaction processing, and decide which technology best suits your organization.
Posted: 07 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2012

IBM

Making your business intelligence strategy a success
sponsored by IBM
EGUIDE: Business intelligence (BI) offers IT leaders the chance to achieve greater strategic decision-making through the use of dashboards, data analytics, reporting tools and much more. So how can IT leaders plan for a seamless BI deployment? Inside this e-guide, uncover expert tips that will help ensure long-term BI success.
Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

IBM

Introduction to Business Rules: Taking Advantage of Business Rules Management Systems
sponsored by IBM
TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Business users sometimes try to control and manage business rules without directly having to deal with IT, which isn’t always successful. Using an example from the insurance industry, this article provides an introduction to business rules and the importance of Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) in bridging the gap between business and IT.
Posted: 24 May 2010 | Published: 05 Feb 2008

IBM