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whitepaper Enhance Your Microsoft Office Productivity With Mindjet MindManager2006-04-27 06:08:17
  This white paper describes how Mindjet MindManager business mapping software seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Office, the world's pre-eminent business productivity toolset, to boost individual and enterprise productivity1. The paper explains how Mindjet MindManager functions as a special "hub" that both complements and helps unleash Microsoft Office software's full productivity capabilities. A more subtle, but no less pervasive, obstacle to productivity is the fundamentally counter-productive nature of business productivity software itself. Far from supporting the way most people think - visually and non-linearly - these programs straightjacket users with non-intuitive, multi-tiered, and sequential operating methodologies.   
whitepaper Meeting Customer Demand for Agentless Technology: Using Agile Software Development Methodology2006-09-05 01:00:12 BMC Software
  To meet customer demands, many software vendors embrace the concept of agile software development, an approach based on following adaptive principles and working with teams that are focused on accelerating the process for delivering high-quality software that is easy to implement and manage. This paper reviews how BMC Software used an agile development methodology to responsively develop innovative agentless monitoring for automatic and discovery monitoring solutions. Agentless monitoring can simplify the installation and administration of such solutions and, as a result, help IT improve the quality of delivery of business services in the face of flat, or even decreasing, IT budgets.   
whitepaper Reexamining Information Systems Success Through the Information Technology Professionals Perspective2006-02-20 Case Western Reserve University
  The study in this paper applied an approach taken from organizational development circles named "Appreciative inquiry" to enhance understanding of the organizational environment, management practices, and sociocognitive determinants that are associated with successful information systems projects. In a series of 31 interviews and seven focus groups, IT professionals from various ranks and organizations followed an appreciative inquiry method to identify critical success factors of information systems projects. In addition to the traditional project success factors revealed by previous research, the crucial impact of positive affect among IT professionals on overall project success was discovered. The findings have immediate implications for the management of information systems projects.

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whitepaper Eight Things Your Business Analysts Need to Know: A Practical Approach to Recognizing and Improving Competencies2007-05-29 00:25:06 ESI International
  Each year, organizations across the globe face astronomical project failure rates, often wasting millions of dollars per failed project. This paper examines the roots of project failure and centers in on the elusive, often undefined role of the business analyst. In response to research showing that many organizations have not set concrete requirements and job descriptions for their business analysts, this paper provides eight essential competencies necessary for success in this job function. It explores the essential skills, knowledge and abilities inherent to each competency and during each stage of a business analyst's career. The paper concludes with practical tips for using these competencies as guidelines for improving the efficiency of business analysts within the organization.   
whitepaper Enabling the Mobile Workforce: Issues and Trends2006-03-07 11:12:47
  Learn how to use best practices to deliver the business-critical applications your mobile workforce needs. In this study of over 370 IT and business professionals, TechRepublic sheds light on the key benefits and challenges of extending applications to remote workers.

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whitepaper Application Portfolio Management: The Benefits of Greater Insight2006-08-04 01:00:11 Compuware
  Emerging trends in information technology create the need for very high XML processing performance, which might only be achievable by applying a non-traditional processor architecture. This paper presents a novel programmable state machine technology, called B-FSM, which can become the key enabler for such an architecture. This technology is fully programmable and provides high performance in combination with low storage requirements and fast incremental updates. Based on the B-FSM technology, the high-level concept of an XML acceleration engine called ZUXA is introduced, which provides a processing model optimized for conditional execution in combination with dedicated instructions for character and string-processing functions.   
whitepaper Project Management Using Event Chain Methodology2006-04-19 03:19:55
  Any projects are affected by a large number of events (risks), which can significantly change the course of a project. These events may form groups of related events or event chains. The paper discusses a proposed methodology of modeling the software project using event chains. The event chains methodology can contribute to reducing uncertainties in project scheduling through mitigation of psychological biases and significant simplification of process of modeling, tracking, and analysis of project schedule.   
whitepaper Assertion Checking Over Combined Abstraction of Linear Arithmetic and Uninterpreted Functions2006-05-02 05:30:43
  This paper presents results on the problem of checking equality assertions in programs whose expressions have been abstracted using combination of linear arithmetic and uninterpreted functions, and whose conditionals are treated as non-deterministic. The paper first shows that the problem of assertion checking for this combined abstraction is coNP-hard, even for loop-free programs. This result is quite surprising since assertion checking for the individual abstractions of linear arithmetic and uninterpreted functions can be performed efficiently in polynomial time. The algorithm is based on an important connection between unification theory and program analysis.   
whitepaper Synergizing Methodologies to Achieve Architecture Targets (Towards SOA)2006-03-21 01:01:25
  Contemporary Enterprise IT Architect's are perplexed with the different Tactics, Techniques and Tools - such as Architectural Framework/Methodologies from MDA, RUP, TOGAF, ITIL, Prince 2, etc., and Techniques - such as Meta Model Repository based EII, Patterns (Architecture and Design), Abstraction Layers, ABB/SBB, Description, Specifications, Markup, etc. This paper identifies a taxonomy and an organizing principle of these Tactics, Tools and Techniques that are so immensely useful for (Enterprise/Systems) Architects to do there job of building Architectures that are strategically maneuverable, i.e., Architectures that can handle changes in requirements and are inherently flexible, constantly adaptable and ever extensible and completely agile.   
whitepaper Project Portfolio Management for New Product Development: Tracking the Project Cycle from Idea to Launch2006-10-10 09:18:26 APQC
  Besides being relevant to professional services organizations (PSO) and internal information technology (IT) departments, project portfolio management (PPM) software is applied in multiple vertical markets in the area of new product development (NPD). In industries ranging from manufacturing and high technology to consumer goods and biotechnology, PPM solutions help manage the corporate objectives associated with NPD projects.

This article from Technology Evaluation Centers, sponsored by APQC, examines the features and benefits of PPM in the NPD arena, as well as some of the vendors that provide specific functionality for this growing market segment.

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