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whitepaper Go Green with Ease: Five Steps for Small Businesses2008-06-12 Cisco Systems
  Smart information technology (IT) strategies can reduce the environmental impact of conducting business, and help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) reduce expenses. With employee awareness and participation, even the busiest SMB can adopt simple "green" strategies that require little to no additional equipment or labor expenditures. View this page for five enviro-friendly IT strategies to consider.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Strategic Planning, Mobile - Wireless Communications		   
whitepaper Green Business is Good Business for Credit Union2008-06-11 Cisco Systems
  Listen to this podcast to hear Sarah Johnson, technology coordinator for Coastway Credit Union, explain how going green not only helps save the planet, but also saves money and increases productivity. Download or stream this installment of the Cisco Innovators Podcast Series.

Tags: Strategic Planning, Resources Mgmt.		   
whitepaper IT Governance, Risk and Compliance: What the Best Performing Firms Do in IT to Deliver Better Business Results and Lower Risk2008-05-30 Symantec
  Combining the governance of IT with a focus on operational excellence for managing business rewards and risks, the firms with the most mature practices and capabilities are posting much higher revenues, larger profits, along with much better customer satisfaction and retention than 88 percent of their peers - in almost every industry. These same firms experience lower financial loss and risk, lower rates of customer data loss, nearly 100% uptime in IT, and spend much less on regulatory audit than all other organizations. This webcast provides immediate, fact-based insight into adjusting current practices to deliver best-in-class results, based on benchmarks conducted with more than 2,600 organizations from around the World.

Tags: Best Practices		   
whitepaper Reduce Compliance Costs by Baselining Spend, Prioritizing Effort & Automating Technical & Procedural Evidence Collection2008-05-16 Symantec
  New Symantec Survey results demonstrate that for Fiscal Year 2008, 30% of Fortune 1000 companies surveyed have budgeted projects for cost and risk reduction through compliance automation. During this webcast, the presenters will talk through the business drivers behind compliance automation, how to baseline the current compliance spend, how to prioritize efforts to realize maximum cost reduction, and how Symantec's Control Compliance Suite can support cost reduction through automated collection and reporting of technical and procedural controls.   
whitepaper Multi-Lingual, Multi-Environment Testing to Improve Product Quality for FLIR Systems2008-02-01 MindTree Consulting
  MindTree Consulting conducted fast-tracked, automated testing of tools used for assuring the quality of a range of infrared cameras offered by FLIR Systems, the world leader in thermal imaging applications. Leveraging its Testing Center of Excellence, MindTree tested the application in multiple environments and four languages in just one week and identified hundreds of high risk issues. By partnering with MindTree the client achieved the confidence to launch new applications and feature enhancements in the market within a shorter timeframe.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper The ITIL Imperative: Accelerate from Strategy to Value in '082008-01-24 Bomgar
  As ITIL hits the top of many organizations' priority lists in '08, business leaders are anxious to see tangible business value out of their ITIL investments. But practical advice on how to use ITIL to drive near-term business value is often hard to find.

Listen to this recorded Webcast, as 3 industry leaders demonstrate how to move your ITIL process from strategy to value:
  • John Ragsdale from SSPA discusses why ITIL has become such a hot topic
  • Doug Bagley from BMC Software reviews the role ITIL plays in service automation
  • Joel Bomgar from Bomgar Corporation shows how the right remote support solution can accelerate your ability to drive near-term value from your ITIL initiatives


Tags: ROI - TCO, Strategic Planning, IT Reliability, ITIL		   
whitepaper Go green, save green through energy efficiency2008-01-14 IBM
  Learn how to cut your ever-growing energy costs. This IBM ForwardView webshow describes areas where IBM can help you maximize savings without minimizing your competitive edge. Like selecting machines with a sleep mode, reducing server sprawl with virtualization, investing in more efficient equipment, and IT outsourcing.

This webshow was featured in ForwardView, the premier IBM eMagazine that provides growing businesses with the latest news and trends at the nexus of business and IT. It's full of thought leadership and marketplace insight applied to real business problems.

Tags: Strategic Planning, High Performance Computing, Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper How Cisco IT Uses Software Configuration Management to Minimize Business Risk2007-12-17 Cisco Systems
  This case study describes Cisco IT's adoption of Software Configuration Management (SCM) to help reduce the business risk that can result from application changes. The Cisco global network is a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the largest and most complex in the world. Cisco customers can benefit from Cisco IT's real-world experience in this area to help support similar enterprise needs.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Monitoring Costs and Benefits: An Excerpt from "IT Success" by Michael Gentle2007-11-07 CompuWare
  This white paper is an excerpt from the book IT Success! by Michael Gentle. It offers an overview of how IT organizations can benefit from a complete cost-benefit project analysis. Gentle describes a new model for monitoring costs and benefits, highlighting that analysis is needed not only for business justification or upon project completion, but throughout the entire lifecycle of the application. He also discusses the benefits of portfolio management as a discipline to support these efforts.

Tags: Resources Mgmt., ROI - TCO, Strategic Planning		   
whitepaper Service Providers and SAS 70 Reports Understanding Requirements, Compliance and Benefits2007-11-01 ComplianceOnline
  This webinar gives a complete overview of the SAS 70 report and explains what a SAS 70 Report is and who can issue it, which types of entities are candidates for SAS 70 audits and what is the difference between a SAS 70 Type and Type II Report. The webinar also outlines how Sarbanes-Oxley has impacted the demand for SAS 70 audits and how a SAS 70 Audit process works and frequency of reporting. Lastly, it introduces participants to the format documenting controls: COSO and COBIT and the benefits to be derived from SAS 70 audits.

Tags: Strategic Planning, IT Reliability, Planning and Services, Sarbanes-Oxley