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Driving product strategy from the top-down: How to align business objectives with technical objectives
If you manage, or are involved with product investment decisions for multiple products, this session will provide practical insights and tools to make your job a little bit easier. If you have difficulty explaining how multiple products "fit" together, or what value customers will receive from a portfolio approach, this session will cover successful methods that are in use today
17 days ago by IBMEIP Whitepaper
Today, successful organizations depend upon their ability to collaborate, communicate, and share information online. Established tools, such as email and the Web, are now more important than ever before, while emerging Web 2.0 applications, blogs, and social networking sites allow organizations to work in new, more efficient, and innovative ways. Yet these technologies also expose businesses and other organizations to a variety of new and emerging information security risks. This paper explains how Essential Information Protection is designed to help organizations make the most of their IT security investments.
19 days ago by WebsenseCase Study - WebEx Communciations inc
WebEx uses Minjet's MindManager software to streamline their project management and allow for better communication of plans to both clients and the teams. By being better able to visualise their projects has ensured they stay on-track and everyone involved is better informed.
23 days ago by MindjetApplication Delivery Networks
The New Imperatives for IT Visibility Acceleration and Security Your business depends on one thing and that is getting the right information to the right people at the right time. To gain a competitive advantage, improve customer service and access more business intelligence, you have to ensure fast and responsive application delivery to users wherever they are. At the same time, you have to protect users, systems and applications from malicious threats so workers, customers and partners can confidently transact business whether they're using Oracle, Salesforce.com or VoIP. To achieve these goals you first need to understand how these business drivers impact your infrastructure.
25 days ago by Blue Coat SystemsCombining Application Acceleration and Security
Combining Application Acceleration and Security: Several high-impact business and technology trends are driving the need for today's organizations to find ways to enhance the performance and security of their applications. In this white paper, industry analyst Mark Bouchard, CISSP, founder of Missing Link Security Services and former Meta analyst, will first elaborate on the trends, further characterizing the various challenges driving the need for greater degrees of application performance and security. Subsequently, he will establish the benefits of having a single, combined product that addresses both sets of objectives - acceleration and security - before identifying the key criteria for selecting a corresponding solution.
25 days ago by Blue Coat SystemsMicrosoft Office System Webcast: Effective Delegation (Level 100)
In today's economic and business environment, one is increasing forced to get things done with the help of other people. To do more with less, one needs effective delegation and a systematic way to follow up on delegated items. The presenter of this webcast reviews some key concepts that can help one delegate action items better. The presenter also shares a systematic methodology for following up on action items with he internal and external contacts. The attendee learns how to get more done without losing track of things using some under-used functions in Microsoft Office Outlook and a simple process.
31 days ago by MicrosoftInfrastructure Solutions for SAP Environments
A converged infrastructure can help your organization get a handle on IT complexity with solutions specifically addressing provisioning and reliability. Watch an on demand webcast presentation: "Infrastructure Solutions for SAP Environments".
38 days ago by Hewlett-Packard (HP)Nonprofit Boosts Productivity, Cuts IT Maintenance by 15 Percent With Online Services
Bellevue, Washington's Kindering Center for early childhood intervention had a POP3 e-mail technology infrastructure with so many potential points of failure that the system crashed several times a year, disrupting communication among staff members. Even when the system worked, the drawbacks of Web mail kept staffers from viewing stored messages, limiting their ability to work remotely. The center resolved these concerns and more by adopting the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, which offers comprehensive communications and collaboration tools as a service over the Internet. As a result, staff members each gain two hours per week in increased productivity, which is spent on more and better client service.
38 days ago by MicrosoftThe Forrester Wave: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009
In Forrester's 66-criteria evaluation of collaboration platform vendors, we found that Microsoft and IBM Lotus led the pack based on the breadth of functionality in their offerings. Novell edged into the Leaders' quadrant with its Teaming product. MindTouch, the only open source option in this Forrester Wave, landed as a strong Performer. Open Text represented a strong option, particularly for current Open Text ECM Suite customers. Atlassian, Jive Software, Socialtext, and Traction Software all approach the market with strong social networking capabilities. New entrant Cisco WebEx debuted as a Contender and will look to disrupt the market landscape over time. Central Desktop is the only pure software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering with a focus on small and medium businesses, as well as enterprise departments.
39 days ago by NovellBusiness and IT Alignment - Integrating Technology and IT Spend With Business
Traditional business schools teach two key concepts around business (once one has settled on a product or service) and those are value propositions and competitive pressures. IT (Information Technology) has NOT integrated with business well EXCEPT in the commodity markets. The universally zealous focus on process improvements, process automation, and business process management only addresses ONE of the three value propositions. And that type of a focus ends up creating commodities of the product or service (if it is not already a commodity). IT has only aggressively addressed the "Operational excellence" pillar of business. They are only now BEGINNING to seriously look at customer focus and innovation is just barely a blip on the radar screen.
43 days ago by R3Now.com
