Nexaweb Advance: End-to-End Application Modernization
[ Source: Nexaweb ]
March 2008-
Legacy applications built with technologies like PowerBuilder, ColdFusion (v5 and older) Oracle Forms, COBOL and Visual Basic are costing enterprises millions to maintain, and more to upgrade. Modernizing these systems to fully functional Web applications, however, is not as simple as adding flashy UIs and deploying them in a browser. It requires well-designed procedures to transform the legacy code to a common language, and utilize that data and business logic to deploy highly-functional, interactive applications ....
Social Project Management or Project Management 2.0?
[ Source: Wrike Inc ]
May 2008-
Project management topic is a hot topic nowadays. Why? Probably one of the reasons is that this part of the management science is undergoing significant changes due to the introduction of the new technologies for managing project teams. People are using blogs, wikis and collaboration planning tools to work on projects together. How do these tools influence contemporary project management? Do traditional project management practices need to be improved? To answer these questions let's take ....
On-Demand IT Asset Management: What It Is, Why You Need It, and How You Can Benefit
[ Source: SAManage ]
March 2008-
This paper explains what IT Asset Management is and how it could benefit every organization. The paper highlights IT asset management (ITAM) solutions that can help organizations gain greater control over the various components within their IT architectures. ITAM systems have been so effective at helping companies derive greater value from their IT investments that the demand for such solutions continues to accelerate at a rapid pace.
Considering Third-Generation Discovery: Two Approaches For Evaluating eDiscovery Offerings
[ Source: Orange Legal Technologies ]
December 2008-
With the many products and services available in the marketplace today, the need to be able to uniformly contrast and compare electronic discovery offerings continues to grow. Even though more and more vendors are providing pricing comparison tools that can help in considering their offerings, there continues to be a need for comparison frameworks to help electronic discovery professionals systematically evaluate offerings beyond pricing and through the lens of additional factors to include capability, delivery ....
10 Key Considerations When Outsourcing QA and Testing Services
[ Source: AppLabs ]
March 2008-
Outsourcing is a strategic management option rather than just another way to cut costs. This paper outlines 10 key considerations that organizations should consider when outsourcing QA and testing services, based on AppLabs’ extensive experience in this field.
Successfully Automating Decisions with Business Analytics
[ Source: SAS ]
April 2009-
Business analytics has been treated as an ad hoc activity in many corporations, often making it time-consuming, labor-intensive, and somewhat unpredictable. As a result of these shortcomings, corporations are getting much more interested in how analytical decisions can be embedded into business processes on an ongoing, repeatable basis. The goal of such efforts is to make analytical decision-making faster, more reliable, more consistent, and more aligned to the operational activities of the enterprise.
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Seven Metrics To Help Assess Your Enterprise SOA Strategy
[ Source: Proteans Software Solutions Pvt Ltd ]
May 2009-
For several years, organizations are facing issues in aligning business applications (in-house software applications or third-party software applications) with goals and business requirements. Companies face the challenge of developing customized APIs for third-party applications and developing applications from scratch instead of using third-party applications. However, sometimes the solutions are not permanent and provide only minor relief. Here are seven metrics to help assess your enterprise SOA strategy.
PaaS-onomics: A CIO's Guide To Lowering Costs Of Application Initiatives
[ Source: LongJump ]
October 2008-
This whitepaper discusses how Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) can help CIOs address the long tail of IT projects, and provide significant ROI to the business. PaaS offers a very demonstrable ROI while also strengthening operations. Both these factors should have CIOs taking a closer look at PaaS not only for its economic benefits, but as an opportunity to improve information management and processes across the enterprise.
Building Higher Levels Of Critical Thinking With Collaboration
[ Source: Grouputer ]
May 2008-
A new model of learning that integrates online collaborative technology and process-centric learning is slowly emerging in response to the need for improved critical thinking in education and the workplace. If it succeeds, the new model will change "bricks and mortar" learning to a multimodal model where learning occurs in physical and virtual spaces, collaboratively and individually, with real-time input from teachers supported by peer-to-peer collaboration; anywhere, anytime, anyhow.
On-Demand ERP in the Enterprise: A Practical CIO Guide to Implementation
[ Source: NetSuite ]
July 2009-
This independent research and analysis report, prepared and published by Phil Wainewright, one of the world's foremost authorities on business automation and ZDNet writer on Software as a Service (SaaS), provides a framework for crafting a SaaS strategy and implementing SaaS ERP within enterprises. The paper will examine key concerns such as data integrity in enterprise systems, maintaining compliance and ensuring proper process management, as well as discussing new skills and approaches to help maximize ....