Top 5 Myths of Screen Scraping
[ Source: Seagull Software ]
June 2008-
Many organizations with mainframe, System i or OpenVMS applications still ask their employees to use green-screen (or text-based) user interfaces to work with essential business information. Green-screens are a business problem and a technology problem. They're unappealing, hard to learn, intimidating, and accessible only with terminal emulation software. They’re also incompatible with modern application integration methods like Web services and SOA.
The appeal of screen-scraping is understandable — it's simple and inexpensive. But many ....
Improving Bottom Line Performance Through Precision Forecasting And Scheduling
[ Source: GMT Corporation ]
March 2009-
Whether in a contact center or bank branch environment, workforce managers everywhere face the constant challenge of balancing the yin and yang priorities of service levels and labor costs. This is especially true in today's economic environment where inaccurate forecasts can lead to poor scheduling decisions and can have dramatic impact on bottom line profitability. In this guide, GMT Corp. analyzes how to improve bottom-line performance in contact centers and bank branches through precision forecasting ....
ERP For IT And Tooling For Automation
[ Source: Cornerstone Technology BV ]
March 2009-
The question is what can be depicted to be a major key for a successful ERP implementation for the IT disciplines The primary condition for effective ERP systems for the IT-shop itself is self-automation. No human expert input or intervention! Enterprise applications must be automatically inputted into the ERP database. This aspect makes system engineering methodologies like ITIL much more consistent and complete.
Project Portfolio Management: An Overview
[ Source: Atlantic Global PLC ]
August 2009-
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is about how the business manages projects as short-, medium-, and long-term strategic investments. It helps the business establish a clear line of sight from the top right down to the individual project layer -- giving you the ability to spot project redundancies before they happen. From the strategic viewpoint, it allows stakeholders, business leaders, and executives to see clearly and understand how effective their strategies are and, if necessary, which ....
Realizing Business Value through Collaborative Document Development
[ Source: Value Prism Consulting ]
October 2009-
Collaborative Document Development is a business process that is common to organizations across all industries and all functional areas. In every business, information is communicated through reports and presentations - documents which are used in decision making at every level within an organization.
Collaborative Document Development describes how process stakeholders collaborate, create content, review content, revise content, publish final drafts, and archive important business documents. This paper describes how groups from a variety of industries ....
The Solaris 10 Advantage: Understanding the Real Cost of Ownership of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
[ Source: Crimson Consulting Group ]
January 2008-
This paper published by Crimson Consulting Group discusses the solaris 10 advantage: understanding the real cost of ownership of red hat enterprise linux. Long-term cost of ownership is a more accurate metric than acquisition cost in making an operating system decision. CIOs considering Linux should be aware that other UNIX operating system providers, such as Sun Microsystems, may offer better long-term cost of ownership as compared to Linux. This paper discusses a study based on ....
Why, What, Where and How of Outsourcing
[ Source: S5 Systems ]
April 2008-
To implement a successful outsourced project considerable planning and
efforts are required. This white paper discusses the important guidelines to help through your next outsourced project.
This whitepaper is for product/project managers, CFO and other managers involved in making decisions related to outsourcing.
Recession-Proof Your Business: The Top Five Ways IT Organizations Can Help Companies Survive a Tough Economy
[ Source: Informatica ]
February 2009-
We’ve all seen the headlines. We’ve read the analyst reports. It’s unanimous: IT budgets are shrinking. But the needs of the business are not. In fact, in difficult times, the needs of the business may actually grow.
When times are tough, companies need to home in on those activities that help them operate more efficiently and do more with less. They need to quickly adapt and respond to competitive threats and fluctuating ....
17 Ways to Reduce IT Cost
[ Source: Apptio ]
January 2009-
Cost-cutting initiatives gain special prominence in a tough economy. In troubled financial times, however, many CIOs won’t sign off on a new project, unless there are demonstrable quantified savings and the financial impact is clearly identified.
This whitepaper describes how you can identify new cost savings opportunities, precisely quantify the savings, evaluate the project impact, and establish a way to track costs over time for continual cost optimization.
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Practical Advice for Leveraging CICS in an SOA
[ Source: Seagull Software ]
June 2008-
Exposing mainframe applications as Web services can be a daunting and time-consuming task. Yet CICS applications are the perfect way to make the mainframe an active participant in your SOA projects. This white paper features ways to improve time-to-market for mainframe Web services, and gives practical advice for leveraging CICS in your SOA projects.