How the Indian IT Industry can cope with the US recession
[ Source: Wipro Consulting ]
March 2008-The US downturn is slowly but surely redefining the Indian IT paradigm. If there was a major watershed in the Indian IT Industry post Y2K, this is it. After the dizzying growth of the last 10 years, it is time to pause, reflect and realign strategies. If the Indian software industry has to survive, then it needs to adapt to the changing market scenarios quickly.
This paper outlines a few key ....
Developing Your Shared Services/Outsourcing Business Case
[ Source: Sourcingmag.com ]
January 2008-This paper published by Sourcingmag.com describes about business case. Business case is a document that describes a business problem and outlines a proposal for how the problem will be addressed or overcome. It’s a structured proposal that describes the work to be done and it is used as a tool for decision making, as well as being a blueprint for the solution that the program will deliver if it is approved. This paper provides guidance ....
Business Impact Analytics: Bridging Business Continuity and IT Management
[ Source: HP ]
January 2008-The Information Technology and Infrastructure Library (ITIL) documents best practices for IT Service Management, including service support and service delivery. Service support processes consist of incident, problem, change, release and configuration management. Service delivery processes consist of service level management, availability management, capacity management, IT financial management and IT service continuity. Business Impact Analytics aspires to create a bridge between these functions. More importantly, it suggests replacing the manual continuity business impact analysis process at ....
Ten Steps to Creating Innovative E-Commerce
[ Source: USinternetworking ]
June 2008-In a world where customers are more Internet-savvy, broadband is abundant in households, technology has advanced, and competitors are just a click away, you need more than just a few product pages and a shopping cart to stand out from the crowd. You need innovative e-commerce.
Innovative e-commerce requires placing the customer at the center of the experience by providing rich, contextual interactions across all touch points. Discover the 10 steps you can take ....
Structure Of Service Level Agreements (SLA) In IT Outsourcing: The Construct And Its Measurement
[ Source: Florida Atlantic University ]
January 2008-While practitioners proclaimed that a key to managing outsourcing relationships was with SLA, there existed very little understanding of how effectiveness and impact of SLA on IT outsourcing arrangements was measured. Using a conceptual framework for measurement development and contemporary statistical techniques for assessing dimensionality, this research paper from Florida Atlantic University theoretically develops and empirically tests measurement models of SLA in the context of IT outsourcing. The results of the analysis are framed as ....
The SaaS-Empowered CIO
[ Source: Acumen Solutions ]
September 2009-Moving from on-premise applications to SaaS empowers CIOs to focus on business services, IT alignment, and agile
delivery. Freed from the infrastructure adoption-obsolescence cycle, CIOs can address critical issues around securing
information assets and insuring data quality, availability and just-in-time delivery.
International Outsourcing In The Information Technology Industry: Trends And Implications
[ Source: Illinois State University ]
January 2008-The recent downturn in IT and software employment may continue even as the economy improves. Global providers of IT services, especially in India, are poised to permanently capture a large share of IT service and labor. In many ways the international outsourcing of IT services and software development is beginning to resemble the pattern of the U.S. automobile industry during the latter part of the 20th century. U.S. IT education and business leaders need to ....
Outsourcing For Success - The Retained Organization
[ Source: Novus Origo ]
July 2009-The requirements for the advanced planning and design of a skilled retained organization are paramount to the success of any outsourcing relationship, and should be facilitated early on in the outsourcing process. Additionally, key success factors in the design and implementation of a retained organization include: the ability of the team to operate against new processes and methodologies, having a clear understanding of what transactions are being outsourced, properly selecting retained resources based on skills ....
Test Process Assessments Move Into The Real World
[ Source: Lionbridge Technologies ]
June 2009-Freed from the classroom, frameworks for measuring the effectiveness of test organizations have been adapted to the real world, and are in use today by development teams looking to continuously improve product release readiness.
This white paper examines the fresh techniques for assessing the effectiveness of QA organizations.
A Simple Way To Use Core Competency And Financial Impact Analysis In Outsourcing Planning
[ Source: Sourcingmag.com ]
January 2008-In this paper Sourcingmag.com describes about a simple way to use core competency and financial impact analysis in outsourcing planning. The core competency/financial impact analysis approach enables a company to take each business process it’s considering for outsourcing and place its appropriate position according to two major considerations: Relevance to core competency and Financial impact. The core competency analysis is directly tied to the corporate strategy that is in force currently in any company and ....
Adding Business Value with Wide-Area Data Services
[ Source: Riverbed ]
August 2007-
With the growing importance of anywhere, anytime access for an increasingly dispersed workforce, IT managers are continually looking for ways to accelerate application performance across the wide area network (WAN).
Point products are available to improve one or another aspect of WAN performance, such as insufficient or congested bandwidth, impaired application performance, slow remote backup and replication, or obstacles to IT consolidation. However, IT managers would like a comprehensive wide-area solution that addresses all ....
Riverbed RiOS 4.0: Raising the Bar in Wide Area Data Services
[ Source: Riverbed ]
March 2007-
Enterprises and organizations are continually challenged to weigh their needs for both data security and speed against the expense of additional bandwidth. Wide area data services is an essential fundamental technology for optimizing enterprise WAN without incurring huge capital costs. In this paper by the Taneja Group, learn how Riverbed's Steelhead appliances with it's enhanced RiOS 4.0 operating system can help enterprises overcome these challenges by accelerating encrypted, secure traffic and improving performance of chatty ....
Data Center Consolidation with Wide-Area Application Services
[ Source: Cisco ]
July 2008-
Application Networking Services IT Deployment in Progress: How Cisco IT Advances Data Center Consolidation with Wide-Area Application Services
Solving the Storage Conundrum
[ Source: BlueArc ]
October 2008-
There are two things that can be done to minimize damage to Internet Services Companies caused by unexpected downtime or outages. The first is providing customer transparency, giving them detailed explanations as to exactly what's going on. The second is to get rid of or reduce as many outages or performance degradations as possible by eliminating some of the most common root causes. Regrettably, too many Internet Services organizations cut corners on their storage in ....
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 ....
How News Can Increase Your Web Site's Profits: Why Buying News And Content For Your Website Will Make Money
[ Source: www.comtex.com ]
November 2008-
This whitepaper examines the challenges of increasing the return on investment for your Web site through the use of licensed news and content. It introduces the benefits of buying custom, licensed newsfeeds from an established news aggregator, and expands on the proven benefits.
SaaS Secures in Uncertain Times
[ Source: Webroot ]
March 2009-
In a tight economy, IT managers are faced with more challenges than ever. Budgets are shrinking, web and email threats are increasing, and administrators are tasked with providing more support with fewer people. As organizations rethink how they manage critical functions like Web and email security, industry experts are recommending the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Learn how you can save money and simplify management with Webroot Security SaaS.
The Case for Universal Search
[ Source: Google ]
November 2008-
With an estimated 40% of the world’s information residing behind a firewall, the value of enterprise search is increasingly evident. Research has shown that knowledge workers can spend up to 25% of their work time just looking for information, and 40% of employees report that they cannot find the information they need to do their jobs. To be productive, employees need to be able to quickly find key information across your organization no matter ....
5 Reasons CIOs are Adopting Cloud Computing in 2009
[ Source: Salesforce.com ]
January 2009-
There’s never been a better time to build applications that pay for themselves in days instead of years—with fewer resources, and no upfront costs.
That’s why 51,800 companies of all sizes have made Force.com the proven choice for development in the cloud. Read the full report to learn how building apps on Force.com:
:: Delivers cost savings up to 50%
:: Makes development 5 times faster
....
Real-Time Email Address Validation: Build or Buy?
[ Source: FreshAddress, Inc. ]
June 2008-
You've spent countless hours working on your email campaign and you're ready to let it fly. But are you? How many of the resulting online email registrations for which you've worked so hard and paid so much will contain typos or, worse yet, malicious email addresses? Don't ignore the last step: optimizing your landing pages with real-time email validation to verify and spell-check email entries. But what's the surest, most cost-effective way to implement this ....
Why Email Must Operate 24/7 and How to Make This Happen
[ Source: MessageLabs, now part of Symantec ]
May 2009-
Email communication is essential. Unplanned email outages or even routine maintenance can cause huge disruption not only to your business, but also to your customers. Our reliance on email has grown and the full impact of an email system going down is often not realized until it is too late.
In this new Osterman Research paper, sponsored by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec, you’ll learn about some of the issues organizations face regarding email ....
Privacy Seals: Opt In or Opt Out
[ Source: TRUSTe ]
October 2006-
Consumers are getting more and more concerned about how businesses use and share their personal data. Firms should build consumers' trust and gain their future business by posting a consumer-friendly privacy policy and living up to their promises. TRUSTe and BBBOnLine (offered by the Council of Better Business Bureau) are the big names in the business, but there are many other lower-priced options. Currently, brand recognition and price are the major points of differentiation among ....
Transforming LoadRunner Data Into Information And Action
[ Source: XBOSoft ]
May 2007-
Today’s online Web applications need to deliver high efficiency and stability while supporting thousands of users simultaneously. Rather than going live and hoping for the best, it’s better to test applications beforehand in a test environment. HP’s LoadRunner can help do this by simulating hundreds or thousands of concurrent users applying workloads to a system using relatively few hardware resources. With LoadRunner, a tester can divide performance testing requirements into end user scenarios that replace ....
Seven Strategies For Planning Your Business Web Site
[ Source: bwired ]
April 2008-
Most successful businesses start with a plan. They begin with the end in mind. A Web site is no different. It simply functions in the online world, rather than the physical world. Here are seven key strategies for planning your online business.
Telstra & WWF: Using ICT To Drive Your Sustainability Strategy
[ Source: Telstra Enterprise and Government - Sustainability ]
April 2009-
As the issue of climate change becomes an increasing focus of government, public, and industry concern, savvy organizations are recognizing the imperative to have an effective sustainability strategy. Taking mitigating action, through investment in technologies that could help reduce carbon footprints, such as network-centric ICT, will be central to achieving real and quantifiable sustainability and productivity inroads. This whitepaper released by Telstra and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Australia highlights how Information and Communication Technology ....
Software As A Service (Saas) Vs. Traditional Licensed Software Application
[ Source: e-bizsoft ]
June 2008-
Software as a Service (SaaS)-based applications are gaining widespread acceptance; as a rough indicator of this trend, the Gartner Group predicted that by 2011 one in every four software applications purchased will be SaaS based, up from one in every 20 in 2005. There are many reasons for this growth, but at the forefront are the speed at which SaaS-based applications can be deployed and their ability to pay themselves off quickly.
How Services Are Helping Organizations Accelerate Adoption Of Next-Generation Data Protection Solutions
[ Source: EMC ]
February 2009-
A perfect storm of expanding data volumes, rising cost pressures, demanding recovery and compliance objectives, and infrastructure complexity is focusing new attention on data protection. Fortunately, next-generation backup, recovery, and archiving technologies are helping to address these issues, while significantly reducing costs, improving energy efficiency, and simplifying and automating operational control. Yet interdependency and overlap among these new and emerging hardware and software technologies require an integrated approach that goes beyond fragmented, point and product-based ....
Demystifying Open Source
[ Source: Impetus Technologies, Inc. ]
January 2009-
An estimated 25,000+ stable and actively developed open source projects are in existence today. Having moved beyond the realms of academia and research projects into the mainstream world, numerous businesses now look at open source as a viable option for leveraging best-of-breed solutions, lowering costs, and increasing profitability. Despite the simplicity behind the concept, using open source has become increasingly difficult.
Time, Risk, And Cost In Electroinc Discovery
[ Source: Orange Legal Technologies ]
February 2009-
Balancing time, risk, and cost in the conduct of electronic discovery continues to be one of the greatest challenges faced by legal professionals today. Technology advances, laws which further define electronically stored information (ESI), and current economic conditions all serve to increase both the importance and complexity of meeting this challenge of balance. How does one best approach the conduct of the key electronic discovery tasks of evaluating (analytics), processing, and reviewing ESI in preparation ....
Conceptual Search in Electronic Discovery
[ Source: Orange Legal Technologies ]
January 2009-
According to the Radicati Group, the average business mailbox contains 4.3 GB of potentially discoverable ESI. The burden of dealing with that volume is obvious. Automated tools to help identify responsive and privileged documents are being used more and more as the only viable way to manage these massive volumes of information. Electronic Discovery professionals have been looking for ways to limit the number of documents that need to be reviewed, because review is usually ....
Introduction To Virtustream
The demand on businesses to perform efficiently has never been greater -- responses have to be faster, the ability to change has to be rapid and transparent,...
Survive and Thrive in 2009
Virtually any IT or engineering department can find ways to reduce not only operating costs but also capital investment while maintaining and even improving service levels. Technology executives can drive...
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