Place Matters in the Helping Professions: GIS for Human and Social Services Organizations
[ Source: ESRI ]
April 2012-
Academics have made the case that social work needs mapping. This white paper describes how geographic information systems (GIS) fill that prescription. GIS is a key component in modernizing the information technology (IT) of many human and social service programs. By leveraging the data management, analysis, and visualization capabilities of GIS, social workers and other human service professionals (hereinafter referred to collectively as helping professionals) are empowered to understand community needs, measure environmental forces (including ...
IBM Systems Director 6.3 Improved Usability, Instability and Functionality
[ Source: IBM ]
April 2012-
IBM Systems Director 6.3 has just been released. Read the white paper and see how this new revision can improve usability with a more logical interface, as well as simplify installation for the program and associated plug-ins. Also learn how its extended functionality enhances control over physical systems, virtualized resources and storage devices.
Three Steps to Progress BPM from Project to Program
[ Source: IBM ]
April 2012-
In this white paper we aim to answer these and many other questions you might have about rolling out BPM in your organization. After thousands of client engagements we think we have assembled a proven guide that will ensure you succeed early and often with BPM.<br><br>
What are the tools I need in place?<br>
What expertise do I need to get going?<br>
How ...
Readying your portals for social business
[ Source: IBM ]
April 2012-
Improve business outcomes by adding social and real-time collaboration to your portals to realize value through greater revenue, improved customer satisfaction and lower operational costs.
The Seven Myths of Creating and Connecting Cloud Services
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
February 2012-
You've just launched an new initiative to leverage Cloud as part of your software development environment, for creating cloud-based and traditional applications. Or you're just chosen a public Cloud application like salesforce.com and now face the urgent challenge of connecting it to the rest of your enterprise to provide real-time access to back-office data. Come find out the seven common myths associated with creating Cloud applications, consuming public Cloud applications, and connecting any of ...
End-to-End Cloud Performance and Availability Best Practices
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
February 2012-
Cloud computing's promise of on-demand service provisioning, economies of scale, and a service-level driven customer experience has intersected with a strategic inflection point in the capital markets. Capital markets' customers require solutions that encompass both virtual and non-virtualized resources, built from the enterprise-class technologies and architectures they've learned they can depend on with their critical data and business operations. Participants across the industry are driving for more aggressive cost reduction, while seeking to enhance the ...
Building a Pricing Model for Private Clouds
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
February 2012-
Today there's substantial interest among enterprises in building internal private clouds but few plan on supporting this environment with a chargeback system - despite its criticality for a successful, highly efficient environment. Why aren't companies incorporating chargeback - Not only is it difficult to create a logical price model that can compete with public cloud prices but the concept of charging for IT services is a foreign concept to the enterprise. This presentation will walk ...
An Interview with James Staten, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
February 2012-
An Interview with James Staten, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester.
An Interview with Jan Jackman, VP, Global Cloud Services, IBM Global Technology Services
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
February 2012-
Paige Finkelman, GM with UBM TechWeb, interviews Jan Jackman, VP, Global Cloud Services, IBM Global Technology Services after her Cloud Connet 2012 Keynote talk.
An Interview with Lew Tucker, VP and CTO of Cloud Computing, Cisco
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
February 2012-
Paige Finkelman, GM with UBM TechWeb, interview Lew Tucker, VP and CTO of Cloud Computing, Cisco after his Cloud Connet 2012 Keynote talk.