SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - Enterprises are always seeking to cut costs and optimize resource utilization. Now, in this harsh economic climate, the need is more compelling than ever. This paper highlights potential savings exceeding $5,000,000 per year for each 1,000 employees through the application of Microsoft Unified Communications to your business and IT operations.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Collaboration | Communications Hardware | Communications Systems | Economic Environment | Microsoft Exchange | Microsoft Office | Mobile Workers | Teleconferencing Software | Unified Messaging | VoIP | Web Conferences

WHITE PAPER - This white paper from ZapThink discusses how organizations can quickly benefit from SOA, regardless of the economic climate.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Published: December 28, 2008


Topics:  Economic Environment | SOA | Software Architectures | Software Configuration Management | Software Infrastructure | Software Migration

PODCAST - Listen to this podcast to learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Premiered: February 20, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Disk Backups | Economic Environment | Solid State Disks | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Strategic Planning

WEBCAST - View this mediacast and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Premiered: February 20, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Disk Backups | Economic Environment | Solid State Disks | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Strategic Planning

WEBCAST - In this economic downturn, organizations are looking to cut costs. Agile teams produce higher quality work, are quick to deliver and provide greater ROI. What can these teams do now to cut costs? Join us as Scott Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, provides his expertise and guidance on this pressing topic for today.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Premiered: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Economic Environment | ROI | Software Best Practices | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

WEBCAST - The global economy has gone through a painful restructuring in the last year. The economic downturn has however presented many opportunities for firms to cut costs and enhance their productivity. In this webcast you'll learn how to leverage those opportunities using Blackberry® solutions for accounting firms.
Posted: November 2, 2009 | Premiered: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Accounting | Document Management | Economic Environment | Mobile Device Management | Mobile Middleware | Mobile Workers | Productivity | Smart Phones | Tax Law

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the concept that preparing for economic recovery is not something that can wait; it is something that businesses should plan for now. It will introduce enterprise application migration strategies that can be considered within any organization and also emphasize the importance of forward thinking and planning in down economy.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Customer Satisfaction | Data Migration | Economic Environment | Enterprise Applications Software | Linux | SQL Server | Systems Management | TCO | UNIX | Windows Server 2003

WEBCAST - Is data management costing you too much money? Join us for a webcast where two IBM DB2 customers will discuss proven strategies that they have incorporated into their IT operations that have resulted in lowering their overall database costs.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Premiered: October 19, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Data Management Software | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Economic Environment

WHITE PAPER - Project portfolio management solutions, such as those from Oracle, enable project leaders to successfully manage risk, even in this volatile climate. They also enable companies to identify the best strategies for pursuing existing projects and to identify the most-promising future projects for investment.
Posted: October 9, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Economic Environment | Oracle (Product) | Portfolio Management (IT Management) | Project Management | Project Management Software | Project Portfolio Management

WHITE PAPER - In this research report, we examine five of the critical issues that are creating new opportunities for the accounting profession and nine key strategies for obtaining competitive advantage.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Accounting | Accounting Industry | Collaboration | Economic Environment | Regulatory Compliance | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | Workforce Planning

WHITE PAPER - Law firms have had to develop new strategies to compete and win in a legal market that contains greater uncertainty than any that has come before it. This paper will briefly outline strategies for success in the evolving legal marketplace.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Management | Collaboration | Economic Environment | Legal Environment | Legal Services Industry | Productivity | Social Networking

WEBCAST - In this webinar, you'll learn about the rapidly changing state of law firms, how law firms must pay closer heed to business management issues to remain competitive. You'll hear the voice of the client and what law firms must do to succeed in the face of change.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Premiered: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Process Management | Collaboration | Economic Environment | Legal Environment | Legal Services Industry | Productivity | Social Networking

WHITE PAPER - How can management communicate business strategy effectively and assure that the entire organization has bought in to the strategy and is aligned behind it? Business performance optimization systems are an important tool for success.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Environment | Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Performance Management | Business Structures | CIOs | Decision Support Systems | Economic Environment | Global Economy | Globalization | SAP (Product)

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW - Performance Computing (HPC) is business ready. HPC can give your organization a competitive advantage through shorter development cycles, better decision making and lower costs. Download this webcast to discuss new technologies, accomplishments, and collaborations in HPC, networking, storage, software, and data management.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Premiered: September 23, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Disk Backups | Economic Environment | High Performance Computing | Parallel Processing | Solid State Disks | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Strategic Planning

WEBCAST - This eSeminar will provide you with the information that you need to best implement SSDs and achieve the optimal ROI and service level improvements that you require.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Premiered: September 17, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Economic Environment | Solid State Disks