SmartBiz IT Research Library

PRESENTATION - EA, a key IT governance tool, plays an active role in strategic business planning. Effective EA requires managing standards and promoting best practices in architecture.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Architectures | Business IT Alignment | CIOs | Enterprise Architectures | IT Best Practices | IT Governance | IT Managers | Strategic Planning

JOURNAL ARTICLE - We evaluate the established meta-models and frameworks of enterprise business architecture, and extract the key ingredients to build an innovative meta-model.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Architectures | Business IT Alignment | CIOs | Enterprise Architectures | IT Management | IT Managers | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - A robust governance framework is imperative for effective Enterprise Architecture (EA). Our framework helps you assess performance and chart a continuous improvement course that deepens the impact of your EA program.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2005


Topics:  Business Architectures | Business IT Alignment | CIOs | Enterprise Architectures | IT Governance | IT Management | IT Managers

WHITE PAPER - Our experience suggests that Enterprise Architecture (EA) governance determines the impact of the architecture team to a great degree. We describe and manage EA governance along six dimensions.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2005


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | CIOs | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Systems | Strategic Planning

ANALYST REPORT - Infosys' Enterprise Architecture (EA) Survey 2008-09 reveals that EA enables business transformation, its practices continue to mature, and increased outsourcing of EA functions is a strong future possibility.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | CIOs | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | IT Asset Management | IT Departments | IT Industry | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Spending | Strategic Planning | Surveys

WEBCAST - Join this webcast to learn how Enterprise Architecture integrated with Portfolio Management is empowered to integrate your strategic goals into your organization's capital planning, business planning and technology architecture activities. In this way, your strategic planning outputs become actionable.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Premiered: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Systems | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Resource Management | IT Management | Portfolio Management (Finance) | Portfolio Management (IT Management)

WEBCAST - This webcast explores the business benefits of migrating from expensive, proprietary server architectures to cost-effective, industry-standard architectures. Gain insight into how this transition can enable your organization to increase reliability, availability and serviceability.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Premiered: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Architectures | Microsoft Office | Open Source Software | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - In this whitepaper, you will learn about the current shift in focus from network availability to application performance and how a new management model, what NetQoS calls Performance First™, will empower you to advance to the next level in managing your network for application performance.
Posted: October 22, 2009 | Published: October 22, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Enterprise Architectures | Network Architectures | Network Infrastructure | Network Management Software | Network Monitoring | Network Traffic Analysis | QOS

VIDEO - This session is designed to help you capture the best architecture/technical solutions and ensure that they are repeated by all developers.
Posted: October 21, 2009 | Premiered: October 21, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Architectures | Enterprise Architectures | Project Management

ANALYST REPORT - This report introduces the reader to Unified Communications and to SIP trunking and how it can play a key role in accelerating the deployment of UC. It also provides recommendations on how to evaluate SIP trunking providers and some thoughts for initial deployment.
Posted: October 20, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | Mobile Device Management | SIP | Unified Messaging Systems | Wireless Computing

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper offers a thorough checklist that should enable potential ESSO implementers to deploy the right ESSO solution which should help eliminate sign-on problems, reduce helpdesk costs, maximize user productivity, strengthen security, simplify administration and accelerate regulatory compliance.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Application Security | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Architectures | Identity Management | Identity Management Software | Security | Security Best Practices | Security Infrastructure | Security Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper gives you an overview of how Ovum has helped penetrate the upper-midmarket. Even when the slowing growth of the market hasn't.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Activity Monitoring | Business Development | Business Environment | Cost Benefit Analysis | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Systems | Global Economy | Oracle (Product)

PODCAST - Join Tim Scannell, editor of SearchEnterpriseWAN.com, and Bojan Simic, expert in application performance management, WAN optimization, network management, and application delivery, as they discuss how to effectively manage and balance WAN performance with security safeguards on local and wide area networks.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Premiered: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Systems | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Security | WAN

WHITE PAPER - Take a look at this important survey, which sought managers’ and professionals’ perspectives, both as external customers of e-business sites, as well as caretakers of their own online operations.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Asset Management Software | Enterprise Content Management | Performance Testing | Web 2.0 | Web Applications Architectures | Web Applications Management

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Download a free trial version of IBM® Rational® Team Concert Standard Edition, a member of the Rational Team Concert family of products built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle.
Posted: September 11, 2009 | Published: September 11, 2009


Topics:  Corporations | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Content Management | Platform as a service | Scalability Testing | Software | Software Best Practices | Software Development Tools