SmartBiz IT Research Library

WEBCAST - Quebec organizations, compared to others in Canada, display much higher satisfaction with their IT effectiveness. They continually place a high priority on IT process improvement and the establishment of procedures for management and oversight of IT operations.
Posted: November 12, 2009 | Premieres: December 16, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | IT Services | Portfolio Management (IT Management) | Software Development Tools | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - Organizations that plan an information strategy, make realtime business analytics available to all levels of the organization, and architect an extensible information platform can generate more revenue, lower costs, reduce risk, and predict future outcomes with greater confidence. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Information Management | Reporting Software | Strategic Planning

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

PODCAST - In this FAQ with Jeff Boles, Jeff discusses the ins and outs of file virtualization. He tells users the benefits and drawbacks of file virtualization, which file virtualization products are on the market and how they might work in specific IT shops, as well as how file virtualization affects replication or migration of files.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Premiered: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Continuous Data Protection | Data Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Strategic Planning

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

EZINE - 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 - 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

VIDEO - A time of unprecedented market volatility and competition calls for a new business strategy. View this video white paper to learn how integrated business planning can help your company align strategic, operational, and financial plans.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Premiered: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Collaboration | Collaborative Applications Software | Forecast/Demand Management Software | Oracle (Product) | Risk Management | Strategic Planning

PODCAST - This podcast educates information security and IT pros on the right tools and technologies to create a solid process that provides the data, insight and metrics you need to meet your compliance and business objectives.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Premiered: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | Information Security | Network Security | Patch Management | Security | Security Management | Strategic Planning | Vulnerability Management

WHITE PAPER - This IBM white paper outlines the risks surrounding Web applications and reviews four layers of security needed in a strategy for end-to end Web protection.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: July 10, 2009


Topics:  Globalization | Internet Security | Strategic Planning | Web Application Security | Web Applications Management | Web Protocols

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines how you can gain reliable, accessible information from efficient, integrated IT systems – and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions. In turn, the right decisions will lead to better operations and a stronger competitive position.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Published: December 17, 2007


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Information Management | Inventory Management | IT Systems | Manufacturing Systems | SAP (Product) | SMBs | Strategic Planning

CASE STUDY - AP processing has changed the ways the businesses have been doing business. Read in this paper how ReadSoft’s doing that and so much more.
Posted: October 13, 2009 | Published: October 13, 2009


Topics:  Account Aggregation | Business Integration | Business Integration Software | ERP | ERP Software | Financial Management | Financial Reporting | Financial Services | Financial Systems | Financing | Product Development | Strategic Planning

WEBCAST - Join experts from HP and Novell in this webcast as they discuss how to empower your SAP solutions, deliver the right information to the right people at the right time, and execute upgrades and migrations successfully.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Premiered: October 2, 2009


Topics:  Applications Management | Data Management | Database Management | SAP (Product) | Software Migration | Software Upgrades | Storage Management | Strategic Planning