Latest IT strategy White papers


CIOs can be a strategic partner in key business decisions

Getting your voice heard

Strategic IT financial management

Achieve higher organisational performance

10 key actions to reduce IT infrastructure and operations cost structure

A summary of Gartner's extensive cost optimisation research

Sustaining profitable growth: growing a midsize business in uncertain times

Midsize organisations are turning to enterprise applications in ever greater numbers

Competition Intensifies For The SMB ERP Customer

Forrester Report: Users benefit as vendors reduce enterprise complexity and deliver integration

Making the Case for Oracle Database on Windows

Oracle on Windows = the right combination for many users

Keeping hold of your customers, especially in tough economic conditions

How to build a flexible, insightful infrastructure for cost effective customer retention

Introducing Management Excellence

Journal of Management Excellence Report

Measuring achievement in management excellence

Key steps that organisations can take in their journey towards management excellence

Management Excellence: Leveraging technology and techniques

The techniques and technologies that organisations should master on their way to management excellence

The future of financial reporting: A market perspective

How can finance executives stay informed and reduce their compliance costs for new requirements?

Decide to survive

Four imperatives that make better decision management essential in uncertain times

Using managed services to reduce costs and sustain growth in mid-sized organisations

Reduce your IT capital costs and remain competitive

Portfolio-driven performance

The seven process areas that drive business results

Ensuring high service levels in cloud computing

Explore the most pressing challenges cloud computing presents in terms of service level management and how to overcome obstacles

Guide to cost optimisation: Four ways to gain operational advantage

Drive operational advantage through targeted cost optimisation projects

ERP for midsize organisations: the need for rapid implementation

Choosing a suitable ERP system

Technology and growth at mid-sized companies

A white paper by the Economist Intelligence Unit

From Chaos to Order- Winning the Information Management Game

Oracle Application Express delivers an easy, fast, and free way to manage your business information

Controlling costs with flexible processes

Business agility for midsize organisations

The challenge of strategic alignment

The role of scorecards & dashboards in strategy execution

Managing the transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

The impact that IFRS have on performance management and key performance indicators

Management Excellence: A step-by-step strategy to success

Outlining the process for achieving management excellence

The 11 secrets of business rules success

How to balance speed and quality when building a rules-based approach to decision management

Investment governance

The key to proving and improving the value of IT to the company


Techworld White Papers

Database security: Preventing enterprise data leaks at the source

IDC discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices...

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Service-oriented security

SOA has become an integral part of enterprise software by providing a framework to efficiently develop software as services that is easily sharable, reusable, and integrated. No where is the need more apparent than in the Identity Management space. Welcome to the age of Service-Oriented Security (SOS).

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Data protection prospective vendor checklist

Organisations need a way to map business needs against all these challenges in procuring a technical solution. To help, SANS has developed the following Prospective Vendor Checklist.

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Unlock the power of the mainframe

This whitepaper presents the notion of CICS as an integration hub based on a component-based, service-oriented architecture supporting Web services. Highlights will review the challenges and contrasted support for Web services natively in CICS.

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COLT White Paper

Are all VoIP services the same?

Questions to ask your service provider to ensure you get the VoIP service you need
With careful choice of partner, your business can have all the advantages of VoIP access - reduced costs, flexibility and simplicity - without the drawbacks.
This white paper is your guide to ensure you get right the VoIP service and details the pitfalls which businesses would do well to avoid.

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BMC

Ride the express lane in the journey to speed ITIL adoption

Explore the challenges in making the journey to ITIL and the criteria for selecting consulting services
By following ITIL practices, your IT organisation will become more closely integrated with the business. We recommend making the journey to ITIL in a sequence of six incremental steps, the phases of which are driven through execution of a strategic transformational roadmap.

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Webcast: IT Financial Management: Cost Optimisation for Efficiency and Agility.
On Demand Webcast
Join this webcast to learn about the techniques and technologies that can help you prove the value of IT to the business by understanding the true cost of today's IT services and those that will be necessary to deliver future success.

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