Learn how to use automation to cut costs and optimize your service desk, software budget, and software management. 

Managing servers, clients, hardware, software, and other services can be a challenging task for IT pros. This resource explains how you can unify management of these critical systems, enabling greater efficiency across your IT environment. Discover a recommended tool and its key features here. 

Explore the results of a recent IDG survey gauging IT leaders’ perspectives on technology escrow agreements with software vendors, as well as the importance of including verification services within them. 

Readers of this e-guide document will learn about the different ways to approach data center outsourcing, including assessing services-oriented architectures for infrastructure and software. IT professionals will benefit from this document in learning how to evaluate, select and manage relationships with potential data center outsourcing partners. 

Many IT administrators believe the cloud is staged to offer adaptable, flexible and scalable resources at a fraction of the cost. But with varying definitions, strategies and expectations, the cloud is still clearly in the developmental stages. Take a look at this white paper for an expert analysis of cloud computing. 

There is a well-spring of features and capabilities of Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007 messaging platform. The longer you use it, the more treasures you can pull up from the deep. In this paper, we'll look at and discuss five things you probably don't know about Exchange Server 2007. 

Access this case study to learn how one company deployed BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express to provide the company with many of the same BlackBerry® smartphone features that employees were accustomed to using, without additional software or user license fees. 

This white paper helps in better understanding all the different cost factors and includes a simplified calculator that will help influencers and decision makers to better estimate the true TCO of a SaaS versus a traditional software deployment. 

Against a backdrop of increased use of software that is generally more sophisticated, flexible, scalable and easy to use than it was 5 years ago, this research set out to explore the impact of having to maintain a plethora of different software solutions in today’s cash-strapped corporate environment. 

Today, maintaining a competitive edge while managing costs is the challenge that most organisations face. High up on the IT Directors‟ to do list is innovation in the way costs are managed and contained, while at the same time providing a dynamic and responsive IT service to the business. 

When IBM Cognos users complement their deployments with formal training services, end users become more productive, report building costs are reduced, and more end users adopt IBM Cognos tools such as BI and PM. 

Siemens product lifecycle management (PLM) Software for life sciences can help medical device manufacturers manage compliance requirements while supporting greater collaboration, ultimately reducing costs while improving patient outcomes. 

This handbook will cover best practices for moving to Microsoft Windows 7, including assessing Windows 7 to determine if it’s a good move for your organization, which applications in your organization should move over, what help is out there for your migration project and licensing.