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Procurement Lessons Learned from the Economic Downturn (SAP Insider Article) by SAP America, Inc. September 30, 2011 - (Free Research) Read this paper to discover the top four tactics employed by best-in-class companies of varied sizes and industries to elevate procurement proficiencies in today's recalcitrant economy, along with the metrics they use to measure their success.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Strategic Supplier Mandate: Three Principles to Deliver Transparency Across the Supply Base by SAP America, Inc. March 31, 2012 - (Free Research) Read this article to discover the three supplier management initiatives that have helped market-leading procurement organizations drive innovation, increase productivity and mitigate risk.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Cloud Computing by Government Agencies: Meeting Business and Security Challenges in the Cloud by IBM August 17, 2010 - (Free Research) This article briefly describes the procurement challenges and then jumps into advising government cloud service purchasers on the positives and negatives of security in the cloud, and how to manage their potential vendors' security risks. Read on to learn more.  (TECHNICAL ARTICLE)

CPO Rising 2011 -- The State of Spend Analysis by SAP America, Inc. September 30, 2011 - (Free Research) Companies that can move high percentages of their spend into managed scenarios will reap much larger returns. This article discusses the importance of visibility in bringing more spend under management, and the types of outcomes one can expect from a strong spend analysis program.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

SAP Supply Chain Execution Reference Library eBook by SAP America, Inc. April 26, 2013 - (Free Research) This essential e-book collects a series of articles, videos, and studies related to supply chain management. Read on to learn how you can strategically improve everything from warehouse management to event management with the right tools and strategies in place.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Supply Chain eBook by SAP America, Inc. August 21, 2012 - (Free Research) This is your comprehensive, one-stop point for SAP Supply Chain Planning and Collaboration (SAP SCM) collateral: Business Transformation Studies, Customer Success Stories, Customer Testimonial Videos, Solution in Details, Articles.  (RESOURCE CENTER) READ ABSTRACT |

Collaborate with Your Business Network in the Cloud by SAP America, Inc. April 30, 2012 - (Free Research) This resource discusses cloud-based business applications and the potential benefits to your business.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Gartner: Five trends that will affect your cloud strategy by ComputerWeekly.com April 23, 2012 - (Free Research) <p>Businesses need to keep a close eye on the evolution of cloud based services to avoid wasting money and missing out on business opportunities.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p>  (ANALYST BRIEF) READ ABSTRACT |

E-Book: Gaining Control of Order Management Processes by SAP America, Inc. April 25, 2012 - (Free Research) This e-book, packed with four expert articles, highlights SAP's solution to sales order management, offering insight into its CRM, ERP and supply chain management components. Read these insightful articles now to learn about this option's strengths and weaknesses, how to properly define the sales process and so much more.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

IT matters again by ComputerWeekly.com December 01, 2011 - (Free Research) This report from Deloitte argues businesses are again investing in IT to provide the differentiation and innovation critical from their competitors despite the downturn.  (IT BRIEFING) READ ABSTRACT |

Teradata Active Data Warehouse Private Cloud: Mitigate Risk and Meet Dynamic Business Needs by Teradata July 02, 2012 - (Free Research) Check out this article now to learn about public v. private clouds and how they stack up when it comes to mitigating risk and meeting business needs.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

CW+: Cloud computing - look before you leap by ComputerWeekly.com October 19, 2010 - (Free Research) Over the past 18 months we have seen the irresistible rise of a new phenomenon, cloud computing. This term is given by the IT industry to a new business model for computing, one where capacity for computer, storage and networking can be dynamically acquired, on demand,and paid for according to usage.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Journal of Management Excellence - Enterprise Performance Management Innovations by Oracle Corporation April 01, 2010 - (Free Research) This collection of journal articles focuses on the many facets of enterprise performance management that can help organizations thrive through the recovery, including; integrating the financial close and reporting process, managing the transition to IFRS, centralized enterprise dimension management.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Selecting an ERP Solution: A Guide by Infor November 2008 - (Free Research) This paper provides guidance on how to develop a good, simple strategy to evaluate and choose the right ERP software package for your company.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Storage: The Best Products of the Year 2008 by Storage Magazine February 2009 - (Free Research) Innovation was the byword for storage vendors in 2008. See which products came out on top in this issue of Storage. Other topics covered include deduplication, multitiered disaster recovery, and storage in a down economy.  (EZINE) READ ABSTRACT |

CW Buyer's Guide: Software-defined networking by ComputerWeekly.com April 2013 - (Free Research) Computer Weekly looks at how SDN can give IT administrators greater control over the network infrastructure and make it more flexible and agile part of the business.  (ESSENTIAL GUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games (part 2) by Intel Software Network June 2009 - (Free Research) This article gets dangerously close to real artificial intelligence (AI). All intelligent agents need to have a basic ability to perceive their environment and some means of navigating and moving within the world around them-be it real or otherwise. Read on to learn more about AI.  (WHITE PAPER)

Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 28: Achieving the Right Level of Consolidation in a Virtual Data Center by SearchDataCenter.com November 2010 - (Free Research) Virtualization allows organizations to consolidate servers, reduce costs and increase efficiency. But too much of anything is rarely good. In this issue, the downsides of excessive consolidation and strategies for striking the right balance to improve computing efficiency are explained. Plus, how to improve server performance and consolidation.  (EZINE)

Best Practices for Migrating SAP Environments by Sun Microsystems, Inc. June 2009 - (Free Research) This Sun BluePrints™ article explains the process of moving an SAP environment from one system to another, and describes the resources and services available from Sun to assist users planning a migration.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Virtualizing the Client PC: A Proof of Concept by Intel Corporation November 2008 - (Free Research) In this paper Intel IT explores a proof of concept study that examined the viability of abstracting the client operating system from the hardware platform using virtualization.  (WHITE PAPER)

Presentation Transcript - Improving Data Center Relations: IT Versus Facilities by Viridity Software November 2010 - (Free Research) Today, IT resources can be provisioned quickly and cheaply—some would say too quickly and cheaply. But those IT resources rely on brick and mortar as well as megawatts, which are abstracted from the IT department. This Webcast will identify pitfalls data center teams should avoid.  (PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT) READ ABSTRACT |

Talking innovation: Disruptive Trends DevOps with Lonne Jaffe by CA Technologies March 2013 - (Free Research) In this podcast, dive into DevOps and learn the practice behind the hype. Discover what DevOps can do for your development team, how it serves to align IT with business goals, and much more. Listen today to get started on your DevOps initiatives.  (PODCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Developing HTML5 Applications for AppUp: Part 1 A Simple Example by Intel December 2011 - (Free Research) This is the first in a series of articles covering how to develop HTML5 applications for Intel AppUp. This first article will cover the basics of getting a minimal application packaged using the Encapsulator tool. Later articles will describe some larger example applications that illustrate different features of HTML5.  (TRAINING GUIDE)

Service Orientation and Its Role in Your Connected Systems Strategy: Building Distributed Applications by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd October 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper presents the Microsoft Corporation vision for service orientation and service-oriented architecture in enterprise computing.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Web Services and Data Integration Across Heterogeneous Data Sources by Progress DataDirect March 2009 - (Free Research) During this webinar we wrote, tested and deployed real XML and XQuery-based solutions.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

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