This white paper discusses strategic workforce planning for a changing business environment and methods for improving your business strategy. 

Different Emerging Information Technologies (EIT) have different impacts upon a business. Some EIT should be used as technical tools for supporting business to make business more efficient or effective; othersshould be used as strategic tools for leading, not merely supporting, a business to make a difference. 

Improve performance, implement security procedures, and institute server redundancy that is invisible to the user by leveraging the strategic point of control that exists between the servers in the data center and the Internet. 

The need for strategic information by department and executive managers is driving the transformation of tactical departmental systems into enterprise solutions, regardless of the size of the company employing the solutions. 

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 not only offers the performance and management features that virtualization customers require for their data center workloads, but also provides a strategic alternative to proprietary virtualization to enable organizations to accelerate their innovation, increase manageability, and reduce costs. 

While virtualization offers costs and agility benefits, it can also increase the risk and complexity of your existing environment. Is your computer security strategy and software able to keep up? In this resource, get an in-depth look into the virtualization security challenges, and discover how to develop a strategic approach for risk mitigation. 

The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power. 

To be a true strategic partner to management, human resources (HR) requires process and systems excellence. HR needs to know the business — the drivers, mission, and challenges. Read this IDC white paper to learn how to achieve excellence in HR by focusing consistency, integration, insight, responsiveness, and agility. 

This white paper examines credit card fraud and details business rules-based fraud prevention and detection. 

Enterprise organizations need to take a serious look at end-to-end application performance management. 

Between 25% and 50% of most companies’ revenue goes toward purchasing goods and services, so the ability to keep these costs down is paramount. Applying strategic sourcing methodologies to pinpoint spend categories and select qualified suppliers allows organizations to reduce expenses and positively impact the bottom line. 

An increasing number of organisations are considering how online communities and team workspaces can help them be more collaborative both internally and externally with customers and partners. If you’re thinking about, or have already started developing a strategy for an online community.