This paper provides best practice guidelines for deploying SAP software solutions on VMware Infrastructure 3. 

In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

How can IT organizations deliver applications that are more aligned with business needs, budgets, and schedules? This paper will explore best practices—both at the enterprise and project level—to capture and manage well-defined application requirements. 

This paper discusses the case for system consolidation and legacy decommissioning and the best practices approach to ensure data protection and access to legacy data while lowering costs. Learn how the Dolphin platform for data and document management provides flexible applications, tools and best practices for optimizing the SAP environment. 

Business continuity and disaster recovery can mean a rapid return to operations or financial downfall. This IDC white paper highlights the challenges and best practices for implementing continuity and recovery solutions, and details how Riverbed WAN optimization solutions enable firms to meet their recovery requirements. 

Read this white paper to learn how to integrate the plant floor into your enterprise IT infrastructure to achieve more effective quality control with tips for evaluating your MES and best practices for creating tight MES-ERP integration. 

Tthis paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for BI. It also provides guidance on how to avoid and/or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid BI failure and achieve success with your BI initiatives. 

Read this white paper to explore: the most common SAP integration challenges; a brief overview of SAP interfaces and integration points; various approaches for SAP integration; and architectural best practices for effective SAP integration. 

Read this white paper to understand the importance of master data governance (MDG) in addition to the use of ERP software for workflow processes that can help you anticipate potential issues. 

Challenges to control fixed assets include lack of accurate physical asset inventories and inadequate tools and resources to adapt to changing tax laws and methods. Read this white paper to learn best practices for managing fixed assets and how control will help you save time and money. 

This white paper introduces the five SCM best practices that are essential for software development success. 

Healthcare facilities are rapidly adopting electronic health records (EHR) in order to meet regulatory compliance requirements. Central to this effort is document conversion — the scanning of new and existing records to digital format. Inside this white paper, uncover best practices for a HIPAA-compliant approach to EHR transition. 

Organizing, indexing and storing info is paramount to HR departments today. This paper offers up five best practices for elevated HR efficiency. Read this and learn why reducing paper, employing a hybrid approach based on both paper and digital records, and joining forces with a trusted partner can enable swifter and more efficient operations.