This brief paper outlines a solution that seamlessly synchronizes your customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) data to grant you timely access to the information you need to make pivotal and proper business decisions. 

How well-versed are you in the three key areas of contract lifecycle management (CLM) that will give you the visibility to control your contracts and comply with regulations? Take this quick quiz to determine your contract competency and understand whether a CLM solution would benefit your organization. 

This is the first in an annual series of reports highlighting trends in the structural quality of business applications regarding characteristics such as robustness, performance, securit y, and changeability. 

Effective negotiations and management of telecom contracts can have a measurable impact on a business’ financial performance. 

<p>Support contracts are becoming crucial aspects of IT management as IT environments are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Examine the trends propelling the support services market, and discover the importance of continuing post-warranty support.</p> 

This research from Freeform Dynamics, based on a survey of end users,  identifies the challenges faced by IT departments and suppliers on software licensing, and offers advice to organisations on dealing with software licensing. 

<p>This paper explains how modeling information architecture (IA) can help reduce the costs associated with data management. Read this now and learn about the benefits of implementing IA and how Sybase's option offers modeling support for database design and enterprise architecture.</p> <p> </p> 

Read this case study to learn how BancVue utilized Sugar Professional to optimize their customer’s business models and extend the base model contract module for improved contract management. Continue reading to learn how BancVue is winning the war against the big banks with the help of Sugar Professional. 

Find info covering the top use cases and requirements for working with System Center Virtual Machine Manager, with details on key features and best practices for SCVMM 2008 R2. 

Read this paper to learn more about HP's business processes services for procurement. 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is skyrocketing in popularity. This Gartner Magic Quadrant can help you gain a better understanding of APM, how it can benefit your application environment and how you should go about implementing it today. Read this now and also learn about specific vendor's strengths and weaknesses and what to be aware of. 

This case study examines the City of Denver's document management issues and how implementing Alfresco Enterprise Content Management helped them overcome these challenges. 

Oracle Tuxedo is one of the original SOA platforms. Tuxedo services are location and implementation independent, adhere to a contract, and are interoperable with other Tuxedo services and other service oriented platforms.  Read this paper for more information about integrating Tuxedo applications into an SOA environment.