Putting to rest many of the claims that tape has passed its prime, this Clipper Note from The Clipper Group confirms that tape can be an important cost-saving storage technology for long-term archiving of big files in a tiered storage architecture.  

In today's unstable mortgage environment, the management of your loan documents, both paper and digital, has never proved more paramount. This brief paper outlines five common challenges associated with mortgage filing and offers up a five-step mortgage records management plan to help you save money and increase efficiency. 

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. 

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

Many procurement organizations struggle to meet savings goals with an overworked staff using time-consuming, manual processes or outdated systems. Read this paper to learn how to better collaborate with key stakeholders, qualify suppliers, ensure a competitive bidding process, and negotiate contract terms with suppliers. 

<p>Read this paper to gain an approach to unifying utility company's information, processes and people to gain a 360-degree view of contracts, work orders and so much more, effectively enabling employees to make better-informed decisions which then reduce costs and elevate efficiency. Learn how case management can make your business smarter.</p> 

Learn how midsize companies can rapidly adopt Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) technologies while minimizing training, support and ongoing costs in this research note from Nucleus Research. 

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. 

Economies of scale, flexibility and costreduction – cloud advocates have made sure that we are familiar with these potential benefits, even if we have yet to agree on an exact definition of cloud computing. But doubters argue that none of these benefits will actually be available unless some fundamental security issues can be overcome. 

This brochure outlines SAP's comprehensive portfolio of procurement solutions, and describes how your organization can leverage SAP solutions to achieve procurement excellence. 

Learn how you can improve operating results by enabling managers to make fact-based, data-driven decisions. 

While desktop virtualization and VDI are certainly becoming trendy, the reality today is that properly designing a system is still complex and a source of worry and confusion for many architects. 

This white paper describes numerous shortcomings with Itanium-based platforms, and notes that the Itanium "ecosystem" is in danger of collapse. Forward-looking CIOs should consider x86, POWER and mainframe architectures.