This white paper looks at the pros and cons of open-source software and helps organizations understand how to build a business case that is based on cost, schedule, performance and risks across the entire program lifecycle not just up-front program inception costs and considerations.  

When it comes to IT projects, there are a number of common mistakes – and too often project managers avoid the problems that those mistakes create instead of facing them head on. Inside this white paper, learn about the 6 most common IT project mistakes and 3 ways to avoid them. 

In the face of shrinking margins, today’s retailers seek a large competitive advantage. Given that a retailer’s largest controllable expense is its workforce, retailers that implement a solution that gives real-time visibility into labor practices and generates optimized schedules will help with labor costs, store sales and customer service levels. 

An effective change management process can help you better identify how alterations will affect cost and schedule so you can keep them in control. This paper will explore change management approaches and how you can use IBM Rational® solutions to manage changes to development, system and IT artifacts. 

Businesses increasingly use IT automation tools to meet the challenge of managing their data centers. This document describes two types of IT automation software: enterprise job scheduling and run book automation (RBA). It explains how each solution helps to improve efficiency and reduce risks and when to use each solution and when to combine them. 

Creating an accurate budget and schedule are essential for evaluating the progress and performance of your project. In this white paper, get tips for how you can develop and manage project baselines so that your projects are on time and within the budget. 

Organizations need a highly scalable and reliable automation platform to provide the end-to-end monitoring, orchestration, and execution to connect back and front office processes. Read this white paper to learn about an automation platform that provides these services in on-premise as well as virtual and cloud environments. 

With an integrated enterprise system like Sage ERP X3, food producers can use the same system to address industry-specific requirements and product recalls. 

Charles River Development realized it needed a highly unified and automated approach to job scheduling to efficiently deliver its managed service. It had to be well-architected, intuitive, scalable and flexible. Read this presentation transcript to learn why they chose Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler 

Learn how you can save by only paying for what you use and no more. See first-hand how scheduling issues can be a thing of the past. And for projects that require massive resources, you'll see how you can complete your projects in less time for the same cost. 

The goal of this white paper is to demonstrate that Genius Project4Domino has a stronger ROI, is better integrated, is rich in features, and is a more cost effective (TCO) alternative - especially for Domino and Lotus Notes users. The comparison benefits for Exchange and other platforms are similar. 

This IDC White Paper presents the results of an IDC study, sponsored by CA originally Cybermation), to quantify the financial benefits of using CA ESP Workload Automation products. 

Desk sharing among mobile workers is known by several names, hoteling, hot-desking, virtual office, etc. Read this paper to learn how to increase office productivity with scheduling, facility, and hoteling software.