One in a series of white papers about management excellence, this white paper describes the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence. 

The goal of this article will be to contribute to the emerging dialog on the subject of business value by extrapolating from BI lessons learned and from DecisionPath Consulting’s experience working with Fortune 1000 customers and Government agencies 

Consolidating and virtualizing application, web, and database tiers for enterprise Oracle® Siebel 8.0 CRM applications is one approach to help reduce costs and enhance flexibility. Read this paper to learn about Sun's platform for the Oracle Siebel CRM software stack. 

This podcast explains how Pivotal 6 increases user adoption and productivity by mirroring the familiar Microsoft interface and embedding Microsoft Outlook and SharePoint within the CRM system. 

This Presentation Transcript, featuring Forrester Research, explains how Software as a Service business intelligence can deliver a more cost-effective way to get relevant information to those who need it faster than traditional business intelligence can. 

In this issue we tackle service-oriented architecture and dive into how Software as a Service can drive flexibility and meet business needs. Also in this issue: MDM's strongest business case and how to navigate the compliance minefield. 

Download this paper and learn about a decision making solution that will help you survive in this difficult economy by managing decisions with greater precision, agility, speed and consistency while driving down costs. 

Ovum has been following Oracle's Accelerate program over the last couple of years because they thought it was a smart strategy for penetrating the upper mid-market. Although Oracle developed Accelerate largely in response to slowing growth in its core large-enterprise market, the program seems prescient as the global business climate worsens. 

SAP is a customer’s company, whose organization is designed for, and encouraging of, innovation in all its aspects - from product development to product delivery to product implementation. Read this white paper to discover the top 10 reasons why customers choose SAP for their business transformation. 

Most projects involve data integration these days due to multiple applications and databases usage. It is necessary to plan and design the data integration parts of your projects to avoid a data integration tar pit. Read this paper to learn how Agile integration can help IT projects avoid this tangled mess of point-to point integrations. 

Virtualization allows you to dynamically allocate and manage resources in a utility-like way. It helps you break down the rigid IT structures that inhibit business agility. Virtualization also helps you increase utilization of valuable computing resources. 

Download this paper and learn how Blaze Advisor makes it easy to bring the power of predictive analytics to bear on decisions, integrating judgmental and regulatory business rules with analytically derived models for more precise, more effective decision making. Download and learn the secrets of developing decision management applications. 

This White Paper describes a number of real-life applications and databases interoperability scenarios and explains how an Open Source approach helps in solving interoperability challenges. Read this paper to learn more about successfully connecting new technology deployments with existing infrastructure.