This white paper will highlight solutions for application development in globally dispersed organizations. Insights and strategies for maximizing efficiencies in a distributed environment will be presented, along with best practices. 

This benchmarking study from ESI International identifies the trends impacting the project management function in IT industry in three areas: PMO maturity, measuring and reporting on PMO effectiveness, as well as training involvement. 

This global benchmarking study from ESI international identifies the key challenges and successes experienced by project and programme management offices (PMO) and draws recommendations for the future. 

More than ever, small businesses need to efficiently control costs and optimise cash flow, but how, and what role does automation play in this process? 

From the turn of the millennium until the end of 2007 MLBS (Mobile Location Based Services) had promised much, but delivered very little in terms of commercial applications. Even in Japan and South Korea, the most advanced markets for commercial MLBS, usage was disappointing. 

In this white paper, we introduce geographic data services and discuss how they are employed in both operational and analytical business applications. The paper also reviews analytical techniques applied across many types of organizations and examines a number of industry-specific usage scenarios. 

The tool of choice to the highly mobile workforce is the  mobile phone. From customer contact and records keeping, through calendaring and scheduling to mapping and news feeds, the  mobile phone is usurping the laptop as the main point of technology for the road warrior. 

This perspective paper covers the forces that are driving the m-commerce market, the benefits available, and the kinds of business models and partnerships that are seeking to achieve that credible scale over time. 

This Case Study assesses the deployment of Mimecast SaaS-based Unified Email Management (UEM) solution at Basic Energy Services, a renowned publicly traded oilfield services Company. IDC examines the effectiveness of the Mimecast solution and its services in meeting Basic Energy Services' needs and the reasons why the Mimecast solution was chosen. 

This white paper explores why so-called "free" patch management solutions could really end up costing your organization more in the long run. 

There are several stages in the road map from virtualization to cloud, and each should be planned strategically, rather than one step at a time.  This paper details the five stages in the path to cloud computing and what’s needed at each stage. 

Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A., a Columbia, South Carolina-based law firm with five locations throughout the state sought to consolidate legacy servers, improve availability for remote users, increase storage capacity and implement a new disaster recovery DR/BC strategy. In this case study you'll learn about their new Dell and VMware solutions. 

Fiscally conservative IT organizations should try to minimize their expenses and leverage their IT budgets. Understanding the data tax and where potential savings reside is a good place to start. This white paper explains how this data tax is being levied and provides valuable advice from our data tax advisors on how to legally circumvent this tax.