Manual job card generation processes significantly hamper maintenance efficiency and accuracy for A, B, C, and D checks alike, directly resulting in lost time, errors, and flight delays. 

This report assess the  bonuses and pay rises IT professionals received in 2012 and their compensation expectations for 2013 

In this paper we detail these four mechanisms and introduce several case studies and examples to show the increased economic value that Cloud Computing brings to an organization. 

This extract from Michael Blackstaff's book, Finance for IT decision makers, teaches you how to make effective business and financial cases for IT projects. 

Read this CFO Research study to understand how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself. 

This report provides the results of a survey conducted in the fall of 2012 of IT professionals measuring compensation, job satisfaction and security, training and certification, and business conditions. 

In this e-book, readers will learn how to uncover the value in Solution Manager, and use the tool not only to benefit IT operations, but help advance business goals as well. 

This white paper explains the differences between the de-duplication approaches, discusses the strengths and limitations of each, shows how different backup tasks are likely to benefit from them, and talks about the business benefits. 

In this week's Computer Weekly: Amazon and Microsoft earn $5bn in public cloud revenue – we ask if public cloud is now ready for the mainstream. Banks face huge challenges replacing legacy IT – but is the short-term nature of CIOs hindering progress? And we look at how user experience can deliver return on investment for IT. Read the issue now. 

IT managers everywhere feel overwhelmed with the rising tide of security threats in the face of an increasing regulatory burden. It is not surprising then that they tend to overlook one particular area of IT security, which is the privileged access that they grant to themselves and/or their colleagues in order to do their jobs. 

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. 

This IDC paper presents the key concerns driving IT management and how they translate into needs that can be addressed through modern approaches to job scheduling and workload automation.