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		Foglight - Application Management to Unify IT and the Business by Quest Software, now a part of Dell. Your applications are the lifeblood of the service that IT delivers to end users and the business. Foglight, correlates application performance data and events from the entire more... >> Discover more offerings from Quest Software, now a part of Dell.

Global Trends in Sustainability Performance Management by SAP America, Inc. June 01, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper will present an overview of the changing landscape as companies develop practices and processes to measure their performance as sustainable enterprises. It will examine the complex new drivers of sustainability reporting, as well as the rapidly changing legislative environment that will make reporting mandatory, not voluntary.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

SANS Institute: Oracle Database Security, What to Look for and Where to Secure by Oracle Corporation June 08, 2010 - (Free Research) To properly protect the information at the database layer there are a number of comprehensive measures that need to be taken. With this paper Tanya Baccum, SANS Institute analyst, examines these measures for holistically protecting Oracle database from inside out.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Cognos: FPM: How KPIs can help motivate and reward the right behavior - Paper #1 – Introduction - White Paper by IBM August 08, 2012 - (Free Research) This paper outlines the value of key performance indicators (KPIs) and why it's integral you set annual targets for each of them and measure performance against them rather than develop strategy maps and generate strategic action plans that drive performance improvement.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Using Performance Drivers to Enhance Business Success: Identifying, Visualizing and Analyzing Key Performance Drivers (KPD metrics) by myDIALS Inc. November 04, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper examines performance metrics and focuses on the nature, identification and use of Key Performance Drivers to enhance business success. It illustrates how these KPD metrics can be visualized and logically related to the Key Performance Indicators that measure those outcomes.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Measuring the Business Impacts of Effective Data: Chapter One of a Three-Part Study by Sybase, an SAP company November 02, 2010 - (Free Research) This study of over 150 Fortune 1000 firms from every major industry or vertical explores issues associated with the lifeblood of today’s enterprises: data. The findings demonstrate the often dramatic impacts that even marginal investments in information technology can have when that technology addresses data quality, usability, and intelligence.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Helping Enterprises Succeed: Responsible Corporate Strategy and Intelligent Business Insights by SAP America, Inc. September 20, 2010 - (Free Research) This Executive Insights paper describes how the combination of EPM and GRC solutions is now more critical than ever for business success. This document also discusses how EPM and GRC must be linked to business intelligence tools and supported by comprehensive services to ensure that the data generated is used appropriately.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How to Get Lean with Automated Process Discovery - Live demonstration and case study presentation by Fujitsu America, Inc. March 23, 2010 - (Free Research) The biggest challenge to improving the efficiency of your business processes often lies in knowing how these processes really work in your organization. This webcast will teach you how to visualize and analyze your business processes from historical data, expose process waste and apply lean initiatives to achieve significant value.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

What you Need to Do Coming out of a Downturn (and How to Actually get it Done) by Infor April 19, 2010 - (Free Research) Now is the best possible time to re-engineer your organization for peak performance. With just a few smart moves you can position your organization to come out of the downturn even more successful than before and for years or decades to come. Read on to learn more about these 6 smart moves that will ensure success.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function by SAP America, Inc. January 23, 2009 - (Free Research) the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices in Performance Management: Monitor, Measure and Manage the End User Experience by Knoa Software September 2008 - (Free Research) This report is the result of a study taken by 87% of IT executives on the best way to manage the service of business critical applications to measure performance at the end-user level. Read this to learn the best practices in performance management.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How Does your Service Measure Up? Getting to Grips with Metrics by GoToAssist July 2011 - (Free Research) This quick guide will identify some of the most popular metrics that you should be measuring, look at ways in which you can measure them, and how to utilize these measures to improve your service delivery.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Journal of Management Excellence: Creating Value, Part II by Oracle Corporation May 2009 - (Free Research) This collection of journal articles is focused on the concept of creating value and its importance as the key element for enterprise performance management (EPM).  (JOURNAL ARTICLE) READ ABSTRACT |

Reduce the Cost and Complexity of Multi-sourced IT Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company May 2012 - (Free Research) Public, private and hybrid cloud services have made it increasingly difficult for IT organizations to govern and manage IT services— at the same time that businesses are demanding greater agility and faster delivery from IT. View this webcast to learn how to rein in this supplier sprawl to improve service quality and reduce costs and risks.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Building a performance system for IT by Hewlett-Packard Limited March 2012 - (Free Research) Today’s enterprises should have a performance system—a means to transparently measure and manage progress against business goals. This white paper documents the requirements of an effective IT performance system and introduces a set of KPIs and best practices that leaders within different IT domains can use to improve performance.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Wireless network management: Expert tip by Cisco Systems, Inc. October 2011 - (Free Research) This expert E-Guide provides recommendations for improved wireless network management. Uncover tools that take applications into account when measuring WLAN performance and key tips for securing wireless networks for a small business.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

CW+: Quocirca report: Enterprise performance management by ComputerWeekly.com August 2010 - (Free Research) Monitoring, measuring and reporting on the financial health of an organisation is a basic need that requires effective tools and processes to optimise the end result.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management by Oracle Corporation June 2010 - (Free Research) Read this data sheet for an explanation of how the Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management solution enables organizations to provide a framework that organizes strategic thinking and performance management.  (DATA SHEET) READ ABSTRACT |

Presentation Transcript: The Secret to Maximizing Virtualization ROI in the Dynamic Data Center by Akorri November 2009 - (Free Research) This presentation transcript details an approach to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Learn how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization.  (PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT) READ ABSTRACT |

Business Skill Courseware by SkillSoft Corporation SkillSoft’s Business Skills Library focuses on behavioral skills that are designed for business professionals and key to performance regardless of job responsibility, as well as the skills and knowledge that are relevant to the various areas of functional responsibility in today’s business organizations.  (ASP & SOFTWARE PRODUCT)

Infrastructure Performance Management for Virtualized Systems by CA Technologies. June 2010 - (Free Research) The management tools selected to support virtualization are essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff required to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Continue reading this white paper to learn more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Enterprise Performance Management by Epicor Software Corporation July 1967 - (Free Research) The most powerful ERP systems have long been designed to facilitate enterprise performance management (EPM). Learn how to select and use the right tools to execute and effective EPM strategy.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Surviving the Perfect Storm in the Food Industry by CDC Software - Ross Enterprise April 2008 - (Free Research) This paper presents an executive perspective on the underlying challenges in the food industry.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management by Oracle Corporation June 2011 - (Free Research) This data sheet details how Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management extends the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition with capabilities that enable strategic goals to be communicated across the organization and monitoring progress over time.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

White paper: Lessons learned from testing service oriented architectures by IBM June 2012 - (Free Research) Effective testing of SOA applications is often out of reach. Learn what to consider when testing complex composite applications.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Network Performance Management Comes of Age by Riverbed Technology, Inc. April 2013 - (Free Research) Riverbed Cascade is a new type of tool that incorporates traffic monitoring, packet capture and protocol analysis to provide an application-aware view of the network. Download this white paper from NetMedia to learn how Riverbed Cascade can help to solve your IT performance challenges.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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