This first chapter of Better Business Practices Series, explores the many benefits of cycle counting. Chief among them is the elimination of an annual physical count of your inventory. While cycle counting is the preferred inventory counting process, many companies still conduct annual counts. 

The IBM ALM Everyware e-Kit contains the new Gartner MarketScope for Application Life Cycle Management that rated IBM Rational "strong, positive", the highest available vendor rating.  Get it and other materials in this kit showing how IBM ALM technology, practices and expertise can help your organization. 

Software development teams are always looking for an edge to produce features more quickly while retaining a high level of software quality. This document describes best practices for uniting both automated and manual test efforts to improve your software releases and obtain the highest quality releases in the shortest amount of time. 

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization. 

This presentation transcript of the webcast “Path to a Secure Application” explains how automatic vulnerability scanning tools can greatly improve the speed and accuracy of code review, and integrate seamlessly into the development life cycle. 

In this paper, discover how IFS Applications suite can collect data from business activities, like project data, supply chain management data, and service management and project life-cycle data, and funnel it into the Eco Footprint Management module to make documentation easy. 

Most organizations are dissatisfied with their selling strategies. According to an Aberdeen Group study, 48% of companies site their inability to convert enough leads into actual sales as their top challenge. Read this report to learn tips for improving the effectiveness of your sales department and find out which technology tools can help. 

Persystent manages the PC life cycle through its high speed imaging, automated repair, and policy and authorized configuration enforcement and it also provides the most effective way for an enterprise to reduce TCO. 

In this presentation transcript, Nick Lewis discusses the best ways to efficiently handle vendor security updates, how to prioritize patch deployment on mission-critical and non-mission critical systems, and why testing patches before deployment is such a crucial step. 

This paper takes a new look at the SAP upgrade process in light of emerging best practices and new technologies. This report offers a discussion of the value of both technical and functional upgrades as well as a discussion of some of the best practices to enhance the value of your SAP upgrades while lowering overall cost. 

This white paper will explore the impact agile development methodologies are having on the Project Management community, what new skills are required, and what the Project Manager can do to ease the transition. 

Discover details about a best practice approach that will help you ensure that your regulatory, security, operational, and other compliance requirements are met across your organization. 

Poor quality data can spell disaster for SOA or BPM initiatives. Enterprise-wide data initiatives cross many boundaries, both technical and departmental, and are often high risk. This paper describes how a governance led approach can progressively deliver semantic integration with minimum short term cost, less complexity and reduced maintenance.