The benefits of Web conferencing have motivated many to become proficient at its use. But the economic downturn has brought a new urgency to finding ways to cut costs and work together efficiently. This study examines the role of usability as the major issue that stands in the way of truly beneficial adoption of web conferencing by the mainstream. 

A meeting will only be successful if it is managed effectively. This paper introduces the four stages of meeting management: planning, preparation, process management, and follow-up. It will explain deficiencies that can result during each stage and how to ensure each stage is effective. 

In this webcast transcript, Joe Barkai, practice director at IDC Manufacturing Insights, presents IDC's vision of a "global plant floor" that standardizes production and supply chains by using integrated ERP, product lifecycle management (PLM), manufacturing execution systems (MES), and other tools to reduce complexity and increase standardization. 

Meeting business expectations can be tough, especially when trying to keep up with the dynamics of the IT industry. This white paper outlines today's top five ways to jumpstart your unified infrastructure management approach. 

The need to respond to click through and check out processes can require reaction times of a second or less. With exploding amounts of data, Cognitive Match was able to meet these demands with the Calpont InfiniDB columnar database. In this session you will learn about how to meet the demands of analytic data use. 

Discover how a large investment banking firm with locations in 35 countries rolled out a quick, repeatable and flexible agile development process that is consistent across the organization and in compliance with CMMI. 

Facing pressure to deliver solutions quickly and meet rapidly changing priorities, investment banks are reluctant to change processes and adopt new tools. Learn how CollabNet enabled software development/change management process that would enable CMMI compliance while accommodating existing Agile development practices used by various teams. 

With an integrated enterprise system like Sage ERP X3, food producers can use the same system to address industry-specific requirements and product recalls. 

This paper explains how to stay ahead of the competition you need software solutions that support your unique business processes. The SAP® Custom Development organization offers utilities companies a comprehensive, flexible range of custom development services that transform your unique challenges into innovative solutions and business success. 

For Commerzbank streamlining the corporate credit lines to corporations and institutions, streamlining the corporate credit lending process to reduce paper and drive down costs had become a top priority. 

In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

This case study explains how UCLH implemented a patient tracking system (PTS) with Lombardi Teamworks at its core, which alerts them when a patient is delayed in their treatment pathway before they go over their 18wkRTT and allows them to only have to enter patient information once into the system instead of multiple times. 

In this white paper you'll discover what is needed for complete, open, and integrated business intelligence tools and technologies today. Explore the best-in-class capabilities for managing the development lifecycle for BI applications to meet the needs of today's insight-driven organizations.