This document provides technical insights related to adding XenDesktop 4 to an existing XenApp environment. In addition to easy-to-follow installation steps, this document includes several sample scenarios. It should serve as a technical guide for Citrix administrators and partners. 

SAP upgrades are a perennial challenge - especially for organizations with many instances or customizations. The struggling economy has also made it difficult to make a case for a technical SAP ERP upgrade. Read this paper to learn about six SAP upgrade tips and best practices for global environments which can help avoid costly downtime and issues. 

This paper explores how contextualization and insight into existing applications accelerates the discovery and transformation of logic into refined, true business rules. It also includes a discussion of best practices around this semantic capture of technical rules and their abstraction into business rules. 

This article contains a number of technical diagrams describing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 features, upgrade considerations, and benefits. Many of these resources are visual representations of recommended solutions. They include poster-sized documents available in formats including Microsoft Office Visio 2007 files, PDF files, and XPS files. 

IDG Research Services recently surveyed more than 200 CIOs and senior IT and business executives at companies of all sizes to examine the benefits of giving employees mobile access to strategic business applications, including ITSM applications. This analyst report discusses the benefits of ITSM mobilization and key findings from the IDG survey. 

This podcast, featuring Rob Karel of Forrester Research, discusses how enterprises are linking metadata to the formal management of business terms to achieve true enterprise governance. 

The goal of this article will be to contribute to the emerging dialog on the subject of business value by extrapolating from BI lessons learned and from DecisionPath Consulting’s experience working with Fortune 1000 customers and Government agencies 

The Microsoft® Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 provides unified processes and tools for desktop and server OS deployment using a common deployment console and a collection of best practices. The toolkit provides a single mechanism for image creation and an automated installation process to reduce deployment time. 

Read this case study to learn how IBM Global Business Services leveraged its electronics and automotive industry expertise to design, deploy and manage a solution based on SAP Business Suite for Alpine Electronics USA. 

Windows Server® 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure (FCI), a built-in solution for file classification, enables manual processes to be automated with predefined policies based on the data's business value. Read this paper to learn more. 

Apache Solr is the popular, fast open source enterprise search platform using Lucene as its core search engine. It is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. Access this tutorial to learn more about indexing with Solr 1.4. 

In this paper you will learn how SOA can directly influence the success of your business, which will result from your business’ ability to participate in these new, more dynamic, federated communities. Read on to learn how social orientation is driving both new SOA technology needs and management changes in how technology is delivered and governed.