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Enabling a safer internet: The positive approach to web security by Sophos, Inc. April 08, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper describes today's new web threats, highlights the need for a positive security model to replace yesterday's access-blocking approach, and describes the three pillars of protection organizations need to safeguard their systems and resources.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd December 04, 2009 - (Free Research) Join Paul Andrew, Technical Product Manager for Microsoft's SharePoint Team, as he discusses the new features of SharePoint 2010 for developers.  (VIDEO) READ ABSTRACT |

Mobile, Social, Analytics Offer Promise but Demand New Metrics by IBM March 15, 2013 - (Free Research) A successful social media analytics endeavor involves changing your business practices and metrics in order to adapt to these new technologies.  This expert e-guide explains how your organization should rethink metrics in order to maximize the value of social technologies, analytics, and mobile devices.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Calculating Earned Business Value for an Agile Project by CollabNet July 13, 2010 - (Free Research) In this paper, CollabNet’s Dan Rawsthorne defines Earned Business Value (EBV), a new metric for Agile projects that replaces standard Earned Value Analysis (EVA) metrics. With EBV, Agile teams see a clearer picture of a project’s progress, which can be used to strategically adapt to evolving business conditions.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Intel IT: Implementing Cloud Storage Metrics by Intel July 01, 2011 - (Free Research) <p>You need to have the right metrics in place to measure storage efficiency in your cloud infrastructure. This white paper focuses on three aspects of cloud storage and discusses tools that can help you improve utilization, optimize capacity, and effectively manage costs.</p>  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Justifying Your Technology Investments Through ROI by KnowledgeStorm Webinars (E-mail this company) April 27, 2004 - (Free Research) As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Infrastructure Performance Management for Virtualized Systems by CA Technologies. June 01, 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 |

Success with Static Analysis for Security: Why Code Audits Fail by Parasoft Corporation April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper explains why and how to apply static analysis tools in the context of a policy-based security process that not only prevents security vulnerabilities, but also focuses on SDLC productivity.  (WHITE PAPER) 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 |

Using Code Quality Metrics in Management of Outsourced Development and Maintenance by McCabe Software, Inc. March 13, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper provides answers to basic questions relating to the management of outsourced development and maintenance. What is the metrics approach to managing sub-contractors? What is the quality of the code expected to be that has been developed by the sub-contractor? Read on for the answers to these and other important considerations.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Metrics-Based Sales Productivity – Delivering Dividends for Forward Thinking Sales Organizations by IBM March 05, 2010 - (Free Research) New Sales Performance Management solutions enable sales leaders to align technology to business need and strategy. Read this paper for a series of discussions related to the metrics-based sales productivity solutions that forward thinking sales organizations are employing to harness the power of the pipeline and take advantage of sales analytics.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Overall Labor Effectiveness (OLE): The Business Case for Labor Productivity by Kronos Incorporated March 25, 2009 - (Free Research) Manufacturers have made great strides in optimizing materials usage by implementing powerful supply chain applications, but the labor side of the equation, which concerns a company's most vital and controllable resource, has been largely neglected.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Proactive Service Assurance for Mobile Data Services by InfoVista Corporation February 26, 2009 - (Free Research) Until very recently, customer volume for data services was so low that service providers couldn't justify investment in robust, end-to-end service assurance solutions for mobile data services. Now, with the volume of data services on mobile networks growing, the business case for such an investment is clear. Read on to learn more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

An Agile Approach to "Metrics": Applied Macromeasurements to Ensure On-Time Delivery by CollabNet January 17, 2011 - (Free Research) This article challenges the value of traditional metrics for managing product development schedules and presents an alternative compatible with Agile approaches such as Scrum and XP. It is written for development managers or Scrum Product Owners who want to make decisions based on empirically derived schedule forecasts instead of shots in the dark.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Sustained Growth Through Operational Excellence by SAP AG June 02, 2009 - (Free Research) Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organisation, enabling management by facts.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Achieving Sustained Growth through Operational Excellence by SAP AG June 02, 2009 - (Free Research) Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organization, enabling management by facts.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

E-Guide: Application Lifecycle Management Tools and Processes by Hewlett-Packard Company March 01, 2012 - (Free Research) CIOs are always looking for ways to deliver higher quality software faster, especially in today's bottleneck-prone Agile and iterative environments. As this e-guide explains, streamlining the number of software quality metrics you use as well as implementing lifecycle virtualization can significantly improve your development efficiency.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Implementing Cloud Storage Metrics to Improve IT Efficiency and Capacity Management by Intel December 31, 2011 - (Free Research) Storage capacity utilization metrics provide a framework you can use to analyze and manage SAN storage use across a diverse IT environment. Check out this white paper to explore how capacity metrics can help your organization with efficiency, capacity management, and risk management.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

6 strategic metrics that BI tools deliver to HR by Ultimate Software February 16, 2012 - (Free Research) Read this informative paper to learn how to choose the right BI tools to enable HR to increase productivity and cut costs. Learn why end-to-end human capital management (HCM) systems with built-in BI tools might be the best and easiest option for your organization.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

HR reporting tools: Realize smarter staffing, planning, and budgeting by Ultimate Software February 27, 2012 - (Free Research) With proper business intelligence (BI) tools, human resources (HR) is empowered to gain insight into the company's workforce and thus improve overall business efficiency and financials. Read this e-guide for tips on making the most of your workforce data to make educated business decisions.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Quest MessageStats™ by Dell Software Quest MessageStats empowers executive management, Information Technology (IT) managers, and Exchange administrators to perform business-critical analysis and reporting on Exchange e-mail infrastructures.  (ASP & SOFTWARE PRODUCT)

Overcoming the insight deficit by ComputerWeekly.com September 05, 2011 - (Free Research) Learn how you can empower your employees to make the most of big data and data analytics in this executive guide from the Corporate Executive Board.  (ESSENTIAL GUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

ACP- The Truth About Power Consumption Starts Here by Dell, Inc. and AMD August 24, 2011 - (Free Research) Based on customer demands, one company as developed a new metric designed to give customers a more accurate idea of the power consumed by the processor, thus enabling the customer to more accurately plan for future power budgets.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Test Management: Managing quality in the Agile Enterprise by SearchSoftwareQuality.com March 11, 2013 - (Free Research) In this E-Book, explore four main concerns in switching to an Agile software development environment: performance metrics, defect tracking, ALM dashboards, and reducing testing costs.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Why Web Performance Matters: Is Your Site Driving Customers Away? by Compuware Corporation April 11, 2011 - (Free Research) In this white paper, you’ll learn about the direct impact Web performance has on business results. And discover powerful tools for driving the superior customer experience, and business revenues, you demand from your Website.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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