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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 |

Intel IT's Data Center Strategy for Business Transformation by Dell, Inc. and Intel® September 10, 2012 - (Free Research) This resource offers advice on aligning your data center investments with business need. It details today's best practices for effective data center management strategies.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Journal of Management Excellence: Creating Value, Part II by Oracle Corporation May 01, 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 |

Enterprise Performance Management: Key to Rapid Response for Today’s Successful Midsize Companies by Oracle Corporation January 15, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper will discuss some of the ways in which the new unpredictability of external market forces has escalated the value of precise internal forecasts and quick decision-making for these companies. Read this paper to learn about Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management technology offerings.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

HP Business Service Management by Hewlett-Packard Company February 04, 2011 - (Free Research) HP Business Service Management solutions enable your IT organization to monitor and maintain the health of the key business services and processes it supports, and to make improvements to those processes to better support the business.  (WEBCAST) 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 |

The Value of Path-aware Performance Management by Hewlett-Packard Limited February 28, 2013 - (Free Research) In order to ensure business continuity and availability, storage infrastructure performance monitoring and management is key. Read on and learn how HP Storage Essentials can assist with storage path visibility, proactive analysis, identifying bottlenecks, and more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Disaster Recovery: Identify Data Value for a Targeted DR Solution by Excel Meridian Data, Inc. June 2008 - (Free Research) The StorTrends© line of storage products from American Megatrends offers a wide variety of DR solutions in its StorTrends storage server appliances including remote, real-time replication, and D2D2T Backup.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The global state of the project management office by ComputerWeekly.com May 2011 - (Free Research) This global benchmarking study from ESI international identifies the key challenges and successes experienced by project and programme management offices (PMO) and draws recommendations for the future.  (IT BRIEFING) READ ABSTRACT |

From Fear to Value: CIO Strategies for Propelling Business Through the Economic Crisis by IBM March 2009 - (Free Research) This whitepaper outlines key strategies for CIOs to drive business results through the economic crisis.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Network Boost: control all data in your network and accelerate your data exchanges by Orange Business Services April 2009 - (Free Research) This quick Flash presentation gives us an overview of Network Boost, a turn-key networking solution that offers application acceleration tools that are focused on achieving performance objectives.  (PRODUCT OVERVIEW) READ ABSTRACT |

Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series - Got Bad Data? Part 2 by SAS Institute Inc. April 2010 - (Free Research) Tune in to this Webinar to find out how data quality can improve business performance. You’ll learn how to improve key data areas by performing data quality profiling and data collection through closed-loop monitoring, and how to address data quality as a process to derive value and drive continuous improvement.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Refreshing IT Infrastructure with the Xeon Processor 5500 Series by Intel Corporation May 2009 - (Free Research) In this Videocast, learn what key points an organization looks at when thinking about a technology refresh. Gain insight into the value proposition of refreshing IT infrastructure with the Xeon Processor 5500 series and how it is essential for meeting performance, reliability and flexibility requirements.  (VIDEO)

Data center automation: realizing rapid value by Hewlett-Packard Company July 2010 - (Free Research) Data centre professionals strive to constantly improve operations and performance, yet many infrastructures are highly segregated, making it difficult to streamline processes. This white paper underscores the need for automation and explores the keys steps organisations must take to get started with their automation initiatives.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Improving Business Value of WAN Optimization - IDC Whitepaper by Riverbed Technology, Inc. January 2013 - (Free Research) Want to achieve faster ROI with WAN optimization? Read the latest IDC report and discover how you can cut IT costs without compromising performance, gain greater efficiency, and improve productivity and overall satisfaction.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Optimizing the Business Value of IT: How IT Investment Portfolio Management Helps Drive High Performance by Accenture June 2008 - (Free Research) Accenture has developed the Investment Portfolio Management Framework, a diagnostic model to help CIOs and top business executives align IT investments with the business needs and improve the management of limited IT resources.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Project Performance Scorecard by Mainstay Partners February 2008 - (Free Research) The Project Performance Scorecard is a tool that can be used to communicate the status and monitor the progress of an organization's top business and IT projects.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

WAN Optimization: Improving Productivity and Increasing Business Value by Riverbed Technology, Inc. January 2010 - (Free Research) Want to achieve faster ROI with WAN optimization? Read the latest IDC report and discover how you can cut IT costs without compromising performance, gain greater efficiency, and improve productivity and overall satisfaction.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices in Performance Measurement and Reporting: Understanding the Global Investment Performance Standards® by Advent Software, Inc April 2010 - (Free Research) Whether you are just starting a compliance program or need to fine-tune your existing process, this document will help you understand the steps involved in becoming GIPS compliant. It is not a substitute for the Standards themselves. It is designed to help you understand the value of compliance, what’s needed to achieve it, pitfalls to avoid.  (WHITE PAPER)

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 |

Load Balancers are Officially Dead; Refocus on Application Delivery by F5 Networks November 2012 - (Free Research) IT organizations that shift to modern ADCs will improve application performance and security, streamline data center operations, and offload common functions from application development to the ADC infrastructure.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

Load Testing 2.0 - The Next Generation of Load Testing for the Web 2.0 World by Gomez July 2009 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn why Load Testing 2.0 solutions are needed and who benefits. Learn best practices to get business value out of advanced load testing features, the limits of load testing 1.0 solutions, how today's approach complements existing 1.0 solutions, and what factors are important for selecting successful Load Testing 2.0 solutions.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Big Data Meets Big Data Analytics by SAS Institute Inc. July 2012 - (Free Research) The amount of info created and replicated in 2011 was set to surpass 1.8 zettabytes. This paper outlines strategies and methods for data management that enable you to gain the most value from your information. Read on to learn 3 technologies for extracting value from big data, an info management option featuring high performance analytics and more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Value Proposition for IBM Power Systems as Database Server in Midsize Companies - Cost Comparisons for Linux by IBM September 2008 - (Free Research) This ITG report shows the advantages of the IBM Power platform for Linux database serving in mid-sized companies. It will discuss the use of IBM Power servers for core database serving and give a number of reasons to consider the Power platform.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Maximize the Value of On-Demand CRM with On-Demand Reporting by Business Objects August 2007 - (Free Research) Improving the overall quality of your company’s decision-making process results also improves the overall effectiveness of your business. This paper explains how reporting will help your organization make better decisions, and how on-demand reporting allows you to accomplish this task in a fast, cost-effective, and easy-to use manner.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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