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. 

The growing popularity of technology trends such as mobile computing, social media, the cloud, and others calls for a new generation of adaptable, flexible applications.  Check out this white paper to learn how "smart process applications" can provide the benefits of traditional packaged applications, but with added collaborative abilities. 

This paper will analyze the lifetime cost of ownership for a typical on-premises SME business management system and compare it to the cost of an equivalent SAP Business ByDesign implementation. 

This white paper discusses how Real Application Testing - with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 - allows businesses to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change. 

This white paper provides insights into getting your organisation positioned for innovation, mobility, integration, and agility. Learn why you need to include applications in your strategy to meet these objectives—and why doing so can help you realise better outcomes. 

This paper looks at both the strategic benefits and the strategic challenges of moving to Cloud and SaaS for mid-sized businesses, using insights developed from more than eight years of SaaS and Cloud research among user executives by Saugatuck Technology. 

And although business process management (BPM) implementation has many immediate and long-term benefits, a poor start can jeopardize the overall success of the mission. This guide outlines ten steps that will help you ensure the success of your organization's BPM implementation while minimizing the possibility of any potential setbacks. 

This paper analyzes some critical implementation-level problems faced by current BPEL products in real-world implementations. 

To capitalize on the benefits of Windows 7, you must make sure your computing environment is ready for the upgrade. Dell's Windows 7 Readiness Assessment is designed to identify application compatibility, hardware compatibility and migration readiness and to provide the recommendations needed to help make your transition to Windows 7 smooth. 

It's critical that your ERP software is integrated and can talk to other business applications and systems. Those who embrace ERP integration will reap lower operation costs, increased customer satisfaction, and a lot of saved time. Read this paper to learn how integrating your ERP software will impact your company's operations and work flow. 

Watch this video to learn the benefits of migrating to Windows 7 using Intel Core vPro processors, which enable IT to remotely wake up PCs and to quickly migrate operating systems remotely and overnight. 

In order to create a roadmap for increased agility and flexibility, you must start with application transformation. This resource provides key insights into which business issues applications affect, how application transformation is defined,how to get started and much more. 

This resource discusses techniques for database consolidation in private clouds. Discover the different database cloud models and how to define the application workloads that best fit each model. Learn more about the key steps to successful consolidation strategy.