This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures. 

System Center desktop solutions help IT to reconcile competing demands of security with resource availability by streamlining the connection of any authorized user to any application, regardless of their location or connectivity, through a unified system that provides both secure access and the consistent, optimized performance your users expect. 

Download this white paper for an extensive summary of <i>The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance</i>, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions. 

With Oracle Applications Extension for Rational Performance you no longer have to jeopardize your business engine during an upgrade. You’ll eliminate risk, increase testing productivity, speedy delivery, and ensure the quality and scalability of your business systems. 

Microsoft® Online Services provide businesses with subscription-based Microsoft-hosted online services that offer access to rich communication, collaboration, and productivity applications from anywhere. Read this white paper to learn more. 

The business of managing and securing endpoints is in serious need of an overhaul. You can no longer count on antivirus and antispyware programs that were written for Windows 95 to defend against modern threats. Read this white paper to learn about solutions that take a new look at modern technology, modern threats, and modern business reality. 

Most companies today recognize the operational efficiencies and benefits to be gained by removing paper from business processes that rely on documents. Read this whitepaper to learn about a document management solution that can automate many of your business processes, removing the need for paper forms, saving you time, and saving you money. 

Document automation will add to the company's bottom line, save time, better business processes, and increased control. This paper will demonstrate how to automate the AP process within Oracle E-Business Suite, and what type of investment will need to be made and what kind of benefits can be expected. 

This paper will examine the basic premises underlying a Service Oriented Architecture ( SOA ) and describe how universal technology and service adapters, such as those from iWay Software, can help organizations realize the benefits of SOAs. 

This Report offers guidance on developing an overall corporate strategy for maintaining an ERP system by providing practical advice for planning and managing an ERP upgrade project. 

Read this business brief to learn how your growing business can: lower costs by enabling process flexibility, improve process flexibility by cutting costs, use process flexibility to control costs across your entire organization, and to continuously keep your costs under control. 

Hunter Manufacturing is a good example of what a midsize company can accomplish with a disciplined approach to gaining ERP value, in concert with a vendor that has the functionality, technology and services to support the effort. 

Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service.