Business/IT Alignment White Papers

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Business Case Development Best Practices for Data Center and IT Projects: Speed Up Your Project Approval and Start with Confidence
sponsored by HP & Intel®
WHITE PAPER: How do companies create winning business cases to justify key data center and IT initiatives and speed-up the budget approval process? Read this paper for tips and best practices for how to succeed in the budget approval process and business case development.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

HP & Intel®

IBM Global CIO Study - Implications for IT Managers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Recognizing that successful IT innovation requires deep involvement with the business overall, CIOs increasingly help set business strategy, use IT to enable business flexibility, and help corporations meet enterprise-wide goals. Learn what this means to IT managers, operations managers, development managers, strategy and architecture leaders.
Posted: 17 Jun 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

IBM

IT governance: enabling high performance in turbulent times
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how CIOs can use governance best practices to mitigate the depth and duration of performance declines that often accompany periods of change and innovation. It will clarify what governance is - and isn't - and articulate how CIOs can begin to improve governance within their organizations.
Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

IBM

Funding for BI: It’s All About ROI, ROI, ROI
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a summary of the 2nd webcast in a series sponsored by IBM that is designed to empower IT and Business Unit managers to develop a strong business case for the return on investment (ROI) of their business intelligence initiatives.
Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 07 Dec 2009

IBM

What CFOs Should Ask their Software Development Leaders
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates a new way of thinking about the funding of IT software projects, one that considers funding in terms of investment, and value as an expansive, longitudinal variable.
Posted: 20 Sep 2011 | Published: 20 Sep 2011

IBM

Smarter Business Planning and Transformation: Attain maximum value from your Enterprise Architecture
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Explore architecture management with IBM. Find out how the four elements of actionable enterprise architecture can transform your business.
Posted: 19 Sep 2011 | Published: 19 Sep 2011

IBM

How Do You Measure Up Against Top IT Service Provider Benchmarks? 13 Must See Charts
sponsored by Autotask Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This graphic whitepaper features 13 charts that will show you how your IT department compares to some of the top service providers.
Posted: 04 Feb 2014 | Published: 04 Feb 2014

Autotask Corporation

Managing the Extended Enterprise for Profitable Growth
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: When today's modern, extended enterprises make the move to standardize on a single business software solution, they often find that very few vendors offer products with the necessary scope and flexibility. Read this paper to discover the required elements of successful, unified business software for the extended enterprise.
Posted: 02 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

SAP America, Inc.

Enhancing Decision-Making, Cost-Efficiency, and Profitability With Predictive Analytics
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: Business and IT leaders are under pressure to make more intelligent decision and more accurate estimates – making effective predictive analytics a top priority in today's business world. Read this paper to learn about a next-generation unified decision-support environment that can simplify the analysis of past, present, and future data.
Posted: 03 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 Aug 2012

Information Builders

Best Practices for Resolving Business-Critical Application Problems
sponsored by BMC Software, Extending Value with Identify Software
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the challenges of application problem resolution, highlighting the best practices necessary to automate and accelerate the process as a means to optimize development.
Posted: 30 Jul 2007 | Published: 12 Mar 2007

BMC Software, Extending Value with Identify Software