Platforms

WebSphere Portal remains IBM's strategic front end for SOA. It enables our clients to closely align their business objectives on standards-based platforms with role-based delivery of composite applications across and beyond their enterprise. At the end of June we delivered a new version of WebSphere Portal Version 6.1. This release significantly improves performance by tapping into the 64-bit capabilities of the IBM System z platform. Click here to learn more!

Improving access to core applications and data is just one of many mandates facing IT, along with improving collaboration, reducing administration costs and improving performance. Fortunately, shops running System z have an advantage. You can integrate and enhance your System z assets faster when you use the version 6.1 update to IBM WebSphere Portal on z/OS. Use it to quickly deploy business applications across the enterprise, reduce costs and increase flexibility with workloads centralized on System z.

Learn why the requirement to close books quickly and with quality is emerging again as an important project for today's global finance function.

In this paper, Frank Dravis, Six Factors Consulting, discusses how even with the finest marketing organizations, the success of marketing ultimately comes down to the data.

The Economist Intelligence Unit examines the lessons learned from the current financial crisis, and proposes ten practical lessons that could help to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management.

Discover the importance of data integration in your environment, and learn about the key challenges, benefits, and approaches to integrating data.

Traditional BI solutions face many obstacles and limitations.  However, the need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow.  

Read this white paper from CFO Research Services, which examines why and how chief financial offers are looking to create "highly integrated" organizations by moving from standalone spreadsheets to integrated planning, budgeting, and forecasting systems. (CFO Research Services, 2008)

Examine the importance of improving visibility into asset performance - and review four activities that can form the basis for getting more out of the assets in your portfolio to drive better decisions in allocating scarce capital to new asset investments.

This white paper introduces the key areas in which Windows 7 differs from Vista - areas you'll need to focus on if you're thinking of moving to Windows 7, either from Vista or from XP.

This white paper explores the array of tools and options that makes Linux good for troubleshooting.

This white paper highlights the most notable new features to vSphere and discusses the benefits they offer your organization's IT infrastructure.

CRM is a business strategy that helps organizations cope with three of today´s most urgent business imperatives generating new growth, attaining operational excellence and enhancing competitive agility.

High-tech companies face a range of complex business challenges due to global expansion, shifting demographics, and continuous competitive pressures. Read why the high-tech HR organization finds itself at the forefront of many of these challenges, and what they must do to rise above them.

To succeed in the professional services industry, your firm must continually improve its service delivery methods. Read how you can increase client value and lower costs through implementing more efficient resourcing and partnering processes and co-creating value with your clients.

Take a look at how organizations are taking strides to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities - in short, to close the gap between strategy and execution. Studies show that even well-formulated plans often fall short; here's how to change that.

Gain insight into how you can meet organizational readiness challenges facing your company as you adopt new technology. Take the right steps and implement change management strategies to ensure that your organization adapts effectively to change and ultimately becomes a best-run business.

Learn how to make better decisions through IT: Efficiency is at the heart of your business goals—whether it is efficient operations, customer interactions, financial transactions, or human resources support. If your company is operating efficiently, you make faster, smarter decisions, respond quickly to market changes, reduce costs, and consistently meet performance standards.

This white paper introduces operational strategies and trends in ERP that drive the consideration of an Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA). You will be able to assess whether ESA can help your organization deliver operational excellence and realize new levels of innovation.

Consider five key service process platforms that are shaping the future – as companies look to service to keep pace with customer expectations. Service income is accelerating. Technology is changing the competitive game, and smart companies need the proper IT strategy to make sure they deploy it for profitability.

This paper includes in-depth telephone interviews with senior executives at large and midsize companies known to be employing talent management techniques as well as content from presentations given at industry conferences on the topic.

This paper reviews the current status of MDM, and offers suggestions for planning, building and deploying an MDM environment.

As the sheer amount of information available for Business Intelligence (BI) applications has grown, and the sophistication of BI capabilities has accelerated, organizations are striving to improve time-to-information for business users.

Innovation is no stranger to the information technology function. Armed with increasingly sophisticated applications, IT-led teams have consistently found new ways to streamline enterprise business processes, vastly improving operating efficiency and reducing costs. Corporate leaders, however, are raising the bar: they expect IT’s core mission to expand from cost-cutting to enabling revenue generation within a short period of time.

This white paper presents IDC’s framework for implementing operational excellence (op ex) and helps the reader move toward an effective op ex implementation while avoiding potential pitfalls.