Web Service Management

Offshoring Is a Cost Effective Solution to Your IT Needs

An Expert Discussion on IT Bottleneck to IT-as-a-Service.

A worldwide leader inSpend Management Software solutions: Zycus. Recognized as one of the Top 3 Global Market Leadersin Spend Management Domain by leading analysts and Industry observers

New technologies emerge every day, but not all of them pay off, and adopting them too early might be risky for your organization.

Despite progress in delivering IT as a service, providing up-to-date enterprise software flawlessly and rapidly to the business remains massively challenging for in-house teams.

The Vertica Analytic Database is the only database built from scratch to handle today's heavy business intelligence workloads. In customer benchmarks, Vertica has been shown to manage terabytes of data running on extraordinarily low-cost hardware and answers queries 50 to 200 times faster than competing row-oriented databases and specialized analytic hardware. This document summarizes the key aspects of Vertica's technology that enable such dramatic performance benefits, and compares the design of Vertica to other popular relational systems.

If you are responsible for BI (Business Intelligence) in your organization, there are three questions you should ask yourself: - Are there applications in my organization for combining operational processes with analytical insight that we can't deploy because of performance and capacity constraints with our existing BI environment?

Ultra High Speed Internet, TV and local/long distance phone services combined into 1 superior service.

Learn how the IBM WebSphere Portal can help extend the value of your System z platform to the web. Download this free white paper from IBM today!

Read this topical and informative white paper from EMA Research and see how you can attain peace of mind that your end user's application performance will exceed expectations.

Revenue assurance analysts at a top-tier US-based carrier studied this every day. Primarily focused on detecting fraud, revenue sharing contract violations and incomplete revenue collections, they had the need to query and analyze call detail record (CDR) databases that grow by millions of new CDRs every day.

Leverage the tacit knowledge in your organization to identify, understand, and proactively reduce risk.

Virtualization continues to grow at 20 percent or more per year, but it is not expected to overtake existing physical architectures at least through 2010. This white paper examines the unique challenges of virtualization and offers tips for its successful management alongside IT's physical deployments.

There are success stories of businesses that have implemented Business Service Management (BSM) with well-documented, bottom-line results. What do these organizations know that their discouraged counterparts don't?

For over a decade, IT organizations have been plagued by high data warehousing costs, with millions of dollars spent annually on specialized, high-end hardware and DBA personnel overhead for performance tuning. The root cause: using data warehouse database management (DBMS) software, like Oracle and SQLServer that were designed 20-30 years ago to handle write-intensive OLTP workloads, not query-intensive analytic workloads.

This white paper is intended to provide service providers with IBM's point of view on the power of collaboration in a Web 2.0 environment and to introduce a new IBM solution that can help telecoms to use collaboration as a tool for enabling innovation.

How the Vertica Analytic Database is powering the new wave of commercial software, SaaS and appliance-based applications and creating new value and competitive differentiation for solution developers and their customers.

This white paper provides examples of how organizations can use BluePrinting technology to achieve a smooth, global Web operation-and explains how organizations can combine Content Management technology with translation technologies for even greater efficiency.

This paper examines the ways in which organizations can tap into Web 2.0 interaction as part of the marketing strategy and tactics to create customer engagement by matching your visitors' passion and to figure out the "best fit" for the new opportunities that present themselves.

In this free webcast, learn how business intelligence is changing-and how to best keep pace with it. The amount of available data is exploding; yet much of it is kept in separate silos, where it can't be combined to form meaningful insights. This webcast introduces the latest business intelligence technology that can help you discover your insight "needle" in a haystack of data.

This report created by the Service Desk Institute and sponsored by LANDesk provides an insight into the UK IT Support Industry by examining the core of any organisation - the Service Desk. The study covers a wide range of issues from technology and metrics through to training and salaries.

The increasing adoption of electronic health records greatly complicates the tasks of security and privacy requirements. In this webcast, *Trend Micro* and *Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center* discuss how to successfully navigate through the challenges associated with securing Web-based applications.

Composite applications can provide multiple benefits, such as business agility, better utilization of business software assets through code reuse, development efficiencies, and cost optimization. Once companies are skilled at deploying them, many find that they roll out new applications and integrations faster, while maximizing the value of "tried and true" software components.

Effective workload automation that provides complete management level visibility into real-time events impacting the delivery of IT services is needed by the data center more than ever before. The traditional job scheduling approach, with an uncoordinated set of tools that often requires reactive manual intervention to minimize service disruptions, is failing more than ever due to todays complex world of IT with its multiple platforms, applications and virtualized resources.

The Actional architecture enables end-to-end transaction monitoring and alerting as well as fast root cause analysis-with cost-effective scalability and high performance. This paper presents a detailed description of the unique technology that makes these and other key characteristics possible.