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Best Practice is a management idea which asserts that there is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method, process, etc. The idea is that with proper processes, checks, and testing, a project can be rolled out and completed with fewer problems and unforeseen complications. |
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Building Software in a Flat World |
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Offshore development has been embraced by the vast majority of commercial software vendors and enterprise application development groups. Why? Because a world flattened by globalization makes it possible to improve competitiveness by taking advantage of the easy exchange of low-cost, high-quality technical skills.
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The 5 Essentials of Effective Software Development Metrics |
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Software development projects have a long and storied history of failure. In fact, 82% of projects today run late, while errors cost 80% of the average project budget to fix (The Standish Group). Certainly no other business process today is allowed to endure this sort of failure. But software development is often left to chance, despite the significant cost and importance of the process.
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Managing Success in Outsourced or Offshored Software Development |
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This whitepaper outlines a way for organizations to build a modern framework for managing distributed teams that overcomes the structural challenges of working across far-flung locations, and ensures projects come in as expected—on time, on budget and on target with business goals. This framework reuses your existing development infrastructure to restore visibility and empowered decision making within your globally distributed software development projects.
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6th Sense Analytics Interviews Thomas Koulopoulos, Author of Smartsourcing |
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During this podcast, you’ll hear from Thomas Koulopoulos, founder of Delphi Group, managing director of Perot Systems Innovation Labs, and author of Smartsourcing. A widely recognized authority on IT, innovation and the globalization of business, Tom was named one of the industry’s six most influential consultants by InformationWeek magazine.
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Grant Thornton Achieves 99.7% Accuracy Tracking IT Assets |
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Discover how Grant Thornton standardized its IT asset management across a nation-wide network of leased computers to reduce loss rates, achieve regulatory compliance and drive down total cost of ownership. By tightly controlling all network end-points, Grant Thornton was able to achieve close to 0% loss of all mobile IT assets.
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Integrating Text Messaging into the Healthcare Staffing Environment |
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Today, most healthcare professionals carry mobile phones. These phones are capable of sending and receiving text messages; immediately, non-intrusively and cost effectively. Text messaging has opened up a revolutionary way for healthcare organizations to interact with their health care staff. This document will help the reader to understand the costs associated with current staffing organizations' communications and identify a cost effective alternative.
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Monitoring Physical Data Center Threats |
| By :APC-MGE |
Published Date: May 01, 2006 |
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While well-understood protocols exist for monitoring physical devices such as UPS systems, computer room air conditioners, and fire suppression systems, there is a class of distributed monitoring points that is often ignored. This paper describes this class of threats, suggests approaches to deploying monitoring devices, and provides best practices in leveraging the collected data to reduce downtime.
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Driver Based Planning and Budgeting |
| By :Applix |
Published Date: Feb 21, 2007 |
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This whitepaper will help organizations understand how driver based planning and control activities can be transformed into the proactive management function that add greater value through faster decision making.
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BMC Software Solutions Integrate and Automate ITIL Best Practices |
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The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is the most widely adopted best-practice IT framework for service management. ITIL defines terminology and processes across IT organizations by providing a common language and set of standards for quality IT service. If you are looking to implement ITIL, it is crucial that you understand how specific solutions support ITIL guidelines.
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Manage IT from a Business Perspective: Latest Best Practices from ITIL |
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The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is the standard for IT best practices. One of the core books, entitled Business Perspective: The IS View on Delivering Services to the Business, focuses on the importance of managing IT resources based on what is important to the business. Business Service Management (BSM) solutions from BMC Software enable the key concepts of this business perspective approach and help IT organizations identify the best technology solution to support the business.
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Anti-Malware Battlefield Tools: Customer Perspectives and Reference RFI |
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In this Methodologies and Best Practices document, Burton Group Research Director Daniel Blum recounts customer perspectives on the anti-malware battlefield playing out at the enterprise level. The document explores lessons learned, and what keeps customers awake at night even after good defensive strategies are in place. The Reference RFI alone is valuable for those switching anti-malware products, or seeking new ones.
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Eurekify Enterprise Role Manager Product Brief for CA Identity Manager |
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Published Date: May 12, 2008 |
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CA Identity Manager improves business efficiency by automating the process of granting appropriate access to users and strengthens security by enforcing consistent identity policies across the organization. In order to simplify the task of setting policies, workflow and administering user entitlements, organizations are grouping individuals into common roles and managing users at this higher level.
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Building an Enterprise Security Operations Center |
| By :CA |
Published Date: Aug 01, 2006 |
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Managing the security environment today poses a series of challenges for IT personnel and their organizations due to the daily onslaught of security data from varying security and network systems. This paper explores the requirements and best practices for setting up a Security Operations Center (SOC) within an organization.
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Enterprise Single Sign-On Best Practice Considerations |
| By :CA |
Published Date: Aug 17, 2007 |
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Organizations are implementing Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions to improve business productivity, reduce cost and secure access to critical applications. This white paper discusses commonly overlooked considerations when evaluating SSO solutions, to help ensure success with your deployed solution.
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Accelerating Sales and Marketing with Web Collaboration
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Thanks to the expanding global workforce, heightened competition and the continued need to cut costs and drive productivity, companies today are facing myriad new challenges. Web collaboration is increasingly becoming an indispensable tool in accelerating sales and marketing processes while simultaneously reducing costs. |
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