WHITE PAPER - From initial identification of a business need to actual engagement, The SAP Services Organization helps you realize maximum value from your technology investments. Our mission is to help your business become a clear enterprise, prepared for risk and uncertainty and able to adjust operations as market conditions change.
Posted: March 15, 2010 | Published: March 15, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Enterprise Content Management | ERP | ERP Software | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | NetWeaver | SAP (Product) | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Consider how procurement outsourcers have helped customers improve strategic sourcing, contract negotiations and operational procurement. Yet they need to connect these areas with integrated, sourcing-to-settlement procurement processes by providing customers with standard processes and platforms.
Posted: March 12, 2010 | Published: March 12, 2010


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Process Outsourcing | Compliance (Finance) | ERP Software | Outsourcing | Procurement | SAP (Product) | SOA | Spend Management

WEBCAST - How can you better manage the deluge of business information? This webcast demonstrates that by leveraging best practices in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in combination with a comprehensive data integration approach, companies can lower costs through consolidation, reduce the risk of bad data polluting their applications, and more.
Posted: March 12, 2010 | Premieres: April 13, 2010


Topics:  Best Practices | Legacy Applications Software | Oracle (Product) | ROI | SOA | SOA Governance | Storage Consolidation | Web Services

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Read this transcript and learn about the enterprise integration triangle and how the world's favorite international airline has mastered the code and key tools for integration platforms.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: March 10, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Application Hosting | Applications Software | Business Integration | Business Process Automation Software | Data Integration | Integrated Development Environments | SOA | Software Infrastructure | Software Installation

WHITE PAPER - With the move to on-demand applications has come plenty of mudslinging between traditional off-the-shelf-software proponents and SaaS WCM fans. So, how do buyers separate hype from truth? This paper helps answer that question, creating cohesive definitions, and arming buyers with the right questions to consider when making a WCM purchase.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: March 9, 2010


Topics:  Application Programming Interfaces | Cloud Computing | Enterprise Content Management | Open Source | SLA | SOA | Software as a Service | Web 2.0 | Web Content Management | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper reviews different levels of technology-integration capabilities and the required processes to achieve successful outcomes. You will also learn the necessary requirements in a WCM platform that allow the freedom to choose a simple high-level integration or a deeper system level integration, depending on your specific use case.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: March 9, 2010


Topics:  Application Programming Interfaces | Cloud Computing | Content Management Systems | CRM | Document Management | Enterprise Content Management | JavaScript | SOA | SOAP | Software as a Service | Web Content Management | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - While predictive analytics can improve business results, bringing that power to bear on transactional systems has historically been difficult. The use of a business rules management system to implement analytic models can generate more value. Learn seven best practices for using business rules to put analytics to work more effectively and rapidly.
Posted: March 9, 2010 | Published: March 9, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Data Mining | Data Mining Software | Predictive Analytics | Predictive Analytics Software | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how SOA holds the promise of accelerating application development in support of new business initiatives while at the same time reducing the overall cost of delivering these new products or services. 
Posted: March 5, 2010 | Published: August 11, 2009


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | SOA

WHITE PAPER - The concept of Lean IT is emerging to describe the best practices required to strip inefficiency out of day-today IT operations in ways similar to how Lean Manufacturing strategies streamline manufacturing processes. This IDC White Paper discusses how APM solutions can help IT managers cope with today's economic and operational IT challenges.
Posted: March 5, 2010 | Published: May 4, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Applications Management | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Virtualization | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the principles for the convergence of BPM and SOA from a business perspective. The primary audiences are leaders and architects that need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and SOA as a key differentiator for successful enterprises in their drive toward business agility.
Posted: March 5, 2010 | Published: March 5, 2010


Topics:  Business Integration | Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Enterprise Architectures | SOA

EGUIDE - A service-oriented architecture (SOA) enhances business process management (BPM), but many enterprises struggle to adopt the two practices successively. This SearchSOA.com Pocket E-Guide details why organizations should approach BPM and SOA projects with an incremental approach to ensure the business value of an SOA.
Posted: March 4, 2010 | Published: March 4, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Application Integration | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Enterprise Architectures | SOA

WHITE PAPER - The data center has been, and continues to be, one of the key resources of innovation helping businesses become more agile and efficient while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). This application note explores the means by which existing data center assets can be repurposed to increase utilization, and improved application agility.
Posted: March 1, 2010 | Published: February 28, 2010


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Cloud Computing | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Fixed Assets | Green Data Center | Load Balancing | Networking | Power Consumption Monitoring | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This document provides guidance in designing consolidated, virtualized, and SOA-enabled data centers based on the ultra high port-density 10 GbE switch/router products of Force10.
Posted: March 1, 2010 | Published: February 28, 2010


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Blade Servers | Cluster Software | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Grid Computing | High Availability | IT Management | Rack Enclosures | Routing | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | SOA

PODCAST - Ron Wilson, product strategy director for Compuware’s cloud computing solutions, discusses some of the application performance challenges that virtualization presents to IT organizations, how successful organizations are addressing those challenges, and how virtualization can be used as a stepping stone to cloud computing.
Posted: February 26, 2010 | Premiered: February 26, 2010


Topics:  Application Hosting | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Cloud Computing | Grid Computing | Platform as a service | SOA | Software as a Service

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to learn how to determine which applications are best suited for cloud deployments, a game plan for cloud adoption for the next 90 days and beyond, how to use PaaS and IaaS delivery models, techniques to improve your lifecycle management of cloud based applications and more.
Posted: February 26, 2010 | Premiered: February 26, 2010


Topics:  Application Hosting | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Applications Management Services | Cloud Computing | Platform as a service | SOA | Software as a Service