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Value-driven product management: Six keys to product success sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how assessment, alignment, achievability, accessibility, agility and accountability, the six key concepts of value-driven product management, can be applied to create a repeatable process for developing successful products. Posted: 19 Mar 2009 \| Published: 01 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Customer Satisfaction \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| Product Life Cycles \| Product Management \| Revenue Projections

SOA: The Missing Link between Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture sponsored by Infosys Technologies Limited WHITE PAPER: Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and enterprise architecture (EA) strive to tighten the business and IT alignment. Learn about the dependencies between an EA framework and an SOA strategy and how services impact the way applications are developed. Posted: 14 May 2007 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| Enterprise Architectures \| IT Infrastructure \| Service Level Management \| SOA \| Strategic Planning

Enterprise Portal Rationalization: Using a Service-Oriented Architecture to Stop Web Asset Sprawl sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of the problem of Web sprawl, and an account of the rationalization strategies organizations are adopting to gain the upper hand on sprawl. Adopting a service-oriented architecture based on integrated application platform infrastructure emerges as the key to rationalizing sprawl. Posted: 03 Apr 2009 \| Published: 01 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Business IT Alignment \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| CRM \| IT Best Practices \| IT Managers \| IT Systems \| SOA \| Web Applications Architectures \| Web Services Architecture \| Web Services Management

Five best practices for deploying a successful service-oriented architecture: Leveraging lessons learned from the IBM Academy of Technology sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn about the five best practices for deploying successful SOA and see rapid return on your investment. Posted: 13 Feb 2009 \| Published: 13 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Best Practices \| Business IT Alignment \| ESB \| IT Infrastructure \| ROI \| SOA

The New CIO: Change Partner and Business Leader sponsored by The IBM CIO Interaction Channel WHITE PAPER: In this study, find out what 765 global CEOs and 170 CIOs have to say about the importance of closing this "business-technology integration gap." Posted: 16 Aug 2007 \| Published: 01 May 2007 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Application Performance Management \| Business IT Alignment \| Change Management \| IT Asset Management \| IT Best Practices

BPM & SOA: Better Together sponsored by IBM Software Group WHITE PAPER: Learn the importance of developing flexible business processes. Posted: 02 Feb 2006 \| Published: 01 Dec 2005 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| SOA \| Web Development \| Web Services \| WebSphere

Scaling Enterprise SOA Deployments: Benefits of a Service-Grid Architecture Powering Next-Generation SOA Deployments sponsored by Fiorano Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews modern enterprise service grids and how their brokered peer-to-peer architecture offer ease of use for a wide array of distributed computing projects including the SOA market. Posted: 13 Jun 2007 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| Distributed Computing \| ESB \| Grid Computing \| Peer-to-Peer Architectures \| SOA \| Strategic Planning

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 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Performance Management Software \| Best Practices \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Automation \| Help Desk Software \| IT Management Services \| ROI

A Business Intelligence (BI) Agenda for Midsize Organizations: Six Strategies for Success White Paper sponsored by IBM Cognos WHITE PAPER: Success in business intelligence is all about facilitating sound, data-driven decisions at every level of the business. Read this white paper to learn six strategies for BI success, drawn from the experiences of actual IBM Cognos customers. Posted: 02 Mar 2009 \| Published: 02 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Intelligence \| Business IT Alignment \| Dashboards \| Data Quality \| Productivity \| SMBs

Effective SOA Governance sponsored by IBM Software Group WHITE PAPER: Understand how SOA governance can fit within an overall corporate governance framework and learn how to effectively apply SOA governance through the appropriate decisions and progress measurements. Posted: 14 May 2006 \| Published: 01 Mar 2006 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| SOA \| SOA Governance \| Strategic Planning \| Web Development \| Web Services \| Web Services Management