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The Agile Project Manager sponsored by VersionOne Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper will explore the impact agile development methodologies are having on the Project Management community, what new skills are required, and what the Project Manager can do to ease the transition. Posted: 08 Jun 2009 \| Published: 08 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Collaboration \| Product Development \| Product Management \| Project Management \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Project Management \| Strategic Planning

Service Orientation and Its Role in Your Connected Systems Strategy: Building Distributed Applications sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents the Microsoft Corporation vision for service orientation and service-oriented architecture in enterprise computing. Posted: 20 Oct 2008 \| Published: 18 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Processes \| Enterprise \| Enterprise Computing \| Enterprise Systems \| SOA \| Strategic Planning \| Systems Integration \| Systems Management \| Web Services

Garnering Executive Support: Building Your Business Plan for Strategic Meetings Management sponsored by StarCite WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, brought to you by StarCite, corporate travel and meetings professionals will learn why executive support is vital to a strategic meetings management effort and how to garner that support - even if it requires investment and resources from upper management. Posted: 10 Mar 2009 \| Published: 09 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Cost Benefit Analysis \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Social Networking \| Strategic Planning \| Teleconferencing Services \| Videoconferencing Services \| Web Conferencing Services

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

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

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

Enhancing Interaction Center ROI in Turbulent Economic Times sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Interaction center managers, along with their counterparts in sales, marketing, and service, are being asked to deliver greater value on shoestring budgets. While the conventional reaction in tough economic times is to simply cut costs and services, the nature of the current downturn indicates that austerity measures of the past won't work today. Posted: 27 Apr 2009 \| Published: 27 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Business Communications \| CRM \| CRM Best Practices \| CRM Software \| Customer Interaction Services \| Customer Loyalty \| Data Integration \| Data Quality \| Economic Environment \| ROI \| SAP (Product) \| Strategic Planning \| Workforce Management Software

SOA Implementation with an Offshore Partner sponsored by Torry Harris Business Solutions WHITE PAPER: Learn how to overcome the cost and time of service-oriented architecture (SOA) development by collaborating with an experienced offshore partner. Posted: 31 Oct 2006 \| Published: 01 Oct 2006 TOPICS: Application Development \| Business IT Alignment \| IT Outsourcing Services \| Outsourcing \| SOA \| SOA Governance \| Strategic Planning

Leverage ERP for Sales & Operations Planning sponsored by IFS WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to use your ERP to facilitate Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), which helps manufacturers rapidly adjust to changes in the market. Posted: 12 Jan 2009 \| Published: 12 Jan 2009 TOPICS: CRM \| Enterprise Systems \| ERP \| Marketing \| Sales \| Software \| Strategic Planning

The SOA Competitive Landscape Redefined: A Manager's Guide to SOA Platforms sponsored by Fiorano Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes an approach to evaluating an SOA platform, that is aimed at creating a system based upon a service-oriented application composition and a peer-to-peer distributed infrastructure architecture. Posted: 13 Jun 2007 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Application Performance Management \| Business IT Alignment \| CIOs \| Distributed Computing \| ROI \| SOA \| Strategic Planning