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Requirements Definition as the Foundation for Effective Software Delivery sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the challenges that impede teams as they try to collect, analyze, and evaluate ideas to define the best solution requirements. The paper also provides information on the four critical areas to defining great requirements and how IBM Rational® solutions help teams address these areas. Posted: 16 Mar 2009 \| Published: 13 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Collaboration \| Information Management \| Software \| Software Architectures \| Software Asset Management \| Software Best Practices \| Software Configuration Management \| Software Development Life-Cycles \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Project Management \| Software Quality Assurance

Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 4 sponsored by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 4 WHITE PAPER: This e-zine issue explains the direct benefits of implementing a SAP virtualization plan. It compares virtualization platforms, highlights common problems, and offers tips to leverage hardware-assisted memory virtualization. Posted: 20 Aug 2008 \| Published: 18 Aug 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Change Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| LAN \| Server Virtualization \| Software \| Testing \| Training	All resources sponsored by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 4

GPS Receiver Testing sponsored by National Instruments WHITE PAPER: Today, the power of software enables you to create GPS waveforms that accurately emulate the real word signal. In addition, advances in instrument bus technology enable record and playback of live GPS signals with PXI instrumentation. Posted: 21 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2006 TOPICS: GPS \| RAID \| Software \| Storage Capacity \| Testing

Best Practices in Contract Management: How to Shrink Your Sales Cycle through Smart Contract Management sponsored by SpringCM WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the seven best practices in contract management. It's time for you to think about how to manage your contracts more effectively, close more deals, and get more cash. Learn how in this paper. Posted: 16 Apr 2008 \| Published: 11 Oct 2010 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Contract Management \| Contract Management Software \| CRM \| Customer Service \| ROI \| SMB \| Software

Two Billion Entry Directory Benchmark sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This benchmark evaluates Oracle Internet Directory performance under scales and throughput rates representative of those encountered in production use in both the communications industry and as part of large scale delivery architectures. Posted: 10 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Mar 2008 TOPICS: Authentication \| Hardware \| Identity Management \| LDAP \| Security \| Software

The Role of Integrated Requirements Management in Software Delivery sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper is about the critical role that integrated requirements management can play in helping to ensure that your business goals and IT investment are continuously aligned. Posted: 24 May 2010 \| Published: 01 Oct 2007 TOPICS: Cost Analysis \| Enterprise Resource Planning \| Functional Requirements \| IT Governance \| Service-Oriented Architectures \| Software \| Software Project Management

Eight Strategies for First Rate Customer Service sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper provides eight strategies for creating a relationship with your customers that will keep them coming back. Posted: 06 Oct 2008 \| Published: 03 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Communications Networks \| CRM \| Customer Loyalty \| IP \| Network Convergence \| Network Management Services \| SMBs \| Software

Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives with model-driven development sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Trade study analysis is an effective method of comparing potential solutions to a given problem. Using a model-driven approach allows you to perform trade studies before development or implementation begins and saves time, money, and development headaches. Read on to learn more. Posted: 14 May 2009 \| Published: 01 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Decision Support Systems \| Model Driven Architecture \| Program Management \| Project Management \| Software \| Systems Design and Development

A Tour of HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator, a template of pre-defined information based on ITGI's COBIT, which is loaded into HP Quality Center to help your organization define and execute Sarbanes-Oxley testing, evaluate the results, and develop remediation plans. Posted: 29 Apr 2009 \| Published: 01 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Service Management \| Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Composite Applications Software \| Software \| Software as a Service \| Software Best Practices

HP BladeSystem c-Class SAN Connectivity Technology Brief sponsored by PC Connection and HP WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the hardware and software required to connect HP BladeSystem c--Class server blades to Storage Area Networks1 (SANs) using Fibre Channel (FC) interconnect technology. Posted: 15 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| SAN \| Software \| Storage \| Switches