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Ten Critical Success Factors for CRM: Lessons Learned from Successful Implementations sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Customer relationship management (CRM) deployments can be complex and difficult. This white paper provides a checklist of the ten critical success factors for organizations to follow to avoid common pitfalls as they design and deploy their CRM system. Posted: 16 Jan 2007 \| Published: 01 Aug 2006 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| CRM \| CRM Best Practices \| Information Technology End Users \| ROI \| Systems Design and Development \| Vendor Selection

A Guide to Systems Planning for Data Center Management sponsored by Schneider Electric WHITE PAPER: In this paper, you will learn how to eliminate systems planning problems with an orderly sequence of tasks that progressively transform and refine information from initial concept to final data center design. Posted: 04 Feb 2009 \| Published: 03 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Hardware Configuration Management \| Hardware Management \| Infrastructure Management \| Storage Management \| Systems Design and Development

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

Cisco Interconnect Solutions for HP BladeSystem c-Class sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise WHITE PAPER: The latest switch technology allows you to cut down on the amount of physical assets, reduce problem resolution times and ensure information security and regulatory compliance in the data center. Posted: 29 Jun 2007 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Capacity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Network Security \| Regulatory Compliance \| Server Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Systems Design and Development

Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions sponsored by Emerson Network Power WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency. Posted: 07 Jul 2009 \| Published: 07 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Energy Efficiency \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| Metrics \| Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) \| Operational Metrics (Systems) \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Maintenance

Dell Storage Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key virtualization features, such as high availability and virtual machine migration. Posted: 11 Dec 2008 \| Published: 11 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Enterprise \| High Availability \| RAID \| Storage Devices \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| VM

HP white paper: Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Environments sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the issues of backup and recovery in VMware virtual server environments, and outlines the key features of HP Data Protector. Posted: 26 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Backup Server Hardware \| Backup Software \| Backups \| Data Center Physical Security \| Data Centers \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Systems \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| VMware

BMC Database Administration Solution for DB2 z/OS sponsored by BMC Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that are designed to automate the complex processes involved in updating and managing DB2 environments with the aim of being easy to use, and fast and effective in their execution. Posted: 18 Apr 2009 \| Published: 17 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Database Administration \| Database Management Software \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| Imaging Software \| Midrange Server Hardware \| Productivity \| Risk Management

Accelerate Value Creation: The Virtuous Cycle of Using Technology to Maximize Business Value sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Understanding how IT can drive value and competitive advantage for your company is important for executives in all industries. This SAP Executive Insight paper explores the relationship between IT investment and performance and productivity gains. Posted: 30 Jan 2009 \| Published: 18 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| Investments \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Spending \| Productivity \| ROI \| SAP (Product)

From Development to Production: Streamlining SharePoint Deployment with DocAve® Deployment Manager sponsored by AvePoint, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This document examines the capabilities of DocAve Deployment Manager and offers tips and guidance to help streamline the SharePoint deployment process while maintaining the integrity of all SharePoint staging instances. Posted: 10 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 Jun 2009 TOPICS: .NET \| Application Deployment \| Application Integration \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| High Availability \| Job Scheduling Software \| TCP/IP