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Requirements Engineering for the Automotive Industry
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores requirements engineering and its groundbreaking role in product development and engineering for the industrial segment. It discusses the best practices and benefits of requirements engineering, and how automotive manufacturers can overcome today's quality and cost challenges using those best practices.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 31 Mar 2009

IBM

Creating and managing value-driven product portfolios
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The product portfolio decisions you make today will determine whether your company is relevant tomorrow. To increase the chances of marketing a successful product, organizations must deliver products and services to the consumers they value the most, and they must provide those deliverables when their consumers want them. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 23 Jun 2009

IBM

Winning the Global Challenge: The Japanese Electronics Companies'Race to Innovate
sponsored by IBM Line of Business
WHITE PAPER: Japanese electronics companies (JEC) are taking bold action to regain market share,profitability and their place as global innovators. Download this IBM Institute for Business Value Study to learn how JECs are transforming their businesses.
Posted: 29 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

IBM Line of Business

Seven Steps to Achieving Better Requirements Engineering in Your Organization
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Requirements engineering is about more than just analyzing documenting requirements. It is an important and multifaceted part of systems engineering that broadens the product development process. Companies that successfully introduce a new requirements engineering process don't just change their process and technology; they change their thinking.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 31 Mar 2009

IBM

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

VersionOne Inc.

Secure Search: Balancing Security with the Need for Information Access
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper summarizes the issues of secure search for large organizations and explores the pros and cons of traditional enterprise search versus federated search.
Posted: 10 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008

EMC Corporation

Creating and managing value-driven product portfolios - Improving product portfolio management to optimize your products, services and projects
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The best products to offer are those that provide a high level of value for both you and your customer. Companies with successful product portfolios often utilize a systematic process to effectively guide which projects are selected. This whitepaper explains how you can take advantage of a value-driven approach to product portfolio management.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

IBM

An Introduction to PMI's Project Life Cycle
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides a review of the steps and stages associated with project management according to the Project Management Institute® (PMI). It is a primer for anyone new to the PMBOK® and who is preparing to take the PMP exam.
Posted: 10 Oct 2006 | Published: 01 Oct 2006

Global Knowledge

HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Citrix XenDesktop
sponsored by Citrix and HP
WHITE PAPER: The HP and Citrix solution offers you the functionality of a stand-alone desktop, while enabling unified management of both physical and virtual infrastructures from the same centralized console.
Posted: 07 Jan 2009 | Published: 07 Jan 2009

Citrix and HP

MES: Achieving Real Quality through Virtual Products
sponsored by Apriso Corporation
WHITE PAPER: In this paper learn how Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) as a part of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) conceptual framework are a natural collector and organizer with virtual product information.
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008

Apriso Corporation