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Getting Started with ITIL's CMDB: Best-Practice Tips for Enterprise IT Professionals sponsored by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) WHITE PAPER: Gain insight into ITIL's CMDB, the drivers for adoption, potential pitfalls on the road to CMDB success, and best-practices guidance to organizations undertaking a CMDB initiative. Posted: 09 Oct 2006 \| Published: 01 Feb 2007 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Business Service Management \| Change Management \| CMDB \| Configuration Management \| Enterprise Systems \| IT Service Management \| ITIL \| Service Level Management \| Standards

Holistic Master Data Management Solutions and Services: Establishing the Foundation for Increasing Business Value sponsored by Accenture WHITE PAPER: Master data management solutions helps organizations maximize the value of postmerger integrations, manage the product lifecycle, meet regulatory requirements and improve the effectiveness of transactional and reporting systems. Posted: 26 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Quality \| IT Management Services \| Master Data Management \| SAP (Product) \| Standards

Long-term Archiving sponsored by Storage Magazine JOURNAL ARTICLE: Tracking regulatory requirements for data retention is tough enough, but restoring data from long-term archives is likely to be even harder. Posted: 16 Oct 2006 \| Published: 01 Oct 2006 TOPICS: Content Archiving \| Data Recovery \| Email Archiving \| File Formats \| Records Retention

SOA Best Practices: The BPEL Cookbook sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Cookbook highlights SOA best practices and challenges, detailing the importance of BPEL and other standards-based technologies in accelerating the adoption of an SOA. Posted: 16 Mar 2009 \| Published: 02 Aug 2007 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Integration \| Best Practices \| BPEL \| SOA \| Standards \| Web Services

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 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Collaborative Product Development \| Communications Software \| Product Design \| Product Development \| Product Life Cycles \| Standards

Demystifying IT Network Cabling Specifications from 5e to 7A sponsored by Siemon Company WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the current state of copper-based network cabling standards as defined by ISO and TIA. Learn the difference between category 5e, 6, 6A, 7 and 7A and Class D, E, EA, F and FA. Posted: 20 Aug 2007 \| Published: 01 Aug 2007 TOPICS: Category 3 Cable \| Category 4 Cable \| Category 5 Cable \| Category 6 Cable \| Standards \| Thick Ethernet Cable \| Thin Ethernet Cable

SOA Platforms - Evolving to Meet Stringent Market Realities sponsored by Fiorano Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the evolution of SOA platforms from point products to second-generation architectures such as the enterprise service grid. Posted: 13 Jun 2007 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| Computer Hardware \| Operating Systems \| Project Management \| SOA \| Standards

Finding Value In Analyst Estimates For Value Investors sponsored by S&P Global RESEARCH CONTENT: Visible Alpha's data science team analyzes how sell-side analyst expectations of return on equity and return on assets correlate with future stock returns. Dig into this report to learn why the value factor has underperformed and how to improve systematic value strategies. Posted: 29 Oct 2024 \| Published: 31 Oct 2024 TOPICS: Enterprise Computing

CW ANZ: Trend Watch - communications infrastructure sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com ESSENTIAL GUIDE: In this handbook, Computer Weekly looks at how Australia's bushfires impacted its telecoms networks and the increase in SD-WAN adoption in Asia-Pacific Posted: 08 Feb 2021 \| Published: 16 Apr 2020 TOPICS: Cloud Backup \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Network Management \| WAN

Top 10 Australian IT stories of 2020 sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com EGUIDE: Against all odds, the Australian people and businesses proved their mettle, becoming one of the first countries in the world to emerge from the pandemic. Companies pivoted quickly and adopted new business models while supercharging digitisation initiatives at an unprecedented pace. Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 Australia IT stories of 2020: Posted: 08 Feb 2021 \| Published: 11 Jan 2021 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| Network Infrastructure \| Open Source \| Open Source Software \| Operational Support Systems \| Telecommunications Infrastructure

Computer Weekly – 11 October 2016: Leadership bonus – analysing our UK salary survey sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, our UK salary survey shows that IT leaders are benefiting from generous bonuses as tech becomes part of mainstream business. We find out how the internet of things is transforming the railway industry. And the CIO of the Williams F1 team explains how data analytics is boosting race performance. Read the issue now. Posted: 08 Feb 2021 \| Published: 11 Oct 2016 TOPICS: CIOs \| Computer Hardware \| Computer Industry \| Computer Industry Organizations \| Data Analytics \| Data Centers \| Internet \| Internet Appliances \| Internet Applications Software \| Internet Security \| Internet Structure \| IT Industry \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Workforce \| Networking \| SAP (Product)

Internet Security Report Q2 2024 sponsored by WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. ANALYST REPORT: This Internet Security Report analyzes the latest network and endpoint threats, including malware trends, attack vectors, and ransomware. Learn how to secure remote access and build user trust by downloading this e-book. Posted: 18 Dec 2024 \| Published: 11 Dec 2024 TOPICS: Enterprise Computing

Internet Security Report Q2 2024 sponsored by WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. ANALYST REPORT: This Internet Security Report analyzes the latest network and endpoint threats, including malware trends, attack vectors, and ransomware. Learn how to secure remote access and build user trust by downloading this e-book. Posted: 11 Dec 2024 \| Published: 11 Dec 2024 TOPICS: Enterprise Computing

Observability engineering sponsored by Honeycomb EBOOK: Observability is critical for managing today's software.This O'Reilly e-book presents 321 pages of expert insights on the state of observability engineering, giving you the information you need to understand the most prevalent trends and strategies. Read on to learn more. Posted: 17 Sep 2024 \| Published: 17 Sep 2024 TOPICS: Enterprise Computing

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