IT/Business Strategic Planning Reports

Infographic: Bridging the Gap Between Business and IT
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This infographic illustrates the necessity of integration between business and IT, as well as the fundamental disagreements that exist between the two groups.
Posted: 04 Sep 2014 | Published: 04 Sep 2014

IBM

Business Intelligence: Data Mining Done Right
sponsored by TechTarget CIO
EBOOK: BI plays a bigger role in the success or failure of your business than ever before. Find out the latest trends, including social media and the cloud.
Posted: 13 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Aug 2011

TechTarget CIO

PODCAST: Defend IT, Delight Users and Launch BSM with Network and User Service Alignment
sponsored by ASG Software Solutions
PODCAST: Find out how implementing user service alignment in your organization allows IT to become a revenue driver, lowers resource costs, maximizes infrastructure utilization, and achieves true BSM.
Posted: 25 Mar 2010 | Premiered: Mar 25, 2010

ASG Software Solutions

Making the case for cloud: Using soft skills for hard results
sponsored by BMC-Accenture
EGUIDE: When Lands’ End was struggling to improve agility and scalability in fragmented legacy systems, CIO Steve Cretney knew it was the perfect opportunity to move to the cloud. Inside this exclusive e-guide, find out how Cretney successfully made the case for a new cloud computing model at Lands’ End.
Posted: 07 Sep 2011 | Published: 07 Sep 2011

BMC-Accenture

Digital Transformation: Creating New Business Models Where Digital Meets Physical
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to discover what makes up an enterprise-grade digital transformation strategy. Gain insight into the 3 transformation paths available, 4 factors to consider before choosing a transformation policy, and 5 critical components an effective strategy must contain.
Posted: 22 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

IBM

Is your data center holding you back?
sponsored by HP Inc
WHITE PAPER: Access this essential resource to discover five crucial steps to jump-start business and IT agility by becoming an instant-on enterprise, including planning, standardizing, virtualizing, and more.
Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

HP Inc

What CFOs Should Ask their Software Development Leaders
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates a new way of thinking about the funding of IT software projects, one that considers funding in terms of investment, and value as an expansive, longitudinal variable.
Posted: 20 Sep 2011 | Published: 20 Sep 2011

IBM

Business Process Management Summit 2014
sponsored by Gartner
BROCHURE: Cloud computing, mobility, big data, and social media have created a new era of digital business. To succeed and remain competitive in this new environment, you need the right skills, tools, and technologies in order to embrace these forces of change. Do you have what it takes? Find out at the 2014 Gartner Business Process Management Summit.
Posted: 16 Dec 2013 | Published: 16 Dec 2013

Gartner

The Evolving Role of the Business Analyst
sponsored by IBM
TECHNICAL ARTICLE: With the advent of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the business analyst now has to think about issues such as IT services and how to define business logic as rules for easier and faster change cycles. Thus, a new position called the business rules analyst has emerged. This article will examine the role of this new star in the business world.
Posted: 24 May 2010 | Published: 03 Jun 2008

IBM

Identify and Leverage Your Existing Service Life Cycles
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This executive brief will illustrate the progression of service management since the 1990s, illuminate the hidden service life cycles and discuss how, once they are visible, we can start to make them work — to improve services and better align IT with business objectives.
Posted: 22 Jul 2010 | Published: 22 Jul 2010

IBM