Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

The purpose of this business training white paper is to explain what BSM is and what it isn't and it will also describe BSM benefits. Business Service Management (BSM) is a relatively new term in the IT management community. Over the last few years, it has become a sort of buzzword--many vendors are adopting the term and using it to market their products and services. The average executive is now inundated with vendors and products all claiming to deliver BSM--whatever that...

This white paper focuses on the need to monitor and manage outbound content and discusses the key drivers that are making it necessary. Outbound electronic content in any organization must be monitored and managed in order to minimize risk and to ensure that electronic communication is appropriate and in compliance with an organization's policies, statutory obligations and industry best practices. Organizations should monitor all avenues through which employees...

This whitepaper defines the requirements while unraveling the complexities of the complete in-service upgrade process. Increased demand for always-on service, coupled with the advent of complex clusterbased distributed computing, has rendered traditional software upgrade approaches such as simple cold restarts and split ISUs obsolete. For today's high-availability 24 x 7 networks, true in-service upgrades are an absolute requirement.

ISU is a complex...

The well understood requirements and broad acceptance of emerging industry standards has solidified the viability of COTS middleware, specifically in the telecom industry. Read this paper for more. For an early stage network equipment provider that has defined the latest and greatest innovation, reaching the cash flow positive milestone can be daunting and high risk. With so many components required to integrate the innovative technology into a complete solution,...

This paper examines business intelligence from the point of view of a maturing analytical organization that creates economic value from its activities. This paper examines business intelligence from the point of view of a maturing analytical organization that creates economic value from its activities. The constituent aspects of defining value for the business intelligence are detailed, as well as some recommendations for visualizing and communicating that value...

Reporting 2.0 is the new web-based enterprise reporting where end-users can create, interpret, and extend their reports or analyze report data in real-time with no IT overhead. Learn more about it in this whitepaper. To manage today's dynamic business situations, business users need the ability to control the visualization and analysis of their data in real-time. Traditional reporting tools are good for static reporting, but are not interactive and cannot provide real-time...

Oversight Systems automates the analysis and testing of auditors and fraud examiners to reduce ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs and provide quality assurance for financial operations. Oversight Systems automates the analysis and testing of auditors and fraud examiners to reduce ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs and provide quality assurance for financial operations. As a virtual auditor, Oversight continuously monitors 100% of the transactions and...

FAMIS Occupancy Management provides true enterprise level space management by consolidating facility related data usually scattered over diverse departments of an enterprise. FAMIS Occupancy Management provides true enterprise level space management by consolidating facility related data usually scattered over diverse departments of an enterprise. Thus FAMIS becomes the hub of spatial data for enterprise resource planning. FAMIS Occupancy Management was...

In this paper, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) examines the values of the Quest Software solution set for resolving the paradoxes of privilege management and strong authentication. In this paper, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) examines the values of the Quest Software solution set for resolving the paradoxes of privilege management and strong authentication. Quest's SafeKeeping for shared access management, Privilege Manager for Unix for finely...

This white paper discusses the technologies and techniques necessary for an optimized business continuity strategy. Every aspect of today's businesses is expected to be available continuously without interruption, regardless of the circumstances. When disaster strikes-whether a natural disaster or technological failure-business services and technologies are expected to be available. Many companies do not place the necessary level of emphasis on...

Service Level Agreements transform IT departments from being reactive to being proactive. This paper discusses Embarcadero Performance Center, a best-of class database monitoring tool and describes how it can help your Database Administrator. Embarcadero Performance Center ensures the production DBA has the right information to help meet SLA requirements and prove it. Performance Center includes the following features:

• Real-time alert reports that allow DBAs to

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This white paper discusses the burgeoning concept of Operational Intelligence, a new approach for decision-making that allows the optimal response at the right time. The earlier a company detects and responds to SLA violations, the lower the business impact. Even better, with sufficient visibility into critical business processes managers can prevent violations from happening in the first place. The message here is that increasingly, companies need to manage business...

In this webcast Rob Patterson & Adrian Bereanu discuss "Enhancing the SAP Environment". In this webcast Rob Patterson & Adrian Bereanu discuss "Enhancing the SAP Environment"...

This white paper discusses the importance of business and IT objectives for an enterprise architecture initiative. Discover the benefits of enterprise architecture and explore a step-by-step guide for implementing this infrastructure. Many organizations lack the technologies necessary to develop and maintain an accurate model of their company's business and strategy architectures. This limits their ability to prioritize demands from various business units and...

Pervasive BI is the ability to deliver integrated right-time DW information to all users - it also provides an enterprise with the necessary visibility, insight, and facts to make smarter decisions in all processes at all times. The three major subsystems - Data Integration Services, Decision Repositories, and Decision Services - are part of an information supply chain. Data starts in raw form, goes through transformations, storage, distribution, and...

As RFID adoption continues to grow, engineers are faced with an increasing need to validate tags both for interoperability with products from other vendors and for conformance with the specified protocol. As RFID adoption continues to grow, engineers are faced with an increasing need to validate tags both for interoperability with products from other vendors and for conformance with the specified protocol. In today's market, these test needs are coupled with...

This white paper details the critical roles IT plays in providing Operations with timely information in areas such as quality management, supply chain, and cost control. IT has a critical role to play by providing Operations with timely information in areas such as quality management, supply chain, and cost control. With IT, Operations can monitor, plan, and understand what needs to be done to ensure production is in step with customer demand. To gain the right insight...

Find out how to navigate the ever-evolving BI and PM technology markets, conduct an effective RFP process, evaluate software and successfully implement integrated BI-PM systems. Learn the critical technology considerations for an integrated business intelligence and performance management system before you start designing, extending or implementing a system. Whether you add on PM capabilities from your existing BI vendor or implement a new product, you'll need a system...

This whitepaper explains how forwardthinking CIOs will leverage both the brains of performance management and the brawn of ERP to stay ahead of the curve. The bottom line for business executives and CIOs looking to successfully implement performance management is simple: If performance management is what you're after, then you need a solution designed specifically for it. And as performance management becomes a necessity in today's hyper-competitive business world...

In this comprehensive report Ovum discusses how to overcome various limitations by including real-time data integration and data services as part of a successful SOA and BPM strategy. Data is the lifeblood of any organization for driving business processes, such as products and services; customer, partner and business relationships; and internal regulatory compliance. By design, these processes must be able to access a variety of data sources, applications,...

The EMC Documentum Process Suite offering is part of the Documentum family of enterprise content management (ECM) software, and is tightly integrated with the Documentum Content Server and repository for its operation. The EMC Documentum Process Suite offering is part of the Documentum family of enterprise content management (ECM) software, and is tightly integrated with the Documentum Content Server and repository for its operation. While it can be applied to a broad...

In this whitepaper learn how Business Process Management (BPM) enabled by Service orientated Architecture (SOA) is a discipline combining software capabilities and business expertise to accelerate process improvement and facilitate business innovation. BPM enabled by SOA is a discipline combining software capabilities and business expertise to accelerate process improvement and facilitate business innovation. Your organization must streamline business...

Every merger and acquisition (M&A) doubles the IT infrastructure that must be managed by the new organization. This paper explores the importance of an effective enterprise data management strategy and integration plan that insures a successful M&A. As technology advances, the demand for new products and services changes and expands, making competition in the marketplace more intense. Whether an organization wants to reduce costs, eliminate a competitor, expand market share...

Investigating the tangible business results using ITSM, this Aberdeen Research Brief highlights Oracle's Upgrade Management Service as a solution enabling organizations to unify business and IT with the shared goal of delivering value to the customer. All too often an IT manager will focus only on system uptime or bandwidth utilization while a business manager may seek to achieve top-notch customer service to increase the bottom line and grow the organization. Without...

Oracle delivers software to help organizations meet the complexities and challenges of operating in today's business environment, supplying organizations of all sizes with a rock-solid data infrastructure to support flexible operations. Oracle delivers software to help organizations meet the complexities and challenges of operating in today's business environment, supplying organizations of all sizes with a rock-solid data infrastructure to support...