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Self-service technology is a must for institutions of higher learning, as millenials demand a customized educational experience...
Jun 18, 2010
The maxim of automated, self-service technologies goes something like this: Help others, help thyself. Whether it's an airline kiosk, employee-benefits ...
Apr 25, 2007
pillars of cloud provisioning: self-service, policy and automation. It's also time for IT departments to look at information technology as business technology (BT), an...
Jun 8, 2010
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Nov 8, 2007
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3. Self-service technologies help companies help themselves
Self-service technologies not only put employees and customers in...

Oct 4, 2007
aspect of a private cloud is self-service, Wilson said. However, "a self-service portal does not guarantee self-service," he said. "Self-service needs to be layered on...
Jun 24, 2010

Proactive IT service level management

The greatest challenge for IT management today is to effectively support the needs of the systems...

Jul 22, 2003
to 70%.

3. Failing to understand self-service and true production needs

You can look at self-service two ways: from the end user's point of view and from the cloud...

Jun 29, 2010
have what I think are great business service ideas.

Admittedly, some of these business service ideas don't turn out quite the way I think they should. For example, many...

Aug 5, 2010
Eli Lilly uses RightScale Inc. for self-service provisioning. "[RightScale] has a much friendlier interface, with more metrics and controls, for our common users...
Jul 30, 2009
but a growing trend of software as a service may challenge the authority of IT managers even further because of the nontraditional way these services are...
Oct 3, 2006
to make complex business systems self-managing."

Autonomic computing is not new. IBM introduced the term in 2001 to describe a paradigm of computing that is...

Dec 4, 2007
systems group. "Making BI self-service … that is like gold; customers just serve themselves and are charged a fee."

By 2013, some form of business...

May 4, 2010
said.

But for Extra Space Storage, a self-service storage space provider with 685 facilities and 2,500 employees, it has meant new functionality it couldn't have...

Dec 29, 2009
I have worked entirely via managed service providers (MSP). From design and tooling engineers to patent attorneys, I have yet to meet my MSPs in person. I know them by...
May 12, 2010
such a way that you can push it out to a self-service module, breaking the one-for-one barrier of the phone.

"If I could publish one resolution on a self-service Web site, it's a...

May 23, 2007
according to experts, who say the self-service aspect of cloud computing needs to be combined with metering through an automated portal. VMware Inc. is said to be...
Jul 8, 2010
Institute. "You need to split your service management implementations up into small, sharp pieces to show value to the business quickly."

In Butler's experience...

Oct 1, 2009
2005.

Marketing automation and Web self-service tools have seen significant growth as well. Web self-service, which was recently an emerging category of CRM technology...

Aug 22, 2006
model, enterprises often gain a self-service interface so users can self-provision an application, or extra storage from an Infrastructure as a Service provider...
Aug 6, 2009
type of data query.

RBC is all about self-service portals. Customers can walk into a branch office and get a bank statement printout via a self-service kiosk. The service...

Jun 17, 2009
of contact center managers and self-service organizations, thanks to the flexibility they provide, home-based agents are expected to number 300,000 by 2010, nearly...
Jan 10, 2006
managers want to create higher service levels without adding headcount. This requires that existing personnel work more efficiently. In the best case...
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NCR 2010 Consumer Research Reveals that Patients Want Self-Service to Better Manage Healthcare Expenses by NCR Corporation
patients are increasingly seeking self-service convenience when managing the financial aspects of their healthcare experience. Read this white paper to learn more.

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The Building Blocks for Private Cloud: Automation, Virtualization, and Cloud Service Management by newScale, Inc.
facing aspects such as on-demand self-service, standards for resource pool allocation, user-driven service levels, and pay-per-use billing. It becomes the means for...
Architectural Strategies for Cloud Computing by Oracle Corporation
customers” utilize in a self-service manner. Realization of efficiency, performance, and agility benefits is reinforcing this trend.

Opportunities for...

A Disruptive Force in the Analytics Industry - LMG Service Sets a New Benchmark for Retail Analytics thanks to Kognitio by Kognitio
power their front-end application Self Serve. WX2 has reduced query response times by a factor of 60, what previously took over 5 hours now runs in less than 5...
Expert tips: Preparing for private cloud construction by ASG Software Solutions
Private clouds offer many of the advantages of public cloud services but without the security concerns and...
Improving Identity and Access Management in an SAP Environment by Dell Software
reset, or do it themselves via a self-service portal.

The problem is, SAP needs the same changes made in different places, and often by different IT staff – which...

SearchBusinessAnalytics.com E-Guide: Implementing Self-Service BI by Jaspersoft
companies make when implementing self-service BI, as well as how to avoid these with an eight-step model.

Despite a continued push from vendors, self-service business...

‘A Little Extra Service’ Raises Customer Satisfaction and Lowers Costs by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
save money with initiatives in web self-service, live chat, email management, and more.

Customers today hate calling representatives on the phone - they want answers fast...

The Hidden Costs of Self-Signed SSL Certificates by Symantec Corporation
Many IT professionals believe that self-signed SSL certificates can help lower security costs. Unfortunately, aside from the certificate itself, there are a...
Do-It-Yourself Business Intelligence Done Right: The Secret Sauce is SaaS by myDIALS Inc.
Research, explains how Software as a Service business intelligence can deliver a more cost-effective way to get relevant information to those who need it faster...
Creating a Self-Service Dev/Test Cloud by ORACLE APAC
s experience creating and using a self-service private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud in order to relieve software development and testing pressures...
Collaborative Reporting Architecture by Actuate
today's most demanding Customer Self-Service and Online Channel applications for the words' l... The Actuate® Enterprise Reporting platform is...
Enable and protect business-ready cloud infrastructures by IBM
via dynamic-provisioning and self-service portals, and apply new technologies?

Access this resource now to gain insight into the collaboration of IBMs cloud...

Global Fashion Brand Finds Savings and Speed with Amazon Web Services for SAP by Run E2E
by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the self-service reporting of SAP BusinessObjects 4.0. Read this brief case study to learn about the combined Proof of Concept that...
Virtualized Enterprise Storage for Flexible, Scalable Private Clouds by Dell, Inc.
operational expenses by offering self-service capabilities to end users—leading to an IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) model. Self-service helps reduce the amount of manual...
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management by BMC-Accenture
services from a service catalog and self-service portal, get more efficient administrative control, and much more!

Most cloud platforms are pretty good at one thing, but...

Private Cloud E-Zine Vol. 4 by SearchCloudComputing.com
control and management, improved self-service and greater portability among cloud environments. This e-zine takes a look at trends in cloud computing, using open...
Best Practices for Getting Started with Cloud Data Services and Application Integration by Talend
your organization by providing self-service integrated information from siloed systems.

Various types of application integration have grown up over the years...

WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance and PowerVM by IBM
out how a cloud manager provides a self-service portal that maintains permissions and information about cloud objects such as virtual images, patterns, and...
Trust in Your Cloud by VMware, Inc.
pooling of an on-demand, self managed virtual infrastructure consumed as a service. Working in concert with the security partner ecosystem, VMware...
Implementing On-Demand Services Inside the Intel IT Private Cloud by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
that provides a consumer-focused self-service portal. Download this white paper now to learn more.

By instituting a hosting automation framework that includes...

ePlus Enterprise Cloud - Your On-Ramp to Cloud Computing by ePlus Technology
are able to offer scalable, on-demand self-service while reducing operational complexity and total cost of ownership. Discover how businesses can take advantage of...
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