Business Integration

HP’s $8 billion write-down. A disappointing IPO from Facebook, Groupon’s famous flameout. These watershed moments have crystallized what we’ve known for a while: Fluff can no longer trump sound operations in terms of a company’s valuation. Organizations must be built on an empirically firm foundation to flourish. And everyone – from investors on Wall Street to customers on Main Street to the SEC– is looking at companies with more scrupulous eyes.

Whether you have been with your company for 30 years or just completed your first week, chances are pretty high that you are endlessly busy and things never seem to slow down. With so much to wrap your head around and the mindset of not skipping a beat, you likely never had a moment to pause, reevaluate the way things were being done and think to yourself, “What is the real method to this madness here and is there a better, more productive and cost-effective way we could be doing it?

Not long ago, if you asked an IT executive about transformation, there was a good chance you’d get a technology-centric response. You’d hear about consolidation and virtualization, power and cooling, security and availability. Today, the responses are different. This edition of Unleashing IT is all about transformation. Not technology change, but business change through the use of technology.

In this white paper, Stratecast explores the relationship between hardware and software components in delivering a high-performing cloud environment. We present a list of questions to guide the reader in evaluating the offers of different cloud providers. Finally, we consider HP integrated solutions (hardware tuned to service automation platforms) as an effective choice for building a high-performance cloud environment.

Radicati Group's 2012 Market Quadrant for Hosted Business Email and Collaboration is now available for your use. SilverSky formerly USA.NET, a Perimeter E-Security brand, was named as a Top Player. Radicati's 2012 market report confirms that SilverSky delivers secure infrastructure from the cloud that businesses of all sizes rely on. Our advanced technology, expert intelligence, and superior scale makes our clients' information more secure, more highly available, compliant with regulations and less costly to manage.

As the volume of available data increases, and we have new ways of extracting insights from data, it is valuable to take a step back and examine the impact of these insights on integration and company actions. Join us for this webinar and learn how you can use big data in your organization.

Radicati Group's 2012 Market Quadrant for Microsoft Hosted Exchange is now available for your use. SilverSky (formerly USA.NET, a Perimeter E-Security brand), was named as a Top Player again – for the sixth consecutive year. The Radicati Group evaluated 13 cloud-based Hosted Exchange services in a wide range of configurations from multi-tenant to single tenant environments. SilverSky was one of only four vendors placed in the "Top Players" quadrant, earning the highest score awarded for functionality.

What are some of the pitfalls you can avoid when augmenting an existing infrastructure to maximize performance, results, and success? Read on.

Reaching a pinnacle of strategic importance, expense management has found high prominence within today’s organizations. Discover Aberdeen’s latest best practices for effectively managing T&E expenses.

Todd Pacific Shipyards was running a homegrown SQL/Visual Basic® system that focused primarily on purchasing, inventory, and project reporting, with a small accounts payable add-on.

The seven tips included in this whitepaper are from some of the top EAM minds in IFS North America and IFS AB, and are designed to help ensure that you get the most out of EAM software so that you can get the most out of your assets.

Realize the benefits of consolidating your ERP products down to one.

The Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics and Marketing Analytics shows marketing professionals how to talk the talk of C-level executives in terms of forecasting and reporting, and walk the walk to the revenue table by leveraging metrics that matter.

Read this white paper to learn about 10 principles to follow in order to build an effective human capital plan for your organization.

If you want to cut to the chase on the ways to monitor your IT, cloud, and applications, and the pluses and minuses of each approach, then keep reading... If you want to know the key trade-offs of the types of software out there, then keep reading... If you want to find out what kind of monitoring solutions have been proven to work and why, then keep reading...

A convergence of potentially conflicting trends is creating a perfect storm for IT professionals tasked with providing secure, reliable access to applications and other critical corporate information. So how can IT avoid the strain on corporate networks as more users attempt to access desktop infrastructures - including applications and services- from remote offices or through mobile devices? Learn how boosting application delivery and response time across a global network can improve collaboration and productivity among an increasingly global and mobile workforce.

Integration may not be new, but its role has drastically changed. Once used simply for support, it is now an enabler – serving as an indispensable foundation critical to achieving agility, efficiency, and growth. Done well, it can drive better business decisions, more cost-effective operations, and be the catalyst for competitive advantage. Architected without a clearly defined strategy, however, integration will fail to deliver on its promise. What are some of the pitfalls you can avoid when augmenting an existing infrastructure to maximize performance, results, and success? Read on.

This paper will discuss the new IT landscape as it relates to the new integration, and argue that the need for a comprehensive integration strategy has never been more urgent. This strategy must not only take new data types into account, but also address the more fundamental issue of agility – because whatever the integration needs of an enterprise may be at the moment, they are certain to change rapidly.

In this on demand webinar explore the impact of cloud initiatives and new customer relationships on integration strategy. Learn what you should take into account when preparing your integration initiatives.

•Big Data + Integration •Integration In the Age of The Customer •Impact of Mobile

Learn why scoping is critical when it comes to interoperability and HL7.

Diagnosoft selected Caristix software and consulting. Consulting work included a hands-on workshop to co-design the interface deployment workflows that Diagnosoft customer engagements would require.

The costs and risks associated with the entire interfacing lifecycle are no longer acceptable in a world that requires fast turnarounds and go-live dates. Those implementing HL7 interfaces can tap into new – and proven – best practices for more effective scoping and overall project success.

Those of us who have been a part of high performing, innovative teams know the exhilaration of reducing time-to-market, cutting out unnecessary processes and costs, and simply producing better products for our customers through improved collaboration. So how do we create those innovative teams, who not only vastly improve our business but also energize our workers?

This paper addresses the challenges of planning, budgeting and forecasting in a spreadsheet environment and highlights the advantages of using a software solution designed specifically for dynamic planning. The business challenges and drivers are discussed, including organizational and technological best practices to follow. A Planning Software Selection Matrix is included to assist decision makers in selecting the most appropriate planning software for their specific business processes and needs.