Management Strategy

Metadata is the essential blueprint for what data a company has, what it means and where they can get it. Without clear accessible metadata, an enterprise could have all the data they need to make sound decisions sitting on their servers and hard drives, and still end up making a best guess...

IT organization must employ to realize a winning desktop management strategy. Today, more than ever, businesses rely on a dependable desktop and laptop environment to drive revenues and growth. However, this very same computing environment is increasingly working...

is sharply increasing during a time when information management budgets are either flat or declining. IT has reduced spend on operating systems and application servers by systematically deploying open source alternatives (Linux and JBoss). However...

The key to success is an application performance management strategy that monitors end-user experiences and application performance from a transaction perspective. The increasing reliance on web-based applications in government organizations has had...

masking techniques as part of an overall integrated data management strategy...

This means business drivers are used to form the data management strategy and tightly link it to corporate goals-be they profit, revenue, customer satisfaction or another goal. Data management is about managing information assets across the entire enterprise. It...

environment requires companies to build an information management capability that positions them for future competitive advantage.

Organizational leaders must quickly situate their company on the information management continuum and triage their...

exposure, organizations are approaching the design and management of IT systems in ways that reflect their ever more business-critical role. Risk and performance management for technology infrastructure is no longer simply a concern of IT professionals...

SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin's best practices approach to an effective, long-term ILM strategy. Where data archiving is about...

is certainly going to be around to support its information management and retention solutions. The paper describes HP's approach to building a scalable, unified archive and records management platform that can manage content from desktop, e-mail, database, and...

footprint reduction. These C-4 issues will set the storage management agenda and throttle the options for IT investments for the foreseeable future. This paper gives further details. From large enterprises to small to medium-size firms, IT planners face the same...

survive these challenging times, but to use information management to thrive during them. How quickly times have changed. The recent economic downturn and government actions are raising new questions and concerns. How will the downturn impact your e...

In this white paper, learn how wealth management firms can use client relationship management (CRM) strategies and technology to build relationships as trusted advisors, maximize share of wallet, and increase productivity. A monumental...

a comprehensive, reliable, and efficient compliance strategy appropriate to their organizational needs. This document will first briefly review the general principles underlying today's regulatory and legal environment, then analyze how these...

expert advice in this month's issue on how to convince top management that SharePoint governance should be a top priority. Find out how to create a multidimensional strategy to monitor all of SharePoint's moving parts, and learn three approaches for document...

the costly barriers now associated with employee absence management. Companies truly profit from absence management when they attack the direct and indirect costs that threaten their bottom lines today. As we've shown, many companies now are seeing their...

requires profitability-focused planning and performance management. This special study highlights some key survey findings, which collectively show that profitability reporting is increasing in importance and the use of technology and more sophisticated...

anticipate spending 30% more time on decision support and management (see Figure 3). According to the same research, however, in spite of their aspirations, participants have not made much progress toward a greater strategic role. Finance organizations, no matter...

application performance and scaling is so critical, the management of all of this information is just much more difficult.

Proactive archiving reduces business risks, lower costs and increases efficiency. In order to justify the cost of an archiving solution...

targets for replacement or modification. Management can identify "bloat" in the IT infrastructure by highlighting underused or redundant hardware and unwieldy processes. Executives can strategically plan energy reduction initiatives by...

savings remains the cornerstone of storage planning and management. In these challenging economic times organizations large and small are seeking ways to more efficiently store data. Though budgets are shrinking, the growth rate of data is not slowing down...

crucial that companies identify a clear leader to head a BPM strategy. Yet more often than not, respondents said their companies did not have a specific group in charge of BPM projects. Even with a proper team and strategy in place, BPM presents challenges - it is...

HP and Oracle offer a comprehensive suite of information management tools to help efficiently capture, manage, retain, and deliver information over time. This yields a highly integrated hardware and software infrastructure, leveraging storage tiers with...

design and practical aspects of developing a Master Data Management Roadmap. Navin Sharma discusses the vision, strategy, design and practical aspects of developing a Master Data Management Roadmap. Understanding that a complete roadmap encompasses people...

myths that have developed around contemporary storage management and outlines a service-oriented strategy for bringing storage under better control. With increasing pressure to do more with fewer staff, renewed focus has been placed on infrastructure...