Change Management

ASG's Business Service PortfolioT (BSPT) Virtualization Management provides comprehensive oversight, inspections, discoveries, warnings, diagnostics, and reporting for the critical technology and administrative disciplines involved in virtual workload management. This is all done in parallel with physical systems management.

Organizations are drowning in content. They don't know what they have, and they can't find what they need when they need it. While they spend significant time and money to manage content stored among a host of disconnected systems, their efforts are less than fully effective.

Generally, CMDBs populated by discovery tools alone simply aren't usable. They fail because they contain massive amounts of irrelevant information. You avoid this pitfall by correctly populating your CMDB in four simple steps.

Over the past ten years, IT personnel costs have risen faster than hardware and software investments. IT services have not improved process-wise and still require as much manpower, if not more, to operate now as they did in the past. As firms spend 76% of their IT budget on maintenance and support, they will naturally invest in BSM solutions that will reduce costs, enable ITIL, and provide an optimal ROI.

Aligning IT and business perspectives requires the ability to create links between configuration information in the CMDB and the business service as experienced by the user. Service Dependency Mapping (SDM) products automate the process of creating and maintaining these links.

It’s the challenge businesses of every size wrestle with: How to improve employee productivity while driving down costs. Technology can help achieve that goal – when the right tools are used.

In This Paper You Will Discover Why: Learn how videoconferencing is taking on a much broader role in organizations today.

This paper will highlight the key elements companies should look for in a video conferencing system, and offer best-practices recommendations for identifying and working with a video solutions provider.

The third largest US-based provider of inter-bank transaction services offers a Financial Services case study illustrating the automation of over 1,100 tasks by MOVEit Core and MOVEit Central for managing financial transactions. MOVEit File Transfer to manage file transfers to client banks, regulators, and other financial institutions. Companion product MOVEit Central to automate file-based business processes.

You’ve seen it in the news. The fines levied against financial institutions for non-compliance with governmental regulations can be staggering. We’re no longer talking about millions of dollars—but billions of dollars. Needless to say, the stakes are high. And at no point in the life of your IT department has it ever been more important to ensure compliance with international, federal and state mandates. File transfers are a perfect case in point.

You’ve seen the digital evolution that’s taking place in healthcare and you’re at your job every day as this evolution continues—and organizations seek to more efficiently and securely manage the proliferation and management of electronic health records (EHRs) and every type of digital file that relates to patient care.

It’s easy to understand why many organizations are confused about the need for a Managed File Transfer (MFT) system. There are a lot of different products in the market, file transfer product functionality is not clearly defined and often overlaps with other solutions, “MFT” is not fully understood, and there are a lot of mixed messages in the marketplace.

IBM SPSS Modeler is a powerful, versatile data and text analytics workbench. Learn how you can build accurate predictive models quickly and intuitively, without programming. So you can use data to understand the current state of your organization and get a view into the future.

How do shopping holidays like Cyber Monday and Boxing Day affect review usage? What does review traffic reveal about back-to-school shopping? Download The Conversation Index to see how customer conversations impact the global shopping seasons.

This IBM ebook explains what systems engineering is and how it can help you simplify the development of smart, connected products.  Learn how to speed time-to-market, ensure business agility, deliver high-quality smart products, and cut costs.

This paper discusses the practices that companies should explore to move beyond traditional PLM and ALM to realize the broader capabilities of systems engineering for reducing time to market, meeting regulatory compliance mandates and improving product quality.

This paper introduces practical approaches to Agile focused on core principles and practices and shows how they improve project results for embedded systems development.

Need a new approach to application integration that accelerates customer time to value? Read the Gartner report and learn how to select the right platform for your organization. Plus, learn why more customers are selecting Dell Boomi AtomSphere® integration platform as a service (iPaaS) for its ease of use and rapid development characteristics to address your business line integration needs.

Five best practices for getting your team ready to select a tool to engage customers, deliver personalized experiences, and manage customer experience effectively

The Success Story of Cummins Inc. in using Lexmark global managed print services.

This paper provides the 5 steps to effective MPS assessments.

This paper introduces you to Big SQL, answering many of the common questions that relational database management system (DBMS) users have about this IBM technology.

This whitepaper examines the scale and complexity of the IT skills issue, focusing on specific areas within the IT departments where the skills issue will impact most, particularly around application development.

This analyst report provides guidelines for how to plan an effective Enterprise Asset Management strategy, including maturity levels, processes, and technologies in context of IT Asset Management advances. The paper was developed by Enterprise Management Associates - an IT Analyst firm.

Agile methods are increasingly popular in application, enterprise and embedded development. Yet the question remains: Do the 12 agile principles apply to more than just software? Find out how leading companies are beginning to exploit agile's iterative processes for far more than software.