Read this paper to find out what is happening in the industry in regards to Agile ALM and what you can do to take your dev teams to the next level.

For most enterprises, effective management of Git is a challenge. Discover technical innovations and emerging best practices now provide additional options to manage Git in the enterprise.

Learn how DreamWorks Animation uses HP Converged Infrastructure technologies to boost creativity, streamline production, and save significant time as well as costs. "HP Converged Infrastructure technologies are increasing our capacity to produce state-of-the-art CG animation -- great storytelling combined with stunning visuals. And that's what audiences expect."

Most organizations today understand that a disaster recovery (DR) plan is essential to their continued survival should a natural disaster occur. But implementing a DR plan entails substantial time, effort and cost - not to mention significant investment in developing new areas of technical expertise within the organization. As a result, many organizations are turning to disaster recovery service providers (DRSPs) to offload their disaster recovery operations.

Bar-coded shipping labels are essential to sophisticated tracking and material-handling systems, and thus so are label printers. This white paper identifies the features of shipping-label printers that will return the greatest value for long-term, low-cost reliable operations, from features that save time to those that simplify integration and management.

While production is often optimized and automated, producing the necessary documentation often is not. Creating the necessary job tickets, component IDs, and product labels for manufacturing is a growing source of waste and error. This white paper will explain how manufacturers can realize tangible improvements with proper printers and media.

With tight budgets, it isn't easy to create the operational dexterity needed to thrive in a competitive marketplace. View this demo to find out how IBM® SPSS® solutions for predictive operational analytics help manage physical and virtual assets, maintain infrastructure and capital equipment, and improve the efficiency of people and processes. By using your existing business information, IBM SPSS software can help you: predict and prevent equipment failures that can lead to disruptive, costly downtime; quickly identify and resolve product quality issues to mitigate risks and reduce warranty costs; optimize product assortment planning to increase revenue, reduce working capital requirements and improve the return on inventory investments; and act to retain your best employees by developing predictive attrition models to identify the workers at greatest risk of leaving the organization.

While economic recovery is clearly in process, your capital and operational budgets are still extremely tight. At the same time, your maintenance organization is being pressured to take a stance of zero tolerance toward safety incidents while reducing maintenance costs and minimizing asset downtime. Read this in-depth Aberdeen Group report, based on responses from 117 executives of successful companies, to find out how best-in-class businesses are proactively managing these challenges. You'll learn these techniques for optimizing maintenance and operations-and more: creating a culture of collaboration among teams across your enterprise; empowering decision makers with appropriate, highly accurate metrics; and leveraging predictive management and analytics to manage assets throughout their life cycle.

Manage physical and virtual assets, maintain your infrastructure and capital equipment and maximize the efficiency of your people, processes and assets with predictive analytics.

IBM Analytical Decision Management revolutionizes how organizations make decisions by optimizing and automating high-volume, operational decisions at the point of impact to drive better business outcomes. In this technical white paper, learn about the architecture, deisgn and execution environments for this leading-edge technology, as well as recommendations on how to manage an implementation of this decision management solution.

Every day, people in your organization are struggling to make the right decisions - working with customers, partners, and each other - because they simply can't use all available data. There's too much of it for humans to internalize, understand, and apply in real time. That's why organizations that automate and optimize decisions informed by predictive analytics have a significant advantage over competitors. Read this IBM white paper and discover how decision management can help you effectively leverage your business data to support faster, more-accurate real-time decisions in virtually every area of your business. You can learn the following: the common types of business decisions and how decision management affects them; why most decisions today aren't based on any real business insight; benefits of decision management-what it is and how to adopt it; and the role of predictive analytics in effective decision management.

Databases and information management systems let you describe, categorize, store, modify and analyze data. What if you could do the same with decisions? Your systems could learn from previous choices and manipulate them to fit new parameters to intelligently mold future decisions made by executives, everyday business users and even your systems to optimize outcomes. Read this a specially selected excerpt from James Taylor's new book, "Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics" to discover the guiding principles for building decision management systems that can help your organization differentiate itself from the competition at virtually every decision point.

The capabilities that enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems enable in wholesale and distribution have a wide umbrella of influence throughout an organization. Using ERP data to make better business decisions while cutting your costs is only one

Do you cringe at the thought of having to replace your enterprise software solution? Does it seem like a monumental undertaking, with a high risk of failure? Knowledge is power. Learn from the experiences of other distributors who have been through the ERP selection process and not only lived to tell about it, but brought great benefit to their companies.

Discover how using predictive analytics can help your company convert prospects and cross-sell to existing customers. The campaign optimization capabilities provided with predictive analytics offer an unprecedented level of targeting and coordination across all channels - quickly resulting in decreased costs and increased revenue.

Industry leaders are engaging in multichannel integration for some very good reasons. More effective cross-channel strategies lead to more satisfied consumers as well as more efficient, more profitable retail operations. In fact, as the survey indicates, consumers expect integrated multichannel experience from their favorite brands.

How to Master the Art of Content Marketing will show you best practices, tips, and solutions for turning content assets into online customer engagement and higher web conversion rates.

When it comes to evaluating software investment decisions, such as on- premise vs. cloud-based solutions, many factors must be considered. In particular, pay attention to four key areas: support for business strategy, operations, security, and cost.

The complimentary 2011-12 Towards Maturity Benchmark report consolidates the experiences of more than 1,800 organizations over the last 8 years. It cuts through the hype to show how HR leaders in real organizations are using both established and new learning technologies to help improve performance and business agility. Download today.

With best-in-class processes supported by the right IT infrastructure, today's service parts organizations can operate at a new level of flexibility, efficiency, and responsiveness. This paper is the first in a five-part series that describes the best-in-class processes of Cat Logistics Services Inc. (Cat Logistics), a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. It explores how Cat Logistics has optimized its demand-planning processes to proactively address customer demands and drive profitable growth.

Read this white paper to learn four stages of organizational capabilities and associated customer analytics strategies to help gain deeper customer insight.

The Service Desk industry is moving at an ever-faster rate. Tasked with supporting an increasing array of technologies, services, software and devices, Service Desks have to be flexible and make decisions about what they support and what they don't. This guide will identify some key ways to keep the Service Desk human and ensure that customer service stays at the front and centre of everything that the Service Desk does.

Mergers present opportunities for a complete transformation of the combined business organization. A blend of two smaller bottling companies, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S.A. is one of the world's largest bottlers and distributors of Coca-Cola products. It standardized on the SAP® ERP application to better coordinate with its partner and supplier, the Coca-Cola Company, which also standardized on SAP software. Coca Cola Hellenic used SAP technology for other challenges, including transformation of its customer service processes.

With SAP® BusinessObjectsT Web Intelligence® software, companies can perform sophisticated ad hoc reporting and analysis. Powerful functionality and an intuitive user interface enable your people to turn data into insights, improve decision making and productivity, and share knowledge across the enterprise.

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