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Skill Level and Training Key Factors |
| By : HP |
Published Date: Oct 31, 2006 |
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This white paper by IDC shows how an investment in training improves the likelihood of an IT project chances for success through enhancement of team skills. The white paper provides an analysis of a comprehensive survey with 144 senior IT managers examining the impact which training and skill level had on the success of 377 IT projects.
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Getting Business Requirements Right |
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The later in the system development life-cycle that major errors are discovered the more expensive it is to fix them. But the earliest stages of the systems development lifecycle (SDLC) are most often the least consistently executed. This paper describes a methodology that brings the early stages of the SDLC up to a high level of maturity: consistent, proven, and optimized for success.
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Job Scheduling Evaluation Guide |
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IT groups must support many applications and servers across multiple platforms that frequently operate independently of each other. However, coordinating job scheduling across all these applications and networks is often required to optimize resource utilization. The traditional approach of applying more staff, toolkits, and rudimentary scheduling software to cobble together automated batch processing solutions becomes cost-prohibitive, inefficient, and error-prone, as the number of moving parts increases and the environment becomes more heterogeneous.
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Keep Software Fixes On Course with Elementool Bug Tracking |
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Here’s a test: Can you list all the issues your software team is working on now? Can you sort them by severity, priority, features affected, and other criteria such as whether the issue is a bug, customer request, or product enhancement? Can you show the histories of all related comments and actions? Can you distribute this information easily to concerned individuals — showing only the information relevant to them?
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Milhouse Engineering Manages the O’Hare Airport Project with GlobalSCAPE WAFS |
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In 2005, O’Hare International Airport began a project to relocate and modernize a 2.1 million ft.2 runway. Five independent firms worked on the project design with the IT/data management led by Milhouse Engineering and Construction, Inc. Milhouse implemented GlobalSCAPE WAFS which mirrors critical files to all sites. This provided fast local access to all project files automatically without any administrative burden and with no delays.
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5 Common Project Management Challenges |
| By : Metafuse |
Published Date: Sep 26, 2007 |
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In speaking with project managers, directors of operations, vice presidents of professional services, chief financial offers, and other project team members every day, we hear familiar stories repeatedly and there are some trends, or commonalities. This document outlines five of the most common project management challenges.
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Overcoming the Information Challenge on Mining, Oil and Gas Projects |
| By : Aconex |
Published Date: Nov 08, 2007 |
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It's a common scenario in the mining and oil & gas industries: the project has been approved to proceed and the pressure is on to get multiple parties – partners, consultants, contractors and suppliers – working together efficiently to meet an aggressive schedule. This challenge is often exacerbated by globalization and by the vast volume of data that flows between the project team.
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Putting the ROI into ITIL |
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Demonstrating ROI for service management investments can be difficult, especially with multi-phase deployments like ITIL that can require significant up-front investment in exchange for returns produced in the future. Learn how setting milestones and measuring the value of each phase of an ITIL implementation can help prove the project’s value and shape its focus.
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Prevention of ERP Implementation Failure |
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Projects to implement ERP tend to be difficult, expensive and drawn-out. They are often full of painful surprises and overrun budgets and schedules that were extravagant in the first place. They fail entirely in an alarming number of cases. Why this should be so is not immediately apparent. If we list, at a fairly high level, the tasks required to implement an ERP system in a company that’s already familiar with ERP practices, what we see is a significant but not daunting amount of work.
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Paving the Way to a Successful Upgrade |
| By : SAP |
Published Date: Jan 01, 2008 |
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Learn how you can leverage SAP expertise to for faster, more cost-effective upgrades. The SAP Upgrade Assessment for SAP ERP service helps you find the services and implementation options that are right for you and will ensure the success of your project.
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8 Ways Every Solution Provider Can Profit from Rollouts Now |
| By : OnForce |
Published Date: Apr 19, 2007 |
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“8 Ways Every Solution provider Can Profit from Rollouts Now” demonstrates how rollouts are creating strong sales opportunities for solution providers of all sizes. Importantly, it also addresses how solution providers have finally “cracked the code” of transforming this high-volume business, which is extremely service intensive, into a high-profit business via innovative on-site service delivery models that let them find the contract IT service professionals they need, right when they need them.
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Study Reveals Hidden Costs May Be Lurking in Your Documentation Process |
| By : PTC |
Published Date: May 18, 2006 |
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When launching products, creating manuals, providing customer service and doing other tasks that involve documentation, you cannot afford inefficiencies. IDC, the premier global provider of market intelligence, surveyed hundreds of companies to uncover common content-related inefficiencies and their costs. See the results in this white paper.
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Simplify Scheduling through Consolidation and Automation |
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With 50+ percent of all business processes leveraging batch operations, it is essential to keep your batch production running smoothly in order to keep your business running smoothly. Whether you are consolidating datacenter operations, moving apps to more cost-effective platforms, or transitioning from customized to packaged applications, learn how you can simplify and lower the cost of batch management with a single interface to all batch processes across platforms and applications and more.
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The Value of Rules-Driven Product Management |
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Capturing product knowledge has proven to be very difficult and early attempts at building systems to capture and reuse knowledge have failed because they were too limited technically, required users to be able to develop computer codes (or programs) to embody knowledge rules and actions, and they did not work with common product design tools such as CAD and PDM systems.
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Tidal's Enterprise Scheduler Provides Staples with Cost-Effective Automation and Centralization |
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Staples’ information systems play a critical role in delivering on their brand promise 'that was easy.' As part of a recent strategic imperative, Staples recently embarked on a major modernization of its systems architecture and supporting processes. The goal was to ensure IT’s systems could scale with the company’s continued global expansion without sacrificing the quality of the brand experience. One critical target for modernization was Staples’ enterprise job scheduling processes and systems. After researching the top software providers in this space, Staples selected Tidal Software to support its efforts to centralize and streamline automated batch processing.
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Understand Earned Value in Under an Hour |
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Earned value (EV) has grown in popularity over the last several years. With 76% of IT projects failing (Crawford, 2002), project management and control systems must be implemented to ensure IT project success. Learn how EV links to the work breakdown structure (WBS) the schedule and the budget.
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Why Russell Stover Chose A Mid-Market Specialist |
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Russell Stover Candies outsourced its legacy information systems. However, two years later, they were unhappy with their chosen outsourcing provider and faced multiple ERP challenges. To help navigate these challenges, the company hired a seasoned IT executive. Find out why, after an exhaustive evaluation process, he selected OneNeck IT Services.
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CPM and The Big 3: Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting for Success |
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Never has the need for a modern corporate performance management (CPM) solution -- one that unifies the "big three" processes of planning, budgeting, and forecasting -- been more critical to regaining and sustaining the accuracy, consistency, and transparency you expect from your numbers. Read this white paper to learn more.
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