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Productivity is the relationship between production of an output and one, some, or all of the resource inputs used in accomplishing the assigned task. It is measured as a ratio of output per unit of input over time. It is a measure of efficiency and is usually considered as output per person-hour.

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Dana Gardner Discusses Developer Productivity with Greg Burnell, CEO of 6th Sense Analytics
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Sep 17, 2007
Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst with Interarbor Solutions, discusses the limited insight into developer productivity with Greg Burnell, Chairman, Co-founder and CEO of 6th Sense Analytics.
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6th Sense Analytics Interviews Rusty Weston of Global Services Magazine
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Sep 18, 2007
Jake Sorofman, Vice President of Marketing for 6th Sense Analytics interviews Rusty Weston, editor in chief of CMP Media’s Global Services magazine, a premier publication focusing on the trends of off-shoring and outsourcing. The discussion focuses on the trend of globally distributed software development.
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Managing Success in Outsourced or Offshored Software Development
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Dec 20, 2006
This whitepaper outlines a way for organizations to build a modern framework for managing distributed teams that overcomes the structural challenges of working across far-flung locations, and ensures projects come in as expected—on time, on budget and on target with business goals. This framework reuses your existing development infrastructure to restore visibility and empowered decision making within your globally distributed software development projects.
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Making Software Development Metrics Work
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Mar 08, 2007

Do you have a software development metrics program? Does it work? SD Times, 6th Sense Analytics and Rally Software Development Corp. participate in this recorded Roundtable Discussion focused on developing a metrics program that gives you the information you need to make informed decisions regarding your software development efforts.


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Building Software in a Flat World
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Nov 16, 2006
Offshore development has been embraced by the vast majority of commercial software vendors and enterprise application development groups. Why? Because a world flattened by globalization makes it possible to improve competitiveness by taking advantage of the easy exchange of low-cost, high-quality technical skills.
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Driver Based Planning and Budgeting
By : Applix Published Date: Feb 21, 2007
This whitepaper will help organizations understand how driver based planning and control activities can be transformed into the proactive management function that add greater value through faster decision making.
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Applix
Monitor, Access and Control CPE Telecom Equipment
By : Asentria Corporation Published Date: Aug 30, 2007
Today’s service providers face more pressure than ever to keep remote equipment up and running as customers continue to demand higher levels of reliable service while keeping costs competitive. Thus, there is a growing need for remote site management solutions that can help service providers monitor, access and control telecom equipment located at customer sites.
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Asentria Corporation
County Leverages Telecom Accounting Into Far-Reaching Network Management
By : Asentria Corporation Published Date: Aug 30, 2007
The use of pollable remote access units enable integration of phone systems with telecommunications management, plus system-wide access, monitoring and alarm notification that includes unmanned remote sites. Few telephone networks connect a user base that is involved in such a multitude of vital services as local government.
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Asentria Corporation
Burlington Telecom Looks to Asentria for Custom Integrated Monitoring Capabilities
By : Asentria Corporation Published Date: Aug 30, 2007
As a provider of cable television, telephone, and high-speed Internet for the City of Burlington, Vermont, Burlington Telecom (BT) offers communication services to more than 16,000 homes. By the end of 2008, BT’s communications infrastructure will allow every home and business in the city to have access to its fiber optic network.
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Asentria Corporation
Transcom Corporation Case Study
By : Asentria Corporation Published Date: Aug 30, 2007
As an equipment provider for worldwide, national and regional radio and television facilities, Transcom Corporation, headquartered in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., has been meeting the broadcasting capability needs of stations worldwide since 1978. Transcom specializes in distributing new TV transmitters, antenna, cable, Studio Transmitter Link (STL) and audio equipment that enable television and radio stations to transmit sound and video from the studio to the antenna.
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Asentria Corporation
Common Holes in an SNMP Network Management System
By : Asentria Corporation Published Date: Aug 30, 2007
Budgets are tight in today's business environment. You may be asked to do more with less. Take a look through your equipment room. You may have several devices that work just fine, but they are not visible via your network management system (NMS).
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Asentria Corporation
Asentria within the Service Provider Ecosystem
By : Asentria Corporation Published Date: Aug 30, 2007
Organizations today depend upon their networks to increase productivity and reduce network infrastructure and maintenance costs. Accordingly, these networks must be secure and perform reliably in order to accommodate geographically dispersed users. Unplanned remote site downtime due to equipment failure or adverse environmental conditions can severely impair network service.
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Asentria Corporation
New Mobility Productivity Metrics
By : AT&T Published Date: Oct 25, 2007
To maximize investments in mobile technology, companies must be able to measure productivity gains from mobile working. Professor Marco Iansiti of the Harvard Business School and Jay Jamrog, Senior Vice President of Research with the Institute for Corporate Productivity, offer advice.
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AT&T
Business in Motion: How Mobility Will Change Your Business
By : AT&T Published Date: Oct 25, 2007
Mobile applications are transforming how companies operate. With new ways to work flexibly, employees are becoming more responsive and more productive. But enterprises have experienced only the start of what IP networks will bring to mobile working.
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AT&T
Increase Productivity and Reduce Security Risks for Teleworkers
By : Aventail Published Date: Jun 21, 2006
Learn how to adequately protect your network while expanding your remote access capabilities. Read the free white paper, 'Increase Productivity and Reduce Security Risks for Teleworkers'.
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Aventail
Streamlining Service Request Processes: A Key to Business Success
By : BMC Software Published Date: May 01, 2007
Imagine being able to give your employees the luxury of one-stop, online shopping for all the services they need.  Now, imagine that you could provide all of your service providers with a centralized location to promote available services to those employees. With service request management technology, you can.
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BMC Software
Support Virtualization: Productivity Gains from Making Remote Support Virtual
By : Bomgar Published Date: Feb 12, 2008
Support virtualization enables your support reps to be at multiple locations at once, solving support issues with unbelievable speed and effectiveness.  Over 3,500+ organizations have virtualized their support reps and have decreased IT costs while increasing support rep productivity.
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Bomgar
Major Initiative Success through Micro-Projects
By : Borland Published Date: Jun 01, 2006
Learn how you can mitigate risk and accelerate value delivery of large-scale IT initiatives. A complete Project and Portfolio Management solution allows you to approach daunting projects as a manageable portfolio of "micro-projects."
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Borland
What's Up, .DOC? ODF, OOXML, and the Revolutionary Implications of XML in Productivity Applications
By : Burton Group Published Date: Jan 11, 2008
Industry debate about the relative merits of OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Ecma 376 Office Open XML (OOXML) highlights the significance of the productivity application market shift from binary and proprietary file formats to vendor- and product-independent Extensible Markup Language (XML) models. The competitive stakes are huge, and the related political posturing is sometimes perplexing.
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Burton Group
Reducing Cost, Risk, and Errors with IT Process Automation
By : CA WA Published Date: Jul 30, 2008
Despite increasingly complex data center environments, IT is expected to provide business owners with faster service, higher reliability, and greater agility than ever before – all within a tight budget. It is impossible to meet these goals with manual IT processes. However, EMA research shows that IT Process Automation (ITPA) helps achieve these goals, delivering annual savings of $500,000 on staff costs alone, and 64 hours of additional uptime per year – plus improved resource utilization, security and compliance, problem response
times, and agility.
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CA WA
System Monitoring: Seeing is Believing for IBM System i Managers
By : CCSS Published Date: Jun 27, 2007
Capability breeds dependence. The more you can do, the more is asked of you. The more time you save, the more time you spend seeking out ways to save more time or money. If less really is more, how do you do more with less? Effective system monitoring could help you break free of the system shackles and use your System i (iSeries) network to save time and money.
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CCSS
Eliminating Unplanned Downtime and Building a Path to Profit for IBM System i Managers
By : CCSS Published Date: May 17, 2007
Is a lack of availability costing your business thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars? Assessing the true financial impact of unplanned downtime may surprise you. Placing a dollar amount on this issue is often the first step and biggest motivator to meeting your ongoing availability requirements.
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CCSS
Job Monitoring: System Informer or Sixth Sense?
By : CCSS Published Date: Oct 31, 2007
Imagine you had a friend that turned up right before something bad was going to happen and told you how to avoid it. Like if you don't attend to that looping job silently going about its business, the system in India will fall over and the downtime will cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in idle work hours. Yes, a friendly forewarning wouldn't be bad. We would suggest employing a job monitor – it's your friend on the inside.
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CCSS
Xpitax Credits Outsourcing Success to Citrix GoToMeeting Corporate
By : Citrix Online Published Date: Jun 08, 2007
Xpitax offers overburdened CPAs the ability to outsource tax preparation and other accounting functions to highly trained professionals overseas, achieving cost savings and improved efficiency. However, the actual process of outsourcing can be fraught with concerns on the part of clients.

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Citrix Online
Learn how Web Conferencing Can Help You Meet Your Marketing Goals
By : Citrix Online Published Date: Feb 02, 2007
To reach their business goals, marketing professionals must leverage new technologies. Web conferencing and collaboration tools can facilitate marketing initiatives, letting marketers meet with prospects and clients anywhere, anytime, in an Internet-based, real-time environment. The technology offers rich functionality, including file and application sharing, annotation, online chat, polls and surveys and Web co-browsing and recording, among other features.
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