2009 handbook of app delivery: From automation to WOC

2009 Handbook of App Delivery: From Automation to WOC Over the last few years application delivery has become a priority for virtually all IT organizations. However, while many IT organizations have become better at application delivery, the majority of IT organizations struggle with this highly complex task. One of the key challenges associated with ensuring acceptable application delivery is that in the vast majority of instances it is the end user, and not the IT organization, that first notices application degradation. This handbook attempts to close some of the holes inherent in many organizations' application delivery environments.   Consolidation & Automation: Solving the IT Budget Puzzle During a recession, a CFO needs to improve the bottom line immediately -- not a year or two in the future. For IT departments, this is generally done by cost-cutting in the form of decreased spend/lower budget allocation, service/contractor/consultant cancellations, and/or a reduction in force. By consolidating resources and automating processes, IT organizations can now make better use of their tightened budgets, fewer staff and increased demands to continually improve services.   How to Reduce IT Complexity with CEP Complex event processing is a technique for extracting business value from event data. Businesses face demands to move at increasing speeds and depend on information technology to help keep pace. Watch this recorded video in which featured speaker Roy Schulte of Gartner and Dr. John Bates of Progress Apama discuss complex event processing (CEP), its role in IT architectures, and what it can do for your organization.   Can You Afford a Multi-Billion-Dollar Compliance Problem? If there were no cost to ensuring compliance with retailers' rules then preventable deductions would have been virtually eliminated long ago. That is clearly not the case. Suppliers incur costs to comply with the retailers' rules and retailers incur costs to monitor the suppliers' compliance. Regardless of how high the cost of compliance may be, the cost of non-compliance dwarfs it. Again, these costs plague both the supplier and the retailer. The supply chain is a two-way street. A solution to the costly compliance problem requires a mutual effort that involves all supply chain partners.   6 Reasons Why Remote Workers Make Businesses More Agile Cutting costs, sometimes even cutting pay, has become a necessary reality for a large number of businesses in the past few years. At the same time, businesses are under increasing pressure to deliver on new, innovative products, and to do so quickly. Under old business thinking, quick and cheap did not go together, but those days have long since gone by the wayside. Remote workers allow businesses to have both, as well as making the business more agile. Here's how.   Beyond E-mail: How Mobile Apps Can Help Enterprise Efficiency As mobile technology and customer adoption of such technology continue to move forward, it is critical today for businesses to recognize the importance of mobility as a strategic investment and a mobile enterprise platform as the core of their strategy to deploy applications to a growing set of users. Mobility is complex -- multiple backend systems, some legacy, some newly deployed, and a tremendous collection of mobile devices with an increasing number of mobile operating systems. But such complexity also has function: allowing mobile and remote access to applications that can improve enterprise productivity. eNewsletter Information: You are receiving this e-mail because you are a loyal subscriber to the Web Buyer's Guide Member Update with the e-mail address ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. If you no longer wish to receive Web Buyer's Guide Member Update, unsubscribe here. Copyright © 2009 Ziff Davis Enterprise. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Enterprise, 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016 Privacy Policy