Getting Consensus on Business Requirements: Tips and Traps

Today's featured topics: Biz Requirements, Analytics, Endpoint Management, Oracle Upgrades, and Job Scheduling

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Getting Consensus on Business Requirements: Tips and Traps
Before your company launches its next package selection, implementation or upgrade, make sure you don't cripple the project from the start by failing to identify your requirements - the number one reason that projects spin out of control. This white paper summarizes some of the key lessons we have learned through our industry-leading requirements definition practice.

The Five Layers of CIA (Customer Intelligence Appliance)
For executives and analysts, who are dissatisfied with siloed, black-box, inflexible CRM and analytics solutions, the Customer Intelligence Appliance (CIA) is an appliance-based solution that provides an integrated multi-channel view of customers, best practice reporting, and customer behavior segmentation and analytics accelerators.

Minimizing Cost of Managing Microsoft Endpoints
One of the greatest challenges to enforcing IT security and compliance lies at the endpoints, especially within Microsoft infrastructures. Learn how agentless technology has become mandatory in seeing, analyzing, and fixing Windows endpoint issues.

Oracle EBS Upgrade Report 2012
Upgrades can be major undertakings for companies that rely on enterprise software to run their business. Not only is the upgrade project intensive on resources, it is also a source of risk. Any system errors introduced during the upgrade progress could be severely disruptive to operations. This benchmark survey was conducted to help companies that are planning an Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) upgrade validate their planning assumptions.

Tips to Adopt an Enterprise Scheduling Strategy
The mix of multiple scheduling tools, combined with increased volume and complexity of batch jobs, is overwhelming help desks, extending resolution times, endangering SLAs, and increasing the cost of batch processing. Learn the proven best practices of thousands of other organizations and plan for a simplified conversion process.

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[TechRepublic] Attacked by Anonymous: How to defend against a DoS

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