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Papers by Topic: Best Practices

The Changing Playing Field of Business Intelligence: A Playbook for CFOs - June 2010

Best Practices Approach to SOA Testing - Many companies only do SOA testing at primitive levels, not testing the different components or services in SOA that must integrate. This insufficient, piecemeal approach to testing can create the risk of costly problems in SOA deployment. This paper describes Wipro's SOA testing solution that holistically addresses all of the challenges that companies currently encounter in SOA testing. - April 2009

Converging on the Future: Viewpoint - Competitors are collaborating in a new outsourcing business model to accelerate transformational change across their industries while improving their business performance and reducing risk. Read what Unisys has to say. - April 2005

Enterprise Applications: The Cost of Keeping Current...Or Not - This Analyst Insight investigates the effort associated with major and minor upgrades, as well as the cost of not keeping current. It explores the value added to the business and identifies alternative delivery models to traditional on-premise, self mainte... - May 2009

Enterprise Email Security: The Strategic Case for Outsourcing - Infocrossing executive briefing. Clearly, for the majority of today's companies, email has become the most essential, most widely used, and most vulnerable strategic business tool. Senior management must rethink its strategy for assuring email security and... - January 2006

Evolution vs. Revolution: business transformation without the resistance - An outsourcing relationship's success is no longer measured simply in terms of reduced costs. Outsourcing must also deliver operational and business improvements that create opportunity for the client. Read this paper by ACS. - September 2005

Guidelines For IT Management: Planning for Offshore Outsourcing - The appeal of offshore outsourcing will continue to grow for the forseeable future. Read this informative paper by Patni for a hands-on approach to planning and implementing an offshoring strategy. - January 2005

How Organizations can Elevate Business Performance through Advanced Document Process Management - 90% of executives surveyed agree that managing documents throughout their lifecycle improves business performance, yet only 12% say they are effective at it. Download the survey report today and improve business performance. - September 2008

HRO Innovation: Building Blocks to Derive Full Value - Taking human resources outsourcing beyond lip service to the adoption of best practices and better use of technology. BusinessWeek Research Services' exclusive 2008 report. - April 2008

Impact of Web 2.0 on Outsourcing - Adoption of Web 2.0 principles and practices will have a snowballing effect on partnering relationships, such as outsourcing. The move toward greater facilitation of collaboration and the increasing globalization of delivery of services will bring about si... - February 2008

Improving Merger Success through Outsourcing - With many business mergers failing, corporations should look at why and how they acquire and merge in order to engage in transactions that generate business value. - July 2007

Leveraging Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL^®) Best Practices to Attain Organizational Maturity - In order to be competitive today, companies must actively listen to their customers and innovate quickly in response to new challenges, customer needs, and business opportunities. This paper discusses how to achieve a higher level of organizational maturit... - March 2008

Operational excellence: The new force driving high performance through outsourcing - This paper discusses how operational excellence is essential to driving greater business value through outsourcing. - November 2007

Outsourcing for Business Growth - It's no longer a quetion of whether to outsource, but how. This paper shows how to better manage strategic outsourcing partnerships to mitigate potential business risks; determine the right global delivery mix while optimizing your outsourcing workforce an... - August 2007

The Power of Partnering in Accomplishing Your Green IT Agenda - There's a two-sided dilemma in achieving corporate green IT agenda items: the cost of not becoming green is high, and the cost of becoming green is also high. This paper discusses a solution for eliminating this dilemma and also reducing risk in implementi... - July 2008

The Rise of Progressive Sourcing - Identify which IT and technology-intensive business processes you should insource, and which should be outsourced. Align your sourcing strategy and management practices to boost productivity and business performance without increasing costs. - January 2007

Trend Report: Key Challenges in Implementing an Enterprise Master Data Management Program - Managing master data is becoming a priority with organizations focusing on implementing a Master Data Management (MDM) program on an enterprise-wide level. Many organizations encounter significant challenges in implementing MDM programs. This paper discuss... - January 2007

With OTC, the Sum is Greater than the Parts - Outsourcing end-to-end Order-to-Cash may deliver greater value than outsourcing specific functions. Because of the impact that OTC has on an organization's competitive position, outsourcing is more than a cost play: it can be a strategic advantage. - April 2009

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