White Papers: IT

Younger people may be driving increased use of collaborative working and social networking in the enterprise, but the benefits can be felt by everyone. To make it happen, organisations need to adopt a ‘people first’ approach.

This IDC Vendor Spotlight analyses emerging trends related to business drivers and technology evolution of enterprise collaboration and communication in Australia. The study takes a look at the business and organisational challenges facing C-suite executives, including the CIO and other IT decision makers, and the potential for tapping these trends for considerable positive gain. We also discuss the role of the portfolio of solutions offered by the partnership between Cisco, Alphawest and Optus in this market segment.

By discovering the challenges covered in this paper, you can help ensure that your SharePoint environment will be healthier and more stable, and over time provide a better collaborative platform and toolset to the user community. And the resulting well managed SharePoint environment will be easier to modify or extend to meet ever-evolving requests and requirements of your users. In addition to providing best practices and lessons learned about what it takes to effectively manage a SharePoint 2010 environment, this paper also provides information on Quest Software solutions that can help with SharePoint management and administration challenges.

Like a civil engineering endeavor or sizable construction project, implementing an enterprise-wide application like an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to help run your business is a costly and complex process. And just as would be the case with any significant undertaking, success is not a given. A certain amount of planning, discipline and wisdom are required to complete implementation in a timely manner and to make sure that the new enterprise system put into place meets the requirements of your business.

Cloud computing is a disruptive transformation for IT. Public cloud offerings allow the business to directly access external services, creating security holes and quality blind spots while potentially eroding enterprise IT’s perceived value. To become internally agile and efficient, IT must go beyond just virtualizing servers to provide elastic, on-demand private cloud services. At the same time, IT needs to transform itself into the master of a dynamic service supply chain, driving smart sourcing decisions and orchestrating how internal, external, virtual, and traditional resources work together to optimize business value.