Gartner Research Note "Boost SharePoint Performance with an Application Delivery Network" helps you understand how to centralize SharePoint and optimize performance while dramatically lowering costs. Get insights on how to effectively use an Application Delivery Controller and WAN Optimization technology in your infrastructure.

Whatever the economic climate, efficient and effective management of an organisation's assets is a vital part of good business planning. Inside this book, you'll find a straightforward, jargon-free look at the way Enterprise Asset Management is changing the world of business, and in particular of manufacturing. Covering the revolution on the manufacturing plant floor, the benefits of a single software platform, the green implications of asset management, and more, this engaging book could serve as a primer for your less tech-savvy colleagues.

By providing visibility, control and automation of your IT environment, integrated service availability and performance solutions from IBM position you to manage your services optimally. With targeted business and operational dashboards, you can clearly see the health of your service infrastructure. And through automated analysis, links to critical processes and the right reports to address changing business demands, IBM service availability and performance solutions help improve service control. With the added benefit of automation, you can help increase operational efficiency and reliability across the full service life cycle and improve the customer experience. Download this white paper to learn more about IBM's solutions for service availability and performance.

To help IT organizations "do more with less" through process automation, IBM has built a common process automation engine. Enabling seamless integration and scalability, this engine provides the ability to: combine asset management and service management in one environment; deliver highly configurable user interfaces, workflow activities and tasks, and data model extensibility; support upgradeability and ease of configuration through simple configuration tools for fast, on-the-fly customizations.; and more.

How can you improve your IT infrastructure and make your business more dynamic, breaking the ties to vertical pillars that are matched to line-of business solutions? Download this white paper to find out more about a well-established, successful approach: disengage the links between pieces of the IT infrastructure so that they can be viewed, accessed and used based on the functions they provide rather than the functions that they serve or the reasons they were deployed. The key assets in the IT infrastructure are then callable services rather than deployed applications, addressing a key problem with IT: the complexity caused by too many interfaces and interactions in application programs.

Viewing SOA value strictly from an application perspective is leading many organizations to overlook the significant, measurable benefits a reusable SOA infrastructure can contribute to the bottom line. In this white paper, you will see how organizations in many different industries have invested in an SOA design approach, leveraged an SOA infrastructure-and uncovered unique business value.

IBM WebSphere provides tremendous opportunity for IT managers and enterprise architects to maximize the ROI in their SOA implementations and drive smarter business outcomes. Underlying the opportunity are risks and issues that when appropriately addressed drive the ROI. This portal will take you through four business case studies and success stories in a variety of industries.

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