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ROI or DOA? ERP Deployment Without Workload Management Can Kill the Project

By identifying the need for healthy workload management while in the early stages of enterprise resource planning, corporations can determine their return on investment for migrating to an ERP system.

Fat Clients Get Thinner: Modernize Your Host Access Solution

Organizations look to use the Internet to become more competitive and significantly reduce costs. Web-to-host solutions help modernize the host access method today and provide a framework that allows existing host applications to be a foundation to meet strategic business objectives.

Batch to the Future

Don’t get ready to say “bon voyage!” to batch just yet. For many large companies, the big problem remains of how to deal with a decreasing “batch window,” while the MIPS dedicated to batch is increasing at an alarming rate and leading to batch overrun.

The Internet Meets the Mainframe: Management of 21st Century Mainframe-Centric Networks

At a time when data centers can’t afford the time to manage and maximize a new environment where TCP/IP networks are integrated with standard enterprise-server functionality, companies must determine the network’s current needs as well as future growth, then select a management tool to aid during migration.