Executive Briefings


Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Four Key Questions

We examine the approaches for business continuity and disaster recovery and what your data-driven enterprises can do to ensure better business continuity in the event of an outage

Data Auditing's Role in Governance and Risk Management

Corporate governance, risk management, and compliance are challenges that will determine your company’s future. Here's how data auditing can help.

Four Strategies for Communicating with Outsourcers

How to make sure you and your oursourcing provider are in sync.

Study Finds Quality Improvement Projects Have Lower Failure Rate

Sometimes the smartest thing an organization can do is pull the plug on an ailing project—regardless of how much time and money it’s invested in it

2005 Salary Survey, Part 4: IT Attitudes

While salaries are rising, angst is also up.

Dos and Don’ts of Globalized Analytics Initiatives (Part 2 of 2)

Five mistakes to avoid when moving any operations offshore

2005 Salary Survey, Part 3: The West Rebounds

There are bright spots in our salary survey, particularly in the western U.S.



Seven Habits of Highly Successful Business/IT Aligners

There are seven ground rules for aligning business strategy with IT. Flub any one of them and you can kiss your alignment aspirations goodbye.

Dos and Don’ts of Global Analytics Initiatives (Part 1 of 2)

Cost savings are only one of a host of benefits of moving operations offshore.

Regulations, Fear Driving More-Secure Code Development

To counter security threats, developers can reverse-engineer their products, or take a less expensive and more effective approach

Utility Computing: Implementation Approaches

Instead of making big-bang investments, customers can reap the benefits of utility computing in more affordable ways.

Why ERP Does Matter

Companies that consolidate their ERP stacks and implement consistent data definitions can reduce operating costs by nearly 25 percent

Next-Generation Storage: Think Virtual

With improvement in storage virtualization products’ features and reliability will the technology choices get any easier?

Q&A: The State of Endpoint Security

Organizations can derive the benefits of endpoint-security standards without the standards

An Rx for Cost Savings: Keep IT Simple, Study Shows

Companies that reduce the complexity of their IT systems can generate significant savings

Mainframe Legends Guide Virtualization, Partitioning in an "On Demand" World

Partitioning and virtualization bring the mainframe's flexibility to distributed system and serve as the building blocks to utility-based (capacity-on-demand) solutions.

You've Been Left a Legacy—Now What? (Part 2 of 2)

IT modernization projects help you deal with old application ghosts before they spook the bottom line. We offer seven best practices for controlling and managing a project

Sticking It Out on MVS

In spite of IBM’s best efforts, a lot of customers continue to run mission-critical applications on older MVS mainframes

You've Been Left a Legacy—Now What? (Part 1 of 2)

IT modernization projects help you deal with old application ghosts before they spook the bottom line. We examine project analysis and planning issues.

The New Security ROI

It's tough to determine an ROI for security investments. Looking at cost avoidance may be the way to go.