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Workload Automation – From Application Development to Digital Service Delivery

This paper, "Workload Automation – From Application Development to Digital Service Delivery," describes how a workload automation solution can eliminate the manual processes developers now use to define batch workflows and communicate them to schedulers. By extending the use of workload automation to developers, organizations can implement applications faster, slash costs, and increase service quality.

Integrating Big Data into Business Processes and Enterprise Systems

In the paper, “Integrate Big Data into Your Business Processes and Enterprise Systems” you’ll learn how to drive maximum value with an enterprise approach to Big Data. Topics discussed include:

• How to ensure that your Big Data projects will drive clearly defined business value
• The operational challenges each Big Data initiative must address
• The importance of using an enterprise approach for Hadoop batch processing

Workload Automation: Accelerating Digital Services Delivery

Now, application developers and IT operations can streamline the development and management of batch services. They’ll no longer have to deal with manual processes for defining batch jobs and workflows, or traverse multiple, disparate scheduling tools. How? With the right workload automation.

Download this white paper to learn how a well-architected workload automation solution can help you:

• Shrink application development time and cost
• Deliver higher quality digital services
• Increase IT’s agility to meet the demands of the business

Why Big Data is a Big Deal

Learn how BMC Control-M for for Hadoop allows IT to extract value from big data, with clear visibility, predictability and increased productivity and efficiency.

Meeting the Exploding Demand for New IT Services

The last five years have fundamentally changed the way people interact with technology, leaving IT in a reactive mode. As business customers have rushed to “consumerized” services and experiences, IT is beginning to redefine its approach to offering IT services. In this eBook, explore the top trends driving the New IT for IT Service Management, and how leading organizations are evolving to focus on end-user experience.

IBM Worklight compared to “do-it-yourself” mobile platforms

IBM Worklight is a mobile application development platform that lets you extend your business to mobile devices. It is designed to provide an open, comprehensive platform to build, run and manage HTML5, hybrid and native mobile apps.

Forrester Research: The total economic impact of IBM Integration Bus

As part of an overall IT transformation, a company evaluated two products to potentially provide integration and messaging capabilities: an open source ESB and IBM Integration Bus.

Lustratus Research: Choosing between WebSphere and Jboss

Topdanmark, a major European insurance company, documents its decision process for software destined to support production applications and operations.

The Total Economic Impact of IBM’s Worklight Mobile Application Platform

How much can organizations expect to save by investing in a mobile application platform? IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying Worklight. Using an established methodology and based upon actual customer experiences, this report breaks down the economics of the Worklight mobile application platform and the key factors that informed Forrester’s conclusion of a 363% Five-Year ROI.

A Mobile Application Development Primer

This white paper focuses on a comprehensive approach for the development of mobile business applications. The technique described combines best practices for collaborative software lifecycle management with newer requirements unique to the creation of mobile applications. It is intended to provide value for all of the roles involved in mobile enterprise business application development projects.

Mobile App Platform Technology Overview: IBM Worklight

IBM Worklight software can enable organizations to extend their business through HTML5, hybrid and native applications ("apps") for a variety mobile devices. IBM Worklight supports the entire application lifecycle from development, back-end integration and authentication, to post-deployment management.

Clabby Analyst Report: Workload Automation with Cloud

Running workloads in a cloud environment presents new challenges. How to manage applications that span the virtual and physical; the public cloud and the private cloud; and the mainframe and distributed systems. In this context, job scheduling is becoming a more dynamic discipline, combining advanced automation with new workload types and cloud delivery models. In this Clabby Research whitepaper, learn how using Workload Automation can help ensure cloud success.

Optimize workloads to achieve success with cloud and big data

IBM SmartCloud Workload Automation is a sophisticated, cloud-enabled solution that unifies disparate applications and business processes to help organizations achieve superior efficiency and availability while leveraging the flexibility and scalability of cloud computing.

The Business Context of of Aligning IT with the Organization

This paper provides a general business overview for organizations that are seeking advice on how to align IT within the organization. In a dynamic and globalized economy, where IT has its own agenda, interesting business and marketplace factors have emerged thanks to C-level studies, unraveling how both CIOs and CEOs are now targeting similar objectives. Never before have organizations found themselves in a more instrumented, integrated, and intelligent world as today, where challenges must have extraordinary solutions.

Managing Enterprise Assets and IT Assets in a Converged World

This analyst report provides guidelines for how to plan an effective Enterprise Asset Management strategy, including maturity levels, processes, and technologies in context of IT Asset Management advances. The paper was developed by Enterprise Management Associates - an IT Analyst firm.