IT as a "Secret Weapon": Growing the Business with Proactive Application Performance Management
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Fast-Track your Application Transformation with Application Lifecycle Management Software-as-a-Service
- Julie Craig, Research Director, EMA
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- Wednesday 4/6 @ 8 am Pacific / 11 am Eastern / 4 pm Western European Summer Time (London, GMT+01:00)

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- May 8 - 12

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Software Asset Management—Assessing the Market Landscape

by Lisa Erickson-Harris, Research Director

Executive interest in Software Asset Management (SAM) is growing for good reason. The corporate benefit is significant in terms of control and cost savings when a solid SAM solution and a process for managing software assets are put in place: IT is in control, prepared and in a position to substantially cut costs; corporate executives are happy; IT gains credibility for managing its operation as a business.

There are two basic drivers that Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) hears over and over again when it comes to SAM. They are very much intertwined. The first is to reduce costs for software license and maintenance fees. Equally important is the ability to ensure preparedness for an audit with the goal of improved vendor relations and avoidance of costly fines. Both drivers tie directly to the company's bottom-line.

> Read the full article, Software Asset Management—Assessing the Market Landscape

Single Sign-On for the Cloud and Beyond: How Comprehensive Is Your Strategy?

Join EMA Managing Research Director Scott Crawford and Citrix Principal Product Manager Raghu Nandan for an informative on-demand Webinar to learn how to build a single sign-on strategy for the Cloud and beyond.

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TDWI World Conference - Washington, D.C.
April 3–8, 2011

The TDWI Washington, D.C. Conference covers a wide range of business intelligence (BI)/data warehousing courses focused on BI essentials, business analytics/performance management, data modeling, and data management.

Business Intelligence & IT Management Blogs from EMA Thought Leaders

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Dan Twing's Managing Products and Clouds	IT Budgets Are Back! Gideon Gartner Says Today He Would Use a Spider Instead of a Magic Quadrant
Dennis Drogseth's IT Megatrends: BSM, CMS, Automation	What is Service-centric Asset Management and Why Should you Care?
Julie Craig's Application Management: A View from the Flatiron	IBM Pulse 2011: Building Assets for Today's Cross-Domain Application Support Scenarios Watson: A Long Way from Hello World
Jim Frey's Network Management Manna	WAN Optimization: Tactical or Strategic? Network Management Dusted by Cloud, Virtualization?
Shawn Rogers' Business Intelligence Brief	Teradata to Acquire Aster Data Systems Now That's a Groupon Coupon! SAP Rolls Out Version 4 for Business Intelligence and EIM Top 10 Twitter Posts from #TDWI Las Vegas
Scott Crawford's RiskRecon: Navigating Security and Risk	RSA SecurID Breach: The Arguments for and against Soonest Disclosure RSA SecurID Breach Update: (Some) Additional Info Provided to Customers RSA Breach of SecurID Information: Initial Take RSA, IBM Watson, and the Future of Smart Security

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