InformationWeek Analytics Research

Mainframes and Virtualization: 5 Questions to Ask About Unification

The InformationWeek Analytics Informed CIO series arms business technology chiefs with the questions they must ask before dropping big bucks. Here, we examine what part today’s mainframes—and the IT professionals who manage them—play in developing an enterprisewide unified virtualization strategy.

APM: 10 Questions to Ask Before Buying

Trying to pin down the real ROI for new monitoring and management tools? Our InformationWeek Analytics Informed CIO reports arm business technology chiefs with the questions they must ask before dropping big bucks. Second in the series: APM. Is deployment complexity commensurate with business value?

Data Center Automation: 10 Questions to Ask Before Proceeding

Our InformationWeek Analytics Informed CIO series arms business technology chiefs with the questions they must ask before dropping big bucks. In this installment, we examine what part data center automation can play in helping IT do more with less.

Service Assurance Initiatives: 10 Steps to Achieve Excellence

Delivering world-class IT is the goal of any service assurance program, but can it be done without breaking the bank—or employees’ backs? In this installment, we lay out 10 questions that will guide IT groups to highly effective and efficient support of business priorities.

Identity Management: 10 Questions to Ask

Enterprises want to partner securely across industry and national borders. That means it’s not a matter of if you’ll launch an identity management program, but when. Here, we discuss how identity management can deliver cost savings, tighter security and smoother audits. But there are risks, too.

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Two Tribes, One Future: Bringing Mainframes into the IT Mainstream

The 831 respondents to our InformationWeek Analytics Mainframes survey confirm that too many enterprises are running parallel IT operations, with big iron and distributed groups barely crossing paths, let alone sharing expertise. CIOs need to get this schism under control, and soon.

Perception is Reality: Why IT Must Own Application Performance

Slow response times cost money and burn customer goodwill. In this InformationWeek Analytics report we discuss how to make a case for comprehensive APM and select the right  architecture while analyzing our survey of 320 business technology professionals.

Data Center, Heal Thyself: Why Automation is Good for IT

Untethering staff from manual chores doesn’t just reduce the chance of errors. CIOs can also maximize virtualization and deliver more reliable, nimble and auditable business services, say respondents to our InformationWeek Analytics report.

Customer Service 2.0: Service Assurance

Your service assurance program must meld innovative tools and techniques to ensure the business gets the most bang from every IT buck spent. The nearly 500 respondents to our InformationWeek Analytics Service Assurance survey help show how.

A Matter of Trust: Process, Progress in Identity Management

Federated IdM can lay the groundwork for collaboration among employees, customers and partners. Maybe that’s why 76% of the 376 business technology professionals we surveyed for this InformationWeek Analytics report say IdM technologies are deployed in their organizations.