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  The Changing Face of Asset Management: Merging Asset, Service, and Financial Management
Research - Published : June 2008
Asset management is a long-standing IT discipline with specific functions focused on tracking IT assets, their characteristics, and location ...


IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Management in the Real World
Research - Published : May 2008
In recent months, IT GRC has emerged as a unifying theme aligning the management of IT, IT risk and regulatory compliance with the prioritie ...


EMA Advisory Note: Uncovering Causes and Solutions for Human Issues in Large Enterprise Data Centers
Research - Published : May 2008
In March 2008, Enterprise Management Associates conducted in-depth research into the top human issues in the operation and management of lar ...


Virtualization and Management: Trends, Forecasts, and Recommendations
Research - Published : April 2008
This EMA Research Report into virtualization is without doubt the most important and most extensive primary research into virtualization to ...


Managing Applications in 2008: What Does “End-to-End“ Really Mean?
Products & Solutions - Published : April 2008
Many enterprise management vendors market “end-to-end“ application management solutions. However, each vendor’s definition of “end-to-end“ i ...


The SLM and BSM Market Forecast for 2008 to 2012
Research - Published : March 2008
EMA’s research shows that the markets for both service level management (SLM) and business service management (BSM) continue to grow. The ma ...


Defining Value for CMDB Systems – Some Internal and External Metrics to Help You Get Started
Industry Perspective - Published : March 2008
This report, developed in conjunction with EMA’s IT Consulting wing, provides an initial set of recommendations for tackling the thorny chal ...


The EMA™ All-Stars™ in Enterprise Systems Management for 2008
Marketplace Assessment - Published : January 2008
Many sports share the concept of an ‘All-Star’ team – the best performers of the year, selected by fans and/or coaches. This EMA Research Re ...


Autonomic Computing, 2007: A Vendor Perspective
Research - Published : January 2008
In Quarter 1, 2007, EMA published a research paper entitled “Is the Industry Ready for Autonomic Computing.” This paper, the first of its ty ...


EMA Advisory Note: Overcoming Fear and Loathing in CMDB Land – Don’t be Fooled by Industry FUD
Industry Perspective - Published : December 2007
The rise of “Configuration Management Database” (CMDB) systems has caught most of the industry off guard. Needless to say, then, the trend t ...


Data Center Automation: Delivering Fast, Efficient, and Reliable IT Services – An EMA Research Report
Research - Published : October 2007
In October 2007, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) conducted the most extensive primary research undertaken to date into Data Center Au ...


SOA and the Network
Products & Solutions - Published : October 2007
This report takes a look at industry trends and projected requirements to manage SOAs across the network. As SOAs move from the data center ...


Role of Tools in Infrastructure Outsourcing Joint Research: Enterprise Management Associates and the Everest Research Institute
Research - Published : October 2007
Historically, initiatives to deploy new tools have not reconciled existing tools and resulted in a diverse and complex tool set. As Remote I ...


SLM Acceptance 2007
Research - Published : September 2007
In March 2007, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) conducted a web survey of vendors and users about their experiences and perspectives r ...


Governance, Risk, Compliance and Beyond: The Emergence of Strategic IT Risk Management
Research - Published : August 2007
Today’s enterprise faces a daunting range of IT risks, from security, business malfeasance and insider threats, to those facing business-cri ...


Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) Adoption Report
Marketplace Adoption Report - Published : August 2007
Network Configuration and Change Management (NCCM) Adoption Report contains industry information elicited by EMA from pre-qualified user com ...


SOA Governance in the Enterprise
Research - Published : July 2007
2006 was a turning point for SOA, the year when the hype became reality. Multiple companies brought SOA to production, but reported that the ...


Winning Strategies in CMDB Adoption: What’s Working in the Real-World and What Isn’t and Why (Subscriber Version)
Research - Published : July 2007
Winning Strategies for CMDB Adoption” looks at critical strategies for success and failure in CMDB System adoption among U.S. and global ado ...


The Rise of Application Security
Research - Published : March 2007
In recent months, application security risks have captured increasing attention—and headlines. Threats now include crime and fraud specifica ...


Enterprise Content Management: Toward A New Content Paradigm
Research - Published : January 2007
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a rapidly evolving field that enables a business to create, acquire, store, index, deliver, and delet ...


Is The Industry Ready For Autonomic Computing?
Industry Perspective - Published : January 2007
The term “autonomic computing” is derived from the body’s autonomic nervous system, which regulates activities such as heartbeat, blood pres ...


Managing Application Performance over the Network:
An Assessment of IT Issues and Priorities

Research - Published : November 2006
Managing application performance over the network is becoming more and more relevant, more critical and more complex. Moreover, it is becomi ...


EMA’s Analytics Roadmap
Research - Published : November 2006
Analytics, as EMA defines the term, includes real-time and near real-time capabilities for correlation and anomaly detection, just as it inc ...


The Security of Information: A Strategic Approach to Current Topics and Trends
Research - Published : September 2006
The security of sensitive information has become a top priority. Privacy breaches, insider threats, and the exploitation of information asse ...


SOA: A View from the Trenches
Research - Published : August 2006
This paper is the third and final paper in EMA’s 2006 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) series. It offers a point-in-time perspective on h ...


Asset Management: From Niche to Keystone in Enterprise Management
Research - Published : August 2006
This report is designed to support IT planners seeking to invest in asset management with an eye to a more integrated support system for “ru ...


Virtualization: Exposing the Intangible Enterprise
Industry Perspective - Published : August 2006
Virtualization -- the technique of managing systems and resources functionally, regardless of their physical layout or location -- is of gro ...


CMDB Adoption In The Real World: Just How Real Is It? (Subscriber Version)
Research - Published : June 2006
EMA has just completed the most in-depth analysis of CMDB adoptions, within the U.S. and worldwide, available in the marketplace today. This ...


 
 
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