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Best practices are techniques, methods, processes, activities or approaches that are more efficient and effective ways of accomplishing necessary tasks.

Best practices for IT include processes, checks and testing that have been proven to produce universally desired operational and business. There is a wealth of industry research and case studies available online and from hardcopy sources that can contribute to a comprehensive resource database of IT management best practices.

Check the Best Practice Resource Center for up-to-the-minute information on the processes, procedures and products that proven to deliver the most successful outcomes for IT departments around the world.

 
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Agile Development Brings IT, Business Together

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

I write a lot about the general importance of improving communications between IT and the business and the havoc that poor communication between the two camps can ...

Online Communities: Customers Just Not That into Them

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

Just like those personal relationships gone bad, where you weren't committed enough or sensitive enough, companies are coming up short in their flirtations with Web 2.0. A ...

GE Nails the Internal Social Network

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

I recently interviewed Kyle Arteaga, Serena Software's VP of corporate communications, about his company's use of ...

Forrester Survey: Web 2.0 Tools Gain Growing Favor with IT

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

Back in November, I wrote about a Forrester Research study that made much of the fact a quarter of non-IT executives said they

Can B2B Blogs Be Businesslike Without Being Boring?

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

Back in December, I asked the question: Can SMBs benefit from blogging? A recently published study ...

Cyber Security Awareness Rising in Academia

Source: IT Business Edge

Companies Want to Keep Customer Service Closer to Home

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

Last July I wrote about the decision of several U.K. companies to promote the fact that they only used local ...

Anti-Spam Group Outlines Best Practices for ISPs

Source: PCWorld.com

The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group has released a set of guidelines to help ISPs reduce the amount of spam coming from botnets. The group suggests that ISPs separate the ...

Retrofitting Your Way to a Greener Data Center

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

Companies don't have to start from the ground up to make their data centers more environmentally ...

Integration Competency Centers and SOA Not a Good Fit

Source: Todd Biske: Outside the Box

Blogger Todd Biske feels an integration competency center could hurt a SOA effort. Biske says SOA initiatives should be consumer focused, and having an ICC shifts integration to ...

 
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