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Doug Gold, chief financial officer of CoreObjects, a Los Angeles-based product development company with multiple locations across India, talks about how his company is overcoming the challenges of visibility and control within distributed software development projects.

Do you have a software development metrics program? Does it work? SD Times, 6th Sense Analytics and Rally Software Development Corp. participate in this recorded Roundtable Discussion focused on developing a metrics program that gives you the information you need to make informed decisions regarding your software development efforts.

What sales is has not changed. How sales are accomplished is changing radically. In this first of a two-part whitepaper,  we present an overview of the state of sales today, supported by metrics from our 2007 Sales Performance Optimization survey.  The differences between S1.0 and S2.0 are represented in the comparison between old-style circus companies and  the modern circus (think Ringling Bros. vs. Cirque du Soleil).

What sales is has not changed. How sales are accomplished is changing radically. In this first of a two-part white paper,  we present an overview of the state of sales today, supported by metrics from our 2007 Sales Performance Optimization survey.  The differences between S1.0 and S2.0 are represented in the comparison between old-style circus companies and  the modern circus (think Ringling Bros. vs. Cirque du Soleil).

This report created by the Service Desk Institute and sponsored by LANDesk provides an insight into the UK IT Support Industry by examining the core of any organisation - the Service Desk. The study covers a wide range of issues from technology and metrics through to training and salaries.

Two organizations implement nearly identical employee training initiatives. Company A quickly sees improved metrics & long-term financial results. Company B sees little change – and is back to square one a year later. Why?

This report reveals how Best-in-Class firms distinguish themselves from all others by routinely benchmarking and measuring their service performance; implementing effective measuring, monitoring and tracking systems; integrating service KPIs with company-wide CRM or ERP systems, wherever possible; and establishing a formal process for automatically collecting and disseminating data.

See how plans, financial reports and scorecards can help you manage performance across all data sources.

Designed for the sales executive, this series of research briefs focuses on the advent of metrics-based sales productivity and the new approaches delivering huge dividends to forward-thinking sales organizations.

Read this white paper to learn five practical steps your company can take to achieve customer intimacy: 1. Plan your goals, methodology and metrics; 2. Capture the right customer information, including structured and unstructured data; 3. Predict customer behaviors; 4. Act on these insights with relevant, timely offers to optimize the predicted outcome; and 4. Expand successes into other areas.

While economic recovery is clearly in process, your capital and operational budgets are still extremely tight. At the same time, your maintenance organization is being pressured to take a stance of zero tolerance toward safety incidents while reducing maintenance costs and minimizing asset downtime. Read this in-depth Aberdeen Group report, based on responses from 117 executives of successful companies, to find out how best-in-class businesses are proactively managing these challenges. You'll learn these techniques for optimizing maintenance and operations-and more: creating a culture of collaboration among teams across your enterprise; empowering decision makers with appropriate, highly accurate metrics; and leveraging predictive management and analytics to manage assets throughout their life cycle.

Listen to Quantcast and WebMetro discuss the challenges in understanding the effectiveness of online display advertising and how to focus on the metrics that matter.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is helping protect organizations by building security and resiliency into the fabric of their enterprise, proactively detecting and responding to threats, and safeguarding continuity and compliance to effectively mitigate risk.

Download this resource to learn: how to get more from your employee referral and social media strategies, discover which metrics matter when tying sourcing to performance and what's missing from the traditional ATS.

Mobile is more than likely a part of your marketing mix, but chances are, you haven’t defined the metrics you need to measure its success. The Forrester paper, Make the most of analytics to meet your mobile objectives, shares insights from mobile executives and lays out the steps marketers need to take to improve mobile effectiveness.

The biggest change your technology management team must handle in executing a successful cloud strategy is prioritizing delivery against business priorities, not its own. The business wants faster time-to-market, greater agility, and more flexibility from the cloud strategy. This means setting priorities and creating metrics for previously unmeasured items.

Vindicia sheds light on the factors that affect the selection of business models, including pricing, packaging, and promotions and shares insights about how the way you bill customers can affect revenue today.

Only 52 percent of employees understand their benefits, and likely more are unaware of all the options available. Engaging with them during this process has never been more important. These five best practices can help.

Cybersecurity is an issue facing nearly every organization today—and if you aren’t taking the necessary precautions, your company, customers, and vendors could all suffer.

Does your organization have sensitive data stored across the globe? Learn how understanding the global cyber threat landscape can help evaluate the potential risks of doing business in certain nations in this report.

With this guide, you’ll never have to wonder about that again. You’ll learn: - How to nail down your presentation goals and style. - How to select metrics your board will care about. - Things to keep in mind before and after a board presentation.

The purpose of this article is to provide the performance analyst with a systematic approach to performance evaluation and point out some common mistakes that can be avoided.

Get it now and see how the usage of social streaming apps is spiking. Explore metrics to help you decide whether to go paid or organic on Facebook. Discover which regions are heating up in search engine marketing. And so much more.

Throughout the twentieth century, the efficiency of real estate portfolios was quantified primarily in terms of a building’s cost per square foot and the average number of “usable square feet” it provided for each person who worked in it. By these measures, the workplace contributed to an organization’s bottom line by (1) getting smaller and/or (2) fitting more people into the same amount of space. Meanwhile, mobile technologies and new economic and social pressures ushered in new ways of working. By 2011, more than 60 percent of large organizations worldwide had implemented programs and practices that gave people more choice about where, when, and how to do their jobs.2 But although a few new workplace metrics (“collaborative seats per person,” “desk-sharing ratios”) have emerged, the focus on reducing direct costs (through allocating fewer square feet to “assigned seats” in individual offices or workstations) remains paramount

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is helping protect organizations by building security and resiliency into the fabric of their enterprise, proactively detecting and responding to threats, and safeguarding continuity and compliance to effectively mitigate risk.