CompuCom Systems Offers Strategic IT Advice to Help Companies Weather the Current Economic Slowdown.New White Paper Outlines Seven Strategies to Focus on in 2008 and Beyond DALLAS -- CompuCom Systems, Inc., a leading IT outsourcing company, today announced the availability of a specially prepared white paper designed to help corporate IT departments avoid the impact of what economic analysts are calling a slowdown at best, and recession at worst. The paper, entitled "Seven IT Strategies to Help Survive the Downturn", is available as a free download at: http://www.compucom.com/company/whitepaper/register.aspx. As a pre-emptive pre·emp·tive or pre-emp·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of preemption. 2. Having or granted by the right of preemption. 3. a. step to growing economic concerns, the publication clearly identifies seven specific steps to help Chief Information Officers (CIOs) as well as IT and business professionals get more done with less, while maintaining quality, productivity, and security, and while preserving longer-term strategic IT initiatives, so critical to future success. "The cyclical nature of our economy has made the reality of slowdowns and downturns part of the business landscape," said John McKenna John McKenna (1855 – March 1936) was an Irish self-made businessman and former rugby player, who was the first manager of Liverpool. He was a friend of John Houlding and remained with him after Everton left Anfield for Goodison Park. , Chief Strategy and Services Officer at CompuCom and author of the newly published white paper. "IT services are so deeply integrated in business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets today, CIOs as well as IT and business leaders can not only use a slowdown as an opportunity to drive greater value, squeeze extra costs out of processes, and add to the bottom line, but also protect the future performance of the IT infrastructure. The CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. is no longer just 'the person who runs IT.' They have incredible business responsibilities and are now looked to for guidance in tough economic times," added McKenna. CompuCom has taken a very aggressive role in arming corporate IT groups with specialized solutions in this tightening economy. In addition to this white paper, the company is also partnering with industry leaders, including Forrester Research, Aberdeen Research and other experts, to conduct a series of highly selective Webinars focusing on the topics of productivity, efficiency and quality during difficult economic cycles. CompuCom will be conducting the next Webinar on April 22, 1:00 CDT CDT abbr. Central Daylight Time CDT Central Daylight Time CDT n abbr (US) (= Central Daylight Time) → hora de verano del centro; (BRIT - Achieving Service Excellence thru Quality Initiatives. Participants include - Aberdeen Research Senior Vice President of Technology Research, Ralph Rodriguez along with Thomas Vetterani, Vice President of Market Quality and Offering Development at CompuCom, to discuss solutions and frameworks for delivering value across the organization while providing cost advantages and most of all, quality. Attendees will hear how to leverage best practices in IT Service Management (ITSM ITSM Information Technology Service Management ITSM Information Technology Security Manager ITSM Indirect Tensile Stiffness Modulus ITSM Information Technology System Management ITSM Ibm Tivoli Storage Manager ITSM It Service Management ), ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). and ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 20000 to eliminate siloed processes, duplication of efforts and inefficiencies to lower costs while enhancing service quality. http://info.compucom.com/content/ April22WebcastRegistrationwithSpeakers (Due to its length, this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) Future topics in the series will include how to drive greater business value from Integrated Infrastructure Management (IIM IIM Indian Institute of Management (main Management Institutes of India) IIM Individual Indian Money (US Department of Interior) IIM Industrial Information Management ), Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM), Unified Communications (UC), Server Consolidation and Virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. and other timely subjects. About CompuCom Systems, Inc. CompuCom is a leading IT outsourcing company providing infrastructure management services, application services, systems integration and consulting services, as well as the procurement and management of hardware and software. With 20 years of IT experience, CompuCom employs more than 7,800 highly skilled associates who have earned a combined total of more than 44,000 industry certifications company-wide. As experts in workplace services, CompuCom's unique Integrated Infrastructure Management (IIM) solution reduces costs, increases productivity and helps clients gain maximum value from information. For more information, visit www.CompuCom.com. |
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