From Legacy to the New World
The Value Proposition for Converting Legacy Applications to Newer Technology

Application Lifecycle Optimization
Maximizing the Value of IT Investments

This paper introduces Application Lifecycle Optimization as a systematic approach that IT organizations can use to support changing needs while maximizing the business value of every application.

Proactive IT Delivery
Prevent problems before they disrupt your business

This morning there were 100,000 threats to your critical business systems. We resolved them before you logged in.

Applications Rationalization
Reducing the High Cost of Low-Value Applications

By proactively identifying poorly performing application assets, Applications Rationalization helps companies reduce costs and maximize the business value of their application portfolios.

One Size Does Not Fit All
Software Development Challenges and Strategies for Better-Managed Projects

In this paper, we'll discuss the complex and ever-changing discipline of software engineering and the strategies and best practices that will help mitigate the risks inherent to software development projects.

Closing the Capability Gap
Using the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

Here, we argue that to achieve long-term success, ineffectual software development processes need to be replaced with those that meet the requirements of the CMM.

From Model to Money
Using the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to Improve Financial Performance

This paper explores how the CMM can help an organization deliver solutions that meet business and market requirements in shorter time scales, reduce development costs, and plan innovative delivery capabilities while remaining cost-effective.

Outsourcing and the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
Using the CMM in Selecting Application Outsourcing Service

In this piece, we present the CMM as a highly effective tool for evaluating the merits of application outsourcing providers.

Establishing a Successful BPM Program Office
Achieving Enterprise Agility Through an Evolutionary Program Office

The success of your BPM implementation rests with a Program Office that anticipates patterns of change and enables leadership to plan ahead.

Five Myths About BPM
And How to Avoid Them

With BPM’s potential to boost business growth, this management initiative holds great potential and a few misconceptions.

SAP Installation
9 Best-Practice Guidelines for a Successful SAP Installation

This white paper provides insight into what makes for a successful SAP implementation. It also lays out 9 best-practice guidelines to prevent costly mistakes, keep your initiative on track, and reap the measurable benefits of your SAP solution.

Comprehensive Solutions, Proven Provider
Enterprise Performance Management and Governance, Risk, and Compliance Capabilities for SAP Business Users

Keane’s global EPM and GRC professionals combine expertise with experience to help clients improve financial and operational performance, support enterprise-level compliance, and effectively manage organizational risk.

Beyond Compliance
How IFRS is a Catalyst for a Faster Financial Close

SAP customers have a prime opportunity to ensure legal compliance while improving their entire financial reporting and close process. Here’s how...

SAP Upgrade
How to Ensure Smooth Sailing for Your Organization

This white paper offers a questionnaire to assess an organization’s readiness to upgrade and offers recommendations that will make the entire SAP upgrade experience a smooth one. The topics are covered independent of SAP versions.

Achieve Financial Excellence
Keane’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Services help you improve the effectiveness of your SAP systems, while complying with the latest regulatory requirements.

Enterprise Event Sensitivity
Tailoring SAP Support to the Events that Drive Your Business

Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP systems are intended to support a range of administrative and operational business processes across the organization or enterprise. Yet today, most companies view SAP support as a technical issue.

Optimize SAP Support, Accelerate Enterprise Events
You’ve invested in best-in-class applications to run your business. Now, by optimizing your application management, you can enable the success of the critical events that drive your business.

Customers vs. Banks
Bridging the Online Customer Experience Gap

Keane’s research report examines what consumers really want from their banks’ Web sites and what banks must do to retain and grow a large group of customers who want help with financial planning.

Pulling Ahead
Improving Growth with Richer Online Customer Experiences

This Keane research report shows that financial services firms have a golden opportunity to outpace their peers by building better customer interactions on the Web. But there’s no shortage of technology challenges.

Retirement Ready
The Pension Protection Act of 2006 and What Business and IT Leaders Need to Know to Help Their Customers Grow Their Nest Eggs

In this paper, we lay out the technology challenges facing business and IT leaders as they move to comply with new pension regulations and highlight the opportunities available to better serve the retiring Baby Boom generation.

Offshore IT Outsourcing
An Integral Component of High-Performance IT Organizations

This paper outlines how to select an offshore partner — what to look for, what to ask, and how to decode response — to maximize the overall performance of your IT organization.

Process Improvement Management
An Offshore Perspective on Driving Down Cost, Increasing Quality, and Reducing Risk

This paper demonstrates how leveraging the process maturity of an offshore vendor can help organizations achieve increased efficiencies and quality, sustained lower-cost, and continuously improved productivity.

Cloud Computing
Clear thinking about its risks, benefits, and success factors

Cloud computing is not just a trend. It is changing the way IT organizations drive business value.

A Balanced Approach to Offshore Outsourcing
Gain Strategic Improvements in Business Performance

In this white paper, we discuss how companies that invest in building effective approaches for global outsourcing will be rewarded with significant, quantifiable improvements in bottom-line business performance.

Going Global with Application Outsourcing
Optimizing IT Performance with the Seamless Global Delivery Model

Keane’s Seamless Global Delivery Model enables clients to benefit from significantly lower costs while ensuring high quality, low risk, and maximum flexibility.

Mission-Critical Application Management
Priority Candidate for Offshore Outsourcing

Here, we review the general characteristics of mission-critical application systems and discuss why these traits lend themselves to gaining optimal advantage by outsourcing to an offshore environment.

NPI Compliance
Strategies for Winning the Numbers Game

This white paper helps healthcare organizations plan for NPI compliance by providing them with a better understanding of the implications NPIs have on business processes and systems and the key strategies for implementing an effective NPI compliance solution.

Program Management Office (PgMO)
Driving the Success of Large-Scale, Cross-Functional Efforts

This white paper provides a detailed discussion of the Program Management Office – an organization that is responsible for managing complex programs as a whole, as well as coordinating and controlling its constituent projects.

Testing Mobile Business Applications
A Hybrid Approach

In this paper, we outline a hybrid approach to testing mobile business applications that combines manual testing with automation testing using emulators and devices.

ROI for Test Automation
A Simple, Yet Powerful Approach

This white paper outlines how test automation enables organizations to meet their objectives for fast, effective, and low-cost test execution – while achieving a high return on investment.

Beyond Testing
Adopting SQA Practices for Defect Prevention

This paper discusses how to inject defect-prevention activities into the software development process through the creative use of SQA analysts. Rotating analysts among development teams can ensure the consistent adherence to quality initiatives.

Constructing a Dream House or Digging a Money Pit
Keane's Agile Testing Practice

This paper addresses how agile testing can make a difference in your software development projects.

Meet the New Tester
Laying the Foundation for Preventative Testing Practices

This paper discusses the merits of conducting structured testing during the software development phase and provides a plan for achieving this goal with the help of a new type of tester.

An Ounce of Prevention
The Importance of Testing

This paper outlines the importance of software testing, discusses its challenges, proposes a model for success, and recommends an approach for selecting a testing partner.