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March 01, 2008 - (Free Research) In today's fast-paced, highly competitive world, change is inevitable. This white paper addresses five of the most important change management challenges that CIOs have to meet and how organizations can turn these challenges into a business advantage.
March 31, 2009 - (Free Research) The CDRH (Center for Devices and Radiological Health) is in the process of updating their standards and suggested practices. They are going to be more strict with medical device developers. The purpose of this paper is to present the medical device developer guidelines for complying with the "suggestions" of the CDRH.
October 23, 2009 - (Free Research) Tune in to this webcast – featuring insights from Dan Vesset, IDC's Vice President of Business Analytics – and learn how business analytics drives customer retention.
August 11, 2009 - (Free Research) The IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force® research and development team discovers, analyzes, monitors and records computer security threats and vulnerabilities. According to X-Force observations, many new and surprising trends surfaced throughout the first half of 2009. Read this report to learn more.
January 15, 2009 - (Free Research) Coupling NetApp’s SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort’s BEX software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business.
September 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Never has operational responsiveness, the pursuit of how continually and quickly to deliver maximum value to customers while deriving maximum profitability, been nearer the top of the business agenda. As this paper will demonstrate, harnessing business events, smart interpretation & fast response are definite objectives, and the need is immediate.
September 30, 2009 - (Free Research) This webcast explores the benefits and drawbacks of buying business intelligence (BI) solutions from enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, and shares survey results that reveal whether or not customers who have gone down the sole-sourcing path are happy with their decision.
October 01, 2009 - (Free Research) The tools for assessing enterprise-level green practices have evolved from do-it yourself Excel spreadsheets to elaborate carbon accounting software suites available on a subscription basis. By first determining a baseline, organizations can set clear goals for adopting greener IT practices.
August 20, 2009 - (Free Research) Informational applications have become one of the most critical areas of IT activity. How will these challenges be met? This report examines an option -– use of IBM DB2 9.7 as an alternative to Oracle 11g -– that represents a major new opportunity for organizations to meet escalating demand while reducing IT costs.
February 04, 2009 - (Free Research) CodePro AnalytiX as part of a continuous or nightly-build process, seamlessly integrate it into any Eclipse-based Java development environment, or use a combination of the two implementation approaches.
October 13, 2009 - (Free Research) Find out how Picis incorporated business intelligence (BI) reporting and analysis technology from SAP BusinessObjects in the development of the Picis CareSuite family of products. You'll also learn how they comprise best practice applications for automating and documenting their business and clinical processes in their acute care departments.
March 02, 2009 - (Free Research) This report identified how top performing organizations leverage and execute multichannel marketing campaigns. The findings demonstrate how Best-in-Class organizations are leveraging a collaborative cross-channel approach to extract maximum value and marketing efforts.
October 08, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper helps software manufacturers wanting to embed BI functionality into their solution whether it is best to "build" or "buy".
October 07, 2009 - (Free Research) The cost and complexity of managing increasing volumes of data and content, plus the need to provide trusted information to all users, are driving CIOs to rethink approach to information delivery. This quick self-assessment is the first step to find out how IBM's Info Agenda approach can help your company unlock the business value of information.
October 07, 2009 - (Free Research) Over the past decade, a powerful new approach to development - open source software - has risen to prominence, dramatically increasing the opportunity to re-use existing software. This report describes a set of seven best practices whose objective is to encourage development based on component re-use and software assembly.
October 06, 2009 - (Free Research) This quick demo gives you a great overview of the look and feel of BSD Group’s Oracle Extension for Rational Performance Tester, its features, and its capabilities. This plug-in will help you capture, record and playback transactions using Oracle NCA technology. View the demo now to learn more about increasing application visibility during testing.
October 05, 2009 - (Free Research) CA ARCserve Backup unites innovative data deduplication technology, powerful storage resource management (SRM) reporting and robust security measures — making it one of the market’s most secure, reliable and efficient methods of protecting the information residing on physical and virtual servers.
August 20, 2009 - (Free Research) Learn how an Alabama company seeking a replacement tool for their mainframe administration and automation discovered SEGUS’ Smart products that not only delivered better functionality with a good GUI, but would save the company $80,000 over a five year period, while also avoiding future costly upgrade fees.
May 08, 2009 - (Free Research) Building greater confidence in your underlying data is easier said than done. The typical organization is home to a wide variety of fragmented data sources. Organizations with a baseline of data management maturity will get better value from their BI investments. They are also more likely to outperform organizations less mature in data management.
September 12, 2008 - (Free Research) In the face of aggressive growth, TAC Americas found it increasingly difficult to conduct month-end financial closing and report results. This case study examines how they addressed this problem by implementing a solution that incorporated Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.
September 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This Case Study examines how Culver Franchising Systems turned to the RedPrairie-Microsoft Business Intelligence solution to make better decisions and improve store operations, while vastly reducing reporting time. With the RedPrairie-Microsoft solution in place, Culver now gets early warning of underperforming stores.
April 24, 2009 - (Free Research) Inefficient DB2 applications can waste MIPS and cost an organization thousands while mainframe application demand continually grows. Learn how BMC's SQL Performance solution for DB2 can reduce CPU MIPS, improve DB2 application performance, correct problems before they occur, and enable staff to work on more productive tasks.
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