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April 2009 - (Free Research) In this report, IDC set out to define pervasive BI and its key indicators, highlight best practices for moving along the path to pervasive BI, and identify the five key factors that have the strongest influence on BI pervasiveness. These factors have positively influenced BI pervasiveness at some of the leading organizations in the world.
February 2009 - (Free Research) This research paper holds the finding of a survey on business analytics commissioned by SAS and conducted by Computerworld. The goal was to better understand the audience's definition of and familiarity with business analytics as a growing market category, as well as to track the perceived benefits of business analytics software implementation.
August 2008 - (Free Research) This document is intended to aid IT administrators and other stakeholders responsible for managing SharePoint deployments, in planning and implementing a comprehensive, reliable, and efficient governance strategy appropriate to their organizational needs.
April 2009 - (Free Research) This report identifies best practices and common pitfalls involved in starting and sustaining a program for operational data integration. Along the way, we'll look at staffing and other organizational issues, as well as technical requirements and vendor products that apply to operational data integration projects.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This Tech Briefing presents a series of insightful, timely articles that strike at the heart of data quality and data integration challenges. Included here is a close look at harnessing the exploding volumes of unstructured and semistructured data, which so many companies are struggling to tame and leverage for true business value.
April 2009 - (Free Research) E-mail is now the most widely used form of business communication today. This whitepaper will help messaging managers & directors understand the business issues associated with email storage management and approaches that can be taken to manage this storage, while accommodating the needs of the wider business.
April 2009 - (Free Research) In this paper, IDC analyzes the role of next-generation mobile enterprise platforms as organizations seek a more strategic deployment of mobile solutions, and analyzes why mobility is important to enterprise customers. This paper will also identify vital criteria for choosing a next-generation platform.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Open source is recognized for its ease of use, high performance, and affordability, especially amidst turbulent economic conditions. The high value of open source, coupled with economic and organizational pressure, represents a "perfect storm" for CIOs, giving them the opportunity to deploy high-performing, cost-effective open source solutions.
January 2009 - (Free Research) Business process management provides a new management discipline, a new suite of software technologies and tools, and a new IT implementation style based on concrete links between strategy and execution. This white paper explains SAP's place in the BPM landscape and describes its new offering in that arena, NetWeaver BPM.
May 2006 - (Free Research) Mobile devices are no longer just for high-level executives. More and more employees are discovering the benefits of being connected to the corporate email server. Learn more about today's wireless technologies and deploying them within organizations.
June 2009 - (Free Research) CIOs and IT departments are under tremendous pressure to implement better processes over how software is deployed, managed, and used by their employees on their company computers. This document will outline a nine-step methodology that can make or break your transition to a well-managed and controlled Windows environment.
March 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.
May 2009 - (Free Research) The importance of data quality initiatives has become abundantly clear to many of today's organizations. In this expert E-Guide, you will gain insight into the essential role data quality now plays in an organizational data strategy.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Increasingly, organizations create software via a complex, distributed supply chain that spans organizational boundaries and multiple software sources. As a result, communication between business stakeholders and a diverse range of IT resources has become increasingly more problematic.
August 2008 - (Free Research) Aberdeen research has found that although both the mid-market and large sectors have similar performance results and organizational structures for meetings management, large organizations are better positioned for long-term success.
December 2008 - (Free Research) Organizations in all industries and of all sizes are turning to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) technologies and services to either automate or support decision-making processes.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Cloud computing has brought about a shift in data center architecture. We're centralizing computing into massive organizational units aka clouds. As with any major industry shift, ancillary technologies are needed to enable these new computing models and cloud computing is no different.
February 2009 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn about the Business Model for Information Security, which takes a business-oriented approach to managing information security that is both predictive and proactive as it adapts to changes, considers the organizational culture and delivers value to the business.
May 2009 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn about the evolution of Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) as well as the methods critical to it's success. Explore the difficulties management faced in achieving an optimal organizational design, key consulting practice areas the company specialized in, and it's strategies for long term growth.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Even with solid reliability and scalable processing power, mainframes require skilled staff for application development and system support. So as baby-boomer mainframers move into later career stages, employers may legitimately worry about their availability, motivation, and health. This paper explores four long-term organizational strategies.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Today, businesses must work smarter, not just harder - and to do it, they must use information to compete. With ever-greater demands on data resources, organizations need to derive greater value from their existing information.
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