Top 10 Trends In Business Intelligence - KnowledgeStorm

Driving Effective Software Quality to Address Application Complexity

Hewlett-Packard Company — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

Join Melinda Ballou as she answers how organizations can be successful and maintain high-performing business-critical software with fewer resources and strategies for successful quality adoption.

Application Integration Using the SID: A Practical Approach for Project Scoping and Design ...

Progress Software — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper focuses on the creation of an information "exchange" between applications or services in the context of the business process ticketing systems in an enterprise eBonding example. In this paper you will learn about application integration using the SID; Read on to learn a practical approach for project scoping and design in five steps.

How to Achieve 100% Electronic AR Invoicing Realistic Steps to Quit Paper

Esker Inc. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper illustrates that solutions exist today with a proven track record of success in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing while satisfying their customers' needs.

Improving Business by Improving Fax

Esker Inc. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

The paper will discuss key factors to consider with regard to fax technology, the impact of your faxing system on business processes, product selection and project execution. This paper advises an approach centered around choosing a vendor who is still paying close attention to fax communication as it relates to business processes.

7 Ways to Deal with Data Growth from a Cost Standpoint

i365, A Seagate Company — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Is data growth causing higher costs for data storage and backup in your organization? If the answer is yes, then you'll want to read this white paper that features seven ways to deal with data growth from a cost perspective.

Xiotech TCO Calculator

Xiotech Corporation — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

The Xiotech Total Cost of Ownership Calculator is designed to provide insight into the true costs of a storage area network (SAN). With Xiotech storage solutions, organizations can realize savings in five target areas. Read about them here.

Techfocus SQL Server 2008 Migration: Evaluate the Value of a SQL Server Upgrade

SHI — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

SQL Server 2008 has many compelling features, but not all of them are necessary. See what's a good fit for your enterprise and what can wait.

CA Service Assurance Webcast: Transforming IT in Lean Times

CA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Many companies face IT challenges related to visualization, integration, discovery and mapping, prioritization, predictive strategies, and reporting accuracy. This webcast addresses these challenges and explains how CA's approach to service quality is both effective and cost-conscious in lean times.

CA Virtualization Management Solution Brief

CA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

CA Virtualization Management solutions provide integrated end-to-end management, business-driven automation and security. As such, CA facilitates virtualization's promise of cost reduction and efficiency gains through consolidation, standardization and lower energy consumption, which drive better business outcomes.

Gartner Videocast-- Lean IT: Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality

CA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Effective management is critical to addressing IT challenges. In this program, leading experts David Williams of Gartner and Roger Pills of CA break down IT's three key challenges to managing IT complexity: aligning IT to the business, managing costs, and IT maturity.

CA Spectrum Service Assurance Product Brief

CA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Read this brief paper for specifics about the CA Spectrum Service Assurance product's features and benefits.

Virtualization Flash Demo

CA — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

View this Flash demo on virtualization to understand how CA can help you accelerate your time to market, achieve operational excellence across physical and virtual environments and reduce risk associated with virtualization.

E-Book: Understanding In-Database Analytics Technology - Benefits, Use Cases and ROI

Sybase, Inc. — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Learn all about in-database technology in this E-book, designed to give you a complete overview of the technology and how it can be leveraged successfully. Read on to learn why more companies are choosing to leverage this new technology - and learn more about their ROI and business results.

Top 10 Most Overlooked Causes of Trouble in a Cisco Network

Global Knowledge — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This white paper is a guide to the top ten causes of trouble in a Cisco network and how to address them, but is not intended to be a troubleshooting guide.

Getting Requirements Right : Avoiding the Top Ten Traps

IBM — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper presents 10 common and devastating mistakes that project teams make in defining and managing requirements. More importantly, it discusses how to avoid these traps so you can get your requirements right and develop the right product on time and within budget.

eGuide: Key Trends and Strategies for Decreasing Data Integration Costs in a Down Economy

Syncsort — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this E-Guide and explore how careful negotiation of data integration licenses can help your company save $100,000 or more on data integration costs. Learn about vital data integration trends and business drivers as well as how you can ensure a successful business intelligence (BI) initiative with key data integration considerations.

CA eHealth Performance Manager Demo

CA — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Download this demo to learn how you can proactively monitor performance of data and voice networks, physical and virtual systems, environmentals, databases and client/server applications across IT, all from one interface, before your business is negatively impacted.

EMA Impact Brief: CA Spectrum Service Assurance Bridges Service Management Gap

CA — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this brief paper to learn how the new CA integrated service management product offers real hope for beleaguered IT organizations that are trying to bring together the pieces to build an integrated service management story.

Unified Approach to Managing the Virtual Environment

Forsythe Technology Solution — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this webcast, learn about a unified approach to IT management. Discover how to decrease complexity introduced by virtualization and cloud computing to ensure optimal performance of your virtual and physical environments.

Business Intelligence and Performance Management Assessment Tool

IBM — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This brief 10-minute web-based diagnostic tool will explore your experiences with Business Intelligence (BI) in order to generate a customized report designed to help you identify your top pain points and how to address them and see how your organization stacks-up against leading BI professionals.

Simplifying Log Collection, Storage and Analysis

ArcSight, Inc. — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

ArcSight Logger is a turnkey appliance for collection, efficient storage, and high-performance search and reporting of all enterprise log data. Read this paper to learn more details.

Staying Ahead of the Threat Curve: Top Trends and Security Strategies for 2010

netForensics — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

As security threats grow in sophistication, securing critical data is becoming more challenging. Your exposure is increased and attacks are difficult to spot. In this webcast, White House Cybersecurity Advisor Howard Schmidt discusses what lies ahead in 2010 and makes key recommendations for an optimal defense strategy.

Top IT Security Threats: How to Protect Your Users from Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks

PhoneFactor, Inc. — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webcast explores the top security threats that users face, including phishing, malware, and man-in-the-middle attacks. Discover how out of band, two-factor authentication protects proprietary corporate and customer data. Also learn about a phone-based service that leverages an out-of-band phone call as a second factor of authentication.

2009 Top 10 in Investment Management

Actuate — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The investment management business in 2009 will be dominated by the ramifications of the events of 2008. In this report, TowerGroup has compiled a list of the top 10 business drivers and the resulting major strategic responses and technology initiatives.

Global Threat Trends October 2009

ESET — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Review this report to see what threats had the highest number of detections in the past month according to the results of a sophisticated analysis provided by ESET's ThreatSense.Net.

HP OpenCall Media Platform: A Cost-effective, Agile IP Media Server

Hewlett-Packard Company — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Mobile communication technologies are evolving quickly and new customer demands arise almost every day. At the same time, the economic downturn has impacted budgets, so that cost efficiency now tops the corporate agenda. Service providers must now must not only test and develop new services to meet customer demand, but do it within tight budgets.

Innovative Endpoint Protection: Unburden Your Endpoints and Improve Flexibility

Trend Micro, Inc. — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Watch this videocast to see why Trend Micro's OfficeScan 10 is a valuable endpoint protection solution that provides immediate, high quality protection using cloud-client architecture.

Best Practices to Secure any Size Business from Today ' s Top Threats

McAfee, Inc. — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

For best practices on securing your organization from current threats, check out this videocast. Review trends in spamming, data loss, social engineering, and more. Find out how combining the right tools and education increases your level of protection.

Podcast: Best Practices to Secure any Size Business from Today ' s Top Threats

McAfee, Inc. — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

For best practices on securing your organization from current threats, check out this podcast. Review trends in spamming, data loss, social engineering, and more. Find out how combining the right tools and education increases your level of protection.

Understanding the Components of Business Confidence

IBM — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be.

Get More from Business Intelligence (BI) by Understanding Your Analysis Needs

IBM — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

A companywide business intelligence deployment that adapts to the analysis needs and styles of key sets of users within the organization is the key to unlocking the true potential of BI. This whitepaper outlines four styles of analysis and explains how to build deployment plans around these key pillars to get the most return on your BI investment.

Top 10 Software Delivery Secrets: Doing More with Less

IBM — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this white paper, we’ll discuss specific secrets of delivering more valuable software to customers despite having fewer resources. We’ll include secrets related to process, development, infrastructure, and information. It can be done, and we’ll tell you how.

CA VPM Webcast - On Demand: Unleashing the Potential of Virtualization Management

CA — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

View this presentation for the latest information on virtualization management in the enterprise.

Top 10 Security Trends

Blue Coat — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this solution brief to discover the top ten security trends for 2009 and how they may affect your enterprise.

Top 10 Web Trends in 2009

Blue Coat — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this solution brief to discover the top ten web trends for 2009 and how they may affect your enterprise.

Improving Confidence by Increasing Understanding in Information

IBM — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

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.

BI for Business Users: How IT Can Make Business Intelligence Easy for Everyone

IBM — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Today, the latest BI solutions put the power of advanced business intelligence into the hands of more people throughout the organization - improving the speed and accuracy of decision-making from top to bottom. Knowing your business, market, customers, and competition is critical for any organization. Read this for more...

IT Impact on Telecommunications Order Fallout - A Survey of Large Global Businesses

Progress Software, Inc. — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

As the following pages will demonstrate, the evidence is that improving Business Transaction Assurance presents a real bottom-line opportunity and is moving high up the business agenda. However, companies' current systems are not equipped with the necessary tools to manage and control such transactions.

Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality: Managing Service Quality and Risk to Service ...

CA — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

With the economy down it is important for IT organizations to be as efficient as possible. This means that IT operations, those responsible for the product and health of the enterprise, must have full visibility and control over their resources - and of course, the technology to do so.

Performance Management for a Challenging Economy

IBM — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In a challenging economy, the price paid for bad decisions can be dire. Even average decisions can cost your organization dearly. See how information sweet spots and performance management can help you not only weather the storm, but be better prepared to steer your way with greater agility into the upturn.

Human Machine Interface (HMI)

AutomationDirect — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

C-more touch panels provide a graphical interface designed to interchange and display graphics, animation and data to and from a PLC by merely touching the screen.

The Business Justification for Data Security

McAfee, Inc. — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Read this report to learn about the business side of data security as we build a justification model to help you determine where, and how much, to invest in protecting your information assets.

Capacity Analyzer: Optimize Capacity, Maximize Performance, Instant ROI

VKernel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

By continuously monitoring shared capacity utilization trends in your VMware ESX environment, Capacity Analyzer significantly reduces the time and costs of identifying current capacity bottlenecks causing performance problems.

IDC Report: IT Service Management Adoption Trends and Strategies

Hewlett-Packard Company — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Check out this white paper that discusses the findings of an IDC survey of over 600 IT organizations worldwide. The survey identifies issues confronting IT departments that are adopting service models and to better understand the status and priorities of key functions and processes that underlie successful implementation of IT service management.

Building Blocks for Enterprise Business Architecture

Infosys Technologies Limited — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

We evaluate the established meta-models and frameworks of enterprise business architecture, and extract the key ingredients to build an innovative meta-model.

Top 5 Best Practices for Creating Effective Campaign Dashboards

Tableau Software — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

We can define an effective marketing dashboard as one that enables marketers to visually display relevant and current campaign, customer, advertising and/or branding information needed to achieve marketing objectives.

Fact or Fiction: Debunking the Top 5 Misconceptions about Data Protection

Lumension — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Check out this white paper to learn about the top 5 misconceptions about data protection and how your company can effectively address them to increase the security of its information assets.

The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance

IBM — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Download this white paper for an extensive summary of The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions.

The Business Value of Business Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This document provides you with the knowledge to gain a complete understanding of all the issues you'll face when implementing a BI solution. In this paper, you'll find numerous examples of current Business Objects customers who are using BI in a variety of creative ways to make their organizations more responsive, productive, and profitable.

Top 10 Reasons Customers Choose SAP for Business Transformation

SAP America Inc — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST

SAP is a customer’s company, whose organization is designed for, and encouraging of, innovation in all its aspects - from product development to product delivery to product implementation. Read this white paper to discover the top 10 reasons why customers choose SAP for their business transformation.