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The Total Economic Impact & trade; Of Progress Actional Management for Interconnected ...

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

The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the financial impact of Progress Actional on its organizations. Forrester Research, Inc.'s aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis. Readers should use this study to better communicate a business case for investing in Progress Actional.

Research Report on Virtualization and Cloud Computing in Test/Dev Environments

Platform Computing Corporation — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this report to learn the research findings of this study, which examined the challenges of managing Test/Dev environments and the opportunity for server virtualization and cloud computing to address them. This paper includes several graphs and an in-depth discussion of the advantages of private cloud computing.

Three Steps to Improving Server Virtualization ROI with everRun

Marathon Technologies — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Server virtualization offers a tremendous opportunity for cost savings in the data center. This paper will give three steps you can take to dramatically improve your cost savings from server virtualization as well as show how companies are using Marathon's everRun software to implement those steps.

The Total Economic Impact Of McAfee’s Network Security Platform’s Intrusion Prevention ...

McAfee, Inc. — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This June 2009 study examines the financial impact and potential return on investment (ROI) for McAfee Network Security Platform intrusion prevention system (formerly McAfee IntruShield®), using Adena Health System as a case study.

The Global Small or Medium-Sized Business (SMB)

Cisco Systems, Inc. — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Raymond Boggs, vice president of SMB research for the global market intelligence firm IDC, recently talked to Cisco® about how companies can use unified communications to successfully conduct business in multiple countries - with or without offices in those countries.

Sybase IQ 15: An InDetail Paper by Bloor Research

Sybase, Inc. — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this paper to learn how Bloor Research determined that Sybase 15 will provide substantially better performance at lower cost than traditional approaches for analytics, reporting, and data warehousing environments.

Virtualization Management Survey Report: Key Findings

Focus — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This FOCUS report of key findings presents the highlights of an end-user survey conducted in April 2009, outlining the current state of virtualization adoption, pain points, barriers to expansion, and management requirements.

IT Briefing: Using Cloud Computing to Accelerate your UC Deployment

Smoothstone IP Communications — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this IT briefing, Zeus Kerravala, SVP of Enterprise Research from Yankee Group, will define unified communications, provide an overview of cloud computing based UC services, describe the corporate benefits of cloud computing and provide practical advice for companies that want to explore this as a viable deployment option.

New Storage Architectures Make SSDs More Cost-Effective

Compellent — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Many new storage systems enable broader, more-flexible uses for solid-state drives (SSDs). This Gartner research piece identifies the advantages and disadvantages of various SSD architectural alternatives, and discuss how to use them to facilitate the design of high-performance, cost-efficient storage infrastructures.

Using cloud computing to accelerate your UC deployment

Smoothstone IP Communications — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this webcast, Zeus Kerravala, SVP of Enterprise Research from Yankee Group, will define unified communications, provide an overview of cloud computing based UC services, describe the corporate benefits of cloud computing and provide practical advice for companies that want to explore this as a viable deployment option.

How Outsourcing Drives Business Process Improvements

CompuCom Systems, Inc. — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

More than ever, business and IT must collaborate to meet current business realities. Significantly, CIOs must map out long-term strategies that address business plans over the next three to five years, with the delivery of high-quality IT services as a key element of strategic planning. Read this white paper to learn more.

Coinstar Selects the Most Profitable Machine Locations

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Coinstar, a coin conversion company, needed to identify new and profitable locations for their coin conversion machines. They turned to SPSS Inc.'s data integration and analysis capabilities with various demographic and geography-based variables. Read this case study for more details.

Expand Your Reach: Mastering Multi-Modal Survey Research

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Whether it's in your call center, on the Web, or in-person, effective survey research requires proven practices that reach across the board. In this webcast, you learn how to cut the costs and improve the performance of your survey research efforts - regardless of where you reach your respondents or what language they speak.

Better Reporting, Better Results: Successful Strategies from the Field

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Learn how top companies successfully deliver research results to customers and decision-makers. If you want to know more about how to leverage all of your research data, how to communicate insights effectively, and how to get researchers and decision-makers engaged in analysis, you'll want to view this webcast.

Maximize Business Results Online: How Web Content Management Technology is Transforming ...

SDL Tridion — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

This report is a guide for identifying best practices in online content Research Benchmark management and maximizing business benefits of the web. The findings highlight the strategic value of web content management and link the technology and practices of Best-in-Class organizations to top line revenue, customer loyalty, and customer experience.

Bloor Research - Data Discovery Spotlight

Talend — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

In this Spotlight Report, Research Director Philip Howard explains why data discovery is of fundamental importance to data integration, data quality, and many other projects ranging from business intelligence through master data management to data governance and data archival. Read on to learn more about the importance of data discovery.

Boost ROI with Faster, Easier, VISUAL Analytics

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Join us at this live webcast and learn how you can:

Use RFM analysis to quickly rank customers for high-return marketing
Use advanced visualization techniques to uncover segments and patterns in your data, and apply these insights to growth, acquisition, and retention planning
and more

Building the Business Case for Predictive Analytics: Nucleus Research

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of techniques from statistics and data mining that analyze current and historical data to make predictions about future events. In this Nucleus Research report, learn how your company can achieve ROI from Predictive analytics applications.

SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys 3.0: Get the Most Out of Open-Ended Text Responses

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Maximize survey research value with open text responses. If you've limited your surveys to close-ended questions due to the time and expense of reading and manually coding text responses, this session can be your organization's first step toward maximizing the value of your survey data.

Bloor Research - Data Integration Platforms Market Update

Talend — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Talend is an open source provider of data integration products, it has a business model and organisation that more closely resembles that of a conventional software vendor, while still leveraging the open source model.

Business Intelligence: Putting Information to Work

SAP America Inc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Business intelligence (BI) can be considered critical to the very existence of most organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore whether and how companies are using BI to improve their businesses; to identify the obstacles they encounter in its use; and predict how BI will evolve in the next ten years.

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function

SAP America Inc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.

Research Management Solutions: Bringing the Benefits of Automation to the Front Office

Advent Software, Inc — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

How does a firm or fund manager assess his/her research management needs and choose the best solution? This document helps by identifying pain points in the research workflow that RMS must address, describing how RMS supports investment process and decision making, and highlighting key features to consider when evaluating RMS solutions.

Comparing Research in Motion and Microsoft Mobile Solutions

Microsoft — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This paper compares the Research In Motion BlackBerry solution with the Microsoft® mobile solution by analyzing features of the user experience and the administrator experience.

Nucleus Research: ROI Report on Oracle User Productivity Kit

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This report from Nucleus Research discusses how companies using Oracle User Productivity Kit estimated an average of a fifty percent (50%) reduction in time to competency for new application users as well as other benefits organizations achieved with Oracle User Productivity Kit.

Sales 2.0: How Businesses Are Using Online Collaboration to Spark Sales

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper examines research that reveals how sales and marketing professionals who use collaboration and Sales 2.0 tools gain a competitive advantage over their peers who do not use them.

A Complete View Of The Enterprise: Linking Operational And Financial Planning In Global ...

SAP America Inc — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.

Web Security SaaS: The Next Generation of Web Security

Webroot Software, Inc. — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This paper outlines Web security solutions that focus on increasing overall security effectiveness and reducing the burden on IT departments. It describes the challenges facing many SMB environments and identifies critical elements that make for lower-cost and easier-to-manage solutions. The paper highlights Webroot's SaaS security offering.

BusinessWeek Research: Talent Management & #45; The New Business Imperative

SAP America Inc — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Read this report to discover the views of senior human resource (HR) and information technology (IT) executives and CEOs at large and midsize companies about the talent shortage and how workforce planning can help executives address this coming crisis.

Business Technology Marketing Benchmarks 2007-2008 PDF Slides

KnowledgeStorm Webinars — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Find out what 1,038 B2B marketers revealed about what works for lead generation and nurturing tactics. Invite your entire team to view this free Webcast and learn about B2B email, search marketing and surprising Webcast and white paper marketing statistics.

Business Technology Marketing Benchmarks 2007-2008

KnowledgeStorm Webinars — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Connecting Through Content, Issue Two

KnowledgeStorm, Inc — Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Connecting Through Content, Issue Two examines how technology buyers search for content and how marketers deliver content to them. Content distribution channels, user search techniques, content registration behavior and other aspects of content distribution and syndication are evaluated.

Podcast--Connecting Through Content Issue One: How Technology Marketers Meet Buyers ' ...

KnowledgeStorm, Inc — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This report discusses content strategies and preferences from the unique perspectives of both the B2B technology buyers and marketers.

Connecting Through Content: Issue One

KnowledgeStorm, Inc — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

This report, Issue One: How Technology Marketers Meet Buyers' Appetite for Content is the first in the Connecting Through Content series, which explores content creation, distribution and lead nurturing through the dual marketers' and technology buyers' perspectives.

New Research: How to Improve Your B2B Email Marketing Results in 2007

KnowledgeStorm Webinars — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Find out how 3,637 marketers responded to tough questions about their open, click and conversion rates. Also, find out which tests work best, what's not working, list growth strategies and how email budgets are changing for 2007. Invite your entire team to attend – attendance for this Webcast is free!

Bitpipe Research Guide: Software Development Management

Bitpipe — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

Don't think you're in the software business? Think again.

Bitpipe Research Guide: Storage

Bitpipe — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

Storage challenges for IT professionals are particularly complex in today's environment of rapid obsolescence of storage hardware and digital media.

Bitpipe Research Guide: EAI and Web Services

Bitpipe — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

Research has shown more than 30 percent of IT spending is on integration, with software costs running into the millions of dollars for large enterprises.

Bitpipe Research Guide: Business Intelligence

Bitpipe — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

Business Intelligence systems allow you to uncover, analyze, and forecast the trends that drive your business.

Bitpipe Research Guide: Content and Knowledge Management

Bitpipe — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

Content Management Systems give you the power to leverage company-wide knowledge assets for competitive advantage.

Bitpipe Research Guide: Network Design and Management

Bitpipe — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

This research guide will help you select the best Network Design and Management solution for your company. It provides Network Design and Management information on Network Design and Management products.

Podcast: Emerging Media Series II: Blogs and Real Simple Syndication Report

KnowledgeStorm, Inc — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT

This podcast will focus on the content of a new KnowledgeStorm research report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing. The research finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought.

Podcast: Emerging Media Series, Issue Two: Blogs and Real Simple Syndication Report

KnowledgeStorm Webinars — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Executive Summary: Marketing and Demand Creation in B2B Marketplace: The Prospect ' s View

KnowledgeStorm Webinars — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT

SiriusDecisions has commissioned a new research study to examine the efficacy of demand creation - from the point of view of prospects and customers you are spending millions of dollars to communicate with. Read this executive summary of our Demand Creation webinar to find out which tactics are viewed most favorably in b-to-b marketplace.

Marketing and Demand Creation in B2B Marketplace: The Prospect ' s View

KnowledgeStorm Webinars — Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Do you ever wonder how potential buyers view the strategic approaches and tactics you commonly use to entice them? In this Webcast, KnowledgeStorm and SiriusDecisions present the results of a new research study that examine the efficacy of demand creation.

Podcast - Improve Results with an Intelligent Content Strategy

KnowledgeStorm, Inc — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST

The Internet enables prospects to search for you rather than the other way around. You must place expertly crafted content wherever prospects might be searching. This podcast describes how marketers are leveraging a new methodology called Intelligent Content Strategy to attract more prospects that are looking for their solutions.

Podcast - What Technology Buyers Want You To Know About Online Content

KnowledgeStorm, Inc — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:00:00 EST

This podcast summarizes, Define What's Valued Online, a new study which confirms what many technology marketers have instinctively suspected all along: Buyers of technology products consider Internet research essential to their ability to do their jobs. Listen to this podcast to learn about basic changes you can make to improve your online content.

What Technology Buyers Want You to Know About Online Content

KnowledgeStorm, Inc — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST

A new study, Define What's Valued Online, confirms what many technology marketers have instinctively suspected all along: Buyers of technology products consider Internet research essential to their ability to do their jobs. Learn about basic changes you can make to improve your online content.

How Savvy Technology Marketers Can Improve Results with an Intelligent Content Strategy

KnowledgeStorm, Inc — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EDT

The Internet enables prospects to search for you rather than the other way around. You must place expertly crafted content wherever prospects might be searching. Marketers are leveraging a new methodology called Intelligent Content Strategy to attract more prospects that are looking for their solutions.

Justifying Your Technology Investments Through ROI

KnowledgeStorm Webinars — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators.