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Keeping Up with the Demand for Data: Querying, Viewing and Validating Data – Faster

This technical brief will provide some examples of why the right tool can make all the difference when it comes to dealing with this pressure. More specifically, this document explains how to support business and IT requirements by quickly accessing data, generating correct code from start to finish and reusing or modifying your code at a moment's notice.
Friday, 26th February 2010

The Value of Good Database Development Software: Expert Evaluation of SQL Developer and Toad Develop

In this article, John Weathington gives his candid review and explores two software options for building the effectiveness and efficiency of your data management function: Toad® Development Suite and Oracle's SQL Developer.
Friday, 26th February 2010

Base de datos y servidor de almacenamiento Exadata de Sun Oracle

Este documento examina cómo el servidor de almacenamiento Exadata de Sun Oracle permite a las empresas acelerar el rendimiento de bases de datos, manejar cambios y el crecimiento de una forma escalable y progresiva, y proveer disponibilidad y protección de datos de misión crítica .
Thursday, 25th February 2010

Bloor Research White Paper: Loading and Analyzing Web Data

Drowning in Online Data? Learn how to easily manage all your web data to gain business insight!
Monday, 22nd February 2010

Maximize Performance with Dynamic Content Delivery

Internet connectivity and traffic conditions change from moment to moment. Can your CDN use information about those conditions and dynamically adapt every delivery in real time? The XD Platform can.
Friday, 19th February 2010

Achieving Virtualization Control with Workload Automation

Do all your vendors, platforms, and virtual machines add up to a manual scripting nightmare? Not if you have the know-how and technology to integrate it all.
Friday, 29th January 2010

More Data Doesn't Always Mean More Cost

Key considerations for sustainable storage savings beyond the purchase price.
Thursday, 14th January 2010

Three Must Haves for the Virtual Data Center

Server virtualization is only the first step towards the virtualized environment.
Thursday, 14th January 2010

Re-architecting Disaster Recovery Solutions

Disaster Recovery (DR) is a critical component of IT and risk mitigation strategies, and compounded in difficulty by ever growing data volumes, distributed computing, and new technologies.
Thursday, 7th January 2010

Keeping Your Head Above the Cloud: Seven Data Center Challenges to Consider Before Going Virtual

Learn why proper design, planning and knowledge of the impact of virtualization on the data center is critical for successfully moving toward a truly Virtual Data Center.
Wednesday, 16th December 2009

Energy Efficiency: Leverage Dynamic Infrastructure for Cost Savings, Improved Service & Risk Managem

Get the critical information you need to transform your data center by implementing a solution based on the greatest possible computing power with the lowest possible energy expenditure.
Monday, 7th December 2009

Connecting to the Cloud with F5 and VMware VMotion

Moving your applications and services transparently between clouds is now possible with F5 and VMware.
Wednesday, 2nd December 2009

Datacenter Management Optimization with Microsoft System Center

Learn how Microsoft® System Center lowers the cost of delivering datacenter services through integrated, end-to-end management of physical and virtual environments.
Tuesday, 1st December 2009

Managing the Dynamic Desktop with System Center Solutions

Learn how Microsoft® System Center desktop solutions enable IT professionals to deliver the increasing range of resources to users, maintain security and compliance, and deliver an optimized user experience.
Tuesday, 1st December 2009

Faster, Cheaper and Easier to Maintain: Can You Afford Not to Upgrade Your Servers to Today's Advanc

This white paper explores the benefits of today's new, energy-efficient servers, points readers to accelerated refresh cost calculators, and demonstrates how today's servers can contribute toward corporate-wide green initiatives.
Thursday, 5th November 2009

How You Can Gain Business Advantage by Protecting Against Internal & External Threats

Affordable data infrastructure solutions based on open standards that are inherently secure are now available to midsize organizations. Not only are they quick and easy to deploy, use and maintain, they are designed to meet the constraints of limited IT resources and budgets in the face of the current economic downturn.
Wednesday, 30th September 2009

Electrical Efficiency Modeling for Data Centers

Learn how to put it all together and create an improved model for data center efficiency.
Tuesday, 29th September 2009

Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution

Learn the common misconceptions that cause significant errors in data center efficiency models.
Tuesday, 29th September 2009

Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers

Discover the magnitude of the data center electrical consumption problem and the most effective strategies to reduce consumption.
Tuesday, 29th September 2009

Email Archiving: A Business-Critical Application

Discover how hosted email archiving cuts risk and improves employee productivity.
Friday, 11th September 2009

15 Min Guide to Backup and Archiving

In just 15 minutes, this guide will give you a quick overview of the benefits of next-generation backup and archiving for your organization.
Thursday, 20th August 2009

Best Practices for Data Archiving

To effectively protect its information, an organization must balance the cost of the protection against the value of the information.
Wednesday, 19th August 2009

Forrester Study: Good Governance, Compliance and Archiving

To develop a successful strategy, companies first need to educate themselves about the difference between archiving and backup procedures; not understanding this difference will prevent companies from meeting emerging compliance procedures.
Wednesday, 19th August 2009

Good Information Governance - Addressing Compliance, eDiscovery, and Information Privacy

Good information governance is a proactive, policy-driven information management strategy for the global enterprise.
Wednesday, 19th August 2009

IDC White Paper: Information Governance for the 21st Century - Building an Archive-based Architectur

In recent years, it has become evident that organizations need to implement and sustain an information governance strategy and supportive technologies.
Wednesday, 19th August 2009

Achieving Rapid Data Recovery for IBM AIX Environments

Read how EchoStream for AIX leverages CDP technology to support instantaneous recoveries from disk, resulting in minimal data loss and rapid recovery all while not imposing any downtime on production applications.
Friday, 14th August 2009

Next-Generation Disaster Recovery and Availability Technologies for AIX and IBM i (i5/OS) on IBM Pow

Review the technology spectrum available for IBM i and AIX environments including the latest, next-generation solutions.
Friday, 14th August 2009

The Benefits of AIX Data Replication in HACMP Clusters

Learn How to Protect the Data as Well as the Server with Real-Time Data Replication.
Friday, 14th August 2009

The State of Resilience and Optimization on IBM Power Systems: Research Findings Based on Surveys of

Read this review of the data protection and recovery technologies and strategies that IBM i and AIX customers have adopted.
Friday, 14th August 2009

How to Profit from Mind-blowing Amounts of Data

Learn about extreme scale storage, an extremely different storage solution for mind-blowing amounts of data.
Wednesday, 29th July 2009

The Executive Guide to Data Loss Prevention

Reported data breaches increased by nearly 50 percent in 2008 and industry and regulatory requirements are continually being added to stem the tide of data leaks.
Wednesday, 29th July 2009

Securing Unstructured Data: How Best-in-Class Companies Manage to Serve and Protect

Find out how you can achieve Best-in-Class results. Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This $399 Value Offer Expires 9/11/2009.
Tuesday, 28th July 2009

Backup Redesign: Do More with Less...Really!

Retrieve and restore lost data in minutes whether a single email message or entire database using disk based application protection.
Tuesday, 21st July 2009

Open Sesame: Why Open Source BI, Data Integration, and Data Warehousing Solutions are Gaining in Acc

The white paper provides practical recommendations and facts to consider for a successful deployment of open source software.
Tuesday, 7th July 2009

SQL Server Database Backup and Restore Planning

Learn the Six Criteria for Assessing Backup Needs.
Tuesday, 7th July 2009

Windows Server Disaster Recovery: Planning for the Worst—Hoping for the Best

Learn the tried and true best practices for protecting your existing Windows Server infrastructure from disruptive application outages.
Tuesday, 7th July 2009

Better Together: Blades, Linux, and Insight Control

In today's datacenter, management and administration costs have grown to eclipse all other cost categories.
Monday, 6th July 2009

10 Really Good Reasons To Use Predictive Analytics

Here are 10 really good reasons predictive analytics can help your business.
Wednesday, 24th June 2009

10 Ways Predictive Analytics Can Help You

Predictive analytics is a powerful tool that helps organizations solve key challenges by using business knowledge to drive efficiencies and strengthen their competitive advantage.
Wednesday, 24th June 2009

A Smarter Start: Preparing Data with SPSS Statistics Base

Before you can analyze your data, you must prepare it for analysis. SPSS Statistics Base offers an array of techniques and features to help users validate data in order to ensure more complete, effective, and accurate analysis.
Wednesday, 24th June 2009

Mastering New Challenges in Text Analytics

Learn how text analytics can help your organization gain significant, measurable benefits from textual data.
Wednesday, 24th June 2009

The Risks of Using Spreadsheets for Statistical Analysis

Get useful tips you can put to good use on using spreadsheets for statistical analysis.
Wednesday, 24th June 2009

BI alla tua portata - immagina le possibilità

Impari le possibilità di vostre possibilità della BI.
Tuesday, 23rd June 2009

Bessere Kundenbeziehungen: Ein integrierter Ansatz

Studie der Economist Intelligence Unit.
Monday, 22nd June 2009

Business Intelligence zu Ende gedacht: richtungsweisend und zukunftssicher

Erforschen Sie eine intuitive Weise, damit Geschäft Benutzer sofortige Sicht über dem Unternehmen gewinnen.
Monday, 22nd June 2009

Gestion de l'information d'entreprise (EIM)

Stratégie, meilleures pratiques et technologies à adopter sur le chemin de la réussite.
Monday, 22nd June 2009

La Business Intelligence pour tous : imaginez les possibilités

Toutes les entreprises recherchent des moyens pour transformer plus facilement et rapidement, de simples informations en perspectives.
Monday, 22nd June 2009

Data Quality: A Survival Guide for Marketing

In this guide, Frank Dravis, Six Factors Consulting, discusses how even with the finest marketing organizations, the success of marketing ultimately comes down to the data.
Monday, 8th June 2009

Data warehouses: Improve Strategic Decision Making with Coherent Views of Data

Learn how the ability to make quick, well-informed decisions is critical to competitiveness and growth for most companies.
Friday, 5th June 2009

Benefits of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Discover the benefits of VDI and how it can benefit your company and save you money.
Thursday, 4th June 2009

Practical Open Source Data Integration: Case Studies & Implementation Examples

Learn from real-life examples and from the voice of your peers, the benefits of open source data integration.
Friday, 29th May 2009

The Return on Investment of Open Source Data Integration

Learn the different alternatives to open source data integration, including the costs, visible and hidden, of these alternatives, on several types of projects.
Friday, 29th May 2009

The Role of Open Source in Data Integration

Learn how open source data integration tools can provide the cost advantages of hand-coding with the productivity advantages of traditional data integration software.
Friday, 29th May 2009

Usage Landscape: Enterprise Open Source Data Integration

How is Open Source Data Integration Used in Real Life?
Friday, 29th May 2009

Comply With XBRL: Automate Compliance With U.S. and European Financial-Reporting Standards

A new standard file format, Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), for submitting financial reports to the SEC in the United States is being mandated for June 2009 – Are you Prepared?
Wednesday, 27th May 2009

Dashboards - Your Business at a Glance

Make the most of your dashboard! Learn how the experts use data visualization for analyzing and communicating quantitative business information.
Wednesday, 27th May 2009

Everyone Sells: The Value of Business Intelligence in Retail

Learn how Through SOA and BI, all areas of a business can leverage efficiencies of information and processes targeting the right customers with the right messages at the right time to maximize the value of each customer relationship.
Wednesday, 27th May 2009

Why Business Managers Should Care About Service-Oriented Architecture

Learn how to effectively communicate the benefits of SOA to your organizations business leadership and affect the control, agility and cost of IT implementations.
Wednesday, 27th May 2009

Worst Practices in SOA Implementation; Why Service-Oriented Architectures Fail

Insure that you are well armed to identify and combat the top-four worst practices for SOA integration and provide yourself with a clearer path to success.
Wednesday, 27th May 2009

Choosing the Right Email Archiving Solution

Address email problems with full mailboxes, lost backup tapes, IT audits, records requests, and employee turnover.
Tuesday, 26th May 2009

Adopting Server Virtualization for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Server virtualization technology helps significantly reduce overall IT capital expense and operational costs.
Thursday, 21st May 2009

CA ARCserve® Backup r12.5 - 30 Day Free Live Trial

CA ARCserve® Backup offers world-class data protection for distributed servers, databases and applications, as well as clients for multiple environments, including Windows, Linux, UNIX, NetWare, Mac OS, and mainframe Linux.
Thursday, 21st May 2009

Facilitating Rapid Analysis and Decision Making in the Analytical Lab

Improve the productivity of your analytical lab to make better R&D decisions, faster.
Wednesday, 20th May 2009

Business Intelligence for Decision Makers: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers

Although many organizations have made significant investments in data collection and integration, it is a rare enterprise that can analyze and redeploy its accumulated data to actually drive business performance.
Monday, 11th May 2009

Clearing the Way for Faster, Smarter Decisions

SAP can help you gain access to accurate information and visibility across your company – and use it to improve operations and become more competitive.
Monday, 11th May 2009

Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset

Explore the importance of sound master data and the benefits of how achieving effective master data management can offer your business, including improved operational efficiencies, increased revenue opportunities, better business insights, and tighter compliance with regulatory requirements.
Monday, 11th May 2009

HP Simply Business Protection

Explore a data protection strategy that takes into consideration the business environment, offering sophisticated features while maintaining simplicity, affordability, and reliability.
Thursday, 7th May 2009

HP Simply Storage Consolidation

Explore how a dedicated, optimized network storage solution can increase data availability and reduce operating costs by simplifying management and improving capacity utilization.
Thursday, 7th May 2009

15 Minute Guide to Digital Claims Processing

In about 15 minutes, this guide will examine the issues that make claims processing so problematic.
Friday, 24th April 2009

A Superior Hardware Platform for Server Virtualization: Improving Data Center Flexibility, Performan

Discover the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, a better physical platform for virtualization, with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center and help tame server sprawl.
Thursday, 23rd April 2009

From Data Discovery to Business Insight: Three Steps to Deriving Business Value Hidden in your Data

Find out how you can achieve Best-in-Class results. Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This $399 Value Offer Expires 5/29/2009.
Thursday, 16th April 2009

Leveraging Logs, Information and Events: Three Use Cases for What to Do with All that Data

Find out how you can achieve Best-in-Class results. Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This $399 Value Offer Expires 5/29/2009.
Thursday, 16th April 2009

Microsoft Exchange Best Practices

The most critical component of an Exchange deployment is the storage subsystem where the data is held. Download now to learn best practices in storage sizing and deployment.
Monday, 13th April 2009

Thin Provisioning: The Secret to Achieving Operational Efficiency in the Data Center

Thin provisioning is now recognized as a critical approach to simplifying storage management while drastically improving capacity utilization. Download this white paper to learn how.
Monday, 13th April 2009

What Does Green Really Mean for IT?

Learn how environmental resource constraints for the first time are placing limitations on corporations' ability to cope with growing IT data demands.
Monday, 13th April 2009

The Federal Case for Application Delivery Networks

Learn why visibility, acceleration, and security are essential to contain costs and assure efficient delivery of applications both internally and externally (while leveraging advances like virtualization, SOA and IPv6).
Monday, 30th March 2009

Closing the Data Privacy Gap for SAP Applications

This white paper explains why protecting confidential information and ensuring privacy have become high priorities.
Wednesday, 18th March 2009

IBM Data Studio Administrator Effective Change Management for Dynamic Application and Database Envir

This information brief explains the value of IBM® Data Studio Administrator.
Wednesday, 18th March 2009

The System i Challenge

Modernize and Enhance your Legacy System i Applications.
Friday, 6th March 2009

Infonomics Magazine

Is an unrivalled and unbiased industry source for information on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) topics that help management professionals worldwide make informed and effective technology decisions.
Tuesday, 3rd March 2009

Take Advantage of Oracle's 2 Day DBA Course

This course is designed to complement the Oracle 2 Day DBA documentation.
Monday, 23rd February 2009

Anatomy of a Siebel CRM Archiving Project

Business-critical CRM applications, such as Siebel® CRM, represent an ongoing corporate investment, empowering new business initiatives, supporting daily operations and driving revenue generation.
Friday, 20th February 2009

Data Privacy Best Practices: Time to Take Action!

In the midst of unprecedented security breaches, the best way to ensure that confidential information remains protected is to develop and implement a comprehensive privacy and security strategy.
Friday, 20th February 2009

IBM Integrated Data Management Tools for DBAs

Empowered DBAs translates to better application performance, greater revenue, more satisfied customers and greater ability to meet SLAs.
Friday, 20th February 2009

Meeting the Top Backup Challenges in Small and Medium Business Environments

Discover the top six challenges SMBs need to consider when selecting data and system protection solutions.
Friday, 20th February 2009

Introducing Logical Servers: Making Data Center Infrastructures More Adaptive

Learn how logical servers make routine tasks easier and creates a more efficient datacenter.
Friday, 13th February 2009

10 Really Good Reasons To Use Predictive Analytics

Here are 10 really good reasons predictive analytics can help your business.
Thursday, 12th February 2009

10 Ways Predictive Analytics Can Help You

Discover 10 ways predictive analytics can help your organization.
Thursday, 12th February 2009

Equifax Master Data Management Case Study

Master Data Management initiative at Equifax integrates 2.1 million customer records, enabling more accurate customer visibility.
Thursday, 18th December 2008

Always be Open for Business

Explore how mid-sized organizations can affordably attain business continuity by creating a data infrastructure that is always secure, available and accessible, despite potentially disruptive circumstances.
Thursday, 4th December 2008

Centralized Data Backup: It Doesn't Have to Cripple Your WAN

Learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with Wide-Area Data Services (WDS) solutions.
Monday, 17th November 2008

An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers

Learn how APC's Data Center architecture can be implemented to dramatically improve the electrical efficiency of data centers.
Wednesday, 12th November 2008

Choosing a Reliable and Powerful IT Infrastructure at a Price You Can Afford

Learn how midsize organizations like yours can use Oracle software to improve customer relations, minimize risk, deal with change, and make the most of your existing resources.
Wednesday, 12th November 2008

Data Center Management Software - Virtual Media Tour

Learn how to manage accelerated processing power and expanded data storage while keeping energy costs low and receiving maximum availability within your Data Center.
Wednesday, 12th November 2008

From Spreadsheet Chaos to an Integrated BPM Application in Six Steps

Go From Spreadsheet Chaos to an Integrated BPM Application in Six Steps.
Monday, 10th November 2008

Information Architecture in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Explore the process that a medium to large organization may undergo when deploying Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007.
Tuesday, 4th November 2008

Top Reasons to Upgrade to Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5

A new gold standard in continuous data protection and complete system recovery is here—Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5. With more than two decades of data protection experience, Symantec™ delivers industry-leading Windows® data protection and system recovery.
Wednesday, 29th October 2008

APC Interactive TradeOff Tools

Utilize these web-based calculators for predicting efficiency and availability in your data center.
Thursday, 23rd October 2008

APC Tech Talk Link

APC's Data Center Science Center discuss problems and solutions to top issues in the data center today.
Thursday, 23rd October 2008

Data Governance Strategies Helping your Organization Comply, Transform, and Integrate

Learn how to successfully navigate the unknown waters of Data Governance with these the best practice techniques.
Thursday, 23rd October 2008

Virtualization Delivers Real Benefits For Business

Virtualization is an approach to pooling and sharing IT resources so the supply of resources - processing power, storage, networking and so on - can flexibly and automatically meet fluctuating business demand.
Monday, 20th October 2008

Consolidating Microsoft SQL Server with HP PolyServe: The User View

Explore how Microsoft SQL Server's relatively low cost, steadily increasing capabilities and ease of deployment have all combined to accelerate its growth.
Tuesday, 14th October 2008

SQL Server Consolidation Demo - DeskTV

Find out how to save up to $1 million for every 10 SQL Servers you own.
Tuesday, 14th October 2008

An Architecture for Data Quality

Download this white paper now to learn how to address your data quality issues.
Monday, 13th October 2008

Migrating Exchange To Collaboration

Learn how consolidating email and attachments into a Single Interactive Repository (SIR) saves time and money and avoids risk.
Thursday, 9th October 2008

Optimizing Business Benefits Through the Oracle/HP Partnership

Explore this paper which discusses IDC research around midsize organizations, and analyzes the strategic partnership Oracle and HP have entered into to address the needs of these organizations.
Thursday, 9th October 2008

High Availability in an SAP Environment Keep mission-critical SAP operations running no matter what

Your business depends on SAP. What happens if it stops?
Monday, 6th October 2008

iSeminar: Make Compliance Work for You

Learn how Oracle solutions make compliance work for you not against you.
Thursday, 2nd October 2008

Make Compliance Work for You

Learn how to make compliance work for you, rather than the other way around – with Oracle solutions for the midsize organizations.
Thursday, 2nd October 2008

Self Assessment Tool: Test the Capabilities of Your Company's Data, Information and Process Assets

Find out how to effectively leverage your business data, information and process potentials.
Thursday, 2nd October 2008

Oracle Coherence: Providing Extreme Performance, Predictable Scalability, and Continuous Availabilit

Learn how to increase business velocity and efficiency with a successful data management strategy.
Thursday, 25th September 2008

Best practices for using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data Compression with HP ProLiant and Integrity s

Learn best practices for optimizing your SQL Server 2008 environment by maximizing your storage investment, CPU and server memory use.
Friday, 19th September 2008

Citrix XenDesktop: On Demand Delivery, Simple Desktop Lifecycle Management

Learn how you can simplify desktop management and ensure desktop security.
Friday, 19th September 2008

Optimizing HP servers with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Discover unique solutions for consolidating corporate data using HP servers with Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Friday, 19th September 2008

Desktop Delivery: Making Desktop Virtualization Work

Learn how to overcome desktop management challenges by using desktop virtualization.
Wednesday, 17th September 2008

Accelerating Virtualized Environments

Simplify your data center using wide-area data services to optimize consolidated and virtualized environments.
Thursday, 11th September 2008

FierceContentManagement

Is a free, weekly content management briefing for IT managers and executives.
Wednesday, 10th September 2008

Business Intelligence for Consumer Packaged Goods: Actionable Insights for the Business Decision Mak

Learn how technological advances are enabling improved decision making across three broad axes: simplicity and relevance, agility and integration.
Thursday, 4th September 2008

Data Center Thermal Zone Mapping

Learn about an energy audit tool which can lead to significant decreases in the costs of running a data center.
Wednesday, 3rd September 2008

HP Mission Critical Proactive Services - Transport Manufacturing

Find out how a leading transportation firm uses executive financial incentives to insure the highest system uptime for its customers.
Wednesday, 3rd September 2008

ITSM: It's About Managing Change

Explore critical steps IT executives must take to prepare for change and manage an ITSM implementation to maximize its value and ensure that it achieves the full transformation effect it is capable of delivering.
Wednesday, 3rd September 2008

A Guide to Messaging Archiving

Explore compelling reasons for the implementation of a messaging archiving system and learn the top vendors whose offerings are focused squarely on the archiving space.
Friday, 29th August 2008

Extreme Savings: Cutting Costs with Wide-Area Data Services

Learn how enterprises can use Riverbed solutions to cut hard costs and make the most of their existing infrastructure, without negatively impacting their operations.
Wednesday, 27th August 2008

ERP Buyer's Guide

Learn what a midmarket ERP solution can do for you and understand what issues you should consider during your decision-making process.
Monday, 11th August 2008

SQL Anywhere Developer Edition Download

The industry-leading mobile and embedded database, providing data management and exchange technologies that enable applications for frontline environments.
Thursday, 7th August 2008

Database Trends and Applications

Is the leading monthly publication providing corporate information project teams with timely coverage of the technology, intelligence and insight needed to conceptualize, plan, initiate, implement and manage large-scale, integrated, information-rich projects.
Wednesday, 6th August 2008

Downtime Myths and Truths

Join Forrester Research and HP in this webinar which explores common myths about IT disasters and analyzes different strategies to protect a company's information assets based on risk and cost.
Monday, 4th August 2008

Data Center Transformation

This White Paper looks at HP's approach to Data Center Transformation and how it can help enterprise data centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth.
Friday, 1st August 2008

Securing Data at Rest: An Enterprise Strategy for Data Encryption and Key Management

Explore today's enterprise data-at-rest privacy/security landscape and examine key challenges of enterprise encryption and key management. Asses the current approach to key management, introduce the concept of appliance-based enterprise key management, and identify evaluation criteria for such an appliance.
Friday, 1st August 2008

SGI® Adaptive Data Warehouse: Building a High-End Oracle Data Warehouse Using Industry-Standard

Data sets are growing ever larger. Queries are becoming increasingly complex. So SGI and Oracle are teaming up with innovative, standards-based configurations to meet the urgent need for scalable, powerful data warehouse solutions.
Monday, 28th July 2008

Making Open Source BI Viable for the Enterprise

In this free white paper, learn how to choose the right open source BI solution for your company.
Wednesday, 23rd July 2008

Open Source Database Checklist: 5 Key Attributes for the Enterprise

What is Enterprise Open Source? In this free white paper, learn 5 key criteria to look for in an open source database for the enterprise.
Wednesday, 23rd July 2008

OLTP reference configuration guidelines for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on HP Integrity servers

This white paper describes a range of reference configurations to support mid to large online transaction processing (OLTP) solutions, capitalizing on the scalable power of HP Integrity 64-bit systems and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (64-bit).
Monday, 14th July 2008

Reference configurations for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 data warehousing using HP Integrity servers

Companies are presented with a wide range of technology options for their business intelligence (BI) applications. Each hardware platform decision requires them to research, and then balance, the tradeoffs between price, performance, long-term scalability, manageability, and vendor reputation.
Monday, 14th July 2008

HP XP24000 Enterprise-Class Storage Virtualization for Mission-Critical IT

Learn the power of external storage virtualization, and how it reinvents storage networking while minimizing disruption.
Friday, 27th June 2008

Enterprise Backup and Recovery Methodologies for Oracle

Evaluate the pros and cons of Oracle's own backup and recovery applications and compare a number of third-party enterprise backup and recovery solutions for Oracle-based environments.
Monday, 23rd June 2008

Business Intelligence Best Practices for Dashboard Design

Appearances can be deceiving, sometimes the biggest challenge is getting the right data into the right dashboard in the most efficient way.
Tuesday, 17th June 2008

Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail

Identify and combat the top-four worst practices for BI.
Tuesday, 17th June 2008

The Essential Guide to Solving Server Sprawl

The challenge of server sprawl, coupled with the desire to reduce energy costs and the increasing demand for computer resources and rack space, make today an ideal time to consider Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for database consolidation in 64-bit computing environments.
Tuesday, 10th June 2008

Aligning IT and Business with Demand Management

Learn about some of the best tools and strategies for managing the diverse flood of demands that threaten to overwhelm IT organizations.
Thursday, 5th June 2008

Bet Your Excel Spreadsheet Can't Do This: Align IT and Business with Demand Management

In this white paper, renowned PPM luminary Harvey Levine discusses the newest approaches to Demand Management, and how you and your company can easily manage, evaluate, and execute on your resource demands.
Thursday, 5th June 2008

Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management and Continuous

Compliance management, integration, and data utilization are key issues to address in order to improve responsiveness and performance.
Tuesday, 3rd June 2008

Backup Exec 12: Efficient Data Protection for Microsoft Applications with Symantec Backup Exec™

This paper discusses how Symantec Backup Exec 12 simplifies and streamlines the process with centralized administration, continuous protection, patent pending granular recovery, and more.
Thursday, 15th May 2008

Beyond Disaster Recovery: Becoming a Resilient Business

Can you ensure business continuity in the event of an unexpected disruption?
Friday, 9th May 2008

Make ITIL Actionable with Comprehensive IBM Service Management Solutions

Improve visibility, control and automation with IBM Service Management.
Friday, 9th May 2008

Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset

This SAP Insight explores the importance of master data and the barriers to achieving sound master data, describes the ideal master data management solution, and explains the value and benefits of effective management of master data.
Wednesday, 7th May 2008

Vulnerability Management for Dummies

Get all the Facts and See How to Implement a Successful Vulnerability Management Program.
Wednesday, 7th May 2008

Leading Gaming & Entertainment Company Increases Loyalty with Equifax Database Solutions

Learn how this leading gaming and entertainment company experienced greater success in marketing across all segments of their business.
Tuesday, 15th April 2008

The Instantly Responsive Enterprise: The Marriage of Business Process Management and Complex Event P

Learn how Business Process Management (BPM) and Complex Event Processing (CEP) can work together to keep pace with changing conditions.
Tuesday, 8th April 2008

Big Blue Touts Dynamic, Balanced Warehousing

Tune into this TDWI Radio News interview to hear Karen Parrish, vice president of business intelligence solutions for IBM, as she explains Big Blue's take on the evolving industry of data warehouse appliances.
Monday, 7th April 2008

How Can an automated Program Office Solution Help My Agency Meet its Performance and Reporting Goals

This white paper will provide guidance and examples as to how Federal government and contractor organizations can successfully choose and implement the right technology solutions to meet unique Program office requirements, including ways to enhance planning, use and adoption.
Friday, 4th April 2008

Disk-based Backup & Recovery: Making Sense of Your Options

Learn about several methods for incorporating disk into your backup and recovery environment.
Wednesday, 19th March 2008

IBM Systems Energy Efficiency

Are energy costs closing in while data center space is running out?
Friday, 14th March 2008

Endpoint Data Protection — Beyond Encryption

Hear industry experts discuss the direction of the data protection market and future technology in this interactive eSeminar.
Monday, 25th February 2008

Get Serious About SOA Governance: A 5-Step Action Plan for Architects

Build an airtight yet flexible governance plan to avoid risk and get the most out of SOA investment.
Friday, 22nd February 2008

Innovate Over SAP With Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, and Enterprise So

Don't replace SAP, supercharge it. Leverage your legacy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for dramatically improved agility and visibility.
Friday, 22nd February 2008

The Roadmap to Virtual Infrastructure: Practical Implementation Strategies

Learn practical implementation strategies with a phased approach to virtualization that will enable your business to experience success and provide a solid foundation from which to expand.
Friday, 22nd February 2008

Site and Facilities Services from IBM—Success Stories

Site and facilities services—delivering comprehensive data center solutions, from assessment and strategy to construction and management.
Thursday, 14th February 2008

Energy Efficiency in IBM Data Centers

Learn how IBM is deploying new technologies to reduce their data center carbon footprint.
Wednesday, 23rd January 2008

Integrating Visio 2007: Introduction to Integrating Visio with Other Microsoft Programs

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 provides enhanced data integration capabilities and improved tools for users who want to link their data to their diagrams.
Tuesday, 22nd January 2008

10 Strategies for Choosing a Midmarket ERP Solution

Learn how to leverage new realities of the midmarket ERP sector with tips for getting the best ERP deals and advice on how to roll solutions out quickly.
Friday, 18th January 2008

Innovate Faster with Oracle Database 11g

Learn how Oracle Database 11g offers organizations the ability to innovate faster and addresses the very heart of what slows every IT organization: the ability to make changes with confidence.
Thursday, 3rd January 2008

Systems Management News

Is the newspaper for IT systems administration and data center managers!
Wednesday, 2nd January 2008

Making the Case for Oracle: Database on Windows

Learn one of the best-kept secrets in the IT industry is the depth of support Oracle offers to customers deploying its databases on Microsoft Windows platforms.
Monday, 24th December 2007

Outlasting the Competition: Why High Availability is Critical to Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

This white paper identifies the key decision factors in making the move to a high availability solution, and how clustered database software from Oracle—Oracle Real Application Clusters—provides SMBs with a fault-tolerant, scalable and cost-effective solution to their growing needs.
Monday, 24th December 2007

Demystifying Commodity and Blade Server TCO–Part One: An Opportunity for Leasing

IT and business executives should consider leveraging server leasing as a means of enabling data center and business application initiatives, while providing access to the latest technology and reducing ongoing costs.
Wednesday, 19th December 2007

HACMP: High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing

This Best Practices document discusses the choices that the cluster designer can make, and suggests the alternatives that make for the highest level of availability.
Wednesday, 19th December 2007

Actionable Information for Business Optimisation

Having the right information, in the right format and context, and at the right time in order to make the right decisions.
Monday, 17th December 2007

Pre-Testing Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plans: The Network Simulation Solution

Learn how to safeguard your business and ensure business continuity through disaster recovery planning.
Wednesday, 12th December 2007

Reducing Endpoint Risks in Large, Distributed Enterprises: eSeminar

Industry leaders provide the answer on how to best protect your data cost effectively.
Tuesday, 11th December 2007

Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management: Trends for Emerging Businesses

Learn how Hyperion surveyed 163 companies to understand BI and EPM requirements, evaluation processes, and extent of adoption.
Tuesday, 27th November 2007

Creating Competitive Advantage in Growing and Mid-Sized Businesses with Business Intelligence

Discover how to get accurate, actionable business intelligence for proactive management.
Tuesday, 27th November 2007

Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset

This SAP Insight explores the importance of master data and the barriers to achieving sound master data, describes the ideal master data management solution, and explains the value and benefits of effective management of master data.
Monday, 26th November 2007

GDPS: The e-business Availability Solution

This white paper discusses IBM's GDPS solution and its value.
Tuesday, 20th November 2007

Improve Operational Efficiencies and Speed Applications into Production

Discover how the IBM Software Development Platform can help you move your projects forward, move your bosses to cheers, and move you up the ladder to greater success.
Tuesday, 20th November 2007

Power Consumption and Cooling in the Data Center: A Survey

Power consumption and cooling issues in the data center are important to companies, as evidenced by a survey conducted by the Strategy Group, an independent research company, on behalf of Ziff Davis Media.
Tuesday, 20th November 2007

Oracle 2 Day DBA Course - Oracle Database 11g Release 1

This course is designed to complement the Oracle 2 Day DBA documentation.
Thursday, 15th November 2007

Oracle Database 11g Application Development

Oracle Database 11g supports a wide variety of application development technology with tools that will improve the performance of your applications and the productivity of your developers.
Thursday, 15th November 2007

Oracle Database 11g Architecture on Windows

The Oracle database has become one of the leading database solutions for the Windows platform.
Thursday, 15th November 2007

Oracle® Business Intelligence Standard Edition One Tutorial

Using Oracle BI Standard Edition One, you can immediately reap the benefits of being able to quickly distill operational information into business reports and to deliver them automatically through a number of channels, including Web dashboards.
Thursday, 15th November 2007

Data Replication and CDP for IBM AIX Environments

Learn the essentials of continuous data protection (CDP) and more.
Tuesday, 13th November 2007

Data Replication and CDP for IBM AIX Environments

In 20 minutes learn about Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and more.
Tuesday, 13th November 2007

Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery in System i (AS/400) and AIX environments

Create the framework for a DR plan for your IT systems.
Tuesday, 13th November 2007

Beyond Disaster Recovery: Becoming a Resilient Business

Learn how the IBM Business Resilience Framework and the IBM Business Resilience Transformation Lifecycle differ from traditional disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, and discover how a resilient architecture enables you to take advantage of business opportunities while mitigating their attendant risks.
Tuesday, 6th November 2007

Calculating the Return on Investment for Clustering Caching and Data Grid Solutions

Learn real examples of practical ROI strategies for quantifying the dollar value for improvements in service level performance, data reliability and resource utilization and scalability.
Thursday, 25th October 2007

Data Grids and Service-Oriented Architecture

Learn the challenges of selecting an SOA strategy, how an SOA can improve data availability and reliability, and how clustered caching can improve SOA performance and ensure scalability for very large-scale transaction volumes.
Thursday, 25th October 2007

Green Computing Beyond The Datacenter

Discover how to lower computer energy costs by reducing workstation power consumption without impacting user productivity.
Thursday, 18th October 2007

Fiducia Enhances Bank's Responsiveness with IBM Content Management Solution

Learn how Fudicia derived more revenue and increased their market share by minimizing paper storage requirements.
Monday, 1st October 2007

Gothaer Group - Reduce Costs by integrating content with BPM

Learn how Gothaer Group benefited by creating an enterprise-wide document management solution to process all incoming and outgoing documents.
Monday, 1st October 2007

IBM Content Manager OnDemand Consolidated Solution

Learn how IBM Content Manager OnDemand is used by a utility company.
Monday, 1st October 2007

IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition

Explore how to maximize knowledge worker productivity by unifying business content from across the enterprise into a single, relevant, and secure search interface.
Monday, 1st October 2007

IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition for Searching Domino

Discover how IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition helps organizations maximize employee productivity and knowledge sharing in Lotus Domino environments by providing scalable, secure, and high-quality enterprise search.
Monday, 1st October 2007

IBM pureXML for SOA: Unlocking the Business Value Information

This white paper outlines how IBM can help guide businesses through the process of getting started with SOA and XML.
Monday, 1st October 2007

IBM Web Interface for Content Manager OnDemand

Discover how content management can transform your business with improved productivity and streamlined compliance.
Monday, 1st October 2007

Jerry Keesee: Welcome to IDS 11

Learn the value of the the next generation of the IBM Informix Dynamic Server
Monday, 1st October 2007

Need Disk Space? IBM DB2 9 Compression Demo

Learn how DB2 9's data row compression saves up to 80% in disk space.
Monday, 1st October 2007

OZ Becomes a National Cost-Efficiency Leader with IBM Solution

Learn how to drive business processes with digital content management.
Monday, 1st October 2007

pureXML Critical to Capitalizing on ACORD's Potential

More than ever before, real-time responsiveness to every constituency in a carrier's information chain along with adaptability to changing conditions are the hallmarks of sustainable success.
Monday, 1st October 2007

Speeding Your Business Processes: Making Transactional Content Readily Available

Discover a solution that will help businesses support a growing number of transactions and leverage existing transactional data more efficiently.
Monday, 1st October 2007

Telco Demo: DB2 Content Manager OnDemand Telco Statements Solution

Learn how the DB2 Content Manager on Demand solution can help gain significant return on investment, increase customer satisfaction and improve overall efficiency.
Monday, 1st October 2007

Advances in Data Warehouse Performance

Learn how to reduce query response time from hours to seconds, support real time data warehousing, optimize your storage and lower operating costs.
Friday, 14th September 2007

Big Blue Touts Dynamic, Balanced Warehousing

Explore the evolving industry of data warehousing from the the vice president of business intelligence solutions at IBM.
Friday, 14th September 2007

Customer Reference "Siemens Chooses DB2 and SAP"

Discover why Siemens chose to implement a DB2 to run their SAP applications with the help of IBM.
Friday, 14th September 2007

DB2 9 Row Compression in a SAP R/3 Production System

Discover the basic conditions of the SAP R/3 system environment, the procedure of the switch to a DB2 9 compressed system and the measured results.
Friday, 14th September 2007

IBM Systems Solution for SAP NetWeaver BI Acceleration

Explore how new SAP technologies and IBM infrastructure components will help customers to achieve a scalable SAP NetWeaver based BI solution with good performance and for a low total cost of ownership.
Friday, 14th September 2007

mySAP All-in-One and IBM DB2: The Affordable Scalable Answer to Your Specific Needs

Learn how mySAP All-in-One and IBM DB2 optimized for SAP is designed to meet the specific needs of emerging businesses.
Friday, 14th September 2007

Revinetix backup and recovery solutions make protecting city data simple and affordable for Overland

Learn how Overland Park, Kansas used low cost and easy to use Revinetix Data Protection solutions to protect their mission-critical information systems and get their backup strategies in place.
Wednesday, 12th September 2007

Web Optimization: Improving Application Performance from Within the Data Center

Explore the challenges of web application delivery and learn how to choose the best web application optimization products and solutions that will provide your users with a consistent, high-performance, reliable and secure application experience.
Tuesday, 11th September 2007

2006-07 Scorecards for Data Governance in the Global 5000

Learn the best practices for data governance from the experience of more that fifty Global 5000 enterprises.
Monday, 10th September 2007

Multi-Entity Master Data Management: The 4th Generation of MDM

Learn about the value of a multi-entity MDM and how to implement this strategy in your business.
Monday, 10th September 2007

The Toxic Terabyte: How Data-Dumping Threatens Business Efficiency

Learn how data-dumping threatens business efficiency.
Monday, 10th September 2007

The Total Economic Impact™ of the Tripwire Enterprise Solution - Forrester/Axia NetMedia Case S

Hear from a leading industry analyst how your company can quickly enjoy a substantial return on investment from implementing Tripwire's configuration audit and control solution.
Thursday, 30th August 2007

Enterprise Backup and Recovery Methodologies for Oracle

Overcome the unique back up and recovering challenges Oracle environments can present.
Thursday, 23rd August 2007

Enterprise Backup and Recovery Methodologies for Oracle

Learn about a number of options that can help you cost effectively manage the challenges of backing up and recovering Oracle environments.
Thursday, 23rd August 2007

Enterprise Backup and Recovery Methodologies for your Oracle Environment

Learn about a number of options that can help you cost effectively manage the challenges of backing up and recovering Oracle environments.
Thursday, 23rd August 2007

IBM DB2 9 Compression Demo

Learn how DB2 9's data row compression saves up to 80% in disk space.
Monday, 13th August 2007

Relational Modeling with UML

Learn the basic concepts behind relational modeling, how it applies to databases, and how it is implemented using the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
Monday, 13th August 2007

Configuration Audit and Control: 10 Critical Factors for CCM Success

Find out how Configuration Audit and Control solution can provide a single, valuable, independent source for enforcing and reporting on change policy across an IT organization.
Wednesday, 18th July 2007

The PCI DSS: Get Compliant. Stay Compliant.

Learn more about the leading configuration audit and control solution, enabling companies to improve data protection.
Thursday, 12th July 2007

SQL Server Optimization and Data Protection with Intelligent iSCSI SANs

Join us as we review best practices in deploying SQL Server in an intelligent iSCSI SAN. Acquire the tools to assess your company's SAN needs.
Monday, 9th July 2007

Right-Sizing Your Log Management Solution

Learn how to ensure your organization gets the most out of its log management investment.
Monday, 25th June 2007

Mastering Master Data Management

Understand the strategic importance of MDM, its role in enterprise information management and support for service-oriented architecture environments.
Thursday, 21st June 2007

Optimizing the Data Center with Juniper Networks

Profiles trends impacting today's Data Center, and shares proven solutions designed to quickly and economically adapt data centers to meet challenging requirements.
Tuesday, 19th June 2007

On-Demand Security Audit – Free 14-Day Trial

Qualys helps organizations secure their networks & conduct automated audits to achieve & maintain compliance.
Wednesday, 16th May 2007

Managing Your Oracle Analytics

Oracle Users: Simplify the way analytics are developed, used, managed and deployed, while leveraging your existing information technology infrastructure.
Wednesday, 9th May 2007

Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard: How SafeNet Enterprise Products Help Companies M

Learn how sensitive and valuable cardholders' information is protected from all types of threats, and that regulatory compliance is not only being met, but exceeded.
Friday, 4th May 2007

Effectively Managing Change Across the Data Center

Strategies and advice to assess your situation, automate change processes, and establish the single source of accurate information.
Wednesday, 2nd May 2007

Empowering your People with Information: 5 Things to Consider

Highlights five key things to consider when selecting enterprise search to benefit your business and workers.
Wednesday, 2nd May 2007

Introduction of BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA's) efficient and high-level informational review offers insight and intelligence on BMC's Atrium CMDB 2.0
Wednesday, 2nd May 2007

Viewpoint - Focus on CMDB Leadership

A compilation of articles by industry experts published by BMC Software.
Tuesday, 1st May 2007

Staying One Step Ahead with Synthetic Performance Monitoring

Learn why it's essential that businesses measure application response times from an end-users' perspective to ensure optimal service delivery.
Thursday, 26th April 2007

Transaction Management: The Next Step in Service-Oriented IT

Ziff Davis Media surveyed 1,190 technology decision makers. Results support needs for new tools to manage business transaction performance from an end user perspective.
Thursday, 26th April 2007

Viewpoint - Focus on: CMDB

A compilation of articles by industry experts published by BMC Software.
Thursday, 26th April 2007

What Do You Need from a Configuration Management Database (CMDB)?

Learn the importance of configuration management, recommended CMDB approach, and what a CMDB should do for you.
Wednesday, 25th April 2007

Complying with FISMA

Find out what the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requires of federal agencies and how configuration audit and control solutions can help automate compliance.
Monday, 23rd April 2007

Department of Defense Information Assurance Briefs

This information helps you satisfy the information assurance requirements of many regulations.
Monday, 23rd April 2007

PCI Compliance: Are You Onboard?

Comply with requirements by enabling configuration audit and control.
Monday, 23rd April 2007

Combine ITIL and COBIT to Meet Business Challenges

Learn how ITIL® and COBIT can be used together to understand the challenges of compliance regulations and the need to use systems-based solutions.
Friday, 20th April 2007

DOCUMENT

Is the source for hands-on strageties and solutions for managing print and electronic transactional documents such as invoices, policies, statements and other customer communications.
Thursday, 19th April 2007

Exposing and Taming Costs of Office Document-Handling

Discover how systematic design of document workflow can generate significant savings.
Friday, 13th April 2007

Reduce the Headache of Infrastructure Change in Five Steps

Learn how to maximize the success of a planned infrastructure change.
Tuesday, 27th March 2007

Getting Coherence™: Free Data Grid Webinar

Learn how Coherence™ Data Grid easily helps you achieve unlimited application scalability and continuous availability on a global scale.
Wednesday, 21st March 2007

Getting Started with Compliance Initiatives

Learn how your bank can achieve best practices around core compliance initiatives impacting the retail banking industry.
Wednesday, 14th March 2007

Sarbanes-Oxley Simplified

Learn how to remove weakness in asset and inventory control required by SOX.
Wednesday, 14th March 2007

Endpoint Security Strategies: Part II

Aberdeen Group's endpoint data protection benchmark report identifies successful strategies, recommends actions, and provides steps for success.
Tuesday, 6th March 2007

The Consequential Risk Of Weak Internal Controls: Fraud and Accounting Irregularities

Useful real-world case studies demonstrate how workflow and imaging strengthen internal controls and reduce operating costs.
Tuesday, 6th March 2007

A Breakthrough in Collaboration and Development Driven Through Open Source

Explains technologic and business advantages to deploying Collaborative Reporting Architecture, focusing on the Actuate 9 solution.
Monday, 5th March 2007

Accountable Data Protection: An IT Imperative

Prepare for enterprise compliance and data availability requirements of the future by implementing a holistic and heterogeneous data protection management solution.
Monday, 5th March 2007

Data Classification: Why, When and How

Learn how to overcome challenges and make data classification the keystone to building an intelligent IT service bureau within your organization.
Monday, 5th March 2007

Evaluating Enterprise Reporting and Corporate Performance Management Tools

Understand key differences between the tools required for operational and strategic decision-making with this enterprise reporting and CPM overview.
Monday, 5th March 2007

Practical Steps Toward Successful Information Lifecycle Management

Learn the foundations of ILM and the steps to take for successful implementation.
Monday, 5th March 2007

Proper Destruction of Confidential Information

Learn new laws and why proper disposing of information is necessary for all organizations – public or private.
Monday, 5th March 2007

The Future of Online Channel Reporting for Financial Service Firms

Provides insight into how leading institutions keep pace by improving their online channels and identifies current drivers of change.
Monday, 5th March 2007

Benefits of Electronic Invoicing

Learn how to make e-invoicing (EIPP) an integral part of your AP solution to recruit and enable suppliers.
Monday, 5th March 2007

Embracing the Seven Pillars of Strong Internal Controls

Explore how business process automation and imaging software integrated with ERP can optimize a variety of financial processes.
Monday, 5th March 2007

Document Process Management: The Case for an Integrated Lifecycle Approach

How outsourcing DPM maximizes the utility of documents as critical business assets and minimizes document related risks.
Wednesday, 28th February 2007

Performance Management for Outsourced Document Processes

Achieve the next level of efficiency by learning the benefits of implementing an outsourced performance management system.
Wednesday, 28th February 2007

Data Quality Business Case: Projecting Return on Investment with David Loshin

Key business dimensions impacted and how to tackle and develop a business case justifying investment in data quality improvement.
Thursday, 22nd February 2007

Data Quality, Compliance, and Risk for Financial Institutions

Details recent regulations and how improving data quality is central to these initiatives and the success of today's financial institutions.
Thursday, 22nd February 2007

Powerful Techniques for High-Performance Data Warehousing

Learn techniques to help transform data while reducing CPU, memory and disk resource usage.
Thursday, 22nd February 2007

The Power of High-Speed Data Transformation

Boost the impact, value and performance of your mission-critical applications in UNIX, Linux and Windows environments.
Thursday, 22nd February 2007

Data Quality: Driving Single View of Customer

Outlines data quality importance with reference to SVC and how poor data quality can hamper, delay and defeat organizations in implementing CRM and SVC.
Wednesday, 21st February 2007

The Challenge of Global Data Synchronization

How CPG enterprises can empower themselves to improve and maintain critical master data in the era of global data standards.
Wednesday, 21st February 2007

Build the Path to Better Profits: Implementing ERP Technology Successfully

Nine steps to easier ERP implementations and profits for small and medium-sized businesses.
Thursday, 15th February 2007

Breakthrough Data Recovery for IBM AIX Environments

How new technologies are making data protection, recovery and high availability easier and more affordable.
Monday, 12th February 2007

Manage and Unify Your Entire Enterprise with ERP

Macola ES/Progression overview demonstrates ability to manage accounting, distribution and manufacturing activities...
Wednesday, 7th February 2007

Understanding Document Knowledge Management

Learn how to easily link documents, emails and files to people, projects and products.
Wednesday, 7th February 2007

Optimize E-Discovery with Kazeon

Identifying, searching and managing electronic information is expensive and risks legal exposure. Learn to dramatically reduce the cost of electronic discovery.
Tuesday, 6th February 2007

Achieving the Impossible: Unlimited Application Scalability

Approach and solution for predictability, higher throughput, and lower latency for data operations while retaining required data quality.
Friday, 2nd February 2007

Address Privacy Compliance by Tracking Personally Identifiable Information

Do you know where your sensitive information is? Since 2005 over 1 million records have been exposed outside of corporate networks. In a free white paper, learn how you can address this growing threat.
Friday, 2nd February 2007

How to Migrate Off the Mainframe

Approaches, techniques, and tools needed to successfully migrate data to open standard regional database management systems.
Friday, 2nd February 2007

Taneja Group Technology in Depth: Information Management Solutions

Learn how a powerful new solutions category has emerged, providing new intelligence and control over server and storage resident data.
Friday, 2nd February 2007

How an Integrated System Boosted a Distributor's Revenue, Productivity, and Data Access

Find out how one company increased revenue by 200 percent using an ERP, Web-enabled workflow, and reporting solution.
Friday, 26th January 2007

Real-Time Monitoring, Reporting and Insight of Financials

Create up-to-the-moment insight to cash flow and management while providing control functions for forecasting, budgeting, reporting and analysis.
Friday, 26th January 2007

Achieving Configuration Compliance in a Regulatory Framework

Find out how to achieve automated configuration compliance with an appliance that delivers comprehensive assistance.
Wednesday, 24th January 2007

Calculating ROI for Data Migration and Data Integration Projects

Data profiling is a critical step in the lifecycle. Learn how to reduce time to plan and excute data integration strategies.
Thursday, 18th January 2007

Data Quality, Compliance, and Risk for Financial Institutions

Learn about an end-to-end data quality framework solution that will improve data quality for effective risk management and compliance in your organization.
Thursday, 18th January 2007

How to Launch a Data Governance Program

Key information and practical guidelines including a checklist to evaluate your technology infrastructure to support a data governance program.
Thursday, 18th January 2007

Migration Readiness Assessment

Covers challenges and risks of data migration, plus a detailed look at how to do a Migration Readiness Assessment for your organization.
Thursday, 18th January 2007

Do's and Don'ts: Embedding Open Source BI in Mission Critical Applications

Insider tips to evaluate Open Source Business Intelligence and more easily find a solution to meet your needs.
Tuesday, 16th January 2007

Microsoft Dynamics (TM) GP Business Intelligence

Reduce Information Overload and Enable Fast and Informed Decisions: Learn solutions and tools that provide business intelligence for analysis at the strategic, tactical and operational levels of an organization.
Tuesday, 16th January 2007

Open Source Business Intelligence: Ready to Play in the Big Leagues

Real-world deployments and best practices for a less costly, flexible alternative to BI proprietary technologies.
Tuesday, 16th January 2007

Beyond High Availability: “Always-On” Applications for Financial Services

Learn how the combination of business-focused processes and plans for DR and HA initiatives can benefit your organization or financial services firm.
Thursday, 11th January 2007

Best Practices: Implementing Disaster Recovery Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

Review of eight best practices to help you understand what you need to consider during Exchange disaster recovery design and deployment.
Tuesday, 9th January 2007

Implementing High Availability for Virtual Servers: What You Need to Know

Introduction to virtual machine technology and a detailed look at a range of potential high availability configurations using virtual machines.
Tuesday, 9th January 2007

Essential Guide to User Continuity

Learn how IT professionals can keep users working and productive throughout any type of network computing failure.
Friday, 5th January 2007

Expect the Unexpected: High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Windows Applications

How to protect your company's critical applications by minimizing your risk to disasters with high availability solutions.
Friday, 5th January 2007

Controlling Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence

Learn how to manage the burgeoning number of unsanctioned Excel spreadsheets by developing a corporate strategy for them using business intelligence software.
Tuesday, 19th December 2006

Critical Success Factors for Business Intelligence

Hear an informative panel discussion on operational business intelligence and the keys to a successful deployment.
Tuesday, 19th December 2006

Research Reveals Business Benefits of IBM's Newest Database

Bloor research uncovers IBM's DB2 9 feature rich capabilities and how it stacks up against competitors.
Monday, 18th December 2006

Effective IT Service Management: Change and Configuration Management Database Benefits

Enables benefit from new innovations in application discovery, data federation and application integration with a CCMDB.
Monday, 18th December 2006

Gartner Analyst Report: CMDB or Configuration Database - Know the Difference

Find out critical differences between a CMDB and a configuration database and important elements you need for true CMDB capability.
Monday, 18th December 2006

Analysis: Total Economic Impact™ of BMC® Software Change and Configuration Management Solu

Forrester Consulting examines the financial impact and potential ROI for an organization implementing software solutions from BMC.
Thursday, 14th December 2006

BMC Strengthens its Market Position with the Introduction of BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) explains how BMC® Software has strengthened its market position in the CMDB space with the introduction of its Atrium CMDB 2.0.
Thursday, 14th December 2006

Connecting Business and IT Goals with Closed Loop Client Management

Learn about client management problems, ITIL best practices, and how software from BMC(R) Software fits in.
Thursday, 14th December 2006

Effectively Managing Change Across the Data Center

Strategies and advice to assess your situation, automate change processes and establish the single source of accurate information.
Thursday, 14th December 2006

Enterprise Management Associates: Ensuring Business Services with Best Practice Solutions

While BMC has always had its service desk offerings and operations tools, this paper will teach you how to bridge the gap by connecting event correlation with service modeling and incident handling.
Thursday, 14th December 2006

Four Steps to Developing a Service Management Strategy for Midsized Business

Discusses the progression of businesses from small to midsize organizations and their increasing dependency on IT solutions, including the need for automated systems and a more efficient and effective service desk.
Thursday, 14th December 2006

IDM Butler Technology Audit

BMC Identity Management is a suite that provides end-to-end management of identities for employees, contractors, suppliers, partners, and employees. One of its strengths is the integration with other BMC products.
Thursday, 14th December 2006

Online Evaluation of BMC® Service Desk Express

Free Trial: A 100% browser based solution, BMC® Service Desk Express is designed to meet business requirements, automate service desk processes, and lower cost of support operations.
Thursday, 14th December 2006

The Forrester Wave™: Application Mapping For The CMDB

Forrester evaluates vendors who have brought an original technology for automated application to infrastructure dependency mapping to market.
Thursday, 14th December 2006

The Volkswagen Group Customer Success Story: BMC's Identity Management Solution

With a mission to provide all parties involved with centralized, policy-based access to information assets, The Volkswagen Group evaluated alternative solutions and concluded that BMC was the best fit.
Thursday, 14th December 2006

Transaction Management Interactive Web Program: Improving the End-User Experience

Proactively detect, isolate and resolve business transaction problems. Learn what tools can make your job easier and what pitfalls to avoid with BMC Transaction Management.
Thursday, 14th December 2006

What Do You Need from a Configuration Management Database?

A demonstration of the need for configuration management and a CMDB based on IT infrastructure library (ITIL) goals.
Thursday, 14th December 2006

Optimizing Your IT Controls Environment for Compliance with Multiple Regulations

Learn to identify controls common across multi regulations and standards and hear about a tool that can help.
Friday, 8th December 2006

Reducing the Cost of IT Compliance: Streamlining the IT Compliance Life Cycle

Learn how to streamline the IT compliance life cycle and free up resources for other business priorities.
Friday, 8th December 2006

Implementing a Best-of-Breed Fusion Center

Learn about the critical components and success factors required to design and implement effective information sharing.
Tuesday, 5th December 2006

Process-Driven BI: Building Smarter Business Processes

Learn how you can make your business processes work smarter, not harder, to improve business efficiency and performance.
Tuesday, 5th December 2006

How to Build Interactive Scorecards, Dashboards and Business Reports with MicroStrategy

Learn about this revolutionary business intelligence platform solution for reaching all business users with the information they need.
Tuesday, 17th October 2006

Migrating Off the Mainframe

Regardless of the reasons why your business has elected to move off mainframe, once the decision has been made, your IT organization needs to know about the approaches, techniques, and tools to successfully migrate to a more modern application landscape or open standard RDBMS like Oracle. This is where this white paper can help.
Wednesday, 26th July 2006

Cost Effective Scalability with Informatica PowerCenter8 on HP Grid on Linux

This white paper details benchmark tests measuring the performance and scalability of Informatica. PowerCenter. 8 Enterprise Grid Option in a 64-bit grid system based on HP servers and RedHat Linux.
Tuesday, 20th June 2006

Data Governance, Why It Matters to the Business

Companies and government organizations of all sizes are striving to manage data as an enterprise asset, to be shared and reused across multiple software applications and systems, business processes, and users throughout the organization.
Tuesday, 20th June 2006

The Data Quality Business Case: Projecting Return on Investment

The purpose of this White Paper is to outline the importance of data quality in today's business environment. It describes how an organization should tackle a data quality improvement process and where Informatica data quality software solutions fit into that process.
Tuesday, 20th June 2006

The Reference Guide to Data Center Automation

In this Anil Desai and Don Jones eBook, get an introduction into Data Center Automation, its business value and the framework and goals of which ITIL can help your organization deliver high-quality services in a manageable way.
Wednesday, 14th June 2006

How Performance - Centered Knowledge Management Creates High Performance Employees

Learn how to maximize performance of front-line and back-office employees with the right knowledge management system...
Tuesday, 30th May 2006

7 Major Leading Applications of Business Intelligence Software

Discover the depth and breadth of business intelligence applications across seven major categories.
Thursday, 6th April 2006

Comprehensive Business Intelligence Market Study - Summary Results from The OLAP Survey 5

Gain real-world insight into actual BI implementations, product selection, and challenges faced.
Thursday, 6th April 2006

Real-World Selection Criteria for BI Standardization

Explore the real-world selection criteria for business intelligence (BI) standardization as employed by leading companies. This paper benchmarks enterprise data environments, providing quantitative and qualitative assessments of BI requirements useful for your organization's own standardization efforts.
Thursday, 6th April 2006

Using Enterprise Business Intelligence Software to Improve Corporate Performance

Learn how business intelligence (BI) can improve corporate performance through integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring.
Thursday, 6th April 2006

Addressing Data Quality at the Enterprise Level: Six Questions to Ensure Enterprise High-Quality Dat

Data quality encompasses more than finding and fixing missing or inaccurate data. It means delivering comprehensive, consistent, relevant, and timely data to the business regardless of its application, use, or origin.
Monday, 27th February 2006

Enterprise Data Integration in Financial Services: Leveraging the Value of Your Data Assets

Discusses common barriers to integrating data in financial services, the shift towards
Monday, 27th February 2006

Implementing or Upgrading SAP? Don't Forget the Data: Addressing the Challenges and Risks of Data Mi

The successful implementation of mission-critical SAP enterprise applications requires a mission-critical approach to data migration. Data migration is not just about moving the data into SAP; it's about making the data work once within SAP.
Tuesday, 17th January 2006

IBM Balanced Warehouse Buyer's Guide - Unlock the Potential of Data with the Right Data Warehouse So

Learn how an effective data warehouse solution offers value beyond simple query and reporting capabilities.
Wednesday, 31st December 1969

Overview: Backup & Recovery - Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade

A new gold standard in continuous data protection and complete system recovery is here - Symantec Backup Exec (TM) 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8.
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