Becoming a real-time business requires managing daily business transactions of your core business processes in real time, and capturing data from new sources like social media or mobile apps. And you need to be able to analyze all this data. Ultimately, it requires people to be able to access real-time information on any device for immediate action. Read this white paper to learn about an in-memory platform and how it can you help create new business value.
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BI is a complex solution that involves new concepts, new procedures, and a learning curve. Management with knowledge of BI must assess whether there is a real need for a new BI solution and whether a chosen solution would provide any measurable benefit. This white paper assesses the results from a recent BI survey of 2200 end users of BI software. Considerations to take into account when selecting a BI solution are followed by a look at the future of BI.
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In a highly competitive world, businesses seek differentiation based on the quality, range, and accessibility of their information assets. It’s not enough to simply capture and maintain the larger data categories and volumes that every organization encounters today. Instead, transforming all of this raw data into strategic superiority requires an information management infrastructure that satisfies essential prerequisites. Download this white paper to learn more.
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Organizations are finding it increasingly difficult to get the right information to the right people at the right time, and business managers are facing a shrinking “decision window.” With many companies also dealing with increasing volumes of data, this gives rise to an opportunity for innovation in analytics. This article uses the results of an agile business intelligence (BI) survey to examine the performance of organization that provide business users with visual tools that let them freely and easily explore data to discover new insights.
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Conventional wisdom once held that when you committed to a database management system (DBMS), you never changed it. But things are different today. In the case of an ERP system, for example, the application code has, for the most part, become independent of the DBMS—much application code runs as easily and efficiently on one DBMS as it does on another. This white paper discusses some of the reasons for and benefits of changing your DBMS.
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With the revolution of in-memory computing already under way, the question isn’t if this revolution will impact businesses, but when and how. This paper details how in-memory computing can change the way you manage business intelligence (BI). For business and information technology (IT) executives, the paper furnishes substantial information and business examples about what changes they can look forward to and how those changes can catalyze their strategic initiatives.
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Business data is growing at an unprecedented speed, and organizations of all sizes, across all industries, have to face the challenge of scaling up their data infrastructure to meet this new pressure. Advances in server hardware and application design have led to a potential solution: in-memory computing. Read Aberdeen's Analyst Insight report and see how in-memory computing can address two of the "three Vs" of big data.
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The convergence of intelligent devices, social networking, pervasive broadband communications, and analytics is redefining relationships among producers, distributors, and consumers. The growth in volume, variety, and velocity of data has created new challenges and opportunities. This IDC paper discusses the emerging technologies of the big data movement, the various challenges it has created, and how they can best be met.
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Small or midsize businesses need powerful yet affordable analytics, business intelligence (BI), and mobile functionality— to get the information required for making better business decisions. You need trustworthy data from your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, to derive insights and deliver information when and where your employees need it. For a road map for better datadriven decisions, read this report.
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Enterprise information technology (IT) and business leaders urgently seek to solve the "big data" and "time‐to‐insight" problem. Doing so will require off‐the-shelf data management and business analytics products that simplify collaboration while enabling real‐time reporting and rapid, ad‐hoc querying from diverse devices, especially mobile. Download this white paper to discover the key to unlocking the value of big data.
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Data is growing at unprecedented rates. Data on customers, producers, underwriting, claims, and service providers is just part of the picture. This increase is being driven by social media and mobile devices adding text and other nonstructured, as well as structured, data. Read this report to find out about the tremendous payback that comes from managing huge repositories of data.
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Prompted by volatile markets and a troubled economy, the need to contain or reduce costs is key for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs are turning to enterprise resource planning (ERP) or business intelligence (BI) solutions to provide control and visibility. Each provides value, but the marriage of the two becomes the perfect storm, igniting improved performance and visibility. This report discusses their synergistic relationship.
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Data management, access, and analysis haven’t always received the same amount of consideration, or respect, as the corporate applications that generate and consume the data. In recent years, however, information technology (IT) leaders have focused much more attention on their organizations’ data management platforms and capabilities. Download this white paper to get a better picture of the current data management landscape.
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The business world is evolving into one that rewards timely, data-supported decisions as a supplement or replacement for “gut-feel” judgments. The challenge is that most organizations have more data than they know what to do with. For software provider considering the addition of business intelligence (BI) capability and end-users exploring its business value, this brief seeks to investigate and quantify the business impact of embedded BI.
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Today, most people acknowledge that big data is more than a fad and is a proven model for leveraging existing information sources to make smarter, more immediate decisions that result in better business outcomes. Big data has already been put in use by companies across vertical market segments to improve top- and bottom-line performance. As unstructured data becomes a pervasive source of business intelligence, big data will continue to play a more strategic role in enterprise information technology (IT). Companies that recognize this reality—and that act on it in a technologically, operationally, and economically optimized way—will gain sustainable competitive advantages.
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The cloud is a revolution that is changing the way we think about business and commerce. Many business leaders feel that a failure to invest in the cloud will result in loss of market share, but they are united about the potential of the cloud to significantly improve capacity and flexibility, generate greater efficiencies, create competitive advantages, transform business prospects, and generate economic value. Read this white paper to learn about some of the drivers of, barriers to, and opportunities resulting from cloud adoption.
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The proliferation of process automation, sensor networks, user-generated content, machine-to-machine connections, and mobile computing is driving the far-reaching trend referred to as “big data.” It takes new tools and techniques to collect, process, and distribute this enormous amount of information. Download this white paper and know how to overcome six of the challenges you’ll face as you strive to capitalize on big data.
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At the recent SAPPHIRE NOW and SAP TechEd event in November, SAP announced the next-generation SAP HANA platform. TEC Principal Analyst P.J. Jakovljevic was there and brings you all the details in this TEC Report. Download the report to get the latest developments to SAP HANA and how this platform can help companies gain insights into their business in real time, and may even help healthcare organizations cure cancer.
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Many forces in today's world of big data are driving applications to become more real-time. Data needs to go many places, be sorted and stored in different formats, and used in a wide variety of ways. Capturing high volume data streams inside and outside datacenters can be complicated and expensive using traditional software messaging middleware on general purpose servers. In order to realize the full value of “big data” some organizations are switching to real-time message-oriented middleware appliances that excel at the high-speed distribution of large volumes of data.
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At the end of 2009, SAP launched SAP HANA, an in-memory, column-row based database management system with capabilities within both OLTP and OLAP environments. In June of 2012, SAP announced that HANA had become the fastest growing technology in the company’s history. In this report, TEC Senior BI and Data Management Analyst Jorge García gives an overview of the history, functionality, and benefits and challenges of SAP HANA, and explores SAP’s strategy for the product and its place in the in-memory processing product space.
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Core Analytx is a vendor of business intelligence (BI) software solutions and services. Its BI solution is an affordable option for medium-sized organization and a flexible and easy-to-use business analytics option for large organizations, as a main provider or as a complement for those organizations already using other BI applications. TEC BI analyst Jorge García profiles the company and its core product.
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The rapid proliferation of mobile devices entering the workplace feels like divine intervention to many IT leaders. This raises the inevitable question: how will you support workforce desire to use personal apps and devices while allowing them to be productive in a secure environment that protects corporate data? Read the Ten Commandments of BYOD to know how to create a peaceful, secure, and productive mobile environment.
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Monolithic ERP systems have proved inflexible in a period of change. The cost of maintenance and modifications are often prohibitively expensive. Yet most best-of-class applications generally lack strong integration tools. As a result, many companies cannot support change effectively. See how you can supplement the capabilities of your legacy ERP solutions with a flexible, innovative financial management system-and thrive during change.
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Enterprise applications require fast access to large volumes of information, and are pushing the performance limits of traditional storage architectures. Although it's easy to add storage capacity by adding more disk drives and arrays, it's not so easy to scale storage I/O performance. See how hybrid storage pools enable a new approach to storage architectures--increasing performance, reducing costs, and simplifying management.
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Increasingly sophisticated threats and the push toward data consolidation and cloud computing are in part why a defense-in-depth approach to security is critical to safeguarding data. Data breach investigations have shown that security controls must be multi-layered to protect against threats, and the ever changing regulatory landscape and focus on privacy demonstrate the need for solutions to be transparent and cost effective. Read this white paper for more.
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New versions of database software and operating systems (OSs) come out regularly. In the past, upgrading the database and OS for individual environments has been very expensive and a never-ending job—by the time all the business systems are upgraded, it’s time to start again. This white paper discusses Oracle Database 11g Release 2, which reduces the cost and risk associated with making these changes.
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This white paper provides an overview of the various feature sets available within the Oracle Database family of products. Built using a reliable database architecture, these products provide the necessary foundation to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service and efficiently manage change within the environment to deliver better value.
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Nearly all companies realize the way to gain a competitive advantage is to obtain better data, interpret them quickly, and distribute them in easier-to-use formats. But there are many obstacles to the effective use of data, resulting in unused corporate data in many companies. How are companies using information to beat their rivals and create a more level playing field? Find out how business practices are evolving to this end.
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For many organizations, IT is split between two groups. The data center facility is provided and managed by facilities management, while the IT equipment within the facility is provisioned and managed by the IT department. This can lead to problems—and an outsourced solution can allow a business to concentrate on its strategy, rather than on “keeping the lights on.” This white paper discusses the importance of a holistic approach between a data center facility and the equipment within it.
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The Cincinnati Zoo, a nonprofit 100-acre facility featuring more than 500 animals, needed to reduce its cost and increase revenues from sources such as admissions, memberships, and food and merchandise purchases. The problem was data. The zoo chose IBM Cognos BI analytics to create a more satisfying customer experience—while cutting marketing costs, increasing new visits, boosting concession revenues, and much more.
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In late 2009, Concept One, a sports, entertainment, and fashion accessory firm, decided it needed a better way to deliver reporting to its managers. Report building had become a distraction for the IT department, preventing it from helping other lines of business. Also, it sometimes took several days to fulfill a request for a custom report. Read how this firm achieved an 866% ROI in two months using IBM Cognos Express.
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See how a yacht chartering company can analyze its revenue and reservations using interactive dashboards.
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See the integrated reporting, analysis, and planning capabilities that can help your midsize business to drive greater efficiencies, manage costs, and identify growth opportunities.
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Organizations that are driven by analytics outpace their competitors. But how do you know how well you’re using analytics? Click here for an exciting new way to measure your success with analytics. Take IBM’s free analytics quotient (AQ) quiz now to learn your score. It’s quick, it’s easy, and it will put you on the path to better business outcomes, whether you’re an aspiring newcomer or a wizened analytics master.
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Moving an organization’s critical data from a legacy system promises numerous benefits, but only if the migration is handled correctly. In practice, it takes an understanding of the entire ERP data lifecycle combined with industry-specific experience, knowledge, and skills to drive the process through the required steps accurately, efficiently, and in the right order. Read this white paper to learn more.
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A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive business intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market. This white paper addresses several questions that BI customers are facing.
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The pace of change is accelerating across all areas of health care with new and innovative technologies, mobile computing devices, potential changes from fee-for-service to bundled pay-for-performance reimbursements, changes to care delivery with accountable care organizations, and other potential regulatory changes in the very near future.
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This report on the Cibecs and IDG Connect 2012 business data loss survey uncovers the latest statistics and trends around enterprise data protection. Download the full results now.
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JurInnov’s director of information systems and security provides a detailed analysis of why development of a security-oriented corporate culture is imperative for companies wishing to keep their electronically stored information secure.
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An Aberdeen study from 2010 revealed that respondents were still in the early stages of mobile business intelligence (BI) adoption. But now, many companies are gearing up to deploy mobile BI throughout the organization to empower their front-line workers. This Aberdeen report highlights the challenges ahead, and brings focus to issues that organizations need to consider to successfully deploy mobile analytics to their front line.
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Creating and maintaining a successful digital experience that drives business results requires the right research insight, design, technology, and ongoing optimization. Forrester conducted an online survey of 209 digital experience professionals in the US to evaluate current practices around Web site monitoring and digital experiences. Read about the adoption, benefits, and challenges of current data-driven design processes.
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Most organisations are sitting on IT equipment that is not supporting the business optimally, yet the received wisdom is to sweat the assets to gain as much perceived lifetime value from them as possible. However, IT assets have inherent value which can change significantly through each asset’s lifecycle—whether this is through its hard resale value or just through its scrap value. By applying a full IT lifecycle management (ITLM) approach to the complete IT platform, a business-optimised platform can be created—one where business value overrides the embedded concept of sweating assets.
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Most manufacturing enterprises use enterprise resource planning (ERP) as their main business system. It has always been assumed is that companies strive to have one single ERP system to unify all their parts and processes, but a survey shows that the average manufacturing company has 1.9 separate and distinct systems. This paper looks at how overall ERP strategy relates to companies’ performance.
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This case study recaps a nonprofit organization’s business challenges and the benefits it realized upon adopting a business intelligence (BI) solution. The organization needed to combine its data and improve its reporting capabilities for various data types. The BI solution significantly improved the decision-making capabilities of the organization’s executive team, mid-level managers, and employees.
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Social media is providing organizations with a plethora of data about their customers. This paper explains how to leverage business intelligence software and advanced analytics to change the way business is conducted. The end goal should be to personalize marketing messages in a way that allows organizations to narrowly target specific customers based on the knowledge of the customer they already have.
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This guide introduces you to the key concepts of business intelligence, including data modeling, data warehouses, online analytical processing (OLAP), and more. The author debunks many of the prevailing myths that scare small to medium businesses from investigating the use of business intelligence, and explains how the very same techniques and technologies used by massive enterprises are now available to them.
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This Aberdeen report examines the connection between collaborative knowledge sharing and analytical activity. Based on direct feedback from 231 respondents around the globe, results demonstrate that best-in-class companies are leveraging collaborative tools and techniques to share decision context inside and outside their organizations, ultimately leading to substantially improved business performance. Download this report to learn more.
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The widespread adoption of smartphones and tablets, the growth of cloud computing, and the increased need for convenience printing means that organizations must provide employees with a secure and simple managed approach to mobile printing. Read this report and learn about the market drivers for mobile printing in the business environment and some of the best practices for building a mobile print strategy.
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Expense management in the legal sector can be complex and burdened with problems. Expense errors in claims sent to clients can not only result in time being spent in sorting out resulting issues, but can also impact the trust between the client and firm. Legal firms must ensure expenses are dealt with accurately, effectively, and in a timely manner. Download this paper for Quocirca’s recommendations for a chosen system.
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Social networks offer many opportunities for businesses to gain a closer engagement with their customers. This appears to be an unstoppable bandwagon that all organizations must leap on before they are left behind, but is it that simple? The social network landscape is packed with choices and pitfalls for the unwary, so a careful and appropriately nuanced response is required. Read more on how to best use social media.
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Semiconductor manufacturers can work more closely with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and expand into new markets by using Web 2.0 technologies. Infosys' experts reveal "white spaces" in semiconductor marketing strategies that can be addressed by digital and mobile capabilities. They demonstrate how best practices in information and customer experience embedded in Infosys' Semiconductor Digital Engagement Maturity Model can deliver a competitive advantage.
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Sage 100 Standard ERP (formerly Sage ERP MAS 90), v. 4.5, is TEC Certified for online evaluation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for services in the ERP Evaluation Center. The certification seal is a valuable indicator for organizations relying on the integrity of TEC research for assistance with their software selection projects. Download this report for product highlights, competitive analysis, product analysis, and in-depth analyst commentary.
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Real-time business intelligence (BI) delivers information about business as it occurs. While traditional BI presents historical data for analysis, real-time BI compares current business events with historical patterns to automatically detect problems or opportunities. This paper explains how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can establish a competitive advantage by tapping into the power of real-time BI.
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Read about the technologies in IBM's comprehensive, unified business analytics system and how they work together to help organizations grow in analytics maturity—that is, their ability to use analytics to improve business outcomes.
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In a survey conducted by IBM, 83 percent of CIOs identified business intelligence (BI) and analytics as a key part of their strategies to boost competitiveness. Find out how BI can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of core business processes, and contribute to the creation of high-performing “analytics-driven” organizations that outperform their peers.
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Organizations that have the most success with business intelligence (BI) typically approach it incrementally. Discover a step-by-step strategy for success in this white paper featuring research from Gartner.
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The database is an essential component of enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise asset management (EAM). This white paper outlines the advantages and disadvantages of the Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database platforms. How do the two compare when it comes to reliability, scalability, and total cost of ownership (TCO) when integrated with enterprise software?
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While new technology trends are invading the business intelligence (BI) space, technology shifts and hype do not necessarily equate to the ability to exploit the best tools for enhancing business performance. To select a best-fit BI solution, an organization needs to be able to realistically assess the maturity of its BI infrastructure. This allows them to discover where they are, what their BI requirements are, and how to determine the best BI solution or strategy. Download the full report now.
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Sentiment analysis is the method of extracting subjective information from any written content. It is being widely used in product benchmarking, market intelligence, and advertisement placement. In this paper, we demonstrate the process by analyzing a movie review using various natural language processing techniques.
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With recent advancements, publishers and advertisers need to know how to get the right message to the right customer and in the right place to achieve their campaign goals. This report explores the emergence of data-driven audience targeting and reveals some of the ways that publishers are embracing newer ‘actual data’ tools to create dynamic audience segments that are more flexible and truly able to meet advertisers’ needs.
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With the volume of data exploding and the form of data becoming more unstructured, a good analytics system is vital to help an organization do business better. The “big data” environment not only encompasses large volumes of unstructured data, it also calls for real-time analysis of data. In this white paper, Wipro’s K R Sanjiv suggests a three-tier form of architecture to manage the big data environment.
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Power over ethernet (PoE) allows network administrators to deploy VoIP phones, WLAN access points, IP security cameras, and other powered devices without having to install AC outlets, pull cables, or modify building plans. By eliminating the need for separate electrical wiring and power outlets, PoE technology can deliver savings of up to 50 percent compared to traditional network powering infrastructures. Learn more now.
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Many innovative enterprises are turning to cloud storage to meet their data protection demands. This white paper by Taneja Group explores the factors that are driving the move to cloud storage and then introduces a solution from Riverbed and EMC that enables organizations to perform cloud backup and replication at LAN-like performance that is as reliable and secure as local disk or tape at a lower cost. Read further.
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Riverbed Whitewater leverages WAN optimization technology to provide a complete data protection service to the cloud. The appliance-based solution is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing backup technologies and cloud storage provider APIs. Read this ESG Lab report on hands-on testing of the Riverbed Whitewater appliance for ease of use, cost-effective recoverability, data assurance, and performance and scalability.
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The Proximity Hotel in Greensboro, North Carolina, is the first hotel in the US to receive Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification at the platinum level from the U.S. Green Building Council. Combining luxury with energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, the hotel places the highest priority on guest comfort. The owner's goal is a sustainable, energy-efficient hotel that never compromises guest comfort. Learn more now.
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Security Information and Event Manager (SIEM) users face the pressure of high costs related to the selection of a SIEM product, its deployment, integration and day-to-day use. Such cost pressure stems from substantial initial cost of the product, additional expenses for specific hardware and third-party product licenses, etc. In the end, what was initially considered as an affordable price for the chosen SIEM solution may turn out to be a large hole in the budget with an enormous total cost of ownership. Download this white paper to learn different approaches for resolving them successfully.
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This paper discusses the requirements for coupled structural-acoustic simulation and demonstrates the application of this technology to cell-phone
acoustic design. Due to the smaller volume sizes, the low frequency response of the cell phone is affected. The frequency response rolls off faster at low frequencies when smaller microphone back volumes are used. The present work deals with studying this effect on a simple cell phone model with the finite element package, Abaqus. The results from the simulation can be used to better design cell phone cavities for optimum performance.
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Security breaches are perpetrated by a wide variety of external and internal sources, including hacktivists, targeted attackers, and profit-motivated
cybercriminals, as well as through mundane everyday occurrences, such as missing laptops and thumb drives. To address these compliance and privacy issues, organizations have responded by adding layers of controls and integrating them with varied results. Now, those organizations realize that making security simpler is the ultimate strategy for ensuring end user adoption of new security measures and meeting multiple, overlapping regulatory requirements. This paper is a review of DigitalPersona Pro, its integrated approach, and its features and efficiencies in these areas.
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The growing adoption of laptops and other portable devices is changing the foundation of traveling and telecommuting. Laptops have overtaken desktops as the computer of choice for business users. While endpoint protection has been traditionally associated with solutions like antivirus and firewalls, these technologies don’t adequately protect data against theft, loss or unauthorized access. Learn more. Download this white paper now.
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We live in an era of the “intelligent economy.” Organizations are recognizing the need for better intelligence about their business. But how far have we come? And what are the best practices that distinguish companies where employees bring intelligence to decision making? This report considers the use of analytics and business intelligence for improving decision making, and the benefits of prebuilt analytic applications for achieving this.
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While ERP solutions and enterprise business applications may integrate information from legacy systems and specialized best-of-breed software, most enterprise solutions do not provide a simple dashboard or analytical approach to information presentation. Standard reports provided by business applications do not satisfy the need for on-the-fly, end-user reports that enable the kind of sophisticated decision-making and monitoring power you need. This white paper suggests an integrated solution that will offer more value to the end-user and eliminate the frustration of working with standardized enterprise application reporting, and reporting software packages, and spreadsheets, and the expense and delays incurred by customized reporting requests.
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Storing data in the cloud using Riverbed Technology’s Whitewater cloud storage gateway overcomes a serious challenge for IT departments: how to manage the vast, and ever-growing, amount of data that must be protected. This paper makes the business case for cloud storage, outlining where capital and operational costs can be eliminated or avoided by using the cloud for backup and archive storage.
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Text analytics automates the extraction of business value from Web sites and social media content, from e-mail and survey responses, to regulatory filings and corporate documents. These sources and others capture information from and about customers, prospects, products, companies, and competitors in human readable form. Download this white paper for a handy guide to understanding—and profiting from—enterprise text analytics.
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In business, much depends on the timeliness of report¬ing. But one of the largest financial institutions in the Czech Republic was struggling in this regard. “We had been working on a single report for about one month and were facing two ways out: request the report from IT, or outsource the reporting to an external supplier.” Find out how GE Money dramatically reduced reporting times with an automated reporting solution from SAS.
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Many innovative enterprises are turning to cloud storage to meet their data protection demands. This paper by Taneja Group explores the factors that are driving the move to cloud storage and then introduces a solution from Riverbed and EMC that enables organizations to perform cloud backup and replication at LAN-like performance that is as reliable and secure as local disk or tape at a lower cost. See how this solution can help you.
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Riverbed Whitewater leverages WAN optimization technology to provide a complete data protection service to the cloud. The appliance-based solution is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing backup technologies and cloud storage provider APIs to provide rapid data retrieval, and replicate data to the cloud to provide an off-site storage location for disaster recovery. Read the ESG Lab report of the appliance's features.
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The explosive growth of enterprise data poses new storage and data management challenges for enterprises. This white paper details how organizations can leverage cloud-based storage offerings as part of their data protection plans. The paper also takes a closer look at solutions offered by Riverbed that allow organizations to integrate cloud-based storage within solutions that address a growing set of data protection demands.
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This white paper examines the use cases of database migration and challenges that accompany it. The main attention is devoted to solutions used to remove the complexity and bottlenecks of database migration. This white paper introduces Devart's Schema and Data Compare tools tailored to facilitate any database migration tasks and reduce time and effort.
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TheMIGroup is a provider of relocation and assignment management programs for companies relocating their employees nationally and internationally. While the company had made some standard reports available online, it needed to enable clients to tailor both reporting formats and the information presented to their changing needs. See how the Illumiti-implemented solutions helped TheMIGroup deliver outstanding customer experience.
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This white paper describes some of the common challenges associated with protecting data on laptops and at home and remote offices and portrays proven solutions to the challenges of protecting distributed business data by establishing a private cloud/enterprise cloud. Learn which best practices can ensure business continuity throughout an organization with a distributed information technology (IT) infrastructure.
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Organizations combine their historical data with current data from operational systems to satisfy business intelligence analysis and government reporting requirements. This paper discusses the importance of data integration and helps you identify key challenges of integrating data. It also provides an overview of data warehousing and its variations, as well as summarizes the benefits and approaches to integrating data.
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While much of the interest in data quality (DQ) solutions had focused on avoiding failure of data management-related initiatives, organizations now look to DQ efforts to improve operational efficiencies, reduce wasted costs, optimize critical business processes, provide data transparency, and improve customer experiences. Read what DQ purchase and usage trends across UK and US companies reveal about DQ goals and drivers.
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In a well integrated identity environment, SiteMinder handles web access management, authentication, single sign-on (SSO), secure session management, and flexible policy definition. SiteMinder functions well when data exists in a relatively homogeneous state; this blueprint shows users how to extend an existing SiteMinder infrastructure across additional heterogeneous applications, identity sources, and constituents.
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Enterprises are looking for incremental change to their infrastructure. The value of your portal lies in delivering a rich and secure experience across multiple applications. The more information you provide, the more valuable your portal is to stakeholders across your organization. Developed by the inventors of the virtual directory, identity and context virtualization is the next generation integration solution.
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No portal is an island—or at least, it shouldn’t be. While SharePoint is great for sharing documents, it doesn’t integrate easily with the rest of your enterprise. To be truly useful, your portal needs to bring together all your users and connect to all your applications. Read about identity and context virtualization—a next-generation integration solution.
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In most organizations today, corporate information is managed by many tools and teams, but there’s a trend toward enterprise information management (EIM), a practice that coordinates teams and integrates tools. EIM is a best practice for creating, managing, sharing, and leveraging information in an enterprise, holistic manner that’s aligned with strategic, data-driven business objectives. See how you can achieve this.
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Nearly all companies realize the way to gain a competitive advantage is to obtain better data, interpret them quickly, and distribute them in easier-to-use formats. But there are many obstacles to the effective use of data, resulting in unused corporate data in many companies. How are companies using information to beat their rivals and create a more level playing field? Find out how business practices are evolving to this end.
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Overlooking how an application fits into your overall IT landscape can lead to costly implementations. But addressing data management with middleware solutions that work seamlessly with existing applications in your company’s IT environment can lead to significant benefits. Explore the value of technology decisions that support and maintain infrastructure-wide interoperability with regard to your data management solutions.
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Although most executives recognize that an organization’s data is corporate asset, few organizations how to manage it as such. The data conversation is changing from philosophical questioning to hard-core tactics for data governance initiatives. This paper describes the components of data governance that will inform the right strategy and give companies a way to determine where and how to begin their data gov |