Data Quality

Did you know that four in 5 business leaders see information as the source of competitive advantage? What does that mean for your mid-sized business? You might believe you have more data than you know what to do with, but that doesn't necessarily translate into more information. Sign up for this webinar to learn how Business Analytics and Optimization can help you make relevant data-based decisions to outperform your competitors and give you a fast ROI.

In the Forrester article Putting Together the SharePoint ECM Puzzle: Find the Best Way for SharePoint and ECM Vendors to Coexist, Alan Weintraub guides you through these issues.

Featured in SharePoint Pro magazine online, the OpenText white paper Extending SharePoint Across Your Information Architecture, by leading SharePoint consultant Colin Spence, offers valuable insights and best practices for integrating SharePoint with your full enterprise application environment.

Powerful backup and flexible deployment options, including enhanced software, backup appliances, and backup solutions in the cloud, offer flexibility and choice in how you manage backup, allowing you to deploy a modern infrastructure that best suits your IT requirements, business needs, and environment. But how do you know which backup strategy is right for your business? Read this whitepaper to better understand which deployment option could best suit your needs.

The Symantec 2012 Endpoint Security Best Practices Survey reveals that organizations employing best practices are enjoying dramatically better outcomes when it comes to endpoint protection, and many of these best practices can-and should-be leveraged by SMBs.

Have you considered the suitability of spreadsheets for business planning and more importantly, the danger they pose to the security and competitiveness of your organization? If not, here are six questions you should ask yourself.

Remember when all you expected from a load balancer was some more application uptime? Times have changed, and it's likely your old load balancer is failing you. With the right investment in an application delivery controller, you can get availability, scalability, security and even a faster user experience. Read to learn more.

iS3, creator of the award winning anti-spyware technology STOPzilla and other solutions, needed a more nimble and efficient way to support prospects and customers. Download this case study to read how iS3 utilized an innovative chat solution to streamline its customer service, reduce response time and increase productivity - all at a more than 70% savings to their previous solution in the first year alone.

VDI deployments offer tremendous advantages but can also impact server and network resources significantly.  A complete VDI solution should deliver a reliable, high-performing desktop user experience while taming complexity and supporting scalability within a secure, stable framework.

Learn how to unburden your VDI infrastructure and gain added security, network performance improvements and optimizations, while improving the architecture for non-VDI application specific systems.

Overcome Citrix VDI implementations challenges to deliver the highest end-user quality, most secure access to virtual desktop, while simplifying your IT infrastructure. Learn how global companies maximize their Citrix investment to increase availability, security, and performance.

Join us on May 23(May 24 in Asia-Pacific regions) from the comfort of your desk and hear about IBM Cognos Insight, the newest addition to the IBM Cognos family. See for yourself how this extremely affordable and breakthrough solution empowers all users to independently explore data, build scenario models and share insights for better business outcomes.

SOA implementations tend to be complex, IT decision makers should carefully consider their choice of a SOA platform in terms of its ability to simplify the fundamental development, deployment, and management tasks involved. Read on.

This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess capabilities of vendors to support complex process improvement scenarios using BPM software.

This white paper describes how to successfully consolidate your database onto a private cloud through several deployment models.

This white paper provides valuable insight on how to build an HR strategy that produces results in any economy.

An organization cannot sustain long-term success without managing its information effectively... Building a foundation for information governance is your next step.

To create a successful workforce management deployment, the first step is to evaluate your WFM product and determine how you'll use it along with the processes and best practices that support it. Next, consider how your ACD is configured, what type of forecasting and scheduling practices you'll use and goals for various metrics including schedule adherence. For more insights, read how to get the most out of workforce management.

Richard Snow at Ventana Research and Jason Alley of Interactive Intelligence provide insight into the issue of control for those considering moving their contact center to the cloud.

Published by Aternity, the paper includes 8 real-world cases detailing how Aternity empowers SAP customers with a user-centric approach to proactive IT management.

This white paper demonstrates that a data grid infrastructure, built with clustered cahing, can help you avoid "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies.

In this white paper, Solar Winds outlines the differences between VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V as well as introduces key features in the products and expose the feature deltas that may exist.

The term virtualization refers to the creation of virtual machines, virtual networks, and virtual disks (logical images of physical resources) that can execute work and then be returned to a shared resource pool. Cloud computing makes use of virtualization but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service.

Reference designs simplify and shorten the planning and implementation process and reduce downtime risks once up and running. In this paper reference designs are defined and their benefits are explained.

The information in this paper allows IT professionals to be more involved in the specification of precision cooling solutions that better align with IT objectives.